surface peace

Guiseppe 2022-04-21 09:03:00

Humans seem to have an instinct to regard everything that seems to be harmless, painless, bleeding, and crying as a kind of peace. Even if the other party's inner sadness is faintly felt, if no one asks for help, they will pretend to be happy, just for the surface peace. . If you don't touch, you won't get out of control, if you don't ask, nothing will happen, but these gloomy seeds are just buried deep in the dark soil, and one day, one day, they will take root and sprout and flourish. .

In order to raise the child, Xiu Zai's mother ended her scientific research career and added these own decisions to Xiu Zai without authorization. "For you, I gave up what kind of future, so how grateful you should be to me." Such emotions. However, these are obviously their own choices, aren't they? When he left, Xiu Zai didn't cry and make a fuss, and even left quickly before he could react to catch up. What she thought was: This child will definitely be happier without me by my side. But isn't this an excuse to get rid of the mess?

Xiuya's father and new wife started a new life, I don't even doubt that they moved Xiuya to the warehouse with the cruelty and ferocity of a stepmother only found in fairy tales, but what's more terrifying than this is: I am A father who is not smart can't give more to this smart child, I can only live such an ordinary life, this is for the good of this child.

So, in the name of so-called love and for his own good, he created a nurturing environment for a serial killer for Shuya.

Boy B's mother thought that her child was a good child who was obedient, kind, virtuous, intellectual, artistic, labor, and well-rounded. When she found that her child was so different from her own delusions, she wanted to solve him by herself. I wonder if she didn't feel anything wrong before that? The fragility and loneliness of her child, the faint message of help in her eyes, has no friends, and is not welcome. Maybe found it? But how do you have the courage to open this Pandora's box? The shattering of all delusions, the blissful peace of all made will be destroyed. It's as if she never had a husband back home, even if something like this happened, her husband never showed up, just because he was on a business trip?

There is also Meidai, although her family is not mentioned in the movie, what else is there to say about a family who let their children go out late at night?

Human nature, right? The status quo, the avoidance of change, and the serenity of the surface.

But hurt, revenge, and destruction can't bring happiness to anyone, just like Yuko-sensei holds candy from other children in his hand and can't help crying. If she could, all she hoped was to hold her little daughter's hand on the way home, instead of destroying these children who had been destroyed by others. She just extended her memorial trip to her daughter, but waiting at the end of this long road is definitely not redemption.

There is no real savior in the whole story, all the possible guys either got HIV and died, or were fooled from the beginning to the end. Why would one want, and can only, kill another? Especially those who are well-planned murderers can no longer trust anything, institutions, friends, relatives, and despair of all good things, so only use destruction and hurt to soothe themselves. Others may be abandoned early before they learn to ask for help, trust, and dependence, and can only use this only way of understanding experience.

For me, the horror I experienced from start to finish was not really like that. It's the reasonable bullying and harm of the whole class interspersed in the story. Like Zimbardo's prison experiment, Hitler's genocide, collective atrocities that can only be done with a plausible excuse. In this, even the performance of inaction and neutrality has been branded with evil, such as Meidu. Why is there such a need for allies? Maybe somewhere in my heart I also feel a little guilty about my actions.

The last thing I want to say is that the most thrilling thing about "Confession" is that this class is really an ordinary class, with ordinary experiences and ordinary families everywhere. That's why it's the most terrifying thing.

But so what? Will there be anything to reflect on? Humans are animals that are content with apparent peace. Lies are always sweet, but truth is painful.

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Extended Reading
  • Chris 2022-03-18 09:01:05

    The way the film is expressed is quite different from the past. The whole film is full of a lot of slow motion and a lot of close-ups, and the pictures are also very beautiful. Many people say that this film is a super long version of the MV because of the combination of shooting, editing and music, but at least it means that the film is beautiful; some people say that the content is empty and pale, and that can only be said that the original itself has such a problem. The last sentence "just kidding..." was more shocking than the original. ★★★★

  • Amiya 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    Let people experience a murderous revenge, such a cruel story becomes so elegant and shocking under the lens of Tetsuya Nakajima, and the advertising-style editing method under high-speed photography makes this film refreshing! ★★★★★

Confessions quotes

  • Yuko Shimomura: Moriguchi is a demon.

  • Mizuki Kitahara: Moriguchi, is life...?