Born with It

A film about racism. and bullying . and discrimination. and guilty. and integration . realistic for the performance of child actors. for photography. and for the delicacy defining it as Japanes film more than any other detail. a boy. and his classmates. a rumour. and the simplicity transforming the film in a sort of poem about self confidence, roots and the other. important - its universal message.

This is a story about a 'hafu' black boy. His name is Keisuke. This story starts with the scene that he moves to a small town. On the first day, his classmates assume that Keisuke has AIDS.

They think that all black people have it. They always exclude Keisuke. However, one kind boy invites him to play catch and Keisuke gets injured then. After that, they search about AIDS.

After, Keisuke is filled with fear that really has AIDS, so he runs away from school. When he talks about his fear, his mother comforts him and proves that he does not have AIDS. Actually, she takes him to hospital. Keisuke is completely healthy. Then, she tells him his father's words, "It's not up to others to decide what kind of human being you are." In the last scene, he starts to enter the school... I was moved by the boy who plays catch with Keisuke. He is so kind, isn't he? Because, many children want to exclude a stranger who is different from themselves. Even if you don't want to do it, you might be influenced by your classmates. It's so horrible and stupid. I wonder how many students can understand the fact of AIDS. They only see the pictures that the black patients with AIDS on the internet. Maybe, the kind boy also has the stupid knowledge, but he can look at Keisuke's heart not his appearance. For the kind boy, the difference of appearance doesn't matter. In the future, I want my children to be like him.

Then, Keisuke's mother tells him so impressed words when he is crying. I sympathize with her opinion. However, I also think she doesn't know anything. Keisuke and many children want to sympathize with them by their mother and father. Of course, it's not a solution. Actually, I had a mental problem when I was 11 years old. So, I couldn't enter my class and I always run away to the library. One day, my mother knew that, so my father was angry. He told me if you lose now, you will continue to lose in your life. After that, I had to enter my class and it was such a nightmare. However, I could enjoy my school life again. (I don't know why I could do it...) From that, I was frustrated with Keisuke's mother, but Keisuke will understand his mother's words.

I like this film. Probably, I don't have the films that I don't like and I can't be interested in.

But this film makes me remember my sad experience and my growth. I recommend it!

The short film "Born With it" was made in 2015. The genre is drama. It is the story of Keisuke, a Japanese and Ghanaian 'hafu'. His skin color is different from others, so he is told that he has AIDS, and his classmates avoid him. According to the doctor's diagnosis, he is perfectly healthy. Will he be accepted by his classmates? This short film shows us the difficulty for people with different appearances to be accepted in Japan. I think that stereotypes and preconceptions are responsible for destroying a person's identity. It is a movie worth watching because it allows us to re-acknowledge that everyone is equal. I want to recommend it to many people, and I hope it gives everyone an opportunity to review how they treat people with different looks or cultures.

This movie is about a primary school African-Japanese boy who moves to countryside because of his parent's work. He is suspected to have a disease by everyone since he is black, so he tries to prove that he is normal. The movie makes us want to keep up with the boy's decision and his school life. This film narrates Japanese society in primary school that foreigners get discriminated because of their different appearance. Moreover, this movie is really relatable to a foreigner living in Japan like me. However, the film is not as stressful as its plot. It has a little bit of humors of how innocent the kids are. One thing I do not like about this short film is that, since there are some funny scenes in this film, some scenes seem to be unnecessary. From my point of view, this movie can be shorter, but it is acceptable and able to attract the audience to watch it until the end. so far I recommend you guys watching this especially those who are interested in Japanese society and want to get to know more about it.

This film represents what is happening in current elemantary school. In recent years, the more time we spend, the more bullying becomes complicated. Sometimes we do not find any effective solutions even if teachers know the situation. In this film, one hafu boy had been bullied by others and could not overcome his terrible situation. The end does not contain anything happy. The conversation between others has the word 'AIDS', which show the cruelty of young children who do not know 'AIDS' itself enough. His mother tries to make him be convinced that he should have confidence in himself, though he could not. Via this film, I learned how the current bullying is happening and how hafu children sometimes are discriminated in school. I think if the end of the film is sad, it can also impact on the audience differently from happy films. This means that any ends of the film play a role in giving people various emotion.