{"id":43,"date":"2002-10-12T18:28:31","date_gmt":"2002-10-12T18:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2002\/10\/12\/aka\/"},"modified":"2002-10-12T18:28:31","modified_gmt":"2002-10-12T18:28:31","slug":"aka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2002\/10\/12\/aka\/","title":{"rendered":"AKA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today has been a pleasantly lazy day, got up late, wandered into town, wandered around town and had lunch at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.picturehouse-cinemas.co.uk\/site\/cinemas\/Cambridge\/local.htm\">Arts Picture House<\/a> bar.<\/p>\n<p>I recently joined up as a Friend of the Picturehouse so I&#8217;ve get to see a couple of films for free.  Pretty much on a whim I decided to watch <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Title?0317052\">AKA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a very happy film, which suits me as I tend to prefer dark or miserable films.  The plot summary on IMDB doesn&#8217;t do it justice, there&#8217;s more information on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akamovie.com\/home.htm\">film&#8217;s site<\/a> and at <a href=\"\">Picture House Cinemas<\/a>.  Several of the reviews miss out the point that the writer\/director, Duncan Roy, based the film on his own life.<\/p>\n<p>The director&#8217;s technique of showing three frames side by side, often different versions of the same scene, was intrusive at first but soon I didn&#8217;t notice it, in much the same way as subtitles.  It worked really well to show how the characters could have different perceptions of the same events.<\/p>\n<p>One slight technical problem I noticed was that it looked like it was being projected from a video projector rather than film and there was an irritating background buzz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today has been a pleasantly lazy day, got up late, wandered into town, wandered around town and had lunch at the Arts Picture House bar. I recently joined up as a Friend of the Picturehouse so I&#8217;ve get to see a couple of films for free. Pretty much on a whim I decided to watch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}