{"id":10843,"date":"2018-12-26T10:05:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T15:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/?p=10843"},"modified":"2019-01-12T14:35:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T19:35:58","slug":"rob-hunter-says-dont-forget-before-we-vanish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/rob-hunter-says-dont-forget-before-we-vanish\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Hunter Says Don&#8217;t Forget: <i>Before We Vanish<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Writer\/director Kiyoshi Kurosawa has proven to be a master of dread-filled horror with films like <i>Cure<\/i> (1997) and <i>Pulse<\/i> (2001), and in 2008 he stretched his creative legs to deliver the beautifully affecting family drama <i>Tokyo Sonata<\/i>. He shifted gears again this year to deliver an alien invasion tale like no other with <strong><i>Before We Vanish<\/i><\/strong>. It&#8217;s part <i>Invasion of the Body Snatchers<\/i>, part <i>Starman<\/i>, and all Kurosawa. Three aliens arrive on Earth in advance of an invasion, each taking over the body of a newly deceased human, and each needing a human guide to get them started. The three take very different journeys in their human shells, and it&#8217;s through their relationships with humankind that they reach their varied conclusions. The film blends genres with abandon as drama, horror, action, and comedy jostle within the sci-fi trappings, and it all works so damn beautifully. It&#8217;s a love story of sorts that deals in themes both cynical and optimistic, and while the ending is filled equally with hope and darkness, the truth at its core remains relevant: Listening is an underrated part of communication.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer\/director Kiyoshi Kurosawa has proven to be a master of dread-filled horror with films like Cure (1997) and Pulse (2001), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":471,"featured_media":10844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1381,1399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-looking-back"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}