Documentaries: Honeymoon (18+)
The focus of this week’s review is a documentary called Honeymoon. It is a film about Japanese pornography, so, if that offends you, you know what to do.
For tackling a subject this compelling to a male such as myself, ‘Honeymoon’ sure is a bore.
It seems to me that, when trying to present a document of the sex life of an alien culture, the film would need to be given some sort of context. Whether it be a brief history lesson on the television station Paradise TV or even something about Japanese culture and sex, something to ease the audience into the subject would have helped immensely. As it is, we are thrown into the daily goings-on of a Japanese porn set, which, for the uninitiated, will be baffling
The film does capture the stories of both of it’s central characters very well. Two fresh faces on the opposite ends of the camera working through their first jobs. Ono, the director, is a slacker, and Makoto, the actress, is a ditz. We watch as they nervously do their jobs.
Because of it’s limited focus, ‘Honeymoon’ suffers from it’s length, as watching this strange fetish video becomes repetitive and tedious. Makoto takes callers that tell her what to do as they…do their thing. The callers are what you would expect, there’s even a kindly old man who calls in to be the creepy grandfather.
There’s no way I can recommend this movie as it is too much of a missed opportunity. If you really need to see what could have easily been a behind the scenes on a Japanese porn DVD, then give it a go.
I didn’t enjoy myself.
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