Netflix的“ Naomi Osaka”纪录片使观众保持距离：电视评论
Netflix’s ‘Naomi Osaka’ Docuseries Keeps Viewers at a Distance: TV Review
Naomi Osaka的首次大满贯胜利是如此戏剧性，以至于感觉像是电影的脚本高潮。在2018年，上升的网球现象面对塞雷娜·威廉姆斯（Serena Williams），这是有史以来最伟大的运动和她的长期偶像之一，并在直率的比赛中获胜。但是，当大阪举起奖杯时，她眨了眨眼，这是苦乐参半的沮丧而不是她可能设想的幸福。当威廉姆斯（Williams）称呼他为“小偷”来捍卫自己的荣誉时，他通过强迫她放弃大阪的比赛来惩罚她。大阪为比赛服役时，悬挂在体育场上的嗡嗡声紧张着在数百万的电视屏幕上展示了世界各地的决赛，并在大阪的脸上平淡无奇。星号；也许她只是在卷起从这一切的震惊中。但是，如果有什么清楚的话，那是大阪的工作非常努力，以至于这一刻只是看到它变得越来越多。这也是将她带入体育名人平流层的时刻。对于全世界来说，在那里是对大阪不可否认的技巧和可见痛苦的看法惊喜。然而，令人震惊的是，它从未详细介绍导致大阪以如此严峻的接受而不是喜悦接受她的奖杯的情况。取而代之的是，第一集（“ Rise”）显示了她的胜利，并随身携带，以一眼大阪的生活和思维方式，而没有解决她快速上升的全部背景，或者，这场比赛的细节可能使她成为她的细节甚至与后来的名望的关系比植根于更直接的胜利要复杂。这是一个奇怪的遗漏，但也决定了其余纪录片如何在武器长度上展开的步伐。三集和两年的大阪职业生涯，导演加勒特·布拉德利（Garrett Bradley）（由奥斯卡提名的纪录片“ Time”）遵循当她在美国公开赛胜利之后，她努力应对网球界及以后的迅速上升时的球员。与“时间”一样，布拉德利（Bradley）将大阪和她的姐姐打网球的老年家庭视频与她的年轻父母一起打网球，在当今的大阪录像中，在他们的怀疑家庭面前遇到异族关系，作为一名职业运动员，捍卫自己的头衔，同时捍卫自己的冠军头衔。数百万美元的背书义务。根据布拉德利（Bradley）的标志性电影制作风格，“ Naomi Osaka”是抒情和精心构成的。随着大阪越来越成为她周围世界迷恋的对象，布拉德利的相机成为另一个Extensi在这一集中注意力的关注中，经常从远处，窗户和她的生活中捕捉大阪。在她的赛后访谈中，其中许多是该系列的特色，然后22岁的大阪很柔软 - 在她的日常生活中说话，周到和零星地咯咯地笑。她唯一说的时间超出了手机上的自贴供词视频时所要求的。在这些时刻，她仍然谨慎对待自己说的话，但是对表演压力，导师科比·布莱恩特（Kobe Bryant）的死亡以及她改变游戏规则的决定戴着黑人在比赛中被警察杀害的黑人的名字的决定越多越坦率面具。否则，对于一个据称是对一个内向运动员的内心生活的纪录片，“ Naomi Osaka”在一个明显的删除中运作。考虑到大阪包装纪录片后一年，这很有意义。在断言她不会成为一部分之后大阪在法国公开赛的赛后新闻发布会上占据以维护自己的心理健康，发现自己处于正义愤慨和支持的大火中心。 （她最终从法国公开赛和温布尔登人撤回，理由是她需要隐私和重定向，然后代表日本在东京奥运会上。 。但是，很想知道她是纪录片的焦点，该纪录片试图告诉她未过滤的真理，而没有许多直接的剥夺。取而代之的是，“大阪纳奥米大阪”的叙述是合适的，开始了以前播出的访谈来填补空白并掩盖教练，品牌和赞助之间的过渡，而无需进一步探讨。大阪的个性闪耀，但没有太多。不知道她分享的宝贵的小小。如果这是一个试图挖掘年轻名人心理的根源的电影制片人，那么它在这方面也不是特别成功。并不是一个明显的，不是一个印象派肖像，“ Naomi Osaka”在介于两者之间的某个地方，至少反映了其同名的好奇心。“ Naomi Osaka”于7月16日星期五在Netflix上首映。
Naomi Osaka’s first Grand Slam victory was so dramatic as to feel like the scripted climax to a movie. In 2018, the rising tennis phenom faced Serena Williams, one of the greatest to have ever played the sport and one of her longtime idols, and won in straight sets. But when Osaka lifted her trophy, she was blinking back tears borne of a bittersweet frustration rather than the happiness she might have envisioned.
