I recently watched the film "Confession" on the Internet. I have watched it twice so far, and each time it gave me a strong shock.
The plot of the whole film is compact and the story twists and turns bizarre. Although it is the original version with subtitles, people who do not understand Japanese will never fall asleep from the beginning to the end. No matter from the structure of the film, the composition of the picture to the background music setting, etc., the artistic processing is just right.
This film has a very high rating in my mind. However, as the so-called deep love and responsibility, I still can't help but feel sorry for this film. I don't think this film should be released in China. Even the international mainstream world cannot respect such a film. Although it has been highly praised by the Japanese film industry, it has also won awards in Hong Kong. However, I don't think it is possible to spread to the wider world, or to be accepted by a wider population. That's a fly in the ointment for a film so well-made and so powerful.
Why do you think so? It's not because the film is overly bloody and violent. Appropriate violence, there is nothing wrong with adults. Nor is it because it lacks ideological content. On the contrary, this film has its ideological nature and explores many social issues (adolescent growth, homeschooling, social opinion orientation, legal soundness, etc.), allowing the audience to reflect. However, the film promotes personal values (of the female teacher in the film) and does not have broad guiding significance. From this point of view, this film cannot rise to a higher spiritual level and cannot be promoted on a wider scale, because it does not express the mainstream values respected by civilized society.
I'm not saying that the female teacher in the film wants to avenge her daughter and asks the murderer to pay for it with blood. This kind of thinking is wrong. Whether it is Westerners or Easterners, they still agree with the simple values of tit-for-tat and eye-for-an-eye, but the more civilized the society, the more emphasis on the methods and methods of revenge (for example, many western countries have abolished the death penalty, which does not mean that they do not agree with it). severe punishment for the most wicked). It is natural to use violence to suppress violence, but appropriate methods must be adopted, and innocent people must not be affected. The female teacher in the film just failed to do that.
In a society with a relatively complete legal system, the female teacher in the film abuses lynching to take revenge. Obviously, she has gone beyond social norms and set a wrong example to the public. But at least it's excusable, especially if the law can't punish her daughter's killer. However, in order to take revenge, the female teacher will use all means and reckless consequences to implicate innocent people. Such an approach is definitely not recognized by mainstream society. The "unscrupulous and reckless revenge" that the film promotes, such a value, is the crux of this film's difficulty in promoting it.
In fact, the female teacher in the film only knew that student A was the mastermind of killing her daughter, and student B accidentally killed her daughter. In my opinion, what she did afterward was very overdone, and her revenge on students A and B implicated a lot of innocent people.
One, most of the students in the class. They are all young people with unsound minds, and are prone to misguided guidance (like restricted-rated movies that children cannot watch), and the misconceptions established at this time are likely to accompany them for life.
Second, student B, in fact, he is not innocent. But the female teacher doesn't know, so she shouldn't try to drive Student B crazy.
Three, student B's mother. She is partial to her son, and it is human nature not to want her to die at the hands of her son. Because of the female teacher's revenge on student B, she was implicated and died.
Fourth, the male teacher. He always thought he was helping Student B, when in fact he was being used as a gunman. In the end, he not only had to bear the responsibility of dereliction of duty and improper handling of education for Student B's psychological collapse and subsequent mother-killing, but also suffered a huge blow psychologically.
Fifth, Mizuki (this character has some problems, always thinking very positively, is actually set to be an admirer of Lucina?). Because of the female teacher's revenge on Student A, she was bullied by the students in the class and even implicated to death.
Sixth, the mother of student A. She died directly at the hands of the female teacher. Although the bomb was made by Student A and detonated by him, the female teacher put the bomb into her office, and the female teacher also knew that Student A would definitely detonate it (although not familiar with the law, this should be considered intentional homicide).
7. The female teacher herself. Vengeance makes a good man as cruel as an enemy he hates.
Looking at the female teacher's revenge method is also very insidious.
1. Intimidate students A and B, saying that the milk they drink is mixed with AIDS blood.
2. The text message encouraged the students in the class to "encircle and suppress" Student A - to make A either be killed or commit suicide.
3. Misleading the male teacher to wrongly handle the phenomenon of bullying classmates in the class, which led to the escalation of the incident.
4. Misleading the male teacher to "care" about Student B, pushing Student B into a desperate situation.
5. Blow up student A's mother, giving student A a devastating psychological blow.
Obviously, the female teacher took revenge on Student B too seriously, had no scruples about the expected chaos in the class, and even ignored the life of Student A's mother. The female teacher turned from a gentle mother to a ruthless avenger, and finally she got what she wanted. She took revenge on Student A, making Student A's life worse than death. However, she actually redeemed Student A as well. What if someone with no cure blows up their mother? (There are also many people who kill their parents for property. They will not regret it). The more student A regrets, the more he proves that he is not hopeless. However, there is no need for such a person to redeem him, because it is not worth it at all. Even the female teacher lost her money. "Someone killed my child. I killed him to get revenge. I don't feel guilty." I think most people would agree with that. The question is, if the revenge spreads to other innocent people, is it okay not to feel guilty? If possible, then this kind of avenger and student A would laugh at a hundred steps; on the contrary, if they feel guilty and uneasy about affecting innocent people, then even if they take revenge, they will live in the same way as student A in the future. Hell, doesn't this cost me too? As for what kind of person the female teacher became, at least she was very excited at the end of the movie. I see that she is no different from the previous student A (even learned the mantra).
It is precisely because of unscrupulous and reckless revenge that the female teacher finally lost herself. This is not what the general audience wants to see, and it goes against the mainstream values that a civilized society must convey.
Of course, the above impressions are mainly based on the plot of Student A's mother being blown up in the end. I don't think the authenticity of this plot in the film is controversial.
In short, I think "Confession" is a thoughtful film, so it is different from ordinary thriller entertainment films. Such films should convey mainstream values to the public. In this film, the female teacher is unscrupulous and reckless for revenge. This method greatly weakens the rationality of the female teacher's revenge and makes the film non-mainstream. Therefore, "Confession" is completely impossible to stand on a wider and higher stage.
What a pity!
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