To be honest, I didn’t know what to expect from this movie. My only experiences with foreign films, with the exception of one, have presented movies of bad visual quality and horrible acting. Considering I haven’t seen many foreign films, I didn’t automatically assume this one was going to be the same way, and luckily, it wasn’t.
“Dawn of a New Day” wasn’t one of my favorite movies, but it was still pretty good and held my attention. The picture and movie quality looked very professional, and the plotline was very good as well. It was basically the story of a man with a good idea that would revolutionize the world of technology—at the time, of course—that dealt with the business world, where not many people would take the risk on such a new and unknown product. In the end, he finally convinces someone to take the risk on his product, which, of course, turns out to be a great success. This was a great plotline for a movie, and even though you see the “man has to struggle against all odds to suceed” plot in so many movies, to see that plot with something as simple to us Americans as the VHS, was a very interesting concept.
There were only a couple criticisms I had about the movie. The dialogue in the movie seemed misused in a couple of places in the movie. After seeing his kids loving his invention, the lead character Kagaya-san comes into work and suddenly says “I want to make a VCR for the home” and…bam…it happen begins. These kinds of phrases in the movies seem to simplify the business world a little too much and felt a bit awkward to hear. Products take a lot of thinking planning before you can start on it. This may very well happen in the movie, but it seemed as though they started building the home VCR the very minute after Kagaya-san said “let’s do it.” This wasn’t a big deal to me, but it just made a few scenes a little awkward for me. The only other criticism I had was Kagaya-san’s the trouble at home. It was clear that he was having trouble with the relationship between him and his son, but the movie didn’t expound on it much. It’s great they put it in the movie, but I think it was much underplayed. If they put it in the movie, it would have been nice to see more about that relationship. But, again, I didn’t mind that much.
Like I said, those criticisms didn’t bother me much. I still enjoyed watching the movie overall. It was a nice concept, and the actors did a pretty good job. It had a nice introduction to all the characters, kept it interesting in the middle, and a very touching end when Kagaya’s employees formed the letters V-H-S as he looked from the roof of his building. I don’t know if I’d watch it again, but I did enjoy it this time.
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