Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

In February 2020, I watched Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile at Kinema Junpo Theater. 

The movie was made from the point of the girlfriend of a man pegged for a serial killer. A good movie to provoke thought. 

Lily Collins gave a wonderful performance as Liz who the main character, Ted Bundy, had probably loved the most in his life. I got drawn into her realistic acting, from which I felt her soul, especially when she angrily pressed Ted to honestly talk to her. I was moved by how she took out her anger on the man who persistently insisted his innocence. 

Contrary to Liz, Carole wearing big ugly glasses wanted to believe in Ted's words too strongly to realize that he was just using her. She might have vaguely known it but at the same time, she might have thought that it did not matter because her happiness is to serve him. I believed, though, that she was not blinded by love but she loved herself too much, so I could not commiserate with her at all. 

Although other several women were also absorbed in the handsome and sharp guy, yet I could empathize only Liz in all the women. 

About Ted Bundy, I do not want to write about him because I do not like to regard a psychopath as a human, though I will if he should be innocent as he insisted. Zac Efron played a super handsome guy. I believed that he looked good but I felt that he was not too handsome to make women passing by him turn around right away and gaze admiringly at him on the streets. Women might not agree with me.