Blood with milk Giving the theme of sophisticated revenge a vivid hue has never been a big problem in Asian cinema. But “Confessions” not only paint the revenge of teacher Yuko Moriguchi in all the colors of the rainbow, from the twisted plot to the editing feast for the eyes, but also give the process of revenge some unprecedented ease.
As the soap bubble rushes uncontrollably upwards, so revenge, falling into the fertile environment of 13-year-old teenagers, receives a powerful impetus. Emotional killer Moriguchi simply pressed the button, giving two faceless students A and B infected milk. Even her further actions are not as interesting as the image of the teacher.
Much brighter is the image of a group of students dressed in the same uniform. Intuitive coherence of actions and thoughts, instant reaction to suddenly become “alien” A and B create an atmosphere of cynicism and unbearably light cruelty. The group absolutizes itself, either by manipulating the talentless teacher Werther, or by fighting with slightly different outcasts, or by ignoring all moral laws, including the laws of revenge. You can't get revenge. This absolutization is emphasized in every possible way in a scenario that easily operates with violence up to murders and suicides, emotions up to hysteria and complete insanity. Either completely or not. If you take this film seriously, you’ll have to shoot the screen.
Student A, aka Xuya Watanabe, like, apparently, half of his classmates, dreams of recognition - both among peers and adults in general. The motives that drove him to the crime give an interesting characteristic of modern society. A useful invention of a 13-year-old genius is nonsense, unlike the story of a schoolgirl who killed her family. “Something more had to be done. That the media will not be able to ignore, — said the teenager. The consciousness of society, softened from the roast news, is essentially no different from the consciousness of a schoolboy in Moriguchi's ill-fated class. People will shy away from that schoolgirl-killer, as the crowd in front of Xu abruptly parted in the last episode.
Nobody taught me that killing people is wrong. How can he take revenge if Xu says he does not recognize the value of any life, including his own?
The scene of the explosion is an explosion primarily in the soul of a young talent, perhaps the best video sequence for indie music, measuring the entire course of the film with its leisurely pulse.
7 out of 10
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