Chapter 392 Excessive Punishment for Evildoers

Author: Sima Guitai

Chapter 392 Excessive Punishment for Evildoers

After inspecting the screening area, Taniguchi Uchiki sat at the front desk, ate popcorn and played with 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 took a look at the screening schedule and said, ""Confession."

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

There are actually a lot of 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 sequences.

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.

An animated film. The results of these three films were only average. The romance film starring a well-known idol had better results. However, it only took less than 700 million in box office in ten days.

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 movies.

He has watched every movie and is really embarrassed. 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. If the reputation or initial box office performance is good, he will schedule more movies.

Okay, you don’t have to watch every one.

He was not like this twenty years ago. At that time, he would watch almost every movie. After watching it, he would make comments in a small book. If the movie was good, he would carefully analyze the good points, and if it was a bad movie, he would

He scolded the film's creator impassionedly. He had also submitted articles and earned royalties for film review articles, but after all, he was not a professional and had only published one or two articles.

The reason why he noticed the movie "Confession" was that there were many young people watching the movie. His cinema is in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City, not far from Kyoto University. Among the young people who came to watch the movie

There are many 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 the top to the bottom has no teeth 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 immediately 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 nodded: "I understand."

His cinema is his own independent cinema, so the film schedule is completely decided by himself, and there is no need to listen to Matsunichi Film. However, he often refers to the film arrangement of Matsunichi Film's internal theaters. Taniguchi Uchimi Matsunichi Film also distributes the films himself.

Movies, "Black Rock" seems to have a better schedule than "Confession," so the schedule for "Black Rock" has been slightly increased.

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 young audience, which also made him

Be alert.

You must know that in any era, young people are the main group of entertainment consumer goods, especially students. Because these people have great social needs, have money (spending their parents’ money) and are free. They also have their own communication circle, and many things are available.

Can quickly become popular in their circle.

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 programs in the ratings. He has been responsible for four of the top five programs in the ratings; he has been responsible for eight of the top ten programs.

This achievement is simply terrifying. Even if he quits now, Kei Fujiwara's name will always 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 kind of 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.

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Taniguchi Uchiki doesn't usually read much TV or novels, but when "Naoki Hansawa" was aired, he still stayed in front of the TV on time every Monday and watched the whole thing. So he was still familiar with the name Kei Fujiwara and knew that he had started directing movies.

After that, I didn’t care much about it. Although advertisements were flying all over the place in the early stage, as a theater practitioner, this kind of thing with big thunder and small rain is not new. Before the official screening, the name was loudly shouted. After the premiere, the reputation and

The box office is mediocre - this kind of thing is too common.

But this time things seem to be different.

Uchiki Taniguchi glanced at the film schedule and found that the next show of "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 crowd and walked in to watch. As expected, this show was mostly young people, and there were many couples. I even heard some people talking that they came to watch the movie a second time.

It's already ten o'clock in the evening, and more and more people are watching 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 was a genius boy, but because he was abandoned by his mother when he was young, he had some inner distortions and always wanted to do something to make his mother pay attention to him;

The other one is silent and introverted, with a 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, how should such juvenile offenders be dealt with?

The intensity is almost zero.

So the female teacher started her own plan. First, by using the patient's blood and stimulating the male teacher's nerves with constant home visits, she caused the introverted boy to have a mental breakdown and killed his mother in an extreme breakdown.

And I found what the genius boy really cared about - the professor mother who abandoned him in the first place. Even if she was abandoned and abused, she still hopes to get her 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,

Really catch the mother's attention.

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

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 stared and watched the entire movie. Whether it was the plot or the movie's art style, he had a chill. Sure enough, the most frightening thing in the world is not a ghost. After all,

It's the evil of human nature.

What is different from other movies is that in other movies, only the villains 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 characters and the negative characters are "evil"

"It's scary.

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 very enjoyable to watch.

Because in the hearts of the audience, it is not satisfying to let a villain finally take responsibility for his actions. 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 a matter of course? For such a matter of course, the protagonist team has spent so much effort and time, and it is not easy to implement justice. Therefore, if you want to make the audience excited, you must make the story

The evildoers here are punished [exceedingly].

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

You killed my daughter, but I let you live. It’s not that I cherish your life, but that death is not enough to punish you for what you did. It’s to make you fearful and uneasy all day long, feeling the panic of losing your future and life.

Destroy with your own hands the things you have always cherished, and feel the pain from your heart that is more terrifying than death.

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

Although I already roughly knew the content of the movie, after watching the feature film, I did not feel bored because of the spoilers. On the contrary, the director's excellent technique told the story extremely well and was able to arouse the audience's emotions at all times.

When he saw blood dripping into milk and was drunk by 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 ended after this line, the ending was the climax, which made Taniguchi Uchiki, who had not enjoyed suspense and revenge films for a long time, extremely happy.

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

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 has strict logic and can be linked together. And is "Confession" a movie with strict logic?

It doesn’t even 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 in line with reality. The real world is often more absurd, and people do it in order to attract the attention of others.

Killing people and so on... In reality, there are many more ridiculous and bastard things than this. There are also people who think that others are incompatible with themselves and kill people.

But in contrast, there seemed to be a small number of plots that seemed 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 give a speech in public;

In front of everyone, "blood" was put into students' milk, but no one revealed the news and no punishment was received. Like many movies, in the movie "Confession", the police seem to be absent.

However, the director hides these so-called "story loopholes" very well, making them difficult to detect without careful observation. The most critical method is the dark 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 is 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, the most important thing in a suspense film or a romance film is not the strict logic, but whether it is interesting. No matter how reasonable the story is, but boring, it will be a failure.

.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 eliminated them so that people cannot easily detect them. This is a success. Just like no one has time to find logical errors in nonsensical comedies.

Taniguchi Uchiki thought 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...
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