{"id":2306,"date":"2025-02-10T21:19:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T05:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=2306"},"modified":"2025-02-10T21:30:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T05:30:40","slug":"movie-pass-adventures-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/10\/movie-pass-adventures-presence\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Pass Adventures: Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/presence.jpg\" alt=\"The main cast of Presence (plus a realtor).\" class=\"wp-image-2307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/presence.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/presence-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/presence-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s hard to talk about this movie without giving away the different take it has on how to capture a ghost story, so I&#8217;m not going to try. Spoilers for that below. I won&#8217;t spoil any of the actual story, but if you want to be surprised by Soderbergh&#8217;s latest way of Soderberghing, now is the time to look away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All good? Cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soderbergh&#8217;s approach is to tell a ghost story from the point of view of the ghost. Every scene is a single shot from the ghost&#8217;s perspective. For the most part it works. The movie really only breaks when things happen that are beyond things that would happen in the real world; shaking tables are a lot more believable than floating objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for the actual story: It&#8217;s pretty predictable- especially since there are a couple of important plot points that were extremely telegraphed- but the cast is watchable enough to let that slide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s fake poster is only the slightest of genre shifts. I could easily see a similar poster being actually used. This version, however, wouldn&#8217;t stand a ghost of a chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/presence-2-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A poster for Presence parodying the poster for Ghost.\" class=\"wp-image-2309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/presence-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/presence-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/presence-2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/presence-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This movie had a shocking lack of pottery scenes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, that Stevie Soderbergh- always trying new stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63],"tags":[78,10],"class_list":["post-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","tag-movies","tag-photoshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2316,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions\/2316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}