There is no empathy for forgiveness and redemption

Duane 2022-04-22 07:01:43

Japanese director Tetsuya Nakajima's "Confession" was one of the six shortlisted films for the 2010 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Nakajima's specialty is probably shooting commercials, so every slow-motion clip of "Confession" can be divided into refined commercials one by one. The film uses the monologues of several characters such as Moriguchi, Naoki, Mizuki, and Watanabe to connect the story of a teenager murdering a little girl or a story of a mother's revenge. Of course, whether it is Mr. Moriguchi who lost his daughter, Mr. Terada who thinks he is right, the stupid student Naoki who is being used, the mother who is unprincipled and protects his shortcomings, and every student in the class, everyone harbors an unspeakable dark secret. Heart. The confessions of each of them are justifying their own crimes, and they are completely blaming everything around them from their own standpoint, without any sense of self-blame or self-examination. In the society shaped by the film, there are very few good people, and all the members seem to be evil.
Youth education, youth violence, and crime are eternal and cutting-edge topics, and they are also themes that literature and film art are eager to discuss. "Spring in the Cattle Class" and Peter Weir's "Dead Poets Society" also said that "good teachers can transform poor students". But this is the ideal sample, and the real-world version doesn't seem so good. Garth Van Sant's "The Elephant" chronicles the sporadic gun violence on American campuses, while "The Wave" exposes the majority atrocities lurking among young students. However, the treatment of juvenile delinquency has not shown great power because of the so-called "plasticity". Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" exposed the government's failure to reform juvenile delinquency. In China, the earliest documentary directors such as Chen Weijun's "Please Vote for Me" and Zhou Hao's "Higher Three" were capturing school education issues, and Zhang Yuan's "Looking Beautiful" also insinuated the entire Chinese society through a group of kindergarten children. There are problems, of course, there is Lu Le's "Thirteen Paulownia", the most famous is Yang Dechang's "Guling Street Teenage Murder". We take the problems of teenagers to society too much. In fact, we have seriously lowered the basic requirement of teenagers themselves as "people". In fact, we only treat them as "things", not as a member of "people". look at. Since youths have the physical strength, strength, and cognitive ability necessary for crime, "respecting life and treating life with kindness" should be a concept that people have when they have basic cognitive ability, it is a human instinct, and it is the difference between human beings and animals. Foundation. A person cannot be inculcated with the opposite cognition unless he grows up in the animal world. So where does the attitude of indifference to life of young people come from? Of course, society, family, and school cannot be free from juvenile delinquency, but people must have a strong spirit of self-examination. First, find the problem in yourself. Italian criminologist Lombroso's theory of "born criminals" is flawed, but not meaningless.
Juvenile delinquency cannot be simply attributed to the ills of the society and the dislocation of family education, although this is the most worry-free excuse for politicians or politicians. Attributing the main cause of sin to a virtual society or family seems to have found the essence of the problem, but in fact it does not help the reckoning and reformation of the crime, on the contrary, it makes the sin itself escape responsibility, which is not conducive to the realization of justice. Reasonable people must never take this big, frivolous, and innocuous cause as the main basis for making laws, and so rashly condone wrongdoers when justice has not been done. Faced with the increasingly widespread and violent juvenile delinquency phenomenon, it is not helpful to correctly understand the crime phenomenon in human society and make correct legal regulations because of such empty reasons.

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Confessions quotes

  • Shuya Watanabe: Nobody taught me that killing people was wrong. Where other kids got read picture books and fairy tales, my mom taught me Ohm's Law and Norton's theorum. She only ever talked about electronics.

  • Yuko Moriguchi: This is my revenge. I have plunged you into the depths of hell. This is the first step towards your redemption... just kidding.