{"id":7042,"date":"2026-05-22T01:51:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=7042"},"modified":"2026-05-22T01:52:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T23:52:38","slug":"leaving-las-vegas-by-mike-figgis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/05\/22\/leaving-las-vegas-by-mike-figgis\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Leaving Las Vegas<\/em> by Mike Figgis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2705 To me, as an avid fan of his since <em>Birdy<\/em>, Cage\u2019s performance still looks as if from another world.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 Incredibly, Shue\u2014much less experienced\u2014matches his performance in every scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 The 16mm handheld and the dreamy jazz score progressively intensify the feeling of drowning.<\/p>\n<p>Everything, the plot, the characters, the on-location shoots, feel less real than hyperreal, perhaps in the Baudrillardian sense.<\/p>\n<div class=\"spacer20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ruler\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"epigraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leaving_Las_Vegas\" target=\"somethingUnique\"><em>Leaving Las Vegas<\/em><\/a> by Mike Figgis, 1995.<br \/>\nWatched at the Bambi theater on May 20, 2026, in its original language.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/05\/22\/leaving-las-vegas-by-mike-figgis\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Leaving Las Vegas by Mike Figgis\"><p>\ud83c\udfac I need a drink.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-archive","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7042"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7047,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042\/revisions\/7047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}