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Although Pigo does not often recommend Japanese films, it is undeniable that there are still many excellent works in island films that are worth seeing.
Pigo's deepest impression is the previously recommended film "The Love of the Crowd".
Focusing on the fringes of the Japanese showbiz, it satirizes the industry chaos of low-level actors who are willing to sell themselves for opportunities.
In such a real world, everyone is so cheap and so vulgar.
Love, dignity, humanity? I can give you as long as you want.
Although it is a satire, it is indeed extremely admirable to dare to shoot these three views so nakedly.
The one that Pigo wants to recommend today is also a Japanese realistic masterpiece that deeply analyzes human desires.
The film is titled "Fool's Tale", douban score 7.6, and was nominated for best film at the 73rd Venice Film Festival Horizon Unit Award.
"Foolish Behavior" 丨2016
Director: Kei Ishikawa
Starring: Tsumabuki Akira / Makimitsu / Koide Keisuke / Usuda Asami / Ichikawa Yui / Matsumoto Wakana / Nakamura Koya / Makoto Hidekazu / Koda Mari
Like "Love of the Underworld", the story of this film can also be summed up in the temptation of "circles" representing more fame and profit.
People always want to climb up, whether it is wealth or status. And a circle that represents authority or elite can provide opportunity.
The ultimate goal is to become the core of the circle, like others in the circle, to become the target that the people on the edge of the circle try to approach.
Human nature is like this all over the world, and there seems to be nothing to blame, who doesn't want to be superior? It sounds very unpleasant, but this is the reality.
Of course, it is appreciated by Bole by strength, but it is rare. In order to climb up, it seems inevitable to make sacrifices.
The low-level actresses in "The Love of the Crowd", in order to get the role, climb the relationship day after day, are willing to take the initiative to be submerged.
Similar to the heroine in the early stage of the film, all kinds of guards are like jade, and in the end it is still disappointing. Maybe she is waiting for a big person with more say.
The story told in "Fool's Tales" is roughly the same, but in a different circle, and it is also real and dark, heartbreaking.
The film is introduced by a massacre, where the blood of an elite family in high society is everywhere, and all three members of the family are killed, even the young girl who lies asleep in her mother's arms.
The incident caused a great sensation, but even after a year, the real murderer was not brought to justice.
The male protagonist, Tanaka, is a newspaper reporter, and at his strong request, the leader agreed to visit the case again in an attempt to find out the truth of the case.
To this end, he also interviewed the husband and wife's friends who died in the massacre, hoping to get clues from them.
Through the memories of colleagues and friends during the visit, the film is also divided into three character lines to unfold the story.
1. The death of her husband Tian Xiang
Tanaka yoda chatted with his former colleagues while drinking, and his colleagues also felt extremely sorry for Tian Xiang's death, what a good company backbone, not to mention that he still died.
But as soon as there was a lot of wine, the colleagues also said something unknown.
Whenever the company recruits new people, especially girls who have just entered the workplace, Tian Xiang will organize a company party. In order to get the care of their predecessors, girls will also intentionally find a patron.
A girl named Yamamoto had a crush on the night of the party, but Tachi just wanted to have fun and became extremely cold to Yamamoto within a few days.
Tian Xiang's male colleague, so he tricked Yamamoto into bed, and then casually found an excuse to ignore the other girl.
All in all scumbags.
Tian Xiang's ex-college girlfriend Emi also contacted Tanaka privately afterward, telling a bunch of how Tian Xiang had stepped on two boats before, and even in order to enter a large company, he did not hesitate to play with the feelings of the daughter of the owner of the company, just to go through the back door.
He also brought his ex-girlfriends (all of them bai fumei) together just to provide opportunities, which was also too confident in himself.
It seems that such a social elite deserves to die.
2. The death of his deceased wife Natsuhara
Natsuhara is a typical goddess, both beautiful and temperamental, as was the case in college.
But in the mouth of her female classmate Miyamura, she is described as a delicate egoist.
In the college era, there is a difference between internal students and external students, and internal students are obviously prominent in the family status, and they can directly enter the university without examination. External students can only pass the exam to enter, and the corresponding is also from ordinary families.
