A Constant Visual Feast

“Watch the end credits of Yugo Sakamoto’s Baby Assassins (2021) for a neat optical illusion: actresses Saori Izawa and Akari Takaishi sitting so utterly motionless on a couch that the footage reads like a still image. Izawa plays Mahiro Fukugawa and Takaishi plays Chisato Sugimoto. They’re hired assassins by profession, sluggards by choice, and as skilled as they are at ending life, they’re utterly lacking in life skills. When they’re not on an assignment, they revert to their natural state: mollusks in baggy velour joggers and oversized sweaters, glued to personal devices, as well as to each other, on the sofa.” (Full piece available at JoySauce.)