{"id":116,"date":"2005-08-14T23:13:07","date_gmt":"2005-08-15T06:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/dead-or-alive-or-absurd\/"},"modified":"2005-08-14T23:13:07","modified_gmt":"2005-08-15T06:13:07","slug":"dead-or-alive-or-absurd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/dead-or-alive-or-absurd\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead or Alive OR ABSURD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/jason\/files\/dead-or-alive.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"250\" alt=\"Capture from the finale of Dead or Alive\" title=\"Capture from the finale of Dead or Alive\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><br \/>\nWhile watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0221111\/\"><i>Dead or Alive<\/i><\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0586281\/\">Takashi Miike<\/a> (who also did <a href=\"\/jason\/posts\/2005\/review-izo\/\"><i>Izo<\/i><\/a>, <i>Audition<\/i>, <i>Visitor Q<\/i>, etc.), I kept saying to myself, &#8220;Hmm, this is missing the absurdity that I love so much in Miike&#8217;s films!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then I got to the ending. I don&#8217;t want to spoil it for those who haven&#8217;t seen it, but it&#8217;s great. And absurd. And very Miike (as far as I can tell based on the three or so movies of his that I have seen already). Good times. I do recommend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While watching Dead or Alive by Takashi Miike (who also did Izo, Audition, Visitor Q, etc.), I kept saying to myself, &#8220;Hmm, this is missing the absurdity that I love so much in Miike&#8217;s films!&#8221; Then I got to the ending. I don&#8217;t want to spoil it for those who haven&#8217;t seen it, but it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/dead-or-alive-or-absurd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dead or Alive OR ABSURD?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}