Chapter 392 Excessive Punishment for Evildoers

After inspecting the screening area, Taniguchi Uchiki sat at the front desk, ate popcorn and played with jigsaw puzzles. After an hour and a half, a movie ended and some viewers began to stand up one after another.

Taniguchi Uchiki subconsciously looked up and watched the audience leave the screening area one by one. Suddenly he realized something and raised his head to look at the leaving audience carefully.

After watching for a while, he turned around and asked the front desk staff, "Which movie are these audiences from?"

The staff member glanced at the screening schedule and said, "'Confession.'"

Taniguchi Uchiki's overall impression of the movie was that it was a suspense movie, distributed by Matsui Pictures.

There are actually quite a few movies of the same period, but many of them are actually not qualified to be included in the schedule of some mainstream cinemas in their own cinemas, because they are things that no one will watch at first glance, and can only be played in some art cinemas or underground cinemas, or Just annihilated, as if it never existed.

In fact, there are more films than most films that can reveal their faces during most of the music arrangements.

There are about five movies currently scheduled for screening, and the others Taniguchi Uchiki has been taken off the shelves. In addition to "Black Rock" and "Confession" that were screened not long ago, there is also a Hollywood Western movie, a romance movie and a movie. cartoon. The results of these three films were only average. The romantic film starring a well-known idol had better results. However, in more than ten days, it only earned less than 700 million in box office.

Uchiki Taniguchi has never seen any of these films, even though he owns a movie theater. However, this cannot be said to be unprofessional. His small theater shows dozens of movies a year, and many of them are bad. It is really difficult for him to watch every movie. Every time a movie is released, he usually takes a look at the distribution company. If it is one of the top five, he will schedule the movie into a good time slot. If the reputation or initial box office performance is good, he will just schedule more movies. There is no need to watch every movie.

He was not like this twenty years ago. At that time, he would watch almost every movie, and after watching it, he would make comments in a small book. If it's a good movie, they'll carefully analyze what's good about it; if it's a bad movie, they'll scold the film's creator impassionedly. He has also submitted articles and earned royalties from film review articles, but after all, he is not a professional and has only published one or two articles.

The reason why he noticed the movie "Confession" was because he found that many young people watched this movie. His cinema is in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City, not far from Kyoto University. Many of the young people who come to watch the movie are students from that school.

According to his observation, the cartoon that was broadcast not long ago did not seem to have such a large proportion of young viewers.

You know, cartoons in Japan are products suitable for all age groups. Everyone from top to bottom teething loves to watch them, but after all, there are more young people.

Compared with middle-aged people, young people have more discerning tastes and seem to be more interested in foreign paintings. Seeing so many people watching this movie, Taniguchi Uchiki suddenly became interested.

He thought for a while and said to the theater staff: "Tomorrow is the weekend. There should be more students watching the movie. Tomorrow, we should appropriately increase the schedule of this movie in the evening."

The staff member nodded: "I understand."

His cinema is his own independent cinema, so the film schedule is entirely up to him, and he does not need to listen to Songni Pictures. However, we often refer to the film schedules of Matsunichi Cinema's internal theaters. Taniguchi Uchimi Matsunichi Cinema's film schedule for both of its own releases seems to be better than that of "Black Rock", so it also slightly increased the number of "Black Rock". of films.

However, through his observation during this period, even though "Black Rock" occupied a better scheduling period, it seemed that the attendance rate was not as good as "Confession". Moreover, "Confession" has such a large audience of young people, which also made him wary.

You know, in any era, young people are the main group of entertainment consumer goods, especially students. Because these people have great social needs and have money (spending their parents’ money) to spare. And they have their own communication circles, and many things can quickly become popular in their circles.

Once a good movie appears, young people are often the first to spread the word, and then slowly spread to other age groups.

Thinking of this, Taniguchi Uchiki realized that this movie might be a big hit.

As a theater operator, Uchiki Taniguchi is not someone who knows nothing about the popular elements of current entertainment culture. Of course he has heard of Kei Fujiwara's name.

