The
similarity between both of the movie (Kaki Bakar and Jogho) is emphasizing on
masculinity. The main actor in Kaki Bakar and Jogho is very strong about his
own opinion and he never listen to his wife. To him, what a wife should do is
just to stay at home and take care of the family. In Jogho, they also said that
female shall not enter to the bull fight arena because it’s a man event.
Authorship by sociology of
production
In both
of this film, U-Wei Haji Saari uses the same lead actor Khalid Salleh. Because
to U-Wei Haji Saari, only Khalid Salleh could carry out the role properly and
meet his requirement. If a different actor was use, most probably the outcome
or the plot of the story could not be well carry out. Therefore the actors in
the story play an important role and they are the main impact contributors
looked upon as collaborators.
Authorship by signature
Just as
Wong Kar Wai, everyone have their own signature way of expressing their work.
U-Wei Haji Saari’s signature is slow panning and dolly. He always uses these
shots by following their characters walking. We can find a lot of that camera
movement in Kaki Bakar as well as Jogho. For example, in Jogho the establish
shot of the village at night, it dolly left then dolly right and also crane up
and down.
Authorship by reading strategy
Kaki
Bakar and Jogho did not clearly state what should the reader thinks about the
whole film, instead both film is left to the readers to interpret. In this
situation, reader has become the author and there’s no specific, right or wrong
interpretation.
In both
film, the lead actor is project as violent and masculinity. They don’t listen
to anyone’s advice and do according to their own will. In the end they suffer
from their own consequences. The background music of both films also uses Malay
traditional instruments instead of western. It’s obvious that U-Wei Haji Saari
loves to use Malay village to shoot his films and also insert some Muslim
element which is prayer.
Overall,
I’m very neutral about this film. I don’t find myself interested in the film.
The plot seems to be a bit boring and there’s not much suspense. The story is
very easy to guess what is going to happen next. The only thing I find that the video quality
and shooting style improve from Kakai Bakar to Jogho.