Films » Battle Royale
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In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary “Battle Royale” act.
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Battle Royale
Watched a dubbed version, I think subbed would’ve been better…
My main thought coming away from this was: that was weird. The plot, while outwardly straight forward, had a lot to say. There’s a lot of flash backs and references and things going on.
The obvious comparison to make is to the Hunger Games series. The latter is a lot more cinematically pleasing, but it feels that Battle Royale approaches the conceit in a much more adult, nuanced way. It doesn’t shy away from the violence or from complexity and ambiguity.