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Confessions japanese movie review
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Confessions
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by Wol hwa
16 days ago
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Overall 10
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 9.5

Untouchable movie

"Confessions".
The title speaks for itself in this movie. The movie starts with a teacher whose daughter is dead and later found to be killed by her own class kids who shamelessly confess their sins without remorse and grief.
For a movie with such a basic plot line, we already know that this movie centres around revenge but this movie isn't a thriller or even a mindf*ck movie rather, an indepth use of emotional torture to plan out a revenge. As a viewer we are already aware of all of the circumstances of each and every character but what we don't see is how we can potentially use it as a weakness.
This entire movie shows us how a homeroom teacher uses the vulnerability of the students, even the students that stood by the atrocities, that caused her unbearable pain to make sure that they feel what she felt when she lost her child. She uses all of her students and every resource that she can to make sure that they taste the tears that she shed on her daughters funeral.
All of this hate that she carries, she doesn't show but narrates in this monotonous dialogue. This same dialogue is carried to show everyone's circumstances and vulnerability. Their inner monologue that they use to defend themselves and their actions. The complete opposite of "show, don't tell"
This movie, maybe not for everyone, is one of the best movies written about revenge. "Making sure you feel the same way that I felt in that moment". I think the fact that this movie is a great accomplishment is the fact that it talks about juvenile law protection and how the kids acted. With excellent portrayal by the child actors, we can see the innocence and at the same time, cruelty of such age. Talking about juvenile protection, I feel that even the youngest of children can understand what death and killing means. To commit such acts of murder need to be treated just without leniency of age. Because of these two factors, the movie makes sure that the kids understood their mistake in a way it was engraved with pain.
Once again, this movie isn't for everyone but you have to watch it at least.
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