{"id":17036,"date":"2020-11-28T22:22:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T03:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=17036"},"modified":"2020-11-29T13:27:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T18:27:51","slug":"mirage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/mirage\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;All we know is that the brain truly believes the experiences we feel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mirage<\/strong>, released in 2018<\/p>\n<p>In 1989 on the day of a storm Nico discovers that his neighbour has killed his wife &#8212; but when he runs into the street he&#8217;s hit by a car and killed. Twenty-five years later Vera lives in the same house. On the day of a storm she finds Nico&#8217;s videotapes that he made of himself singing and playing guitar. Then the TV comes on by itself, and Nico is on it &#8212; Nico and Vera begin communicating 25 years apart.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about the unexpected consequences of changing the past. It&#8217;s about what you would do to bring your daughter back to you.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit slow to start, but once the communication is made it&#8217;s a mostly effective story.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Adriana Ugarte and Julio Bohigas-Couto. Directed by Oriol Paulo (<strong>The Invisible Guest<\/strong>). The mysterious music is by Fernando Vel\u00e1zquez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;All we know is that the brain truly believes the experiences we feel.&#8221; Mirage, released in 2018 In 1989 on the day of a storm Nico discovers that his neighbour has killed his wife &#8212; but when he runs into the street he&#8217;s hit by a car and killed. Twenty-five years later Vera lives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,6,5],"class_list":["post-17036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17036"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17043,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17036\/revisions\/17043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}