Movie Review – “Confessions”

So many movies for this yr, i had seen much of 'fave' / popular ones.
I could say that Asian movies std certainly had dropped over the yrs. they are too cheesy or too idiotic to watch.

But recently I come upon this movie; jap one.. It is one of the amazing piece that will catch yr senses into it, n making me to rewatch it again definety gd

Movie Review – “Confessions”
Warning!! - it may spoil the movie as i explained (if u didnt watch it atfirst)
“Confessions” is an adaptation of a six-part serial novel. It is a dark revenge fantasy, can be horror. In Japan itself, it was number one at the box office for four consecutive weeks.

The film begins with a rowdy class in a Japanese secondary school. The students are having a milk break. The teacher (Takako Matsu) tells them that this is her last day in profession. They cheer. In a 25-minute monologue that bravely opens the film, she speaks of how she became pregnant by her lover who later died of AIDS. She says that both she and her daughter Manami, were lucky. Neither of them had contracted the disease. Then she speaks of how as a single mother. Later she also tells them about her daughter’s death by drowning in a pool. It was considered an accidental death, but she knows that two of the students in this classroom murdered her child.

She even makes it clear to the children who are the two students. She knows that as they are under age they cannot be punished for their crime. The legal system will not try them as adults. So she had decided to take matters into her own hands. She tells the whole class bluntly that she has injected her former lover’s HIV-positive blood into the milk the guilty pair have been drinking. The classroom erupts into chaos.(hohooo, this is one of climate of the movie)

One of the murderous students, 'A' is bright. He had a website that he devises experiments to torture animals cruelly. The other student, 'B' is a weak-willed loner.
As teacher Yuko finishes her confession, the movie opens out of the classroom, shifting between other confessions, perspectives and inner monologues of students and parents. A year later, these “confessions” tell us the conscience-free 'A' continues to go to school, where he is taunted, beaten and abused by most of the others. 'B' believed himself lethally infected, holes up at home, watched over by his overprotective mother. She refuses to believe her child could have done anything wrong. Equally in the dark is the new class teacher who believes in befriending the students and trying to be one of them. He too is manipulated.
Also drawn into this tragedy is their classmate, who pity the two child-killers.

In the end, u may even feel pity at the two child-killers even though u atfirst sympathize side with the victim mother teacher. As she merciless plot her revenge on these two by break them part by parts til they totally lost themselves. One could think this is simply cruel of her as they r still 'naive' of life.