Internal students represent honor and status, so external students always try to find opportunities to enter the circle of internal students, hoping to help them make friends with the powerful.
But people's internal students also value what you have, and they have no status and no resources, so why should people ignore you? Therefore, almost no external students can successfully mix with internal students.
Natsuhara is the only one among the external students and has entered the core of the inner circle.
But if there are students who worship and imitate themselves, or hope to use themselves as a bridge, Natsuhara will not help, but will not coldly refuse.
In short, no one will be offended, but Miyamura hates her to death.
Natsuhara envied Miyamura's fashionable clothing and unique style, and his youth was spent abroad, speaking an authentic foreign language, so he took the initiative to make friends with Miyamura.
It's just that Miyamura didn't expect her boyfriend to mix with Miyamura first, and it wasn't long before Miyamura was abandoned.
Miyamura counted all this on Natsuhara's head, and slapped Natsuhara, who was on vacation, in public, and Natsuhara unceremoniously returned the slap.
So even though Natsuhara was killed, Miyamura was still full of hatred, and in order to prove how vicious Natsuhara was, Miyamura also gave an example.
The newborn girl Mitsuko was brought into the inner circle by Natsuhara because of her outstanding appearance, drinking red wine together, riding a yacht, and staying in a high-end hotel.
It was only after actually entering the circle that Photon realized that he had only been tricked into using it as a sexual tool. After going to bed, the internal students did not want to take her into and out of high society with them.
After the photonic graduates laid off their children, they also vented their anger on the children, and were later arrested by the police. The child was so skinny because of nutritional deficiencies that he was even admitted to the hospital.
However, Xia Principle still successfully entered the upper circle, met the young and promising scumbag Tian Xiang, married and had a daughter, and had no worries about food and clothing.
In this way, Natsuhara and Tian Xiang are quite a match.
3. The male protagonist Tanaka and his sister
There is a younger sister in the field, and when she urinates, she witnesses her sister being sexually assaulted by her father, and both brothers and sisters have left psychological shadows.
When Tanaka grew up, he finally understood his father's evil deeds, could no longer tolerate it, and began to protect his sister.
When Tanaka talks to Miyamura, when Miyamura suspects that the person who killed Natsuhara's family may be Photon, because Photon's life was almost ruined by Natsuhara, she has the most motive for killing.
Tanaka immediately took advantage of Miyamura's lack of attention and smashed Miyamura to death from behind, because this person named Mitsuko was Tanaka's sister.
Therefore, after the three character lines are explained, the truth of the film becomes very worthy of scrutiny.
Ostensibly, Photon slaughtered the Natsuhara family.
While receiving counseling in prison, Photon took advantage of the absence of the psychiatrist and also stated the motive and process of the killing in his own words.
She met Natsuhara with her daughter at the mall, and when she smiled and prepared to say hello, she was directly ignored by Natsuhara.
Photon tracks down Natsuhara's house, and thinking how unwilling he is, he enters through the back door and kills Natsuhara's family.
Tanaka killed Miyamura to protect his sister.
It all seems to make sense.
But if you look closely at the whole film, there are indeed several doubts and worth rethinking.
1. Why does the younger sister Photon insist on giving birth to the child?
If the child is born inside, or if it is the father's, it should be directly aborted. Could it be that the child is a brother?
2. Why did his brother Tanaka insist on visiting the case from a year ago?
Just because it was a massacre, it was investigated, and the leaders repeatedly obstructed it and failed to change? Perhaps Tanaka already grasped the truth, which is why when Miyamura was only suspicious of his sister Mitsuko, Tanaka calmly killed Miyamura.
3. Who is the real culprit in the one-year massacre?
On the surface, it is the younger sister Photon, but many fans have opened their minds, thinking that his brother Tanaka is the murderer, and the younger sister said so, just to protect his brother.
Although it doesn't make sense, it's not impossible, after all, the truth is known only to Tanaka and Photon.
The film is introduced here, about the main theme of the film, the previous article has elaborated a lot, here will not be repeated.
Interested fans and friends can find it for themselves.
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