Tag: Revenge Flick
One: The Muted Victim and the Male Surrogate Accounts of sexual violence are as old as recorded history. The earliest incidences existed side-by-side with the oldest tales of murder; the slaying of Abel by Cain is only a handful of chapters away from the rape of Dinah by Shechem in Genesis. But unlike the physical
Confessions (Kokuhaku in Japan) is a 2010 revenge thriller based on Kanae Minato’s critically acclaimed debut novel. From director Tetsuya Nakashima who also produced the visually bubbly ‘Kamikaze Girls‘ and highly introspective ‘Memories of Matsuko‘, his signatures as an auteur filmmaker are throughout – hyperreal filters, ethereal music and illuminating colours all providing an overwhelming