Also released as
- 告白
- Kokuhaku
- Öğretmenin İntikamı
- İtiraflar
- Gestaendnisse
- 自白
- 母亲
- Geständnisse - Confessions
- Признания
- คำสารภาพ
- 고백
- Confessions: The Secrets of Machiko
- اعترافات
- Etiraflar
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Confessions
Confessions is a 2010 Japanese psychological horror film directed by Tetsuya Nakashima.
A teacher calmly tells her class she knows two of them killed her daughter, and that she has already taken revenge.
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On the last day of term, a middle-school teacher delivers a long, quiet monologue to her class: her four-year-old was murdered, two of her own pupils did it, the law will not touch them because they are minors, and she has put HIV-infected blood in their milk.
Tetsuya Nakashima shoots it as a stylised, slow-motion, rain-soaked series of confessions from different characters, each reframing the events, and the beauty of the images against the cruelty of the content is the whole method.
It is nasty about the failure of the juvenile justice system and about the cruelty of children, and it never lets any character off.
It was Japan's submission for the foreign-language Oscar and a domestic sensation.
The final line recontextualises everything and is one of the coldest endings in the genre.
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