The background of the film is a society with a high unemployment rate of 15% and a very high rate of juvenile crime. Every year, the government selects a class with an unhealthy atmosphere to participate in the BR bill, killing each other until one survives. The purpose of this bill is to make young people Better transition to adult society and lower crime rates.
Could it be that the staged scene of the killing game reflects the cruel adult society? This is obviously an unrealistic story background, in short, an extreme environment, or the ultimate version of the intensification of adult social conflicts. The director does not hesitate to externalize the psychological and physical pressure faced by teenagers into bloody scenes and the extreme contrast between the protagonist and the protagonist, and uses a strong sense of impact to make the audience have a more intuitive feeling of that society. When the students who may be helpless have no choice but to take up arms and fight with their companions in order to win the offer of last survival, the film more or less shows the shadow of anti-war - under the threat of death, people I have to kill more innocent people in order to survive, and let my conscience be swallowed up little by little until my hands are covered with blood.
All people can be divided into three categories, offensive, defensive and abstaining, the abstainer is destined to be eliminated. Qiuye, Noriko, and Beichuan are more like the defensive camp, watching the development of the whole situation. I personally think that if the director wants to portray Noriko as the ultimate good in human nature or the hope in sin, she can make her environment more isolated to increase the contrast. Because it feels that Noriko has escaped many disasters under the protection of two big men from beginning to end. On the other hand, there will be pure people in other people, but who has the same favor? Noriko could not have been killed, and the whole became a flower in a greenhouse, so subjectively speaking, she has not yet entered the role at all. Qiu is also cowardly, but he accidentally killed people with an axe, and even shot Takeshi Kitano in the end. While he was persecuted, he was also a perpetrator who promoted the development of the situation.
Regarding Takeshi Kitano, it is undeniable that this role is the most complicated. On the one hand, the alienation of close relatives and the offense of students make him dislike the dirty and ruthless adult society; on the one hand, he is also an accomplice of the government, an indirect butcher, and a gatekeeper of communication between minors and adult society; on the other hand, he is well aware of this. This complex of contradictions is enough to sentence him to death, and the most bizarre thing is that he actually handed over the right to judge himself to that kind incarnation - Noriko. What logic is this?
The rejection of adult society is one of the reasons for his desire to die, and in the adult society as a teacher, he is also responsible for educating students and obeying social rules, which is why he is an accomplice of the government and an indirect butcher. , and it is the reason for the gatekeepers of the two societies. The reason why he succumbs to the social rules is because he is unable to resist the burden of life. Of course, while performing the teaching duties, there should also be revenge for the excessive behavior of the students. . . Under the game of selfish desire and morality, the inner struggle that is enough to break people also makes him more eager for the release of death. Noriko's kindness is what he wants to protect the most, but the world doesn't allow it, he wants her to completely transform to adapt to another society, and he, the only guilty person in the end, has become the best tool to complete her transformation. This not only fulfills himself, but also helps those he wants to protect.
At the end of the film, Noriko and Qiuya both escaped the massacre, but because of the national wanted, they can only wander around. how? They have changed from being the object of social selection to the object of social exclusion, and are destined to be out of tune with this society. Will this be another tragedy? The answer is unknown. . . .
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