That Duty/Shame show
Giri/Haji episode 3
More of a sense that there is even more going on than we know than in the previous episode for me.
As I clucked at the massed forces in two cities at the end, my main take-out was…it sucks to be a Japanese wife according to this show. (Doubt this was meant to be the slant I took.) Taki is ambivalent towards her mother, ditto Kenzo, but she’s the one actually there with your dying dad, dude. I know you were forced beyond ties to Yuto to go get him, but I think she deserves a whine, and you didn’t explain how you were playing alternate family in a Jewish Scottishwoman’s kitchen for a reason. Also, Chief Inspector, why not talk to your much younger wife about her infidelity and at least accept her agency in it? And another thing, the yakuza’s wife got packed away with the baby and the blatant lie that everything the husband did was to protect her - including, presumably, cheating on her with the wife of someone who would prove to be a dangerous enemy?
(Having said that, I wouldn’t be surprised if she was part of the reason Yuto left Japan.)
Some bits were gratuitous, like the sex, as the point that Rodney is careless with other people and had avoided his ex’s calls could have been made in other ways. And the ‘you owe me’ line appearing in English for the audience’s convenience on the road surface was a bit much. I’d already picked up on it being significant and probably not that time we’ve already seen Kenzo killing to protect Yuto.
As for the flashback (in appropriate home cinema style) to their childhood. I dislike the cod philosophy, but mainly because I didn’t remember who had kicked or chucked the ball because my concentration automatically lowers the second I see a soccer ball.
Otherwise, we got to see exactly why Sarah didn’t phone her colleagues after she got a brick thrown through her window, as they all sided with the guy. Kally Macdonald gives an impressive tiny ball of fury.
More entertaining gangsterisms from Abbott, recklessness from the wrong people - and it’s obvious Donna and Yuto have a pretty strong bond, making me think lovers, but we’ll see. Why didn’t Taki tell her dad she’d been threatened directly? Cultural or age related?
We, the British audience, were continually checked by the lack of Judeo-Christian reference points for the Moris.
I was glad his partner was given decent police stuff to do, though they still played him for laughs around the (bumbling) cop on secondment. Can’t say I guffawed.
Kenzo offered some smart advice to volatile types who weren’t going to listen, although he seems to be playing with an useless set of cards.
It ended with little Taki seeming to be in the safest place wth irresponsible Rodney.
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/405601.html.
More of a sense that there is even more going on than we know than in the previous episode for me.
As I clucked at the massed forces in two cities at the end, my main take-out was…it sucks to be a Japanese wife according to this show. (Doubt this was meant to be the slant I took.) Taki is ambivalent towards her mother, ditto Kenzo, but she’s the one actually there with your dying dad, dude. I know you were forced beyond ties to Yuto to go get him, but I think she deserves a whine, and you didn’t explain how you were playing alternate family in a Jewish Scottishwoman’s kitchen for a reason. Also, Chief Inspector, why not talk to your much younger wife about her infidelity and at least accept her agency in it? And another thing, the yakuza’s wife got packed away with the baby and the blatant lie that everything the husband did was to protect her - including, presumably, cheating on her with the wife of someone who would prove to be a dangerous enemy?
(Having said that, I wouldn’t be surprised if she was part of the reason Yuto left Japan.)
Some bits were gratuitous, like the sex, as the point that Rodney is careless with other people and had avoided his ex’s calls could have been made in other ways. And the ‘you owe me’ line appearing in English for the audience’s convenience on the road surface was a bit much. I’d already picked up on it being significant and probably not that time we’ve already seen Kenzo killing to protect Yuto.
As for the flashback (in appropriate home cinema style) to their childhood. I dislike the cod philosophy, but mainly because I didn’t remember who had kicked or chucked the ball because my concentration automatically lowers the second I see a soccer ball.
Otherwise, we got to see exactly why Sarah didn’t phone her colleagues after she got a brick thrown through her window, as they all sided with the guy. Kally Macdonald gives an impressive tiny ball of fury.
More entertaining gangsterisms from Abbott, recklessness from the wrong people - and it’s obvious Donna and Yuto have a pretty strong bond, making me think lovers, but we’ll see. Why didn’t Taki tell her dad she’d been threatened directly? Cultural or age related?
We, the British audience, were continually checked by the lack of Judeo-Christian reference points for the Moris.
I was glad his partner was given decent police stuff to do, though they still played him for laughs around the (bumbling) cop on secondment. Can’t say I guffawed.
Kenzo offered some smart advice to volatile types who weren’t going to listen, although he seems to be playing with an useless set of cards.
It ended with little Taki seeming to be in the safest place wth irresponsible Rodney.
This entry was originally posted at https://shallowness.dreamwidth.org/405601.html.