{"id":2142,"date":"2009-04-19T22:56:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T02:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2009-04-19T22:56:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T02:56:26","slug":"the-forsaken-land-2005-vimukthi-jayasundara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/2142","title":{"rendered":"The Forsaken Land (2005, Vimukthi Jayasundara)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I insulted Katy&#8217;s rental choice at the video store so as retribution she rented us a slow-as-dirt, pretty-as-a-picture Sri-Lankan film.  <em>Being There<\/em> would&#8217;ve been better, but I was in enough trouble already so we watched this instead, each one of us bored but assuming the other was enjoying it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image09\/forsakenland1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>The guy in the pink shirt is a security guard.  He has an elder co-worker, whom he is possibly forced to kill at the end.  He&#8217;s stripped naked and tossed in the lake by some buddies.  He has a bored wife and a restless sister, one of whom is below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image09\/forsakenland2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>And here is an outhouse.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image09\/forsakenland3.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Long static takes, pretty shots, disaffected post-war characters who don&#8217;t relate to each other.  I fell asleep but I think I got the general idea.  Movie won the Camera d&#8217;or at Cannes, and the DVD helpfully includes the whole press book as a PDF file.  Interviews with the director are very convincing&#8230; besides the fact that he&#8217;s illustrating modern interpersonal disconnection, and I am getting tired of movies about mopey people who don&#8217;t talk to each other which claim to be commenting on the present human condition, he sounds like he really knows what he&#8217;s talking about without being arrogant, admits a Tsai Ming-Liang influence (I&#8217;d been wondering), and from his description this sounds like a film I&#8217;d really want to see.  Maybe under better conditions next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I insulted Katy&#8217;s rental choice at the video store so as retribution she rented us a slow-as-dirt, pretty-as-a-picture Sri-Lankan film. Being There would&#8217;ve been better, but I was in enough trouble already so we watched this instead, each one of us bored but assuming the other was enjoying it. The guy in the pink shirt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[860],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-sri-lanka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142","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=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2213,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions\/2213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}