Yesterday, I felt so tired and so on because of my private life and business. So, I ended up opening my files and folders to find something interesting. This post is not really going to be review, but more like my opinion of this movie. So, here, I sat while waiting my thesis references docs to be printed I wrote this shit.
This is a 2010 horror-thriller movie from Tetsuya Nakashima which have tried to portray the condition of adolescence in a junior high school, to be exact in Moriguchi's class. She is a teacher and a single mother. She is powerless in her class, it is shown by how her students don't really pay attention with what she says. The class is in a mess, the movie shows us bunch of these kiddos drink cartoons of milk, throw it everywhere, and play with the cartoons. But, with one confession from Moriguchi, this class has changed to be something else.
Moriguchi's daughter has been found drowned in the pool of the school and dies. She believes that her 4 years old daughter dies is not because of an accident. But, there is someone has killed her. It happens she finds a pouch as evident of this murder. So, to sum up, the murderer is from her own class student. And, this is not just a person who does it. But, it is an alliance of two people whom she calls them student 'A' who is very genius and has won a scientist contest, and the other one, student 'B', a kid who obsesses of being a sport boy, but after all withdraw from PE club, and a pampered child who attaches to his mother so much. On the other hand, the student A is a neglected child. His mother has left him with his dad after a divorce because she wants to pursuit her dream as a researcher.
It ends up that actually student 'A' just wants to use student 'B' to be recognized by his mother for his action of murdering. But, it doesn't work as he wants. The case is noticed by police as an accident. Well, why he doesn't really care with what he has done for murdering? Because there is this juvenile law that kids on their ages can't be imprisoned. Moriguchi shows the Lunatic Incident which is a kid kills a family by using chemical drugs, but she can't be arrested. So, yeah, as a kid with this special condition, you can kill someone, many times.
Moriguchi says in her last teaching time that she wants to teach her students about 'LIFE', about 'do not talk about 'I want to die'' easily. That is why she says that she has mixed these both milks of students 'A' and 'B' with the HIV blood of his husband. With this, the class has changed to a very different one. They bully the student 'A' who still goes to school. Meanwhile, student 'B' never appears again on school, and has mental illness.
Both of these students end up killing their own mothers. Student 'A' creates a bomb to kill him and all of his schoolmates, but it ends up Moriguchi disarming the bomb and brings it to the place where his mother works, and when he presses the button to activate the bomb, his mother is the one who gets the damage. While, for the student 'B', because his mother feels sorry seeing his son being like a mad and suffering from HIV, she decides to kill him, but instead with the knife she brings, student 'B' kills her instead.
I feel so sad and silly watching this movie. Why? Sad, because these students are still young in their adolescences, don't really know what they do, how they will end up, or how to be responsible with what they have done. Silly, because the one who can be blamed of course is only the parents -both parents in school and home. Moriguchi is a silly one for having that kind of life so asks her to be a single mother who can't protect her own daughter 24 hours. Meanwhile, student 'A' represents a lonely neglected kid whose mother left him alone, makes him have obsession to be big and to be recognized by the world, to create a great history of his life as a trace on human race. On the other hand, student 'B' represents a pampered child who is always being protected by his mother who keeps insisting that his son is never doing something bad like murdering, so he lacks of self-sufficient because his mother always backs him up.
Well, according to Alfred Adler, there are these categories of early childhood that can lead children to a faulty life style (being thieves, murderers, etc): pampered child, neglected child, and child who has inferiority. So, what do you think of student 'A' and 'B'? Who is at fault actually? Moriguchi in the first place of not being able to be a good single mother? Or their parents at home? Or the student 'A' and 'B' who think know-how of everything, but it is actually just because of their naive perspectives as kids, they don't exactly know what they do. Who should be blamed?
Why bother so much, just go watch it! This is just a little part of the whole. See ya.
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