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Release Date: 27 November, 2001 Retail Price: $27.99 OUR Price: $22.95 You SAVE: $5.04! |
Battle Royale Reviews
A great movie for anyone........over 13.
Japan's economy has fallen. Students are boycotting school. Unemployment rate is at 15%. What does the government decide to do? Pass the Battle Royale Act.
Abnormal plot for a movie you're thinking. It is, but still a great movie. The BR(battle royale) act is simple.you gotta kill all your classmates till only one lives.you are given a bag of food , water, and a random weapon. some ppl get lucky and get a gun, and some get a potlid. lol
A random class is chosen for this act each yr. this yrs is just anotehr class. but every character has a simple background that is built as long as they live.
everyone is different with their ideas. some want to stop this act of horror with peace. others just accept what they have to do. but in the end, love is everyones strongest motivation.you wont be disappointed by this movie. but remember suspension of reality!
Violent social commentary
In near-future Japan, a law has been passed which requires that a class be randomly selected, fitted with explosive collars to ensure compliance, and released on an island with instructions to battle to the death. Some become killers very quickly and easily, while others resist succumbing. This very dark comedy follows the experience of one class and the students who beat the system.
Director Kinji Fukasaku, who was in his seventies when he made the film, juxtaposed the uniquely Japanese cliches of "pure" youth and chirpy cuteness with brutal ultraviolence to comment on a society in which the generation gap has reached an apocalyptic level: this is a world where the older generation's feelings of resentment, shame, and guilt toward the younger results in a hatred and fear of its own children. This film's satiric intent is underscored by the irrationality of the so-called "BK law" itself; it is never explained how forcing one group of students to kill each other each year is supposed to benefit society.
A very interesting extrapolation of current trends in Japanese society.
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