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Re: From 2002, "Japon" from.... Mexico. First-time

Posted by jamesgarvin (A) on January 23, 2007 at 07:16:56

In Reply to: From 2002, "Japon" from.... Mexico. First-time posted by tinear on January 22, 2007 at 17:45:40:

Interestingly, he was a law student in Europe when he quit, returned to Mexico to be a director. I think I was less enamored of it than you, though I thought it a good first effort. As I wrote in a previous review, I think that the story arc of Japon is very similar to L'Humanite, in that both subjects are emotionally dead, and attempt to awaken their dead emotions. The subject in L'Humanite by living vicariously through his friend and his girlfriend, and by the subject in Japon by engaging in sex with his boarder. At the end of the day, both experiments failed.

There is also the scene with the horses in copulation, followed by the scene with the subject and his border engaged in the same act, whereby Reygadas is, I think, attempting to demonstrate the similarities. That sex without emotion is no different than two animals procreating. Emotion creates the pleasure, not the other way around, as the subject seems to think.

I somehow felt that Reygadas has studied other filmmakers, and learned the notes without picking up the music. I felt I watched more style than substance. But it is a challenging film, and I look forward to his future work.

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