Post by Jep Gambardella on Dec 12, 2023 22:12:56 GMT
Newest film from my favourite living Japanese director. The widowed mother of a young teenager becomes worried when her son’s behaviour changes. Convinced that his teacher is mistreating him, she embarks in a campaign against the school. The structure of the movie is being described as “Rashomon-like”, but that is not entirely accurate – we do see the events happen three times from the point of view of the mother, the teacher and finally the boy, but it’s not a question of them misrepresenting the facts or recalling them differently. We just don’t have all the information to put all the pieces together until the end.
