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This. Movie. Rocks.
Plot?
Japanese kids have become massively deliquent, stabbing teachers if they bother to go at all and things are generally terrible.
So the government passes the Battle Royale Act.
Which states that once a year, a class of kids shall be taken to an un-named island and given weapons.
The task?
To kill each other until only 1 is left, who will then be used as an example of what happens if you are not productive in society.
They all have collars which explode if they are still in a "danger area". Not lovely head explosions, but severed throat arteries and sprays of blood.
As demonstrated by Kitano the teacher to an unruly kid at the start.
That's the plot.
But, like L'Haine, this functions on so many other levels.
It's a condemnation of today's youth behaviour, but also a criticism of adults that would rather destroy the problem than try to treat it.
Just...so many different views here.
And it's nasty.
Not exploitative nasty, but realistic nasty.
Kids get shot and they bleed and scream.
These kids are terrified at what they have to do.
They're all given a bag with a map, some water and bread and a weapon.
Some of the weapons are useful, crossbows, uzis, pistols etc but to "keep things fair", some pupils open their bags to find saucepan lids, binocoulars, boxing gloves etc.
Some form alliances, some kill themselves rather than partake and others gleefully descend into absolute savagery.
It's Lord of The Flies meets Clockwork Orange is the best way to describe this.
And the fact it's subtitled takes nothing away from it, you don't need subtitles to understand these kids are terrified and confused and angry and, sometimes, murderous.
Beat Takeshi rules this movie as the cynical, psychopathic teacher that is initially stabbed and takes great pleasure in demonstrating the neck-collars to the perpetrator of his stabbing.
Or haranging the kids through a megaphone system all over the island, "Only 2 died this morning, you're slacking off. I'm disgusted with you."
Absolute class movie.
Ignore the hype, and don't watch this if you're after a schlocky teen-slasher movie because you'll be disappointed.
But if you want something genuinely daring and risky, then buy Battle Royale.
You won't be found wanting.
Plot?
Japanese kids have become massively deliquent, stabbing teachers if they bother to go at all and things are generally terrible.
So the government passes the Battle Royale Act.
Which states that once a year, a class of kids shall be taken to an un-named island and given weapons.
The task?
To kill each other until only 1 is left, who will then be used as an example of what happens if you are not productive in society.
They all have collars which explode if they are still in a "danger area". Not lovely head explosions, but severed throat arteries and sprays of blood.
As demonstrated by Kitano the teacher to an unruly kid at the start.
That's the plot.
But, like L'Haine, this functions on so many other levels.
It's a condemnation of today's youth behaviour, but also a criticism of adults that would rather destroy the problem than try to treat it.
Just...so many different views here.
And it's nasty.
Not exploitative nasty, but realistic nasty.
Kids get shot and they bleed and scream.
These kids are terrified at what they have to do.
They're all given a bag with a map, some water and bread and a weapon.
Some of the weapons are useful, crossbows, uzis, pistols etc but to "keep things fair", some pupils open their bags to find saucepan lids, binocoulars, boxing gloves etc.
Some form alliances, some kill themselves rather than partake and others gleefully descend into absolute savagery.
It's Lord of The Flies meets Clockwork Orange is the best way to describe this.
And the fact it's subtitled takes nothing away from it, you don't need subtitles to understand these kids are terrified and confused and angry and, sometimes, murderous.
Beat Takeshi rules this movie as the cynical, psychopathic teacher that is initially stabbed and takes great pleasure in demonstrating the neck-collars to the perpetrator of his stabbing.
Or haranging the kids through a megaphone system all over the island, "Only 2 died this morning, you're slacking off. I'm disgusted with you."
Absolute class movie.
Ignore the hype, and don't watch this if you're after a schlocky teen-slasher movie because you'll be disappointed.
But if you want something genuinely daring and risky, then buy Battle Royale.
You won't be found wanting.
