Jake Knight’s Salary Man 6 tells the story of Taishi Shiode, a Tokyo businessman who is involved in an accident which dramatically changes his life and tragically results in him losing his memory. This film follows his journey of firstly discovering that he has lost his memory and then re-tracing his steps to find out how he lost his memory.
In the opening shot of the film, we see him waking up on the floor in his workplace. Two of his colleagues who were staring at him when he was on the floor, help him stand up but then walk off straight afterwards as if nothing major had happened.
Taishi then leaves work to commute home. There is a shot of him walking in a subway on his own and this is there to symbolise what has just happened to him. He has lost his memory and is now, in a way disconnected from the rest of his city/the world. He is alone and it is his quest to find out what he had been through.
As the story progresses, we learn about the repetitive and structured life that he leads. A typical day in his life consists of waking up, going to work, going to the supermarket on the way home and then going to bed and starting the exact same routine again the next day. His daily routine is something that he didn’t seem to really think about before, but as he goes further on his journey, he sees for himself what sort of a mundane and repetitive life that he leads. He does this by setting his camera on automatic and then developing the films from the camera over a period of about a week. It is after this that he has a flashback and remembers the accident he was involved in.
I think this is a really effective short film. The idea may be quite simple, but the way it is shot and told makes this a great piece.
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