{"id":1892,"date":"2002-01-25T09:55:28","date_gmt":"2002-01-25T16:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2002-01-25T09:55:28","modified_gmt":"2002-01-25T16:55:28","slug":"movies-city-of-lost-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2002\/01\/25\/movies-city-of-lost-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Movies:  City of Lost Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upon seeing the delightful <a href='http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/movie-1110972'>Amelie<\/a>, and having fond memories of the bizarre <a href='http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/movie-1040374'>Delicatessen<\/a>, I decided I was going to watch each and every film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.  Luckily, this is an entirely achievable goal:  aside from those mentioned above, he only has two other major motion pictures under his belt.  One of them is  <a href='http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/movie-1069709\/'>The City of Lost Children<\/a>, which I spent yesterday evening enjoying.<\/p>\n<p>My review in a nutshell: <<i>low whistle<\/i>>.  That there is one fine movie.  The plot centers around a Frankensteinian monster who kidnaps children and siphons off their dreams for his own amusement.  The problem:  kidnaped children tend to only have nightmares, so our antagonist never gets the beautiful dreams he&#8217;s searching for.  But this plot is little more than an excuse to string together two-hours of breathtaking visuals and neato special-effects.  Midgets, clones, strongmen, trained fleas, de-bodied brains and large machines with large red levers &#8212; this movie&#8217;s got it all.  For sheer hallucinogenic hijinks, The City of Lost Children ranks up there with best of Terry Gillium, Tim Burton, and David Lynch.<\/p>\n<p>Now all I have to do is see Jeunet&#8217;s <i>other<\/i> film.  Which, unfortunately, turns out to be <a href='http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/movie-1079724'>Alien 4:  Resurrection<\/a>.  Wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upon seeing the delightful Amelie, and having fond memories of the bizarre Delicatessen, I decided I was going to watch each and every film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Luckily, this is an entirely achievable goal: aside from those mentioned above, he only has two other major motion pictures under his belt. One of them is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}