In that crucial second set, the chair umpire cautioned Williams three times for various nitpicked offenses. When Williams vociferously defended her honor by calling him “a thief,” he penalized her by forcing her to forfeit a game in Osaka’s favor. By the time Osaka was serving for the match, the buzzing tension hanging over the stadium was palpable through the millions of television screens showing the final around the world, and made plain on Osaka’s face.
Maybe she already knew then that the win would always have an asterisk; maybe she was just reeling from the shock of it all. But if anything was clear then, it was that Osaka had worked extraordinarily hard to get to this moment only to see it muddled beyond recognition. It was also the moment that launched her into the stratosphere of sports celebrity. There, for all the world to see, was an unvarnished view of Osaka’s undeniable skill and visible anguish at achieving this long-coveted milestone at the expense of Williams’ wellbeing.
That this pivotal match opens Netflix’s new “Naomi Osaka” docuseries comes as no surprise. What does come as a shock, however, is that it never once details the circumstances that led up to Osaka accepting her trophy with such grim acceptance rather than joy. Instead, the first episode (“Rise”) shows her winning and moves right along to offer glances into Osaka’s life and mindset without ever addressing the full context of her rapid ascendance — or how, perhaps, the particulars of that match might have made her relationship to the subsequent fame even more complex than if it had been rooted in a more straightforward victory. It’s a strange omission, but one that also dictates the pace for how the rest of the docuseries unfolds at arms length.
Over three episodes and two years of Osaka’s career, director Garrett Bradley (of the Oscar-nominated documentary “Time”) follows the player as she grapples with her rapid rise in the tennis world and beyond after that U.S. Open win. As with “Time,” Bradley weaves together older home videos of Osaka and her sister playing tennis as kids and her young parents navigating an interracial relationship in front of their skeptical families with present day footage of Osaka as a professional athlete defending her titles while fulfilling millions of dollars in endorsement obligations. And as per Bradley’s signature filmmaking style, “Naomi Osaka” is lyrical and meticulously composed. As Osaka becomes more and more an object of fascination in the world around her, Bradley’s camera becomes another extension of that focused attention, often capturing Osaka from far away, through windows and from behind the mise en place of her life.
As in her post-match interviews, many of which feature in the series, then 22 year-old Osaka is soft-spoken, thoughtful and sporadically giggly in her everyday life. The only times she says more than is required come when doing her own self-taped confessional videos on her phone. In these moments, she’s still careful about what she says, but ever slightly more candid about feeling pressure to perform, the death of her mentor Kobe Bryant, and her game-changing decision to wear the names of Black people killed by police on her tournament masks. Otherwise, for a docuseries that purports to be a revealing look into a notably introverted athlete’s inner life, “Naomi Osaka” operates at a noticeable remove.
This makes some sense considering where Osaka finds herself now, a year after the docuseries wrapped. After asserting that she would not be participating in the French Open’s post-match press conferences to preserve her mental health, Osaka found herself at the center of a firestorm of righteous indignation and support alike. (She eventually withdrew from both the French Open and Wimbledon, citing her need for privacy and redirection before representing Japan at the Tokyo Olympics.) Osaka doesn’t owe the press her undivided attention, especially when the tennis media machine exploits the athletes feeding it. But it is curious to see her as the focus of a docuseries, which tries to tell her unfiltered truth without many direct divulgences to work with. Instead, the narrative of “Naomi Osaka” comes in fits and starts, using previously aired interviews to fill gaps and glossing over transitions between coaches, brands and sponsorships without much further probing. Osaka’s personality shines through, but not much else.
If this series is something Osaka wanted to do in order to be transparent in a way she otherwise can’t, you wouldn’t know it from the precious little she shares. If it’s a filmmaker trying to excavate the roots of a young celebrity’s psyche, it doesn’t especially succeed on that front, either. with a cautious curiosity that does, at least, reflect its namesake.
"Naomi Osaka" premieres Friday, July 16 on Netflix.
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