As we all know, the film and television creators of the island country are often at the forefront of daring to think, shoot and dare to perform.
And the Japanese suspense film shared with you today is such a typical example of "dare to shoot" - "Gravity Clown".
The protagonists of this film are a pair of brothers.
Among them, the younger brother Koharu is a striking high school student.
First, others are handsome, and they can do a part-time job cleaning street graffiti, and they can be watched by girls.
Second, Koharu has a sense of justice and likes to hold uneven.
At the beginning of the film, he flew down from the second floor with a baseball bat and squashed the male classmate who tried to misbehave with the girl.
Compared with Koharu, his brother Quan shui has a very restrained personality, and is a science and engineering man who majored in genetics in college.
As soon as he has time, he will go home and work with his brother as a tasting mouse to be baptized by his father's dark cuisine.
After a family dinner, a news item on television caught the brothers' attention — saying that the recent arson incidents had been frequent and that although the fires were small, the police determined that the same person had committed them.
Koharu then discovered that the location of the fire was near the place where he was cleaning graffiti part-time during the day, because he had taken photos of each graffiti, so he was very sure.
What is even more bizarre is that a few days later, there was another arson case, which was also a small fire, and near the site of the incident, there was also graffiti of unknown significance.
Koharu felt that there was some connection between arson and graffiti.
So he dragged his brother and ran all over the place where the arson had occurred.
As a result, I didn't know it, but when I looked at it, I found that there was only one place with graffiti at present, and there had been no arson.
That is, the arsonist will appear there.
So Xiaochun pulled his brother and prepared to wait for the rabbit in the middle of the night, and incidentally extinguished the fire in time.
Not to mention, the brothers really guessed the brain circuit of the arsonist — someone took advantage of the dark night wind and ignited a pile of discarded wood on the side of the road.
But neither brother saw the arsonist, so they put out the fire and hurried away.
In the days that followed, my brother also became interested in the arson.
By studying the graffiti text and photos of the location of the fire, he was surprised to find that the arsonist was actually using genetic pairing as a code.
As long as this layer of codes is cracked, the next arson site can be inferred through the newly appeared graffiti.
But then the question arises – what can be the relationship between arson and genes?
The older brother, who majored in genetics, had no clue for a while.
But then his classmates offered an idea that people's transgressions in adolescence are the leading factor in adulthood, and that the arsonist is likely to have done something illegal when he was a minor.
The classmate then gave an example.
It is said that 24 years ago, there was a local high school student who committed 30 consecutive rapes. Although this person was arrested and sent to a juvenile detention center, after he came out, he organized prostitution for female students for non-committing crimes, and had no intention of repenting at all.
The case that the classmate said, although it seemed to have nothing to do with the arson case, made my brother fall silent.
Because the mother of the brothers was one of the victims of the rape case that year.
At the time, my brother was a baby.
A few months after the crime, the mother found out that she was pregnant, and the father considered repeatedly deciding to let her give birth to the child. After that, the family moved to the beach and welcomed the fourth member of the family, that is, the younger brother Koharu.
Therefore, Koharu and his brother are actually half-brothers.
Originally, they did not know this secret, but as Koharu grew up, his outstanding appearance and talent attracted the attention of others.
Gradually, Koharu was labeled "rapist's son", and people around her released "dark arrows" that ridiculed and ridiculed from time to time.
Koharu often hears others talking about themselves with the word "rape".
He vaguely felt that he was different from his brother, so he began to think of ways to imitate his brother.
Dad had planned to wait for the brothers to become adults before telling them the secret, but he did not expect that his mother died unexpectedly in a car accident, and he had to reveal the truth in advance.
So, when the classmate inadvertently mentioned the rapist, the brother no longer had the heart to investigate the arsonist.
On the one hand, he had mixed feelings and hoped that what his father said was not the truth.
He secretly found the rapist Ge Cheng, extracted the other party's DNA information to compare with his brother, but the result was a 99.7% match that he did not want to see.
On the other hand, my brother was also a little curious, was that GeCheng really unrepentant as his classmates said?
He pretended to find someone to come to Gecheng's house, only to find that the other party was really engaged in organizing the prostitution of minors.
Not only that, Ge Cheng had no guilt for his crime, and even planned to use the photos of the victims taken that year to extort a sum.
After coming out of Gecheng's home, his brother directly broke down inside.
He thought of the psychological pressure that his parents had borne over the years because of his brother's affairs, and the cold eyes and criticisms that his brother suffered in his childhood, and he felt more and more that Gecheng was unforgiving.
Subsequently, he had the idea of countering violence with violence, and wanted to take matters into his own hands and take gecheng 'revenge'.
