{"id":17039,"date":"2024-12-12T22:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T03:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17039"},"modified":"2024-12-12T21:59:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T02:59:34","slug":"the-shadowless-tower-2023-zhang-lu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17039","title":{"rendered":"The Shadowless Tower (2023, Zhang Lu)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this would be more mysterious and experimental&#8230; I think I heard about this movie around the same time as John Smith&#8217;s <em>Black Tower<\/em> and got them mixed up?<\/p>\n<p>Xin Baiqing is a Beijing food critic who is just like me: a middle aged guy who likes to drink and is pretty boring but with a few quirks that only make him seem offputting to people.  He has a sister and a daughter and an estranged dying wife and an ex-con dad (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16285\">Horse Thief<\/a><\/em> director Tian Zhuangzhuang) who the family pretends doesn&#8217;t exists but who bikes 300km to see them in secret on their birthdays.  Xin hangs out with food photographer Huang Yao, plays at being her boyfriend, then her father.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/shadowless1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/shadowless2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this would be more mysterious and experimental&#8230; I think I heard about this movie around the same time as John Smith&#8217;s Black Tower and got them mixed up? Xin Baiqing is a Beijing food critic who is just like me: a middle aged guy who likes to drink and is pretty boring but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,200,428,3354],"class_list":["post-17039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-china","tag-photography","tag-zhang-lu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17078,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17039\/revisions\/17078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}