Confession is a silly movie. Basically a two-hander about a nefarious businessman (Yoo Min-ho) and a woman (Kim Yunjin) who he's trying to get to be his lawyer, Yoon Jong-seok's not-so-thrilling thriller is built around the conceit that she'll only represent him in court if he tells her every dastardly thing he's done leading up to and following the murder. So while he's proclaiming his innocence for killing the woman (Im Jin-ah b.k.a. After School's Nana) with whom he was having an affair, this guy is quite open to admitting bribery, adultery, hit-and-run, insurance malfeasance, cybercrimes, aiding-and-abetting, destroying evidence, and murder... just not of his love interest!
Preposterous? Yes. I'd even go so far as to say Confession is ridiculous! Because eventually, you realize that everything you're watching is potentially a lie. We're not seeing things as they happen but events as they're being told. A character — the accused, the potential attorney — might revise their story five seconds later and then we'll see actions reflecting the new scenario they've concocted. Since neither character is particularly trustworthy, the single way to find out what's real is when other characters enter the picture (the cops, another lawyer, a husband) and we watch in "real time" what reality unfolds. Per usual, reality attempts to satisfy but falls a bit short.
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