'Jamojaya,' Justin Cho's family drama, features strong performances in this story of a rising Indonesian rapper, but delivers a weak third act. Our Sundance2023 review:
The music industry is infamously cutthroat and stories about musicians are either underdog stories or ones that place the industry as a relentless machine that churns talent through and spits them out. Jamojaya balances both of these types of stories along and then braids in the story of a father and son who have been estranged over time.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Joyo, we learn, was a formative figure in James' early career in Indonesia where he acted as his manager. However, while Joyo is suffocating sometimes as a stage dad, he is also pitiable at times. He decides to work as James' personal assistant, and James must watch as the people in the industry and in his life treat his father more as a servant than anything else.
Despite all of that, Imanuel's debut as an actor stands strong. It might be because Imanuel is in his element, playing a character who is quite close to his own life, but you can feel James' fragility and frustration as the movie culminates. There are only a few moments where the camera centers on James the rapper, and the movie is made better for it. We know Imanuel is a fantastic rapper, but that isn't the point of Jamojaya and Chon knows it.
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