Such themes are often seen in Japanese movies. The Japanese seem to be very good at creating "cruel youth", and there are many excellent and famous Japanese movies, such as "Dream Traveler", "Everything About Lily Zhou", "Big Brother". "Escape", "Pest", "Canary", "Moon Chant", "Swallowtail Butterfly", "Life", etc., many people classify it as the "pervert" of the Japanese, and its reckless crown " "Perverted", it is better to briefly analyze the national character of the Japanese. The island country has few people, lack of resources, and the shadow of defeat. The Yamato nation itself is a nation with a strong sense of insecurity. Various factors make the national character of the Yamato nation quite dangerous. This sense of crisis and lack of security has profoundly affected Japanese literature, art, and thought. If a nation has a sense of crisis, what will it pay attention to? From the perspective of the overall situation, it should pay attention to the next generation of the nation and the hope for the future of the entire nation. Therefore, the sense of crisis for the growth and development of the new generation of the Yamato nation is actually a variant of the Japanese sense of crisis. , a manifestation of a deep sense of crisis. Of course, this variant of the sense of national crisis will inevitably have a profound impact on Japanese films and literature, so we as bystanders will find that Japanese films tend to depict a lot of "cruel youth" works. the prolificacy of such films.
Back to "Confession", the film uses a lot of slow motion and slow-paced soundtrack to create the visual style and overall temperament of the film. This MV-style shooting method perfectly labels the film temperament with a surly label, and the surly gradually evolves When it was cruel, "Confession" began to show us its bloody side. When the profound maternal love was twisted into a desire for revenge, the long-suppressed strong desire for revenge turned Moriguchi into a demon, and the ethics gradually distorted and became intense. Moriguchi's desire for revenge makes Moriguchi calm and cruel, and she needs to push her students into a cruel abyss step by step. Young children are always fearless. The strong hormones of adolescence make their minds simple. They are easily distorted and used by others. They are easily manipulated by others. Moriguchi took advantage of her students. As a teacher, she knew the psychology of her students, and the advantage of this profession became her most advantageous weapon for revenge. Regarding the group unconsciousness of young people, the best movie in recent years is the German "The Tide", but "The Tide" expresses the formation of totalitarianism, while "Confession" expresses ethics and revenge, the group unconsciousness It is a terrifying demon, and its destructive power is enormous when it is reduced to the tool of an individual or a group. Mr. Moriguchi gave a profound lesson to the students. While she cast a huge psychological shadow on the students, she also used the group unconsciousness of the students to launch her revenge plan.
Xiu Zai is obviously an outlier, he has stronger psychological power than his peers, but it is distorted. The desire to get the attention of his mother makes his behavior and psychology distorted. The lack of mother's love makes Xiu Zai's personality incomplete. He also has his terrifying plans. Having a stronger psychology than his peers allows him to be more unscrupulous, but he After all, he is still a child. In front of Moriguchi-sensei, who is full of revenge, he is still vulnerable, and he is destined to become a tragic figure. The main line seems to be plain, but in fact it is complicated and intertwined. The other line is Naoki. Naoki is an ordinary child who lacks friendship. He is not accepted by his peers. He is also a loner who is rejected by the group. The powerful psychology he possesses, when the pain of being abandoned by his friends is transformed into a distorted self-expression psychology, he does not have a strong enough psychological ability to accept the consequences, so he can only struggle in pain, slaughter himself, and become a tragic victim , but when we go to dig this character, we can't help but find that this character plays a huge role in the whole film, and his tragedy is an extremely important core in the whole film, and he is a minor in the ethical system. Small paradox. And the ethical system in the movie has gone beyond the normal category. If we comment on the normal ethical system, we will get a lot of paradoxes. Another important role in the film is Mizuki, who has always existed as a bystander, but when she began to enter Shuya's world, she gradually became a martyr. She is the nail that wedged into Shuya's heart and the tool of Moriguchi's revenge plan. When the coat of the objective begins to peel off at the beginning of the film, we find that Mizuki is also an anomaly. Her existence is reasonable, but also an ethical one. Paradox, but the more we go into her inner world, the more we fall into this irreversible paradox trap. On the one hand, in our actual ethical system, we do not admit it internally, but in In the movie, when we gradually developed a sense of moral identity with her, we also fell into the despair of the whole movie.
The soundtrack and photography of "Confession" are very delicate. The soundtrack tends to be slow-paced electronic post-rock and psychedelic, and the shots are obviously MV-style photography. The combination of slow motion processing and soundtrack gives a very strong sense of psychedelic, very psychedelic. Close to the temperament of the movie. The performances of the characters in the movie are also very outstanding. Song Takako naturally plays normally, while the performance of several other small actors in the movie can be described as amazing. The performances are extremely explosive and impactful. The performance of the characters is impressive.
This film may seem simple, but in fact, the content to be conveyed is extremely rich. On the one hand, it expresses its profound core ethically, and on the other hand, it exposes and criticizes the problems existing in society. The interactive relationship between the group and the individual, of course, this relationship is deformed and cruel, the lack of personality, the group's unconscious behavior, mixed with the author's strong statement on contemporary morality and education, make the whole film full and deep, Nakajima Tetsuya's MV-style shooting style makes the film very expressive, saves a lot of insignificant foreshadowing, and goes straight to the core of the film's temperament. In addition to the sensory stimulation, it also conveys enough connotations to us to ponder.
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