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<p class="ydp4f2697cMsoNormal">I agree that the audition scenes are striking, particularly
that of the signing mute character, but my memory is that Hamaguchi allowed himself
some medium close-ups there.<span> </span>I’m pretty
sure I would have walked out of the (diegetically) ‘real’ theatre performance if
confronted with an enormous screen for the surtitles with two very small actors
at the bottom of it, who weren’t ‘speaking’ a common language.</p>
<p class="ydp4f2697cMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">5 pm PST is pretty late in old Europe
but I’d be interested whether Hamaguchi felt a detachment, or commitment, to that
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<p class="ydp8ba1b318yiv9636332461MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Glad to hear that you liked the film so much. I saw it at Lincoln Center in New York back in early December, and it had a similar effect on me.</span></p>
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<p class="ydp8ba1b318yiv9636332461MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Hamaguchi will be participating in a webinar organized by Japan House Los Angeles this evening that might be of interest to you and other KineJapan members:</span></p>
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<p class="ydp8ba1b318yiv9636332461MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"><a shape="rect" href="https://www.japanhousela.com/events/ma-in-japanese-film/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.japanhousela.com/events/ma-in-japanese-film/</a></span></p>
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<p class="ydp8ba1b318yiv9636332461MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">He’ll be joined in conversation by Hitoshi Abe of UCLA and Ken Tadashi Oshima of UW.</span></p>
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<p class="ydp8ba1b318yiv9636332461MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:serif;">Dr. Timothy Unverzagt Goddard
</span><span style="font-family:serif;" lang="ZH-TW">高大同</span><span style="font-family:serif;"></span></p>
<p class="ydp8ba1b318yiv9636332461MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:serif;">Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures</span></p>
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<p class="ydp8ba1b318yiv9636332461MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:serif;">New Haven, CT 06511</span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;">KineJapan <kinejapan-bounces@mailman.yale.edu> on behalf of Markus Nornes via KineJapan <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu><br clear="none">
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 12:11 PM<br clear="none">
<b>To: </b>Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu><br clear="none">
<b>Cc: </b>Markus Nornes <nornes@umich.edu><br clear="none">
<b>Subject: </b>[KineJapan] Drive My Car</span></p>
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<p class="ydp8ba1b318yiv9636332461MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">I finally saw Drive My Car the other day. It's one of those films that dwells inside you long afterwards. Loved it.</span></p>
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<p class="ydp8ba1b318yiv9636332461MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">The rhythm and pace of the film is really special. Actors deliver lines in a slightly flat tone and regular cadence. They break into "acting" when they audition, in advanced rehearsal or on stage, which is
probably what makes those scenes so striking. I have to admit I hate films-about-theater, and one reason is the style of performance comes off as so stilted and wrong (have yet to see Hamaguchi's Intimacies, but I'd probably dislike it). But this was one film-about-theater
that quite mysteriously _worked_. </span></p>
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<p class="ydp8ba1b318yiv9636332461MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Hamaguchi builds a curious self-reflexivity into
<i>Drive My Car.</i> The weird style of rehearsal built into the narrative was also what he subjected his actors to in preproduction. And, judging from comments by a couple of them, they really didn't know what to make of it (the actors are disciplined if they
deliver lines with any degree of emoting). </span></p>
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<p class="ydp8ba1b318yiv9636332461MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">There is a key line delivered by a mute character to the theater director that goes something like, "Unlike the others, I always have to struggle with words and communicating meaning, so I understand how what
matters is not always in the words. I understand what you are doing." This is definitely what's going on in this film; at the same time, I couldn't help noticing the climax is ultimately...wordy. </span></p>
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<p class="ydp8ba1b318yiv9636332461MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">So this got me wondering. <i>
Drive My Car</i> would seem to embody the legacy of what Aaron called the "detached style" of 90s/turn of the century Japanese film—films like
<i>Eureka,</i> another quiet film about trauma, memory, and healing. I won't rehearse Aaron's argument here (if you haven't encountered it,
</span><a shape="rect" href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.academia.edu%2F217600%2FRecognizing_Others_in_a_New_Japanese_Cinema%3Femail_work_card%3Dtitle&data=04%7C01%7Ctug2%40connect.yale.edu%7C23ffb038eb5f4e1cc41008d9e5a5dbc4%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C637793322789503154%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=haOHT8o1V1ooUF8UvG2xcZojiQ5zOdoYK%2BZD3OAx7J4%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">here
is a nice gloss</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">) But I suspect Aaron has something to say about this?<span class="ydp8ba1b318yiv9636332461gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="ydp8ba1b318yiv9636332461MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">I'm very curious about how other people are experiencing this film. </span></p>
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<p class="ydp8ba1b318yiv9636332461MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Fun Fact: I drove that very car back in the late 80s, and sold it to none other than Darrell Davis. </span></p>
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