Battle Royal
The japanese kind of cult movie about a 9th grade school class battling it out to the death.
Already there it is weird but then on the other hand the japanese aren't famous for beeing normal.
The whole building of the plot is to me quite strange and unjustified, the young don't respect the elder anymore and the crime rates have gone wild. To solve this the government passes a law where every year a randomly selected 9th grade school class have to kill each other in the battle royal game to make exapmle of. Just seems like a very strange foundation to me but ok.
After three days if there are more than one student left on the isolated island the neckstraps they wear will explode killing everyone, so they have to defeat eachother until there is only one left.
Some play by the rules and try to kill as many as possible but others try to escape and team up to figure something out.
I don't see a 9th grade school class that have been friends for so many years to just be able to kill eachother, even considering the circumstances, I just don't. And how the whole battle royal would help lower crime to take som random class and killing them, it blow my mind. But well it is a movie and it doens't have to make all sence.
I actually found the movie intressting and not as bad as i would have thought. Some of the situations were interesting
and others just insane.
My score is 6,5 out of 10. It feels like everything is quite random and unjustified but somehow i I liked it, maybe bacouse of the typical japanese style and feeling or the raw brutality that you seldom som teenagers use.
It probably is a mix of all those.
Trivia: a movie from 2009 who is most defenitly inspired by battle royal is "the tournament" where a bunch of hitmen from all over the world battle eachother until there is only one left. But battle royal is in my oppinion the better of those two.
Already there it is weird but then on the other hand the japanese aren't famous for beeing normal.
The whole building of the plot is to me quite strange and unjustified, the young don't respect the elder anymore and the crime rates have gone wild. To solve this the government passes a law where every year a randomly selected 9th grade school class have to kill each other in the battle royal game to make exapmle of. Just seems like a very strange foundation to me but ok.
After three days if there are more than one student left on the isolated island the neckstraps they wear will explode killing everyone, so they have to defeat eachother until there is only one left.
Some play by the rules and try to kill as many as possible but others try to escape and team up to figure something out.
I don't see a 9th grade school class that have been friends for so many years to just be able to kill eachother, even considering the circumstances, I just don't. And how the whole battle royal would help lower crime to take som random class and killing them, it blow my mind. But well it is a movie and it doens't have to make all sence.
I actually found the movie intressting and not as bad as i would have thought. Some of the situations were interesting
and others just insane.
My score is 6,5 out of 10. It feels like everything is quite random and unjustified but somehow i I liked it, maybe bacouse of the typical japanese style and feeling or the raw brutality that you seldom som teenagers use.
It probably is a mix of all those.
Trivia: a movie from 2009 who is most defenitly inspired by battle royal is "the tournament" where a bunch of hitmen from all over the world battle eachother until there is only one left. But battle royal is in my oppinion the better of those two.
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