Kaki Bakar & Jogho

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.