Salaryman 6 is a short drama about a man who forgets what he did the day before but goes to work goes home and lives a mundane life. He modifies his camera to take pictures automatically to discover what he did if he forgets again. After the realisation that all the pictures show the same daily tasks the character says "My life is rotating". In the end he is hit with a box which makes him forget what he did the day before thus creating a circular narrative.
I enjoyed this piece for many reasons, partly the subject matter of balancing work and life, and the mundanity of day to day things is an interesting topic and one that is often played upon. Salaryman 6 manages to tackle the subject in an interesting and unique way through the repetative actions of the alarm, train, work and convenience store. All of which are grey and white dull places and many of which have extreme angles or alterations in perspective. The hallway to work for example is a right angle and the corner of the hall splits the screen in two,
As does the home building and subway some of which seem symmetrical
Another interesting visual is the office and the flats which seem to create the appearance of grids
And my favourite shot shows the sheer number of people who are in the exact same situation
All of these images along with the bland colour pallet are what make the life of the Salaryman seem so mundane and uninteresting and the cinematography so poignantly selling the point of the piece is what I like most about Salaryman 6.
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