Hirokazu Koreeda's familiar family ethics is only used as an embellishment and introduction to the whole film. He focuses on criminal suspense and grim court games. This change makes people feel quite distant. From the perspective of a crime suspense film, "三度目の杀人" is not typical. The plot relies on large-scale realistic court procedures and dialogue in the detention center. The film also contains a satirical criticism of the Japanese judicial system. The repeated speculations on the philosophical issues of "crime and punishment" are not the way of ordinary suspense movies at all.
"Three Degrees of Murder" has a "Hirokazu Koreeda style" with a strong atmosphere of life. However, under Hirokazu Koreeda's stable and exquisite lens, what is presented is not completely soft beauty, on the contrary it is cold and even a little cruel and fragile. Although it is generally accepted that Hirokazu Koreeda's transformation and his exploration of creating a suspenseful atmosphere and philosophical speculation are generally accepted, the evaluation is far less amazing than his movie "そして父になる"
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"Three Degrees of Murder" still bears the brand of Hirokazu Koreeda's simplicity and restraint. The lens is stable and indifferent, a large amount of white space and idle pens need to be supplemented by the audience's own brains, and the easy-to-follow metaphors need to be carefully crafted by the audience. Compared with many suspenseful dramas, Hirokazu Koreeda is obviously short of breath: a murder case, there is neither fascinating, interlocking logical reasoning, but also lacks detailed presentation and emotional promotion, after the plain story, who is the murderer until In the end, it did not reveal. I want to win with philosophical thinking, but I am caught in a dilemma between literary and genre films, and the film eventually becomes a cliché.
The film’s impact is social, questioning the lack of introspection in the Japanese judicial system, showing the entanglement of legality and reasoning, and the blindness of social prejudice, but they are all just to stop. So the film is more like an inner drama of Hirokazu Koreeda, he captures people's attitude towards the truth with a delicate heart, while thirsty for knowledge, while keeping away from it
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