"Confession": Psychological defects, audio-visual enjoyment

"Confession" is an attractive movie, it gives a heavy-duty audio-visual enjoyment, the camera is alternately reciprocating normal, high-speed and low-speed operation, the camera position change and the lens switching are constantly at an anti-psychological speed The sound effects create a mysterious and depressing effect and deliberately add asynchronous processing of audio and video, the focus is unrealistic, dark colors and cold light sources are used to match the cold-blooded and ruthless film noir style, and the visual effects make necessary contributions in due time. , the narrative aspect is also highly technical, adopting the cold first-person and narration, which is an introductory language (may be called "confession body" by borrowing the name of the movie) and disordered method, of course, we must not forget the random splashing in the movie plasma, the use of TV footage, and the design of the room, interior decoration and website by the art teacher. These audio-visual means are loudly proving their existence to the audience all the time, as if the audience will be shocked by this twisted revenge story, and it is too late to pay attention to the carefully polished audio-visual effects. To put it bluntly, "Confession" is a work of pure dazzling skills. Many of the movies that Dongbao has released at the moment all play the technical stream. Now Akira Kurosawa's junior brothers and sisters have repeatedly proved that "movies are technical activities". unchanging truth.

If the film were to be reproduced as a 106-minute scene, such a stylized treatment of expression would not be unacceptable, since events in our memory are recalled at a speed and sequence that is Arbitrarily changed, a film such as "Confession", which attaches so much importance to form, is used for memory, which is in line with the audience's experience. However, the mentality of a director who works on the editing table day and night is different from that of an audience who has not read the original book and has just walked into a movie theater. The movie starts without saying a word and enters an extremely stylized narrative bridge. Maybe it is After watching the sample film more than ten times, the director believes that the best method is based on his strong will to express himself, but this kind of treatment may not be able to make the audience who are not psychologically prepared to enter the state. After all, the effect of movies on audience emotions is a process of cultivating and then catering to them.

In addition, the story of the movie is quite coherent. Except for Mr. Moriguchi who appeared in front of the camera to complete his confession—Matsu Takako gave a wonderful performance—the rest of the main characters promoted the plot in the form of narration. The narrations are interspersed with each other and integrated into one. While director Tetsuya Nakajima completed the out-of-order dialogue arrangement with high quality, he failed to keep my emotions in line with this depressing atmosphere along with the sound, because of the ruthless dialogue here and the occasional breaks in the soundtrack. The ups and downs of the shouting, the crackling sound were not very in tune. Once the content and form are out of touch, audiences who do not agree with this expression will seriously judge the film as a flattering show, and the director's uncontrollable desire to shoot a music video will make them feel that they lack artistic conception and character. , although the director himself is really talented. It's hard to say whether the work that seems to be extremely powerful at this moment can maintain its appeal to the audience of non-original fans for a long time. After all, like many movie works, it is, to some extent, a representative of the current fast food culture. Starting from the story, establishing and catering to the technical flow of the movie viewing mentality will be the author's more frank confession to the audience.

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