This atmosphere started from the first frame of the film. Mr. Moriguchi made a statement in a noisy classroom. His lines were overwhelmed by the noise of the students, leaving the audience in a very irritable mood because they could not hear clearly. . The cold rain outside the window and the scenes of B being bullied, which are switched from time to time, clearly tap the audience's heart one by one, which not only strengthens the manic-depressive feeling, but also indicates that the next episode will be unusual. Moriguchi's narration is very calm, cold as rain, and I thought it would be an indoor group drama-style reasoning movie. It's a pity that the truth soon emerged, but fortunately, the repressed atmosphere was not dissipated with the appearance of the truth. The thirteen-year-old boy in the room was like a spring, constantly being pressed down and then bouncing up, until it finally broke out. Well stretched a depressing string.
If it ends here, "Confession" can be regarded as an extremely stylized and powerful short film, and it will also become a wonderful one-man show by Song Takako. But this film did not, and the protagonist of the subsequent narrative became a teenager with psychological problems.
In fact, there are not a few films that focus on half-baked teenagers to analyze human nature, that is, the so-called cruel youth. But "Confession" obviously belongs to the old man's grasp of the road, and still uses narration + cool tones + MV-style shots + repeated English extravagant sounds to create the ultimate sense of depression. The director's purpose is very clear, or to use the ultimate image style to match the extreme spirit of the plot and theme. But a problem has arisen. The tension of the plot itself has been weakened a lot by the performance of the small actors, and the large number of narrations has made it even worse. While the whole story is amazing, the obsession with slow motion leads to an overly protracted rhythm that erodes the thrill and wonder of the movie. It can be said that the advantages of the first half have become the disadvantages of the second half. In the absence of internal dramatic tension, he blindly uses repeated techniques to create a sense of depression, just like a man who has no connotation and has to keep long hair to cover it. He kept his voice low when he spoke with his eyes, and put his back in his pocket in the rain, just like the food delivery man who wanted to appear philosophical, but instead exposed his superficiality even more.
If extremes seem cool, then "Confession" does it both in terms of plot and visual style, but this extreme seems rather contrived. Of course, there are two ways to understand "the ultimate in contrived". What I mean is that "Confession" has achieved the ultimate, but it seems quite contrived, and has lost its power to move people's hearts.
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