{"id":9562,"date":"2014-12-15T21:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T03:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=9562"},"modified":"2014-12-10T19:58:10","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T01:58:10","slug":"journey-to-the-west-2014-tsai-ming-liang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/9562","title":{"rendered":"Journey to the West (2014, Tsai Ming-Liang)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8244\">Walker<\/a><\/em> sequel, now costarring Denis Lavant of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8274\">Holy Motors<\/a><\/em>!  Fourteen shots, and four are exceptionally long, beginning with a dim opening close-up of Lavant&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/journeywest1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Red Monk climbs stone stairs, walks through immaculately composed frames, with a couple cuts back to Lavant&#8217;s immobile head in different poses.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/journeywest2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>In the longest shot of the movie, Monk slowly (do I need to say &#8220;slowly&#8221;?) descends a staircase.  Most people dodge him, but one girl stops and tries to figure him out.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/journeywest3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Finally the big moment, as the Monk walks past a crowded corner followed by Lavant, focusing hard and copying each step (though Lavant leans more, and uses his arms for balance).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/journeywest4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Beautiful finale in a square with a mirrored ceiling, the monk arriving belatedly from the side and not able to compete visually with the man blowing giant soap bubbles in the center.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/journeywest5.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Lee Kang-sheng and Tsai Ming Liang have other recent shorts listed on IMDB, including <em>Walking On Water<\/em> and <em>Sleepwalk<\/em>, so I&#8217;m guessing there are more Walker movies out there.  Bring &#8217;em on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Walker sequel, now costarring Denis Lavant of Holy Motors! Fourteen shots, and four are exceptionally long, beginning with a dim opening close-up of Lavant&#8217;s face. Red Monk climbs stone stairs, walks through immaculately composed frames, with a couple cuts back to Lavant&#8217;s immobile head in different poses. In the longest shot of the movie, [&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":[1049,1645,1744,206],"class_list":["post-9562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-denis-levant","tag-monks","tag-tsai-ming-liang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9562","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=9562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9604,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9562\/revisions\/9604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}