{"id":589,"date":"2008-10-28T23:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T04:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/?p=589"},"modified":"2011-04-23T15:55:07","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T20:55:07","slug":"dvd-the-wayward-cloud-tsai-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/2008\/10\/dvd-the-wayward-cloud-tsai-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"DVD: The Wayward Cloud (Tsai, 2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This is a strange and compelling film about – I’m not very sure what. What I do know is that Taiwan is experiencing a massive drought, watermelons have become portals into a woman’s vagina, and there is a lot of sex. A woman named Shiang-chyi is attracted to an old friend named Hsiao-Kang(or maybe he’s an ex? or a complete stranger?) who happens to be an actor in pornographic films. I wouldn’t be surprised if Hsiao-Kang’s porno scenes were figments of Shiang-chyi’s imagination. Oh, and there are also 4 or 5 musical numbers spread throughout the film, some where characters are now dragons, or penises, or lost in a field of watermelon umbrellas.
Not to mention a couple of ant attacks. This is a very surreal film that is mostly very entertaining, but I didn’t feel anything for any of the characters, and I wasn’t completely wowed by the intentionally campy showstopper songs. I did laugh quite a bit, and found the whole film to be pretty well paced. This is the first film that I have seen by Tsai, who is supposedly one of the true masters of contemplative cinema working today, so hopefully some of his other films carry a little more weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a strange and compelling film about – I’m not very sure what. What I do know is that Taiwan is experiencing a massive drought, watermelons have become portals into a woman’s vagina, and there is a lot of sex. A woman named Shiang-chyi is attracted to an old friend named Hsiao-Kang(or maybe he’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3411,"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/3411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}