I have seen a film named Night’s Tightrope this week. It is a Japanese suspense drama film, which contains the implication about Karma. As the common Japanese filming style, you usually cannot understand what the film wants to talk about at first, even after watching two third of the whole film. Japanese directors usually try to leave suspense to audience and keep the unity of the plot, so you can easily find the clues throughout the film. The most editing technique in Japanese film is flashback — they never follow the chronological order. The effect of flashback could be highlight the causality of the story, or confuse audience at first than give the answer at the end.
In Night’s Tightrope, the space and time are disorder, the plot happens in one scene, suddenly jump to another scene. As a result, I cannot understand what happens until the ending scene. The film is describing the life of two high-school-girls. They lived in darkness, Atsuko was suffered school bullying; the other girl,Yuki, has a psychopathic grandma, and was hurt by grandma when she was a child. Yuki wrote a book describing Atsuko, but was plagiarized by her teacher. She posted the scandal of the teacher as revenge, lead him died eventually. Then the following stories are all about the Karma: the retribution of characters cheating, hurting others, deadness, are all reflected on the guilty persons, or their family. I cannot find the relationship of each characters at first. In the end of the film, all the relationships are showed up by the clues such as photos and flashback of the recall. There are also some graphic match in the film, connect to the recall and the reality, which makes the plot clear.