{"id":326,"date":"2004-12-27T21:32:33","date_gmt":"2004-12-28T01:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2004\/12\/27\/hk-androids-the-upscale-homeless\/"},"modified":"2004-12-27T21:32:33","modified_gmt":"2004-12-28T01:32:33","slug":"hk-androids-the-upscale-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2004\/12\/27\/hk-androids-the-upscale-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"HK Androids \/ The Upscale Homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s not out in American theatres yet, but I watched Wong Kar Wai’s 2046<\/a>
\ntoday, and I know it will fail theatrically in the U.S.  It’s not
\na bad film (though the second to least favorite of the 5 films directed
\nby him that I have seen), but it’s his most difficult movie to
\ndate.  I very rarely find myself uttering, “weird,” while watching
\nmovies, and this popped out of mouth several times today.  My one
\nsentence summation of the film is Wong Kar Wai meets Goddard meets
\nPhillip K. Dick.  I don’t want to write a full review of the film
\nnow, but I would like to point out that the theme of disconnectedness
\nfrom Wong Kar Wai’s films played itself in this movie as different
\ncharacters spoke to each other in different Chinese dialects (and
\nJapanese was thrown in at times as well).<\/p>\n

**
\nThe rain in the city along with the break from work has steered my
\nclothing choices today in an unusual direction.  I was a bit
\ngrungy today in my homeless person’s coat (this woolen plaid atrocity),
\noversized taupe pants, and a black knit cap.  Oddly, it felt
\nliberating.  No work clothes.  Nothing that would elicit a
\n“That’s a nice shirt.”  It was the type of outfit that
\nwould embarrass my mother if we ran into her friends.<\/p>\n

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It’s not out in American theatres yet, but I watched Wong Kar Wai’s 2046 today, and I know it will fail theatrically in the U.S.  It’s not a bad film (though the second to least favorite of the 5 films directed by him that I have seen), but it’s his most difficult movie to date.  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}