I do accept the fact that I have seen the movie Battle
Royale way too late than most of the people, In fact I also accept that I saw
this movie AFTER I heard the rumors that the idea in the books and movies
Hunger games by Suzanne Collins was kind of copied off from Battle Royale. I
wanted to check out for myself because the series hunger games is one of my favorites.
So moving on , I saw the movie Battle Royale and I was kind
of surprised at the high ratings given to it at IMDB, I do appreciate the idea
because that was undoubtedly original but since idea isn’t the only thing that
makes something awesome, and that is where the my conflicting opinions come in.
I thought Battle Royale was good in its idea but it was somewhat lacking in
refinement. Also the fact that the acting in the movie was plain terrible! I
haven’t read the book Battle Royale, I just saw the movie so therefore I will
compare both movies and Battle Royale and hunger games rather than books.
Battle Royale gave the idea of collapsing economy where
children were starting to get ruthless and employment rate was dropping and
what not so therefore the government passed a bill called Battle Royale that
randomly selects some class to be shipped off to some deserted island and made
to fight to death. Three days the students are supposed to fight to death till
one stands remaining or they all simply die. In the movie the class which is
chosen gets right down to business and starts killing with their randomly given
bags which could posses any type of weapon for them, ranging from axes to GPAs
to even pot lids. There are many things that struck me as plain weird in the
movie. First what is the point of the battle?
I mean yeah the teacher explains
and stuff but living in a collapsing economy where any class at random could be
skipped off to die wouldn’t that make the people take out their kids from
school all together and thus effect the economy further? I know my mom wouldn’t
send me to school if she thought there was even a remotest chance that the
school might kidnap and force me to kill my class fellows. I just want to know
how battle Royale was helping the country. See? Refinement, the idea is all
well and good of battle to death but you could at least explain why. I also
read that people think the movie and books are like satire on their society
because the kids are becoming violent and disrespectful, yea I still don’t
think this battle is the way to gain respect and PEACE. Talk about killing for
peace right? Moving on the movie, another thing that struck me as weird was how
quickly they all recovered from the fact that they were all kidnapped and the
teacher just killed two of their class fellows in front of them. i swear if it
were me I would not have left that room into God know where alone with that
weapons bag like they did, like all waving their hands at their friends and
running to get that bag (one guy even
punched the air like he won the friggin Emmy.) I think its psychologically
impossible to wrap your head around this kind of thing in like 15 minutes, “ohh
I have to kill all my class fellows?, including my best friends? , oh and if I
don’t in three days my head explodes?, oh yess HIGH FIVE!!!”. Okay so they all
started the games and one minute later they trying to kill each other, no
hesitance, no depression just plain killing until there is the person of opposite
sex in front of them , yess then they all say stuff like ‘I’ve had a crush on
you’ or ‘I loved you for so long’. I’m serious they all had nothing better to
say given the circumstances, during the movie I got so sick of people telling
each other they liked them just before they died a very funny way that it
started to seem funny, in fact the whole movie started to seem funny because
the way people were dying was just so unreal and weird. If you’re so scared and
don’t want to kill anyone so you decide to call for peace from the top of the
mountains to everyone to seize fire you don’t yell stuff like “someone someone
had a crush on you for so long” yes, you simply don’t do that, yes yes I get
that they’re are in ninth grade and they’re kids but I think even kids when
faced with life or death on in this matter death and death don’t do this kind
of stuff, was I the only one who remembered
that they were all going to die? Then there are like five or six girls
who are weirdly VERY cheerful about having this guy upstairs in the light house
and they’re like peaceful until a girl poisons the soup and one of them dies .
Then very rationally they all kill each other deciding who poisoned the soup,
yes because that’s what cheerful girls do. Anyway there are these guys also who
make bombs and hack into the systems of the game to shut it down or something
but the thing is, they figure out that the teacher is listening on to their
conversations through the neck thingies they’re all wearing. It’s apparently
very hard to figure out that the guy who was yelling stuff like “I DID IT, I MADE
THE HACKING SOFTWARE” would be the one who brought the systems down , because
the teacher and evil guys ask each other stuff like “who did this?” and “Why
did it happen??” , seriously? It couldn’t be the guy who was yelling “I did
it”?? nahh that’s too obvious I guess. There is a lot of stuff that was way too
weird to comprehend. The acting was really bad though so at least that was
there to laugh at. Also the alleged danger zones the teacher announced 3 times
day, what the danger zones were and what would happen if one was there was not
explained.
I did think the idea was cool given that it was original. In
hunger games a lot of ideas were same like the announcing the people killed or
things to keep the students moving, but I would again say that hunger games was
refined, it gave reasons for the games and how it worked and how it helped the
country while Battle Royale was not that refined, it could fall more into the
category of mindless killing movies maybe. Looking at psychological factors and
the story, hunger games was more accurate. I would say even of it was a copy of
the ides it’s still better, at least its acting was good and had logic as to
why things were happening the way they were.
i think both movies are worth watching one being my favorite and other being the original idea.
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