Hello, Koji Shiraishi. Hello, slit-mouthed woman. I'm glad to see both of you here. Abusive moms (other than the slit-mouthed woman), I'm not so glad to see, but it seems like one of you is a main character. Oh well.
For what it is, I think it's pretty good. There's some nice creepy little moments in here. There's also something to be said about the film's interpretation of abuse. The abusive mothers in this film repeatedly tell their children that they didn't mean to hurt them. It's simultaneously a sickness that comes over them, and a supernatural possession which takes away their free will. Of course, it's also just an excuse.
In a certain sense, this movie's about Yamashita trying to find redemption by saving Mika. But all the way until the end, she didn't really want to save Mika from her mother's abuse, and she never accepted that she didn't abuse her own daughter out of love but for entirely selfish reasons...hence the last moment transformation and killing her own daughter and all, I think. Even if her child forgives her, she never fundamentally changes in this film.
It's a little ridiculous it took that fucking guy the whole movie hearing "Aim for the neck" before he aimed for the neck a literal single time.
words said right before child abuse: "You like dad more than mom, don't you, Ai? Tell me the truth." "I like dad. I hate mom because you hit me."
Hello, Koji Shiraishi. Hello, slit-mouthed woman. I'm glad to see both of you here. Abusive moms (other than the slit-mouthed woman), I'm not so glad to see, but it seems like one of you is a main character. Oh well.
For what it is, I think it's pretty good. There's some nice creepy little moments in here. There's also something to be said about the film's interpretation of abuse. The abusive mothers in this film repeatedly tell their children that they didn't mean to hurt them. It's simultaneously a sickness that comes over them, and a supernatural possession which takes away their free will. Of course, it's also just an excuse.
In a certain sense, this movie's about Yamashita trying to find redemption by saving Mika. But all the way until the end, she didn't really want to save Mika from her mother's abuse, and she never accepted that she didn't abuse her own daughter out of love but for entirely selfish reasons...hence the last moment transformation and killing her own daughter and all, I think. Even if her child forgives her, she never fundamentally changes in this film.
It's a little ridiculous it took that fucking guy the whole movie hearing "Aim for the neck" before he aimed for the neck a literal single time.
words said right before child abuse: "You like dad more than mom, don't you, Ai? Tell me the truth." "I like dad. I hate mom because you hit me."
