My friend Tom told me about a movie he heard about called Battle Royale so I checked it out. It’s about a group of bad high school students who because they are bad (as in stabbing, stealing, bullying) they are all taken to a small island where they are forced to take part in a game.
They are each wearing a collar that will explode if they go on the wrong parts of the island. Which parts will be announced every 6 hours. They have 3 days to kill each other, last one alive gets to go home. If more than 1 person is still alive at the end of the 3 days all their collars will explode.
They are then each given a backpack with some food and a weapon. Each pack has a different weapon. Some not offensive.
I have to admit there was some guilty pleasure in watching a bunch of deliquents kill each other. There’s alot you have to over look. For example you pretty much have to just except the premise. But over all it was interesting and certainly a different idea.
One thing different about Japanese action/horror movies, there’s alot more blood. American action movies generally shy away from blood where as American horror movies always show gross but unbelievable stuff but Japanese movies show lots of shockingly disturbing scenes of neck cutting. :-Q
I’ve seen the movie and yes it is shockingly disturbing. Imagine a deadly game of paint ball with strange weapons crossed with the book 鏑ord of the Flies� < ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Just so you know, it is a class of junior high school students, just a normal class, not “delinquents”….though I must admit, Kazuo fits that description…but, yes, awesome movie indeed…
Battle royal is not at all disturbing in any way,the idea is amazing, thats wot is missing from english and u.s horror and suspense movies lack of originality. Battle royal is a movie for the true horror buff and i recomend it.
I totally agree with you, the concept is one of a kind. This movie is really astonishing. I think it gets better for every time you watch it. But I cant say that its disturbing, just because people are used to more censored movies, its different, its acceptable, its a new point of view. People are different, see it as a more decribing movie, as there are many books that are decribed far more brutal than this. Be open to new ideas!
//Kristofer/ sweden
Ok, it’s not that disturbing. I was referring more to the plot than the scenes of the film. The idea of putting a class of innocent students on an island and setting them at each others throats is the original horror part of the film, and what makes it a good film. And I know and agree about the book comment.
I saw this last night, and thought it was really good. Very true about the violence, though. I barely noticed it after a while, because the film was so well done.