{"id":17535,"date":"2025-05-17T20:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17535"},"modified":"2025-05-17T18:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T22:47:15","slug":"universal-language-2024-matthew-rankin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17535","title":{"rendered":"Universal Language (2024, Matthew Rankin)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Isn&#8217;t this the same movie you watched last night,&#8221; said K when I put on <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/786\">Where Is The Friend&#8217;s House<\/a><\/em> the night after this.  Besides a couple of distinct <em>Friend&#8217;s House<\/em> references (the dickhead teacher in the opening scene, the guy inside a tree) I&#8217;m pretty sure there was some <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15829\">White Balloon<\/a><\/em> (finding tools to retrieve money from under the street).  An extremely specific kind of weird thing, in which the director plays &#8220;himself&#8221; as both a Canadian and Iranian, and his selves and cities swap and merge.  Of course I love it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/univlang1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Mouseover for the reverse angle:<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"#\" onmouseover=\"document.revroom.src='http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image25\/univlang4.jpeg'\" onmouseout=\"document.revroom.src='http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image25\/univlang3.jpeg'\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image25\/univlang3.jpeg\" alt=\"image\" name=\"revroom\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/univlang2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Isn&#8217;t this the same movie you watched last night,&#8221; said K when I put on Where Is The Friend&#8217;s House the night after this. Besides a couple of distinct Friend&#8217;s House references (the dickhead teacher in the opening scene, the guy inside a tree) I&#8217;m pretty sure there was some White Balloon (finding tools to [&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":[2643,391,30,133,2930],"class_list":["post-17535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-canada","tag-identity","tag-iran","tag-matthew-rankin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535","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=17535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17553,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535\/revisions\/17553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}