Chaos

I watched Chaos expecting another horror movie from Hideo Nakata, the guy who made Ringu. But this was completely different. No ghosts or jump scares. Just a twisted crime story that keeps you guessing until the end. It starts simple. A wife goes missing after lunch, and her husband gets a kidnapping call. But nothing is what it seems.

The plot gets messy fast. A handyman named Kuroda gets pulled into a kidnapping scheme that spirals out of control. There’s a wife, a mistress, and everyone is lying to everyone else. The story jumps back and forth in time without warning. You see the same scenes from different angles, and suddenly everything you thought you knew changes. It’s confusing at first, but that’s the point.

What I loved most is how every character thinks they’re playing everyone else, but they’re all just trapped in their own lies. The husband, the wife, the handyman. They all believe they have control, but none of them do. Miki Nakatani is incredible here. She plays both the wife and the mistress, and they look almost identical. You can’t tell who’s real and who’s pretending. Her performance alone kept me hooked.

The movie doesn’t throw action at you. It’s quiet and slow, with long pauses and blank stares. The tension builds from what people don’t say. The editing adds to the confusion with sudden cuts and black screens. It felt like watching someone’s memory fall apart piece by piece.

I won’t lie, Chaos is hard to follow. Even after it ended, I wasn’t sure about everything that happened. But that’s what made it stick with me. It’s about how lies destroy people and how quickly things fall apart when you try to hide the truth. By the end, I realized the title says it all. These people created their own chaos, and there’s no way out.