"The Story of My Wife", "The Life of the Disgusted Matsuko", and "Paco and the Magic Picture Book", their common features are bells and whistles, color explosions, all kinds of sudden and powerful clip insertions, wanton collages, and can be cheerful singing and dancing It can also be self-talk, in short, it is full of aggression, causing the audience to have a subconscious psychological resistance. These are all gone in "Confession". The tone of the film is dark, the black is depressed, or there are cheerful scenes, and it quickly falls into the stagnant atmosphere created, like a cloudy sky and a sudden heavy rain. As for the insertion of song and dance passages, that is already a major feature of Tetsuya Nakajima, and it is another matter.
Therefore, the repeated use of slow motion in "Confession" is more like to render the "difference of one thought", extend the time, magnify a certain moment and a specific moment, watch it again and again, and guide the audience to think. Why is that, the teenager can throw a little girl weaker than them into the pool. As for the expression of youth and the beauty of the campus, it is better to regard it as a contrast, and evil can breed in any soil. On the other hand, "Confession" is still peeling onions, removing the false and preserving the true, like a multi-perspective "Rashomon". There are a lot of flashbacks, rewinds and rear-view mirrors in the film. Like "The Life of the Disgusted Matsuko", they continue to flash back and rewind to form a complete event. The audience replaced Yingta, occupying the omniscient perspective. This time it's not about people, it's about things.
Just like not to mention a good woman, a bad woman or a poor woman, "The Life of the Disgusted Matsuko" is ultimately caused by the shadow of growth, and the child is looking forward to his father's attention. This time, the boy A of "Confession" deserves the same fate. He longs for his mother's love. From a thin and pale bad person image, he slowly evolved into a hateful but unforgivable poor person image. The evidence supporting this assertion lies in the key step scene. At the end of "The Life of the Disgusted Matsuko", Matsuko steps up the steps, his father smiles, reconciles with his sister, and she is forgiven and forgiven. In "Confession", teenager A also ran up the stairs, but didn't see his mother, so he made a big mistake. He even concocted a beautiful lie, continuing to yearn for attention. He wanted to blow up earth-shattering, but he didn't want to blow up himself. Tetsuya Nakajima obviously thinks that they are all pitiful from the bottom of his heart. Even in the absurd and comical children's drama "Paco and the Magic Picture Book", he also created a height gap between the characters. There is a fine line between good and bad sometimes.
If you are looking for a topic worthy of the attention of Japanese society for "Confession", it is undoubtedly a juvenile delinquent. Looking back at the Japanese films of the past ten years, the problem of juvenile delinquency is not so prominent, at least there is no panic in the film. Many times the movie still stays in the middle of reflecting on the major disasters of the last century, and the real hot topic might as well be the otaku. The problem of juvenile delinquency broke out once in the Japanese movies in the early 21st century. If you continue to infer, Boy B was living in Shunji Iwai's "All About Lily Zhou". He was insulted and damaged, and he killed himself. In the final analysis, his tragedy is still the fault of the family and the loss of his mother. Teenager A will live in "Battle Royale", pretending to be okay, not showing off the mountains and dew, and going crazy at every turn. Because both films have teachers, students, and classes, it can only be the mercy of the Avengers who subdue him.
Silence, depression, indifference, taciturn. Whenever I see boys and girls in this type of Japanese movies, I always think of a sentence. It is better to leave the branches with the wind when life is the most beautiful. In fact, this is talking about suicide, rather than being in a group in "Confession" and trying to prove himself by revenge on others. In the national character of Japan, there has always been an extreme resolute side. However, in other films, such as Nakahara Jun's "Sakura Garden", although there are gaps in the middle, the images present an incomparable beauty. Perhaps looking down, in terms of some things that are occasionally heard around, adolescent children have already said that the combination of angels and demons. In times of rebellion, their outbursts are always reckless and unrecoverable. As for their confessions, they are often roughly the same. 【Beijing Youth Daily】
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