{"id":72655,"date":"2018-04-03T08:15:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T12:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=72655"},"modified":"2018-03-19T00:16:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T04:16:21","slug":"the-great-buddha-2017-directed-by-huang-hsin-yao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=72655","title":{"rendered":"The Great Buddha +. 2017. Directed by Huang Hsin-yao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, April 3, 8:45 p.m.<br \/>\nThe Museum of Modern Art,<br \/>\nFloor T2, Theater 2<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-72653\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/The-Great-Buddha-still-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"407\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/The-Great-Buddha-still-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/The-Great-Buddha-still-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/The-Great-Buddha-still.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Great Buddha +. 2017. Taiwan. Directed by Huang Hsin-yao. In Taiwanese, Mandarin; English subtitles. 104 min.<\/p>\n<p>New York Premiere<\/p>\n<p>Provincial friends Pickle and Belly Button idle away their nights in the security booth of a Buddha statue factory, where Pickle works as a guard. One evening, when the TV is on the fritz, they put on video from the boss&#8217;s dashcam\u2014only to discover illicit trysts and a mysterious act of violence. Expanded from a short, Huang Hsin-yao&#8217;s fiction feature debut The Great Buddha + (the plus sign cheekily nodding to the smartphone model) is a stylish, rip-roaring satire on class and corruption in contemporary Taiwanese society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, April 3, 8:45 p.m. The Museum of Modern Art, Floor T2, Theater 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72655"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72656,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72655\/revisions\/72656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}