Confessions kanae minato summary6/3/2023 You will be astounded and maybe even depressed at mankind's depravity – if that was the intention of both the author and director, they succeeded in playing a cruel joke on us all. By the end of the film, you may feel cheated at such a disgusting and horrifying ending. You will see children involved in relentless bullying and even cold-blooded murder – the middle school students' performances are astonishingly convincing. Moriguchi is rather long winded, the rest of the film will consistently confuse, startle and even upset audiences. Dark in subject matter: a four-year-old girl, the daughter of teacher Yuko Moriguchi, has been found dead in the swimming pool. The 'blue' look (most obvious in the classroom scenes) and the ominous, monotonous soundtrack just adds to the film's darkness. This compulsively readable novel is dark, disturbing, and deceptive. But the reason why I gave a higher rating to the film than the novel was because the director, Testuya Nakashima, did a marvelous job at taking a mediocre book with stagnant flow and transforming it into an intelligently crafted suspenseful film that maintains realism and proper flow. The teacher, Yuko Moriguchi (played by Takako Matsu) is intimidating – her only purpose in life after the death of her daughter is revenge far from the typical adult mentor and role model that we are so used to seeing. At the same time, the adult characters are just as heartless. It is disheartening, scary even, to see middle school students who are close to demented, with no heartfelt mercy or sympathy, who can kill freely for baffling reasons. Confessions is a disturbing film, a morbid film and what happens is mind-blowing. Despite having already read the book and knowing fully well what was coming, I was still shocked.
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