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It was on TV months and months ago, but I forgot to watch it. I may get it on DVD or summat
This. Movie. Rocks.
Plot?
Japanese kids have become massively deliquent, stabbing teachers if they bother to go at all and things are generally terrible.
So the government passes the Battle Royale Act.
Which states that once a year, a class of kids shall be taken to an un-named island and given weapons.
The task?
To kill each other until only 1 is left, who will then be used as an example of what happens if you are not productive in society.
They all have collars which explode if they are still in a "danger area". Not lovely head explosions, but severed throat arteries and sprays of blood.
As demonstrated by Kitano the teacher to an unruly kid at the start.
That's the plot.
But, like L'Haine, this functions on so many other levels.
It's a condemnation of today's youth behaviour, but also a criticism of adults that would rather destroy the problem than try to treat it.
Just...so many different views here.
And it's nasty.
Not exploitative nasty, but realistic nasty.
Kids get shot and they bleed and scream.
These kids are terrified at what they have to do.
They're all given a bag with a map, some water and bread and a weapon.
Some of the weapons are useful, crossbows, uzis, pistols etc but to "keep things fair", some pupils open their bags to find saucepan lids, binocoulars, boxing gloves etc.
Some form alliances, some kill themselves rather than partake and others gleefully descend into absolute savagery.
It's Lord of The Flies meets Clockwork Orange is the best way to describe this.
And the fact it's subtitled takes nothing away from it, you don't need subtitles to understand these kids are terrified and confused and angry and, sometimes, murderous.
Beat Takeshi rules this movie as the cynical, psychopathic teacher that is initially stabbed and takes great pleasure in demonstrating the neck-collars to the perpetrator of his stabbing.
Or haranging the kids through a megaphone system all over the island, "Only 2 died this morning, you're slacking off. I'm disgusted with you."
Absolute class movie.
Ignore the hype, and don't watch this if you're after a schlocky teen-slasher movie because you'll be disappointed.
But if you want something genuinely daring and risky, then buy Battle Royale.
You won't be found wanting.
Plot?
Japanese kids have become massively deliquent, stabbing teachers if they bother to go at all and things are generally terrible.
So the government passes the Battle Royale Act.
Which states that once a year, a class of kids shall be taken to an un-named island and given weapons.
The task?
To kill each other until only 1 is left, who will then be used as an example of what happens if you are not productive in society.
They all have collars which explode if they are still in a "danger area". Not lovely head explosions, but severed throat arteries and sprays of blood.
As demonstrated by Kitano the teacher to an unruly kid at the start.
That's the plot.
But, like L'Haine, this functions on so many other levels.
It's a condemnation of today's youth behaviour, but also a criticism of adults that would rather destroy the problem than try to treat it.
Just...so many different views here.
And it's nasty.
Not exploitative nasty, but realistic nasty.
Kids get shot and they bleed and scream.
These kids are terrified at what they have to do.
They're all given a bag with a map, some water and bread and a weapon.
Some of the weapons are useful, crossbows, uzis, pistols etc but to "keep things fair", some pupils open their bags to find saucepan lids, binocoulars, boxing gloves etc.
Some form alliances, some kill themselves rather than partake and others gleefully descend into absolute savagery.
It's Lord of The Flies meets Clockwork Orange is the best way to describe this.
And the fact it's subtitled takes nothing away from it, you don't need subtitles to understand these kids are terrified and confused and angry and, sometimes, murderous.
Beat Takeshi rules this movie as the cynical, psychopathic teacher that is initially stabbed and takes great pleasure in demonstrating the neck-collars to the perpetrator of his stabbing.
Or haranging the kids through a megaphone system all over the island, "Only 2 died this morning, you're slacking off. I'm disgusted with you."
Absolute class movie.
Ignore the hype, and don't watch this if you're after a schlocky teen-slasher movie because you'll be disappointed.
But if you want something genuinely daring and risky, then buy Battle Royale.
You won't be found wanting.
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