Battle Royale.

finished watching this movie this morning. woke up this morning planning to really start with my revision (it's only 5 days left!!) but sigh, i couldnt resist temptation and switched on my comp to watch this.

dont be fooled by the title and to think that this is some nazi/maozhedong history movie. this is a japanese movie actually abt this grp of students in modern japan.

this movie actually starts off tellin us to imagine japan in a very diferent situation. the police didnt have much power, the unemployment rate was high at 15% and students boycott school. so to solve this problem of delinquency, the adults came out with this Battle Royale (BR) law which each yr they will send a class onto this island and make them kill each other. for each game, there can only be one survivor and if there is more than one, everybody will die.

so it is more or less a do or die game. u wan to live u have to kill. this movie was released in dec 2000 and was initially banned in spore and many other countries. firstly becos it was jus too much gore and secondly the theme is quite morally incorrect. but after cutting, it was given a R(A) rating and recently an uncut version was released under the R21 category. but jasminelee watched this when she was in sec2. tsk tsk. haha.

i was quite put off by the gruesome scenes in the first 10min and i actually wanted to puke. so of course i stopped watching and managed to pursue jasmine into watching the show for the 2nd time. haha. and she tot the show was not bad, so i was very tempted to have a second go at watching the movie.

but it was worth it. i actually used my hands to cover my eyes at the gruesome scenes but i paid attention at rest lah. and guess wat, i think it's a really good movie. i like the themes that were explored. like thrust and friendship and how all of these will collapse so easily under pressure. overall, though ironically, it was a very hopeful movie. throughout the movies, the students had hope that they could survive. a few went crazy mumblin maths equation, some committed suicide but a large majority held on tgt and felt that they could overpower this game and the adults who created it.

not bad. but my favourite movie is still infernal affairs. much neater. less gore (i will puke lor) and very beautifully weaved. but still, worth ur time.

point to note: the protagonist, nanahara shuuya, is the death note guy in the DN movie. raito to be exact. at first i actually didnt really like him as raito. but as nanahara, he's actually quite likeable. haha.