{"id":13734,"date":"2011-06-11T23:32:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T06:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2011\/06\/11\/13734.html"},"modified":"2011-06-11T23:32:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T06:32:20","slug":"mini-review-the-lost-thing-sho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2011\/06\/11\/mini-review-the-lost-thing-sho\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini-Review: The Lost Thing (short film)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I've been reading and watching the Hugo nominees, and just got to the 15-minute-long movie <cite><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelostthing.com\/\">The Lost Thing<\/a><\/cite>, based on Shaun Tan's picture book. I'm guessing a fair number of people have seen it already, seeing as how it won an Oscar for for Best Animated Short Film, but I hadn't been aware of it.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out to be fun and charming and delightfully odd, merging the whimsical strangeness of Tan's fictional world with a nicely human story. I'm a little dubious about the subtext (as I see it) of the resolution of the story, but I can forgive that.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly like all the neat odd little background details. I may watch it again to pick up more of them.<\/p>\n<p>For about US$2, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/indieflix.com\/film\/the-lost-thing-31512\/\">watch it online at indieflix.com<\/a> (or so I gather), or you can <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/movie\/the-lost-thing\/id420580932\">buy it from iTunes<\/a>. (US$3 for the HD version.)<\/p>\n<p>You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madman.com.au\/catalogue\/view\/13969\/the-lost-thing\">buy it on DVD for $30<\/a>, which seems like a lot, but the DVD comes with assorted DVD extras <em>and<\/em> an exclusive 48-page hardcover book titled <cite>What Miscellaneous Abnormality Is That?<\/cite>. (Presumably an abridged version of the large book by that title that appears in the movie.) I'm almost tempted to buy the DVD just for the book.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you haven't seen the movie, I recommend it, regardless of whether you're voting in the Hugos.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading and watching the Hugo nominees, and just got to the 15-minute-long movie The Lost Thing, based on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}