This guy is now famous in China. In the past two years, he has almost contracted the top ten most watched programs. He accounts for four of the top five programs in terms of ratings; he accounts for eight of the top ten programs. This result is simply terrifying. Even if he quits now, Kei Fujiwara's name will forever be etched in the history of Japanese broadcasting and cannot be erased. And in a few decades, there may not be anyone who can surpass him.

Moreover, he is also a well-known writer, a serious writer, not the kind who writes autobiographical essays to defraud fans of money after becoming famous. He is also the youngest winner of the Naoki Award, and his name is decorated with a layer of gold. .

Taniguchi Uchiki doesn't usually read much TV or novels, but when "Naoki Hansawa" started airing, he still stayed in front of the TV on time every Monday and watched the entire episode. So I was still familiar with the name Kei Fujiwara, and after learning that he started directing movies, I didn't really care. Although advertisements are flying all over the place in the early stage, as a theater practitioner, this kind of big thunder and small rain is nothing new. Before the official screening, the name was loudly shouted, but after the premiere, the reputation and box office were average-this kind of thing is too common.

But things seem to be different this time.

Taniguchi Uchiki looked at the film schedule and found that the next "Confession" was in Theater B at around ten o'clock in the evening, so he thought about going to see it.

When the time came, Taniguchi Uchiki followed the flow of people into the venue and watched. As expected, this venue was mostly young people, and there were many couples. Even listening to some people’s conversations, they still came to watch the movie a second time.

It's already ten o'clock in the evening, and there are more people coming to watch the movie.

Taniguchi Uchiki found a remote corner and sat down, waiting for the movie to officially start.

In fact, he already roughly knew the main plot of the movie by listening to employee summaries, customer feedback, and reading film review articles. The approximate content should be that the female teacher's daughter was killed by two gangsters, and the female teacher used various means to deal with it. The story of two men who could escape legal punishment and exact a brutal revenge.

The two gangsters who killed her daughter were both students in the female teacher's class. One is a genius boy, but because he was abandoned by his mother when he was young, he has a twisted heart and always wants to do something to make his mother pay attention to him; while the other is silent and introverted, with mediocre mind and appearance, so he also hopes to Attract everyone's attention.

Two people killed a young life just to attract other people's attention.

When the female teacher knew that her daughter had died in the hands of these two men, when she questioned the genius boy among them, the genius boy didn't care. Also, under Japan's current legal system, even if it is murder, the intensity of dealing with such juvenile offenders is almost zero.

So the female teacher started her own plan. First, by using the patient's blood and stimulating the nerves of the male teacher with constant home visits, the introverted boy had a mental breakdown and killed his mother under the extreme breakdown.

Then he found what the genius boy really cared about - the professor mother who had abandoned him in the first place. Even if he is abandoned and abused, he still hopes to get his mother's love and attention. This is what this boy really thinks.

The female teacher first let him know about his mother's remarriage, cutting off the last thought of his mother returning to him. The genius boy planted a bomb in the auditorium, intending to let his classmates ascend to heaven with him, and through this move, he would really attract his mother's attention.

However, the bomb hidden in the auditorium was secretly moved by the female teacher... and placed in the young mother's office.

After the boy pressed the bomb control button, the female teacher called. On the phone, she told the boy the fact in a calm voice.

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Taniguchi Uchiki watched the entire movie with his eyes wide open. Whether it was the plot or the movie's art style, he felt like his hair was standing on end. Sure enough, the most frightening thing in the world is not ghosts and ghosts, but the evil of human nature after all.

What is different from other movies is that only the villains in other movies will show their evil side, and they will eventually be defeated by the positive side who represents the lawful good camp. But in this movie, both the positive and negative characters are frighteningly "evil".

It seems that "evil" is just a weapon in this movie, and this weapon does not choose its owner.

To be honest, this kind of story seems a bit cultish, but I have to say...it's a pleasure to watch.

