'Where Are You Taking Me?' by award winning director Kimi Takesue is a low key observational style documentary that holds our attention from the opening sequence taken from the ideal observational redoubt of a hotel window balcony. The uncensored and unobtrusive view captures the poetry around the rhythm of daily urban life in a large African metropolis. Subsequent sequences are on ground level (or lower). Close and far. Observed and unobserved.
The dialog is minimal. The images are the message. The only real verbal exchange on film is between the film maker and the boy who asks 'Where Are You Taking Me?'
I really loved the sequence of the impromptu gymnasts and the closing encounter with the school children which provide a moving end. They and the movie linger long in the memory.
The dialog is minimal. The images are the message. The only real verbal exchange on film is between the film maker and the boy who asks 'Where Are You Taking Me?'
I really loved the sequence of the impromptu gymnasts and the closing encounter with the school children which provide a moving end. They and the movie linger long in the memory.