The Hole
Yesterday, while watching “The Crimson Rivers”, I suddenly remembered that I have watched this movie without blogging about this. That’s rather weird because in fact, it had a similar emotional impact on me like Election. Both films are not supposed to be all that serious, but I could not help but taking them really serious. Maybe it’s the high school setting, who knows. In fact, I was the most emotional during my high school years, so a little bit more depth has a lot more impact on me than the greatest story in an office environment, such as Hataraki Man.
I was not really scared about the darkness of the film and I didn’t really take her love for serious, but I still had this feeling that I would have done the same thing in her place, and that’s scary. The whole film had this atmosphere of realism (same goes for Election) with these well-portrayed, strong characters. And I also liked how she ended up well in the end (even though I hated her), after actually confessing to that psychologist – somehow I think she has deserved it.
And now I wonder whether short- and dark-haired high school girls are all emo. Thora Birch is such a great actress though, much better than Keira Knightley (but then again, Keira Knightley was 15 at that time O.o).