{"id":19024,"date":"2026-09-28T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=19024"},"modified":"2026-09-27T06:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T10:53:27","slug":"exit-8-2025-genki-kawamura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/19024","title":{"rendered":"Exit 8 (2025, Genki Kawamura)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-take digital cinema about people stuck in an endless videogame maze of subway tunnels.  Not since <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12651\">A Quiet Place<\/a><\/em> has a movie spelled out its rules this clearly on signage, and not since <em>Cube<\/em> has the puzzle been solved by a late-arriving autistic guy (a kid, in this case).<\/p>\n<p><em>When a body meet a body passing through the tile.  I picked the poster behind them as anomaly, but Escher&#8217;s first name really was Maurits:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/exit801.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>You have to go through the loop correctly (turn back if you see anomaly, proceed if not) eight times in a row.  We switch perspectives from Guy 1 to Kid to Guy 2.  Each guy has parental anxiety and they keep stopping to get emotional or else the movie would be shorter.  I liked the loop concept more than the psychological details.  One run is all anomalies, peaking in an <em>Atonement<\/em> tunnel flood.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/exit802.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-take digital cinema about people stuck in an endless videogame maze of subway tunnels. Not since A Quiet Place has a movie spelled out its rules this clearly on signage, and not since Cube has the puzzle been solved by a late-arriving autistic guy (a kid, in this case). When a body meet a body [&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":[2643,3554,36,2326,294],"class_list":["post-19024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-genki-kawamura","tag-japan","tag-time-loop","tag-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19024","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=19024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19058,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19024\/revisions\/19058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}