In a nearby Japan, the government will try to encourage assisted suicide to slow down the ageing of the population, leading the economy. An anticipation highlighting the entourage of capitalism advocating the civicism of the death of the serve-for-nothing...
Science fiction! Science fiction?
Japanese director CHie Hayakawa offers an anticipation film, noticed at the international: it was indeed selected for the Oscar of the best foreign film, but also won the camera d'or at the Cannes 2022 festival. It must be said that the subject under discussion is hot news. But what is this Japanese movie worth?
If Plan 75 is classified under science fiction, it is an almost contemporary science fiction, tangent to our reality. In a society where capitalism takes over everything, it will not take long for useless bodies, broken by labour, to be guided to the exit door when they start to cost too much money. Because more than euthanasia (which is not the subject of the film), what approaches Plan 75 is the rotting of the bodies, their rolling by the jaw of a society of yield, and the spitting of almost cadavres, good to nothing but to die.
Presbyterian film
The filming of Hayakawa, discreet, unfolds in this choral film where the intersection of the trajectories of the characters (an old victim of loneliness, an agent of Plan 75, a Filipino employee managing the flow of corpses and their affairs, an organization standardist, etc.) will never occur at the moment when it is expected. The camera stands at the height of old, adopts their rhythm, their long-time sensation, their vision.
The use of blur, like a camera suddenly become presbytered, crosses everything Plan 75 : it robs us of scenes of action, indicates the emotional state of the characters, lets appear plans of decoration... And this until the typography of the title, including the « 75 » is vaporous. A blur from elsewhere fed by the low depth of field of most scenes.
And if we talk about it Plan 75, we must obviously talk about Chieko Baishô, alias Michi, absolutely upsetting in his role as an old lonely woman choosing to accept the solution of euthanasia. A performance that carries the film, which is very well served by his casting, the two hours of which pass without hanging.
In short, this Japanese proposal is worth a look!
That sounds very interesting, I've never heard of it before.
I also discovered his existence with the article.
Yeah, great! I thought he was going out soon in France but apparently he went live in VOD:/