{"id":26,"date":"2005-08-01T23:34:20","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T04:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2005-08-01T23:34:20","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T04:34:20","slug":"metropolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/01\/metropolis\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished watching <em>Metropolis<\/em>.  It was weird of course.  I mean, it would hardly be anime otherwise.  As usual it had robots, some sort of family issue, elaborate machinery, and military tactics.  I always have to struggle to understand the tactical side of a plot.  I just don&#8217;t have a military mind.  It&#8217;s kind of frustrating.  I didn&#8217;t understand everything that was going on in <em>Batman Begins<\/em> until the second time through.  I have trouble grasping the strategies of business and politics too.<\/p>\n<p>But I understand the personal and philosophical sides of a plot easily, as long as they actually make sense.  Unfortunately I often don&#8217;t understand them when they&#8217;re buried in symbolism, which seemed to be the case with the end of <em>Metropolis<\/em>, so it left me a little confused.  The upbeat jazzy music totally didn&#8217;t fit the tone of the events, so I suspect the director was trying to make some kind of point, but what that was I could only make the most uncertain of guesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished watching Metropolis. It was weird of course. I mean, it would hardly be anime otherwise. As usual it had robots, some sort of family issue, elaborate machinery, and military tactics. I always have to struggle to understand &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/01\/metropolis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aesthetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}