Whether it is a teenager or a teacher, everyone lives according to their own script, and within the limitations of this script, they maximize their rationality and justify all behaviors. The impact brought by this kind of character logic can often only be found in Japanese movies, whether it is "Battle Royale" or "Death Note", the logic behind the characters and hidden characters is always heart-wrenching and thorough.
Director Tetsuya Nakajima adopted a very authoritative film narrative technique. The happy scenes in slow motion are accompanied by a lifeless and lonely monologue, silently dissolving happiness and revealing the true face of terror. The soundtrack in the film is very particular, although it makes people feel like they are in a certain MV, but there is no sense of disgust. Although the pacing of the camera is slow, the plot is intertwined, and I am surprised more than once during the viewing process that I can be attracted to such a degree.
In fact, I realize that this kind of school violence theme has long existed in Japanese culture, and "GTO" serialized in Weekly Shonen MAGAZINE from 1997 to 2002 is also one of the best. It is a work that can't wait to fill the whole page of drawing paper with foul dialogue, and at the same time, it is a work that is very capable of sex, but it makes people feel sad, desolate, but very reassuring everywhere.
However, unlike Eiji Onizuka in "GTO", the head teacher in "Confession" adopted a strategy of revenge to the end, so that the whole movie set a sad tone from the beginning, and the head teacher who lost all his relatives in his life also Its tragic experience makes the viewers unknowingly lose the existing moral standards and immerse themselves in a kind of helplessness that cannot extricate themselves. As the saying goes, behind every crazy character is a pitiful experience.
Until the end of the film, I was expecting Matsuko to be honest about not resuscitating the bomb. In fact, I wasn't expecting a didactic confession, and I wasn't expecting an instant transformation of the boy in front of her. However, I just blindly believe that Matsu Takako's tears after learning the boy's knot will become a weapon to redeem himself.
But obviously the ending was so frustrating, and I gradually realized what everyone was waiting for. Not a faint light in the tragedy, much less an anti-climax of justice. What we are waiting for is nothing more than the hell where all this will eventually lead to destruction, and let an unrecognizable explosion soothe our pain.
So, Ryuko Matsuko's last sentence "just kidding" actually gave you and I the ultimate relief when watching the movie.
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