I seldom write long reviews, and basically write short reviews, but after watching this film, it is really uncomfortable, so I still want to write more.
I went to see this movie entirely because director Tetsuya Nakajima confessed in the previous movie and was attracted by the high IQ competition and dark revenge, so I went to see this movie without any spoilers. As soon as I came up, I gave a lot of clues, fast montage techniques, and when I was waiting for the puzzle to be solved step by step, I suddenly started the title... During the
process, I kept feeling that this was really the work of Tetsuya Nakajima, from the soundtrack, camera style to narrative style. It is very similar to confession, but it may be because there are too many characters, too many clues, and too short time, which makes the narrative very messy when put together, and it is necessary to sort out the timeline with the help of time subtitles that constantly appear between the scenes.
This film is the bloodiest third-grade film I've ever seen, none of which...it can be rated as a third-grade if one or two bloody scenes appear in it...I think it's okay to accept bloody violence. The nausea is unstoppable, so be prepared before watching.
Regarding the title of the film, the Hong Kong translation is the crime of thirst, which I think probably refers to the desire for sin. The scene at the beginning and end of the church at the time of Christmas is a symbol of this sin. Carnival and love are all desires, but the male and female protagonists in the film turned them into drugs and murder. The so-called desire, in this film, is probably: "I love you, so I want to kill you with my own hands, so that I can love more deeply". Father and daughter bleed the same, so share similar longings. The father has been looking for his daughter for so long. As he said, he doesn't care if his daughter lives or dies. He cares very much, because it is his daughter, so he must find the living daughter and kill her with his own hands.
School bullying, drugs, forced prostitution, rape, gangs, murder, being killed, suicide... There are not many of these elements in this film.
What is the logic behind this? Maybe it's the little girl from "Alice in Wonderland" dictated by the heroine. I think the heroine really fell in love with two boys one after another, as if in a dream, it doesn't matter what they do, and she has to kill them herself, so that the love can go deeper. After killing him, he didn't give up, but he wanted to step into his original circle and help him kill those who had bullied him. Since falling in love, life has been like Alice in Wonderland, entering a crazy, disorderly, freewheeling world.
But they are different from those traditional "scumbags and garbage", at least those gangsters and those drug addicts, they follow the rules. Instead of doing whatever they want, it is doomed that other people, even if they are crazy, are not as good as their class, hopelessly.
In general, the narrative of this film is quite complete, the technique also has the director's personal style, and the bloody violence is also in place. In addition to pressing too many things in two hours, many things are not so clear, it is still worth watching, and you can recall it afterwards.
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