overall situation is simply two parts, the foreshadowing and the climax.
The foreshadowing part fully demonstrates the atmosphere of a typical Japanese thriller. From the very beginning, just a few quick but unambiguous footage clips vividly explain the campus background where the story takes place, a sunny surface but full of all kinds of darkness inside. The gray country of , and then there are repeated pictures of Ito dealing with various school affairs and being alone. Although this takes up a lot of margins, it does not feel superfluous at all. Although there are few words in the dialogue, the seemingly simple color matching, camera editing, and Ito's constantly changing eyes make a living murderer deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. I was still thinking before, the preview of the movie has basically revealed the plot, so there are no surprises when I watch it. When I arrived at the theater, I discovered that the creation of the atmosphere had already started from the trailer.
At the climax, it is the violent aesthetics unique to Director Miike. This part is not about showing that kind of bloody and disgusting picture, nor about the horror atmosphere of the massacre slaughtering school, but more about the routine indiscriminate killing of a teacher who has no basic humanity. Exaggerated scenarios that are completely out of reality are similar to Django.
In Miike's films, violence is often a way of life, a habit, rather than terror and venting that people generally think of. This is more vividly reflected in the hot-blooded colleges and universities.
Finally, let me look forward to the next one >_<
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