{"id":1198,"date":"2011-02-10T12:40:09","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T17:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2011-02-16T01:25:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T06:25:58","slug":"movienight-thursday-february-10th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1198","title":{"rendered":"Mother. Our second Korean. Thirds anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1240\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?attachment_id=1240\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1240\" title=\"Momma Mia!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/mother.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/mother.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/mother-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Mother<\/em> on Blu-ray was a visual and aural treat. But&#8230; as close as it was to being a great movie, it seems that modern Korean sensibility doesn&#8217;t translate easily. I remember being excited by the discovery of Ki-duk Kim&#8217;s magical <em>Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter&#8230; and Spring<\/em>, and the subsequent, well-received screening of it at MovieNight. I think it worked because the subject matter was so other-worldly to us: a monk raising an orphan on a raft in the middle of a tranquil lake. I liked a lot of <em>3-Iron<\/em>, Kim&#8217;s follow-up feature, but ultimately the premise was weak, and left me wanting. Although his next movie, <em>Time<\/em>, also had some great moments, the plot was fantastically silly. Perhaps a suspension of reality is a prerequisite to appreciation of such a movie (like a Bollywood epic?).<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what our two Korean MovieNight guests thought&#8230; ?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb  <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1216496\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-348\" title=\"imdb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/imdb.gif\" alt=\"imdb\" width=\"31\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother on Blu-ray was a visual and aural treat. But&#8230; as close as it was to being a great movie, it seems that modern Korean sensibility doesn&#8217;t translate easily. I remember being excited by the discovery of Ki-duk Kim&#8217;s magical Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter&#8230; and Spring, and the subsequent, well-received screening of it at MovieNight. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1198\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mother. Our second Korean. Thirds anyone?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1244,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/1244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}