Now, it isn’t often I make a thread, and I don’t think I’ve ever made a thread about a movie before, but I just saw this and my mind is blown. Seriously, the movie is like the best thing I’ve ever seen on any medium.
Basically the plot is this: It’s just past the dawn of the new millenium and society is breaking apart, schoolkids are boycotting schools and are acting violently towards adults, teachers in particular. An act called the “Battle Royale” act is created and it states that every year, a ninth-grade class is chosen at random and taken secretly to a deserted island. These 40+ students must battle to the death, whether they want to or not, until one is left alive, “the survivor”.
This film is the greatest I’ve ever seen for so many reasons. It’s entirely disturbing though, the deeper you look into the film the more it says about society and the darkest sides of humanity.
Of course, the first thing you’ll notice about this film is the utter violence, the thing about the violence in this film though is that it isn’t gratuitous, it’s just merciless, cold and uncaring, making it all the more stronger and powerful.
The characters are very deep, if only the main ones, but the acting and cinematography is just fabulous. It’s so surreal watching some characters committing suicide rather than killing their friends and watching others kill without any feeling.
The soundtrack is very well thought out, at some of the most disturbing points in the film (particularly at the regular death-calls), it uses very calm classical music to make it all the more powerful. It also uses modern j-pop/rock at some points.
It’s just so hard to describe the awesomeness of this film in words, really, if you enjoy any kind of action and/or psychological horror films then you REALLY need to see this. In fact, I think the tagline says it all: “Could you kill your best friend?”
