[KineJapan] Earl on Hamaguchi

[Markus Nornes]

Earl Jackson gives us a splendid reading of Drive My Car’s narrative
complexities. His close textual analysis in part 2 of the essay is a
powerful observation of what Hamaguchi is up to.

Markus

*“*Drive My Car”, in fact, obviates the question of convention and
innovation because, like Hamaguchi’s previous works, the movie constitutes
an act of concentration so committed to its process that even the
distractions it admits become oracular, whether or not the oracle divulges
its message- as we have seen in the communication workshop in *“*Happy Hour
<https://asianmoviepulse.com/tag/happy-hour/>*”* (2015), Torii Baku’s (Masahiro
Higashide <https://asianmoviepulse.com/tag/masahiro-higashide/>) late
reappearance in “Asako I and II” [寝ても覚めても] (2018) or in the scene in *“*Drive
My Car <https://asianmoviepulse.com/tag/drive-my-car/>*”* when  Yusuke
Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima
<https://asianmoviepulse.com/tag/hidetoshi-nishijima/>) closes his laptop
on the video close-up of a lamprey’s ravenous maw (Fig. 1).


https://asianmoviepulse.com/2022/02/stage-whispers-reflections-on-theater-in-film-inspired-by-drive-my-car-part-1/

https://asianmoviepulse.com/2022/03/stage-whispers-reflections-on-theater-in-film-inspired-by-drive-my-car-part-2/

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*Markus Nornes*
*Professor of Asian Cinema*
*Interim Chair, Dept. of Asian Languages and Culture*

Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and
Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design




*Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nornes/
<http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nornes/>*
*Department of Film, Television and Media*
*6348 North Quad*
*105 S. State Street**Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285*
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