Because in the minds of the audience, it is not satisfying to have the villain finally take responsibility for what he did. Putting a person who has killed someone in jail or even sentenced to death will not inspire the audience from the bottom of their hearts. Instead, they will feel: Isn't this natural? The protagonist team has spent so much effort and time on something that should be taken for granted. It is really not easy to implement justice. Therefore, if you want to make the audience excited, the villains in the story must be punished [exceedingly].

What is excessive punishment? The movie "Confessions" makes it very clear. It is natural to kill people to pay debts and pay back money. It is because it is natural that I will not let you die so easily.

You killed my daughter and I let you live. It’s not that I cherish your miserable life, but death is not enough to punish you for your actions. It is to make you fearful and uneasy all day long, feel the panic of losing your future and life, destroy the things you have always cherished with your own hands, and feel the pain that is more terrifying than death from the bottom of your heart.

"That's not bad..." Taniguchi Uchisuki muttered.

Although I already roughly knew the content of the movie, after watching the main film, I did not feel bored because of the spoilers. On the contrary. The director's excellent technique tells this story very well and can arouse the audience's emotions at all times.

When he saw the blood dripping into the milk and was drunk by the two murderers, Murderer B had a mental breakdown and smeared feces and urine all over the wall, and Murderer A finally pressed the bomb button, only to learn that his mother died by his own hands. When I took it, I did feel my heartbeat speeding up.

Especially Yuko Moriguchi's last line of "just kidding". Although the movie ends after this line, the ending is the climax, which makes Taniguchi Uchiki, who has not enjoyed suspense and revenge films for a long time, extremely happy.

After the movie ended, the audience left one after another. But Taniguchi Uchiki continued to sit in the seat of the cinema, enjoying the wonderful feeling of watching the movie just now.

Although it can never compare to the excitement he felt when he first watched a monster movie when he was young, this "Confession" did give him the feeling that he had not experienced in a long time, the feeling after watching a good movie The feeling of aftertaste.

As a suspense movie, many people will care about whether the plot is logically logical and can be linked together. And is "Confession" a film with strict logic?

It doesn’t count.

This movie tells the heroine Moriguchi Yuko's revenge journey and revenge methods in a relatively reasonable manner. The murder motives of the two juvenile delinquents may seem absurd, but to be honest, they are realistic. The real world is often more absurd, killing people just to attract other people's attention... In reality, there are many more absurd and asshole things than this. There are also people who kill people because they think others are incompatible with themselves.

But on the contrary, there seems to be a small amount of plots that seem unrealistic. For example, Teacher Moriguchi told the class about the murder of two teenagers, but no news spread at all, and the school even asked him to speak in public; Moriguchi put "blood" in students' milk in front of everyone, but he also Still no one leaked the news and no punishment was given. Like many movies, the police seem to be absent in "Confession".

However, the director hides these so-called "story loopholes" very well, and it is difficult to detect them without careful observation. The most critical method is the black fairy tale atmosphere that permeates the movie.

The movie's gorgeous MV-like film techniques seem to be designed to create this black fairy tale atmosphere, and it is this fairy tale color that dispels the seriousness of "Confession" as a suspense movie, so that some logical loopholes in it, Ignored by the audience.

Some film critics discovered Kei Fujiwara's little thoughts, so they wrote articles and gave some negative comments. They felt that Kei Fujiwara, as a mystery writer, could not achieve absolutely strict logic, but instead used these tricks to deceive the audience. It's a failure.

After all, logic is the most important thing in a suspense film, so this accusation seems reasonable.

However, Taniguchi Uchiki thinks it's okay, because in his opinion, whether it is a suspense film or a romance film, the most important thing is not the strict logic, but whether it is interesting. No matter how well-written the story is, it is still a failure if it is boring. Audiences watch movies to have fun. If they want to be realistic, they might as well watch documentaries.

Although there are logical loopholes in the movie, the director has successfully resolved them so that people cannot easily detect them. This is a success. Just like no one has time to look for logical errors in nonsensical comedies.

Taniguchi Uchiki felt that this movie was so interesting that Kei Fujiwara became interesting in his eyes, and he thought to himself: Maybe this guy can bring some fresh feelings to the film industry...