Lately, I’ve been watching several movies in a row with this holiday mood to refresh my brain before continuing to work again. So here we go, I will start with 3 Japanese movies with one common theme: bullying.
Bullying is not something new, it
happened everywhere and sometimes drove the victims to their unfortunate
decisions to end their lives out of suffering too much from it. It is not always
done physically by assaulting the body but also with verbal abuse. What made it
worst was, this verbal abuse aside from being done directly, is done (in
written form) more often online through social medias and phone messages. Those
who did bullying actually are a bunch of people with troublesome issues such as
insecurities, unhappiness, twisted personalities, jealousy/envy, lack of
confidence and cowardice or just bored with their uninteresting life. They
blamed others for their misfortune and look for a way to satiate and justify
their anger.
These 3 movies mentioned in the
title are some of the prime examples. Firstly, Peach girl is a story of a girl
named Momo Adachi who was born different than any other bright skinned Japanese
girl with her dark skin and yellowish hair color. She was often misunderstood
by people for her appearance as a bad girl although the truth was the opposite.
Her closest and best friend who seemed to be kind is actually jealous of her
and secretly play a dirty hand to take everything from her. In the end, all of
her best friend’s tricks were exposed and made her learned the lessons without
Momo actually done something to stop it. It was quite plain and simple storyline
with a little bit of eye twitching and hard thinking.
However, it was totally different
for the other 2 movies; Devil covered in scars and anime - Koe no katachi (a
silent voice). Aside from background similarities with high school and the
students, these 2 movies carried heavier and deeper stories. Bullying is only
the basis of everything that happened to the main characters as their karma and
what that matters was how they do something to make up for it. I’ve got carried away
emotionally and even shed a tear for its beautifully written scenarios. I’m not
going to spill more about it but these are truly recommended with 9/10 score.Moral value: A good lesson about karma, and to be confidence or brave enough to stand up on your own feet no matter what.
Fashion sense trivia: a good color combination of Japanese high school uniform and the meaning of formality behind it. In Japan, they were taught to treat school seriously as if they were working in a company with actual achievement. That is why their uniform is more formal with blazer and ties.
In devil covered in scars, one of the girl who bully the main characters reminded me of Kim So Hyun from Korea. :)
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