{"id":606160,"date":"2024-01-26T04:53:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T01:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-docmaker-investigates-her-own-assault\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T04:53:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T01:53:41","slug":"watch-a-docmaker-investigates-her-own-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-docmaker-investigates-her-own-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Docmaker Investigates Her Own Assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40b63206804\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40b63206804\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-docmaker-investigates-her-own-assault\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Docmaker_Investigates_Her_Own_Assault%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A Docmaker Investigates Her Own Assault&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-docmaker-investigates-her-own-assault\/#%E2%80%9CA_Docmaker_Investigates_Her_Own_Assault%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Docmaker Investigates Her Own Assault&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Docmaker_Investigates_Her_Own_Assault%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A Docmaker Investigates Her Own Assault&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Docmaker_Investigates_Her_Own_Assault%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Docmaker Investigates Her Own Assault&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Amid the surfeit of films about women\u2019s rights and men\u2019s abuses of power that have emerged in the wake of the #MeToo reckoning, we haven\u2019t yet seen one quite like \u201cBlack Box Diaries.\u201d A tightly wound, heart-on-sleeve procedural documentary, Shiori Ito\u2018s directorial debut identifies a world of systemic iniquities through the prism of a single, long labored-over case of sexual assault \u2014 crucially, the director\u2019s own. That raw first-person perspective, untempered by the interests of another filmmaker and given narrative rigor by Ito\u2019s substantial journalistic skills, makes \u201cBlack Box Diaries\u201d not just a damning analysis of patriarchal power structures in contemporary Japan, but a vivid evocation of the day-to-day psychological swings and breaks that come with living as a survivor. The title\u2019s allusion to diary-keeping is on point: Ito\u2019s vulnerabilities can be discomfiting to witness, even with her consent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    A standout of the World Cinema Documentary competition at this year\u2019s Sundance Film Festival, \u201cBlack Box Diaries\u201d is presented as Ito\u2019s final word on an ordeal already covered in her 2017 memoir \u2014 though there has been significant legal progress on the case since its publication \u2014 and granted enough international <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> attention to secure her a place on 2020\u2019s <em>Time <\/em>100 list. That relative degree of celebrity may make Ito\u2019s film an especially strong sell to documentary distributors, but with its urgent personal perspective and taut legal-drama shaping, \u201cBlack Box Diaries\u201d will prove wholly riveting to viewers unacquainted with her name and story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Ito opens proceedings with an unusual trigger warning, advising any viewers unnerved by the traumas raised in her film to close their eyes and take a breath. \u201cThis has helped me many times,\u201d she states. The doc will continue to switch between modes of formal investigation and warm, first-hand confessional, as objective archival footage is alternated with candid, conversational iPhone videos and audio recordings. This material is all expertly braided by editor Ema Ryan Yamazaki to convey our narrator\u2019s shifting frames of mind, from eminently professional journo coolly researching her own experience to frightened victim overwhelmed by the responsibility of telling her tale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Said story begins in 2015, when Ito \u2014 then a 26-year-old intern at Thomson Reuters \u2014 went out for a drink with renowned TV reporter Noriyuki Yamaguchi, only to become intoxicated and taken against her will to his hotel room. Her allegations of ensuing rape are brusquely dismissed by police: Under a century-old Japanese law that has only recently been revised, sexual assault wasn\u2019t necessarily defined by non-consent, especially if the victim\u2019s resistance was not violent. Ito methodically lays out a national culture built to protect men\u2019s honor first in such situations \u2014 in particular well-protected men like Yamaguchi, whose friends in high places include Shinzo Abe, then Japan\u2019s Prime Minister. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Discouraged by both the authorities and her family from taking the matter any further \u2014 at potential cost to her reputation and career prospects \u2014 Ito nonetheless goes public with her accusations in 2017, pursuing legal action against Yamaguchi and finding a publisher for her tell-all book \u201cBlack Box,\u201d a volume intended not just to relay her experience but to prompt a reevaluation of Japan\u2019s archaic sexual assault laws. Undeterred when the prosecution review board rules that she has no case, she transfers it to civil court instead, whereupon her fortunes gradually begin to shift, even as she faces hostility from the media and hate mail from the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Key to the building momentum of her case, in this most patriarchal of hierarchies, is the securing of male allies \u2014 often a finely wrought process of negotiation, in which women still have to cannily play to men\u2019s vanities. In the film\u2019s single most queasily gripping scene, Ito calls one of the officers (identified only as Investigator A) who initially blocked her case to ask if she can quote him in her book. To her surprise, he acquiesces (\u201cAs a journalist, it\u2019s important you have a record,\u201d he says) before gauchely and drunkenly coming onto her. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The conversation plays out in full and without commentary: The irony of having to humor the advances of one man to prove those of another is plain and startling, though Ito, long hardened to such cruelties, also finds dry, mirthless humor in them. By contrast, a later dialogue with a hotel doorman who witnessed her being forced upstairs is less compromised in its catharsis: \u201cI\u2019m willing to do anything to help you \u2014 nothing compares to the suffering you\u2019ve endured,\u201d he says, as he agrees to testify in court. It\u2019s hard not to share in her tears at this simple demonstration of human con<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Without undue manipulation or sentimentality, \u201cBlack Box Diaries\u201d pulls viewers\u2019 emotions in sharp extremes that mirror the peaks and valleys of this hard-fought five-year case. In one diary-style video, Ito advises viewers that she will never die by suicide, and to investigate for foul play if she turns up dead; in another, filmed some time later but presented in parallel with the previous one, she attempts to overdose on camera after apologizing to her parents. Not just a compelling and sympathetic human subject but a genuinely artful and intuitive filmmaker, Ito crafts \u201cBlack Box Diaries\u201d with a keen sense of temporal drift and distortion \u2014 we feel the days hazily lost to her lowest ebbs, as well as her surges in energy and motivation as the system turns in her favor. At her most relieved, she plays Gloria Gaynor\u2019s all-purpose empowerment anthem \u201cI Will Survive\u201d on her phone \u2014 a cue that would feel glibly hackneyed from any docmaker other than the one filming her own truth. As it is, it\u2019s an ecstatic release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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