Affiliate student In the thriller “Cold Fish”, based on real events, as if in a decisive chess game, every action of the protagonist is accompanied by a fixation of the exact time.
E7 - E5. Step one. Intelligent and very modest owner of a store with aquarium fish Nobuyuki Shamoto takes help from an influential business competitor Murata, generously excused daughter-stealer Shamoto from problems with the police. It is unlikely that the intellectual, once fascinated by inspiring astronomy, felt at this moment that someone's firm hand confidently pushed his black pawn from the field of E7 to E5.
A small business on the highway during the two-plus hours of the film does not see a single customer, as if betraying the emptiness and cold of the family hearth of Shamoto. Mitsuko’s daughter fiercely hates her stepmother, and the head of the family looks hopelessly at what is happening, taking Taeko’s wife to pick up the grains of family happiness in the motel room.
E4. The image of Murata is grandiose in its blinding philosophy of happiness and success. Aiko’s charming wife, thriving business and outlandish fish from the depths of the Amazon worth millions of yen will make even the yakuza believe in the tireless optimist and benefactor, joyfully smiling at you from the height of his gray hair. Murata gives Shamoto’s family secretly what they want: their daughters are independent from their parents, Taeko is understanding and confidence in the future, and Nobuyuki offers to become a partner. It gives, not forgetting to make everyone a hostage of the benefits received. Murata’s happiness lies in his own perfectionism, whatever it may be – from the interior of the office to the murder of intriguers and just good people. Murata’s first test puts the new partner in a position between the voice of conscience and the desire to forget.
E3. Down with fear. In the gloom of the planetarium, soothing the equanimity of the winter sky, Shamoto is reported to have hovered in a tiny flash exactly in the middle of the 9 billion-year rotation of the blue ball around the Sun. Very soon, the pendulum of the fettering movement of fear will swing to the side, depriving Nobuyuki of another support.
E2. Accept yourself! Murata is not without reason claiming to be true to himself. On the altar of success brought everything, up to the loyalty of his wife. Pathetic Shamoto, crawling the next line, furiously accepts loyalty to the chosen path, giving free rein to the inner monster. In a bright scene in the car, Aiko’s laughter drowns out the quiet nonsense of her husband, who climbed into the “planetarium” of childhood memories.
E1. The Black Queen? In the serene starry sky there is no place for suffering. And the pawn has no way back. In the impossibility of turning around, Shamoto sees an indestructible wall of pain in a step away from himself. The chessboard is over. Life has begun. 9 out of 10
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