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In recent years, the "revenge" theme of the masterpiece can be described as an endless stream, and What Pigo wants to recommend today is the most classic one in the "revenge" film - "Confession" from the island country.
Director: Tetsuya Nakajima
Writers: Tetsuya Nakajima / Minami Kanae
Starring: Takako Matsu / Shosei Okada / Kana Kimura / Yukito Nishii / Ai Hashimoto / more...
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Country/Region of Production: Japan
Language: Japanese Douban: 8.7 Duration: 106
The film is actually not complicated, it is about a single mother to avenge her daughter, but the cleverness of this film is that the director switches the first perspective on different people.
Each time a similar shot is presented, it is a different cognition of the same event from the perspective of different characters, and different angles represent different truths, and after watching it, I have to admire the director's technique.
The first thirty minutes of the film are the confessions of Moriguchi-sensei, played by Takako Matsu, about the murder of her 5-year-old daughter by her own students and her plans for revenge.
When Moriguchi was young, he fell in love with the educator Sakura Gong Masayoshi, and became pregnant after a night of intercourse, but just as the two were preparing to get married, the man was found to have AIDS.
The two people thought about it for half a day, afraid that the baby would be discriminated against in society in the future, so they decided not to get married, and Moriguchi unilaterally raised the child Aimei.
Although neither Moriguchi nor Amy was infected with AIDS, unfortunately, one day, Aimee was found to have mysteriously drowned in the school pool, and the police concluded that she had accidentally drowned.
But Moriguchi knew that Aimee had been killed and killed at the hands of his own students.
She pointed it all out in class and heard that the students in the class were all quiet, and they looked at each other and couldn't believe what the teacher said.
Sensei Moriguchi went on to say that the murderers were A and B, A was a genius, but he was cold and loveless, and he hoped to get attention by killing people, especially his mother.
Teenager B's grades are not good and his personality is inferior, once, after he was bullied in the game hall, he was taken to the police station, and in a panic, B asked Moriguchi for help, hoping to help himself.
For personal reasons, Moriguchi did not go in person, but asked a male colleague to pick him up, but B misunderstood, so he held a grudge and wanted to take revenge.
It happened that A found him to carry out the murder plan together, and B did not hesitate to agree.
Originally, during the implementation of the plan, the child was only coronaed, but in order to prove that he was not stupid, B threw the stunned child into the pool, resulting in drowning.
Due to the Minor Protection Act, A and B could not be punished, so Moriguchi decided to avenge Amy in his own way.
Of the milk the students drank, the one she gave to A and B was added to the blood of aids patients.
Horrified to hear this, A ran out of the classroom with his mouth covered in disgust.
The bell rings at the end of class, and Morikoku's confession ends.
The film then changes to the confession of the class leader Mizuki Kitahara.
At the beginning of the new semester, B did not come to class, and the new teacher was full of vitality and love, and he asked the class leader to visit with him to persuade B to return to school.
As a bystander, Beiyue actually knows about the bullying incident of A and B by her classmates, and she wants to persuade the teacher to give up encouraging B to return to school, and she is unwilling to participate in the bullying of A by her classmates, so she is judged to be a traitor by the class, and she is kissed and photographed with A.
At this time, Beiyue suddenly understood the true thoughts of Teenager A's heart, and the two lonely people got closer and closer, and secretly interacted.
Then came the confession of Teenager A.
Because the shadow of being abandoned by his mother has always lingered, even if he has excellent grades, he cannot get the attention and love of his mother, and he only wants to prove himself to his mother.
Outside the home, although his invention won an award, no one cared about it, but instead a juvenile murder incident became the headlines, and the flower of evil has been breeding ever since.
Boy B's confession is also devastating.
He lived a rich life, food and clothing, but he achieved mediocre results in all aspects, and he was anxious but still addicted to games, had no friends, but his mother was very doting on this child, so he gradually degenerated into an incompetent person.
When Boy A offers to invite him to complete the plan together, he is flattered, and in order to prove that he has a high IQ, he proposes to kill the teacher's daughter, but Boy A directly tells Boy B that he is a waste wood after the little girl is shocked.
Teenager B was fatally hit when he heard it, so when the little girl was knocked unconscious, Boy B directly threw the little girl into the pool and proved to A that he could kill people, but the other party could not.
But when he knew that the milk he drank was injected with BLOOD with HIV, the whole person changed, he didn't bathe or wash his hair, he became nervous, he felt dirty all around him, so he always brushed the dishes and brushed the toilet.
B's mother refuses to face the fact that her child kills people, and constantly finds excuses for the crimes committed by her children, but finally because she can't stand her son's depravity and madness all day, she wanted to commit suicide with B, but unfortunately she was killed by B.
Then the camera pulls back to Junior A's final confession.
Teenager A has an unfortunate family of origin, and his mother abandoned him when he was a child and remarried and became pregnant.
He tried his best to get his mother to notice his talent, but in fact he was still so insignificant, everything seemed so boring.
After Aimee discovers that A has a serious Oedipal plot, she is ruthlessly killed and dismembered by A.
Boy A is indifferent to the lives of others, he only wants his mother to notice himself.
One day, after learning that his mother was on her honeymoon and had married someone else, he directly took the bomb he had invented with him, aiming to die with the whole school at the graduation ceremony, but it did not explode after pressing the switch.
At this time, Sensei Moriguchi appeared, and she personally told A that the bomb had been taken to his mother's laboratory by herself, and the moment he personally pressed the switch, his bomb also blew up his mother and her laboratory.
She asked A to kill the person she loved the most with her own hands, to feel the pain of loss, and to die.
She let B eventually have a nervous breakdown, not realizing the meaning of living, and unable to survive.
It turns out that this is Moriguchi's revenge, letting a person lose the most precious thing in his life, which is the most deadly revenge on this person's spirit.
The story ends, but the feeling left to the audience is suffocating.
Although there are no violent shots in the whole film, many broken soap bubbles, water droplets flying, and even the fire of the explosion are extremely beautiful, but compared with the life that can be easily lost, it still forms an alternative violent aesthetic, and there will be a kind of heartfelt introspection after watching it.
In fact, behind the seemingly evil of the whole movie, it is the evil result of the misfortune of each family.
A was abandoned by his mother at an early age and forced to be with his ordinary father.
B's father was always on business trips, his mother was overly doting, and he had no friends and was always looked down upon by those around him.
The whole class is also bullying, which is why such a tragedy is caused.
The director not only wants to accuse minors who commit acts of violence in schools for not repenting because of the protection of the Minor Protection Act, but also wants to express the importance of motherhood and maternal love for a person's growth.
The explosion at the end of the film is undoubtedly the climax of the whole film, and the fragments with sparks falling like raindrops are fireworks that are reborn for Moriguchi, but they are an elegy for A despair.
In the center of this death-swirling vortex, there is no absolute good and evil, but there are betrayals and hurts everywhere, especially the hurt brought by the emotions of maternal love to the child, which is more heavy and less heartbreaking.
The compassion and cold-bloodedness of a mother are not only vividly reflected in the A and B mothers, but also perfectly conveyed through the character of Moriguchi Sensei.
Under this "evil confession", the original sin caused by the lack of family affection and psychological darkness, where is the source of the problem, which is what we should think deeply after watching the movie.
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