The interweaving and blending of three parallel stories in a brutal murder case did not create any suspense. Li Xiang always uses the word "anger" as the title of his movies, which is actually the most complicated human nature. This is a book about trust and redemption, and it also exposes the darkness of selfishness, cruelty and cowardice. The tempting idea makes the murderer's ending insignificant in this film.
At least in my eyes, Anger is a very special film. At the beginning of the story, a straightforward murder and the word "anger" written in blood once made people mistakenly think that this would be a suspense movie that slowly declassified the truth. However, as the plot ferments in three parallel stories, it is surprising that each story seems to have a little seemingly unrelated relationship with the murder, but each story has its own story.
The characters in the film include almost all the marginalized people in Japanese society, including unemployed elite white-collar workers and homosexuals, vagrants and migrant workers without legal protection, backpackers who escape from society, prostitutes with slight mental retardation, and high school students who are sexually assaulted by the US military. It is no exaggeration to say that everyone can make a good movie, but Li Shangri has combined so many roles in one movie. However, it is hardly confusing or abrupt. On the contrary, every character has become an opportunity for the film to highlight "anger". Such a beautiful presentation benefits from the foundation of the original blueprint of the same name and the director's particularly profound directing skills.
When we created one marginalized character after another through movies, in this three-line parallel story, the question mark of who was the real murderer at first became unimportant. While the director tries to show various social problems in Japan, what makes people deeply immersed in it is a reflection on the relationship between people in modern society. In anger, whether it is father and daughter, partner or good friend, their relationship is fragile, and everyone wants to be in a subtle relationship. However, without the foundation of trust, everything becomes shaky again, and the "anger" finally seen in the movie is just a fig leaf to cover up the selfishness and cowardice of human nature.
Murder suspense is just a fascinating stunt in Anger. The film's interpretation of what "anger" is, in the end, to take the audience to explore the bottom of human nature, which is a demon from distrust. The realistic "anger" based on this has to make people praise the smooth and restrained narrative full of real integrity and strength. Poetry and books in literature/dreams