"Battle Royale" achieves the goal of anti-blood with blood and no means

I saw this film a long time ago, and I had a great reaction to the subject matter of the film at that time. A group of young junior high school students, wearing school uniforms, killed each other, holding in their hands what they should not be at their age. The brutal killing of one's own close associates with the weapons they come into contact with has a very powerful impact on people. At the beginning of the film is a close-up of a girl who has just won this survival game. She is wearing a school uniform and holding a doll. She has a sweet smile on the corner of her mouth, but her body is covered in bright red blood, which makes it easy to see at a glance. Feel a chill down your spine. The whole film is full of violence and blood, which is also the consistent style of director Fukasaku Xinji. This film uses blood without means, but with anti-blood without purpose. It depicts the beautiful and warm side of people's hearts, and sings the good side of human nature. A profound critique and poignant irony of the ugly reality in society.
"Battle Royale" is based on the background of an unknown world in the new world, saying that the country is facing collapse, the country is in turmoil, the unemployment rate is increasing rapidly, and school violence incidents continue to occur. Based on this, the Japanese government issued a BR law and randomly selected a third grade class every year. To play a game of killing each other, one person must survive within three days, otherwise all will die. In this game, students kill their partners to survive. All the students brutally killed others with the weapons in their hands, but only the weapons that the protagonists of the movie Qiuya and Noriko were given were a pot lid and a telescope. In this game, the weapons they possessed were undoubtedly among these people. The weakest, completely defenseless, but in this game, only the two of them survived. The two have supported and loved each other from the very beginning. Don't give up under that kind of environment. Human nature, so true love survived. And the other protagonist in the movie, Shogo, the reason why he went all the way is also because of the love for Keiko in his heart. On that small island, Akiya and Noriko have no weapons, no scheming, no experience, they have nothing but love, but love has overcome danger, overcome fear, overcome cunning, cruelty, despicableness and those who seem invincible means.
At the end of the film, in the picture of the blue sky, white clouds and the sea, full of hope and vigor, Qiuya and Noriko escaped from their families and embarked on a pure and independent life path.
Some people say that the film "Battle Royale" expresses a criticism of the ugly and cruel society of human nature, but in my opinion, this is a misinterpretation of the film "Battle Royale". Denying that the movie does show the cruelty in society and the strong prey on the weak, but after watching the movie carefully and thinking about it, it can be found that these seem to be torture or questioning of this issue by the movie itself. The isolated island can be regarded as a microcosm of society. In society, everyone has their own pressures from the society, and the students who kill each other on the island are carrying around their necks. The ticking time bomb also weighed on each of them. In the movie, there is a student named Kazuo Kiriyama who volunteers to participate in the game. In the game, he only participates in the game to enjoy the thrill of this game and only for the excitement of killing people. He has always lived in the original instinct. The strongest, but as a result, he did not survive like the victor, he died like most people, what does this mean? Can't you see Shinji Fukasaku's original intention from here?

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