Movies(fiction)– theme –

"The Boston Globe," a local newspaper, revealed the shocking fact that numerous priests had been sexually abusing children for many years and that the entire church had been covering up the truth. The movie "Spotlight" depicts their struggle and helps us understand the importance of "keeping power in check."

Alan Turing, a brilliant mathematician who developed the basic principles of computers, broke the strongest encryption machine, Enigma, which was once considered "impossible to decipher". After watching the movie "The Imitation Game", I learned about his unfortunate life, which led to his suicide due to prejudice despite having saved more than 14 million lives.

Living in a world that's too convenient, we stop imagining about "how this convenience was created". This "indifference" can definitely make the world worse. From the anime movie "Genocidal Organ" based on Project Itoh's novel, we can learn about the "cruelty of indifference" and the importance of "imagination".

To argue that something is "correct," we need a "standard of correctness." However, even with that, the question of whether "anything goes if it's not regulated" can be problematic. The movie "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" uses three analog tools, or signboards, to expose the realities of modern internet society and make us think about the “difficulty of ‘correctness’."

When those in power abuse their authority, the citizens are powerless. In such situations, what choices do we have? The movie "Detroit," which is based on a real event from 50 years ago where a white police officer threatened and killed black men, shows us the horrors of "injustice by those in power."

We, who are so immersed in "comfortable information" and are not ashamed of not knowing what we should know, know very little about what is happening in the world. From "A Taxi Driver," a film depicting "Gwangju Uprising," we consider about a new view of the world.

As a graduation project from a vocational school, Hamaguchi Ryusuke's film "Intimacies" is an ambitious work that incorporates a two-hour and ten-minute play within a play. The film emphasizes the power of words, despite being a visual medium, and I was overwhelmed by the words spoken throughout the film and the play within a play. Although it is very long at four hours, glad I saw it.

I was not planning to watch the movie "Inu-Oh" directed by Yuasa Masaaki, and had zero expectations and almost no prior information. However, it was so amazing that I was stunned to think that I might have missed such a fantastic masterpiece. The insane worldview woven by Furukawa Hideo, who wrote the original work, combined with the realistic "live feeling", makes it a wonderful "music movie".

Actually, only India has succeeded in sending a spacecraft to Mars in a single attempt. Both the United States and Russia have failed many times. Furthermore, India's space development budget is overwhelmingly low compared to major countries. Why was India able to accomplish this great feat? Let's learn project management from the movie "Mission Mangal".

The acclaimed film "Let the Right One In" depicts the struggles of those who choose to live with the despair that "what it takes to survive" is "to destroy others." The relationship between the two characters, which can be described as "pure love," and the unexpected development of the story are truly moving.

I believe that anyone who breaks the law should be punished, regardless of the reason. However, this is not related to the judgment of good and evil. From the movie "Shoplifters" directed by Koreeda Hirokazu, let us think about the legitimacy of a society where "good and evil" are determined by the "national mood" and a way of living that has "the courage to put on hold good and evil judgments".

The phenomenon where hostages develop feelings of sympathy or affection for their captors during events like robberies or hostage situations is called "Stockholm syndrome," and it's based on a real-life event. Learn about the strange psychology of humans who end up helping their captors from the movie "Stockholm."