===Divided===
This movie isn't about playing with structure or being unconventional, it's just about the torment of the conscience of a wrongdoer's guilt through the hallucinations of insomnia. The movie just exaggerates the degree of insomnia. Ordinary people may turn themselves in after a few days of hit-and-run, or live without the torment of their conscience at all, while the protagonist of this film has been fighting his own guilt for a year. Guilt replays his experience in the form of hallucinations, destroying his mind and body in the process, but in the end the protagonist can finally face his mistakes.
In fact, if readers are savvy enough, when they see the protagonist holding a proper "Idiot", they should understand what the film is describing. I have little knowledge, and I haven't read this novel, so I thought of "Crime and Punishment" at most, and it was only after seeing the ending that I understood the meaning of this book. It also understands why the movie should be designed with a proper book hanging on the ground to wake up the protagonist who is about to fall into a dream.
So, if you come to this movie to find excitement, let’s roll away sincerely.
I don't know how people understand guilt, and the key to understanding what I mean is whether you actually experience guilt or guilt, and what it feels like to continue to feel guilty. As for guilt, this is an extremely torturous thing, and because I have been crushed by guilt for a long time, I can understand the feeling of driving insane.
There are two solutions, as described above on the hit-and-run problem, either turn yourself in immediately, or simply kill the guilt.
The biggest obstacle for the protagonist and me in the film is that when faced with unexpected events, we are caught off guard or run away. But right after the fact, I felt responsible. But once it was far away from the site of the incident, it began to worry about gains and losses again.
Guilt = kindness/selfishness, the kinder you are, the more guilty you will be.
At this time, the parties will inevitably struggle with their conscience forever. The bald biker in the film, the director let you know from the beginning that he was schizophrenic or hallucinating, but no one could have thought at first that this eccentric and evil-looking character represented his conscience.
In this movie, the protagonist has lost sleep for a year because of an accident, and because of another accident, he has awakened the guilt that has been forgotten for a long time. The structure is rigorous and many details echo. It's a masterpiece in a niche movie.
And this movie describes a kind of psychology: guilt. Much like an Adagio Keigo Higashino novel, it reveals the motives and psychology of the protagonist, rather than playing with structure or showing off the director's skills. This is a movie that needs peace of mind to watch.
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