{"id":2452,"date":"2025-02-23T20:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T04:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=2452"},"modified":"2025-02-23T20:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T04:04:42","slug":"movie-pass-adventures-universal-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/23\/movie-pass-adventures-universal-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Pass Adventures: Universal Language"},"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\/universal-language.jpg\" alt=\"A child dressed as Grouch Marx in Universal Language.\" class=\"wp-image-2453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/universal-language.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/universal-language-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/universal-language-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/universal-language-1.jpg\" alt=\"Matthew from Universal Language on the phone, rendered in shades of gray and beige.\" class=\"wp-image-2454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/universal-language-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/universal-language-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/universal-language-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second half of my Unplanned Surreal Film Festival Weekend. Also my second film of the year in Farsi, but this one is much lighter than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/02\/movie-pass-adventures-the-seed-of-the-sacred-fig\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2258\">the last one<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I didn&#8217;t remember anything I knew about this before I watched it, and I think that&#8217;s probably the best way to go into something as gloriously absurd as this. Without giving anything away, it feels a little like Wes Anderson directing Airplane (with second unit by David Lynch).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the fake poster, I did a riff on the title. It doesn&#8217;t quite have the images available to balance out the same way as the original.<\/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\/universal-language-2-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A poster for Universal Language sort-of matching the poster for Universal Soldier.\" class=\"wp-image-2455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/universal-language-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/universal-language-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/universal-language-2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/universal-language-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second half of my Unplanned Surreal Film Festival Weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2454,"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":[243,242,78,10,245],"class_list":["post-2452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","tag-canada","tag-iran","tag-movies","tag-photoshop","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452","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=2452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2458,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452\/revisions\/2458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}