This is hands down the best revenge story I’ve seen BY FAR and I don’t think it’s kinda close either. When I tell you this gets dark, I don’t even think it’s a slight understatement. What’s remarkable is how much Nakashima loves every person in this story, even the ones who have done terrible things. Each character gets their own interior world, their own quiet tragedy, their own reason for becoming who they became. You don’t forgive them. But you understand them. That’s harder to achieve and rarer to find. The visuals carry so much weight . Every frame is drenched in something (rain, slow motion, washed-out light) like the film is physically expressing what the characters can’t say out loud. It’s one of the most aesthetically controlled films I’ve ever seen, and yet it never feels cold. It feels like a wound. Matsu Takako holds the whole thing together with a performance so restrained it becomes terrifying. She speaks and the room goes still with you believing every word. This is cinema that trusts you to feel complicated things. I’m grateful it exists.
This is hands down the best revenge story I’ve seen BY FAR and I don’t think it’s kinda close either. When I tell you this gets dark, I don’t even think it’s a slight understatement. What’s remarkable is how much Nakashima loves every person in this story, even the ones who have done terrible things. Each character gets their own interior world, their own quiet tragedy, their own reason for becoming who they became. You don’t forgive them. But you understand them. That’s harder to achieve and rarer to find. The visuals carry so much weight . Every frame is drenched in something (rain, slow motion, washed-out light) like the film is physically expressing what the characters can’t say out loud. It’s one of the most aesthetically controlled films I’ve ever seen, and yet it never feels cold. It feels like a wound. Matsu Takako holds the whole thing together with a performance so restrained it becomes terrifying. She speaks and the room goes still with you believing every word. This is cinema that trusts you to feel complicated things. I’m grateful it exists.
