The character of Seiji Hasumi has to be charismatic and a man of mystery.
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It is shocking and can be offensive at times, but when you are watching a Takashi Miike horror movie what do you expect? The blood soaked scenes are violent and to the point, the insanity growing in Hasumi’s head bring some truly messed up visuals to the screen. The fact that we are seeing school kids being massacred on the screen should be (and is) worrying, and Miike’s style never lets up on the violence we see, that he doesn’t allow the violence to turn cartoonish keeps things harrowing. The dark humour that we see on the screen is worryingly amusing especially in a school. The second half of the film is where Miike hits the level of twisted insanity that we know and love. Typical of Takashi Miike he creates a feeling of normality while twisting the reality around the central character, slowly but surely bringing out the true insanity in his growing violence and hallucinations. There is always a feel of an oppressing danger though in Lesson of Evil, something just isn’t right. Charismatic and apparently a good person we see his day-to-day life in the school and his battle to rid exams of mobile phone cheating, stop bullying and even saving one of the pupils from apparent abuse from one of his colleagues. The first half of Lesson of Evil is used to set up Hasumi as the anti-hero of the piece. Hasumi decides to take matters into his own hands and cleanse the school of everything not fitting his vision of the world, whatever it takes. The cracks start to show though when he starts to see widespread bullying in the school and even teacher and student relationships. Popular with the kids and the other teachers he fights to rid the school of cheating and to make school a better experience for everybody. Seiji Hasumi (Hideaki Itô) is the popular teacher in school.
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Whether you find it dull or the characters interest you, it knows how to get under your skin. Lesson of Evil is a movie that risks coming across as boring especially in the first half when it is setting the scene for the violence to come. From horror to gangsters, historical and even school movies like Crows Zero he shows a flexibility and an ability to bring fun to his work, while also masterfully handling the extremes. That movie was my introduction into the twisted world of the director, and this is the reason he has quickly become one of my favourites. I learnt from watching Audition that you never take Takashi Miike movies at face value, he won’t let you.
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