Date of Release- December 16, 2000(Japan) and January 1, 2000 (USA)
Trailer Link- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0p1t-dC7Ko
Main Themes-The movie shows ideas of conformity, dangers of Totalitarianism, loyalty and super gory.
Iconic elements- neck chokers, cookies, pot lid, grenade inside of a decapitated head, Japanese school uniforms, knife, bus where everyone was asleep, creepy smile of the girl on the opening, creepy smile of Mitsuko, When the teacher gets stabbed, the basketball game, morning exercise music, polaroid, 3-B class photo, machine guns.
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“Battle Royale” takes place in a dystopian version of present-day Japan, in which a massive disconnect between the generations has led to the passage of the Millennium Education Reform Act. Each year, a ninth-grade class is moved to a deserted island, where they are forced to murder each other until only one student survives. Battle Royale is well known, there are a lot of references to the movie in Japanese culture. I first saw the movie when I was 12 years old. Rewatching, it was better the second time than the first. There were many more elements and themes of the movie I understood better. The movie overall has a lot of gory and bloody moments, but it's also lighthearted and kinda funny. The way that people die is dramatic and not natural. There are times in a movie where there are lighthearted parts in the super heavy situation. The teacher, Kitano introduces the game to the students in a way that is normal for a teacher to start the class. The girl in the video is super lighthearted and cheerful when she explains to the students that they have to kill each other. During the announcements there is a song that plays, the song is known for school athletic competitions. These elements make the situation normalized. I enjoy the contrast of the attitudes between the adults and the students who are forced to kill each other. I enjoy how each character gets some sort of background story and each one of them has a different way they die. In the end, two students escaped the game, I thought it was slightly anti-climatic because I always thought that only one of them should have survived. Overall it left me with my teen melancholy.
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