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2002.05.27
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Saw Gaijin, a film directed by a Japanese Brazilian woman named Tizuka Yamasaki. My qualms:
- The director rushed the ending: how did the main character (Chitoe) become well-to-do after escaping from the coffee plantation was not well explained.
- Most of the spoken scenes follow one and another very tightly but I would prefer some wordless scenes to convey to viewers the atmosphere of the coffee plantation. Show a scene overlooking the whole plantation from a hill for example. Show the surroundings. I think they could use a little bit more wide-angle scenes.
- Furthermore, it was difficult for me to grasp the layout of the plantation; the locations of the boss' house in relation to the worker's houses as well as the plantation itself was not really clear and established so that the viewer can relate to right away. Usually films with fixed, repetitive locations like this one could use some establishment shots to transport the viewer into the physical space of the film.
Despite the problems I had with it, I thought the film provided a fairly accurate historical account of the hardship that Japanese had suffered when they immgrated abroad to Brasil during the early 20th century.
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2002
Ivan Chung.
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