{"id":23434,"date":"2016-12-02T16:04:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T21:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=23434"},"modified":"2016-12-02T16:04:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T21:04:40","slug":"deer-flower-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/02\/deer-flower-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Deer Flower (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/deerflower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23435\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/deerflower.jpg\" alt=\"deerflower\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/deerflower.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/deerflower-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/deerflower-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a>When you consider the cultural context behind \u201cDeer Flower,\u201d director Kangmin Kim\u2019s short animated film is an interesting if horrific look at remedies from the East. Told through what essentially looks like origami, \u201cDeer Flower\u201d is a stark and pretty unusual tale about a family seeking a cure for their son\u2019s ailment. Traveling a long distance and paying a lot of money, they take their son behind a farm, where a reindeer is held down by a machine and has its antler cut.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From within a beating and pulsing blood pours out, and the child consumes it, soaking in what is a surefire high. \u201cDeer Flower\u201d uses the hallucinations as a means of exploring how humanity has leeched off of nature as a solution to diseases they can\u2019t quite tackle or cure themselves. Thus nature ultimately pays for their search for cures, and these cures aren\u2019t a guaranteed answer.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s made evident in the film when the young son responds to the cure in a way the parents never expected. Kangmin Kim\u2019 and Seulhwa Eum\u2019s animation style is unique and very memorable, allowing for an aesthetic that adds to the surrealism of the tale. \u00a0Ultimately, \u201cDeer Flower\u201d is an abstract and admittedly hard to follow animated short (I had to research it online before finally catching on to its themes), but it\u2019s one with a lot of complexity and commentary on nature, and our search for cures through the destruction of nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you consider the cultural context behind \u201cDeer Flower,\u201d director Kangmin Kim\u2019s short animated film is an interesting if horrific look at remedies from the East. Told through what essentially looks like origami, \u201cDeer Flower\u201d is a stark and pretty unusual tale about a family seeking a cure for their son\u2019s ailment. Traveling a long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[99,113,335,349,367,501,938],"class_list":["post-23434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-animation","tag-asian","tag-experimental","tag-fantasy","tag-foreign","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23436,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23434\/revisions\/23436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}