Watching this movie for the second time made me appreciate the movie even more. The first time I watched it, I wasn't paying attention on Mizuki Kitahara which actually mostly the narrator of the story. But now I did and able to connect the story even better.
The movie was about a teacher named Yoku Moriguchi who had a daughter which was killed by her students. Knowing that the killers were protected by the law she set on her own way to take a revenge.
The killers were Shuuya and Naoki who both had a complex personality. Shuuya was left by the mother and was trying to draw her attention and winning her back by becoming a genius inventor. However the first anti-muggers wallet he won in a scientific fair was gaining less attention in the news than he expected as it was overshadowed by a killing massacre known as Lunacy Murder. He was disappointed and decided to be on front page news by killing someone. He got a helper by the name of Naoki who was mostly an outcast. Naoki was happy to be noticed by Shuuya and wanted to prove his worth by aiding him in the murder scheme. He chose the victim, but Shuuya didn't manage to kill her with the anti-mugger wallet. He however left Naoki who realized Shuuya was only interested in murder and not in him. Naoki noticed that the little girl wasn't dead yet but he decided to throw her to the pool anyway. He wanted to prove it to himself that he wasn't a coward like Shuuya and could accomplish what Shuuya wasn't able to do.
The murder was found out by the teacher and she told the whole class about it referring the killers as student A and Student B. By revealing their characteristics, the students knew who they were and set to bully them in class. Naoki decided to left class and became mentally unstable but Shuuya pressed on despite all of the bullies.
A new teacher who replaced Moriguchi was strung along by her to make sure Naoki wasn't left in peace. She urged him to see him weekly which only made things worse because all the notes from the classmates were actually a way of cursing him. In the end Naoki accidentally killed his mother and he was captured by the police. It happened after his mother came to know that Naoki killed the girl on purpose and she decided to end both of her and her son's life. However, she was the only one killed.
Shuuya became friendly with Mizuki after a forced kiss in the escalating bullying tactics in the class because Mizuki refused to bully Shuuya. Mizuki later confessed to him that the other side of her was behind the Lunacy Murder. Shuuya was only passing time with her and later killed her too following an argument where she accused him of having an Oedipus Complex.
Shuuya next goal was to kill off himself bringing along all of his classmates. But it didn't happen exactly as he hoped as the bomb he planted was taken away by Moriguchi to his mom'office and bombing her mom and her place instead.
What I loved about this movie was, it made the children's as accountable as an adult should be for their crime. I mean who could have thought of that?
It is by the way worth to watch. Amazingly great!
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