He began to look up information on the Internet, plan the location of the killing, buy a car and buy tools, and even think about the completion of the matter and sink the body into the water.
But just when everything was ready, the brother accidentally found that the arsonist was Actually Koharu himself!
The so-called graffiti and gene pairing codes are actually planned by Koharu.
Not only that, But Koharu also knew the whereabouts of his biological father Ge Cheng, and the arson site he chose was actually near the place where Ge Cheng had committed the crime.
Koharu's room was secretly plastered with pictures of the rapist's biological father
At this moment, Xiaochun called and said that he had "discovered" new graffiti.
Based on the information on the graffiti, the brother deduced that the next place of arson was their old house, which was where their mother had been violated.
So why did Xiao Chun come up with such a series of arson cases?
This is because he believes that fire has a purifying effect. He set fires on a small scale at each crime site in Gecheng and anonymously sent him the news of the arson reported in the newspaper to warn him, hoping that he would repent.
But unexpectedly, Gecheng had no cure at all.
Therefore, Koharu decided to finally put another fire, asked Ge Cheng to go to the old house, and killed him with his own hands.
Yes, the two brothers invariably decided to fight violence with violence and "avenge" their mother.
But by the time his brother arrived at the old house, Koharu had already burned Katsuragi to death.
It can be said that from the plot point of view, this film does not belong to the kind of routine criminal reasoning film.
Its focus is not on punishing evil and promoting good, the views are not black and white, and in the end, Ge Cheng's death is only brushed up by the film in the form of a news voiceover.
Although the film involves heavy plots such as murder, arson, and rape, these plots only serve to portray the characters.
The rape case that happened to the mother caused the father and son to suffer a psychological torture -
Does the rapist's child, who was raised by me, count as "my child"?
Does a brother who is highly consistent with the rapist's DNA count as "my brother"?
Rapist's son and Koharu, which is the real me?
From the perspective of character psychology, "Gravity Clown" is actually about the self-identity problem in the family background, which is especially reflected in Koharu's body.
He was gifted in painting and sports since he was a child, but it was this prominence that made him feel that he had a distance from his family, and then questioned himself.
This self-doubt is even stronger when someone explicitly states, "You don't look like your dad."
This led to a considerable period of Koharu's childhood, relying on "imitating" his brother to gain self-identification - I was in sync with my brother God, so I was my brother's younger brother.
The brother's left foot is fractured, and Koharu also has to "do a full set"
But the psychological comfort brought about by this simple imitation was eventually shattered by the truth revealed by Dad.
After that, Koharu had the idea of "reforming evil" with the rapist's biological father. He wanted to "purify" sin by arson while telling himself "I am not the son of a rapist."
But in fact, when he self-directed and self-acted graffiti and arson, and used genetic pairing to attract his brother's attention, it has been shown that he has subconsciously identified himself as "brother's brother".
When he was afraid, he desperately needed the presence of his family, because only his family was his greatest source of courage.
Speaking of which, it is necessary to mention the title of this film, "Gravity Clown", which originated from an experience when the brothers went to the circus with their parents when they were young.
At that time, Koharu had always been afraid that the clown in the sky would fall, but his parents comforted him - the clown actually enjoyed the feeling of being in the air, because if a person enjoyed life, he could get rid of the gravity of the earth. Our family also floated in the air like a clown.
This sentence, combined with the plot to explain, is that even if we become a family because of the violation, as long as we enjoy and accompany each other, we can get rid of the harm caused by that incident.
That's why Dad kept stressing to his brothers that "we are the best family." Because what determines who Koharu is is not the genes in his body, but the family who is around him and gives him warmth.
Many people have watched this film and have been touched by their father's words.
But in fact, the end of the film is more warm and healing -
After the old house caught fire, the brothers returned to their home by the sea, and Dad saw that they were gray-headed and asked if they had done something bad outside.
Xiao Chun suddenly felt all kinds of weakness, lowered his head and touched his lips, and insisted that he had done nothing,
As a result, Dad punctured the lie with one word - Koharu, like me, would touch his lips when he lied.
It is also this sentence "like me" that makes Xiaochun completely untie the knot.
At the end of the film, Koharu, like the circus clown of the year, jumps down from the second floor on a whim — he's not afraid at all, because his brother is following him below.
Overall, "Gravity Clown" is a film that shows the hidden family affection of Oriental people, although the plot is not particularly intense, but the story is very memorable.
In particular, the film associates genes with crime, allowing people to follow Koharu's mental journey and think of the ultimate philosophical torture - "Who are you?" ”
In my opinion, if you want to answer this question, the most important thing is to abandon the simple and rough definition of yourself by others, find what you value most, in order to discover the most authentic self, and then firmly go on.