Whether the whole game is a game, a war, or a mirror image of an adult's life, it is a modification of nouns, and in essence, it is just a special situation that pushes the competition for survival to the limit. Of course, the competition for survival does not just stay in the adult world as the film says, at least there are current examples in China - the college entrance examination made my former classmates fight to the death, so the excuse for the introduction of the battle royale law is actually unreasonable: Japan No matter how deformed and perverted education is, it will not be penetrated and influenced in the slightest by the intense competition in society, so that students are so happy and bored that they kill their teachers.
Secondly, competition is not the whole of life. In fact, the whole movie actually revolves around this point. The means of survival competition can be infinitely cruel, but the purpose of survival competition is not innate, at least for human beings, this purpose is not necessarily unified. In the face of competition, because of different survival purposes and meanings, some people choose to jump off a cliff and hang themselves, some choose to continue their normal life, some choose to fight their way alone, and some choose to fight back to back together. , Some people choose to have fun in the killing and thoroughly enjoy the process of competition, and some people simply refuse to choose, just want to vent their lust before dying. It is in the choices that people show different faces, and it is diversity that brings a rich life, even if this life is only less than three days.
When faced with such a brutal competition for survival, all kinds of choices are actually beyond ethics. Although the film still has a "good" perspective when telling the story, the montage of the personal history of the "worst" photon in the film can be seen as a compensation for objectivism. Any kind of behavior has its reasons, and the reasons themselves are often hidden under the surface of life. Right and wrong are actually far away from the facts and essence. It is the throbbing of emotions and the persistence of will that directly endow various events and colors.
What, then, can the non-competitive part of life bring, if ethical right and wrong aside? Is it only the emotion and will of the individual, but not a universal but transcendent existence? The film's music provides an answer: beautiful music throughout the film from start to finish, often erupting at the moment of death. "Radesky March" is the constant closing song of the Vienna New Year's concert, but it is used to open the first morning of the whole escape; "Blue Danube" floats from the radio with the list of the dead; What people sigh is that the death of "evil incarnation" Photon brings out the longest piece of music in the film, which is Bach's "Aria on the G String". The relative sadness, sorrow, vulnerability and sensitivity are all gathered in it, which complements the madness and blood of the killing field. Thus saith Zarathustra", but the beauty that springs from love, tenderness, and the fragility of all life, which belongs to tenderness and motherhood, becomes a reason for rejecting absolute competition and absolute combat. There are also those sentences written on the screen, which are also a member of it. Everything converges into one sentence: "Finally, it's good to be friends with you."
In the film, this kind of beauty cannot be found in the brutally competitive world of adults. Although the teacher played by Takeshi Kitano controls the whole game, he cannot change the situation of his boring and empty life. He took the initiative to choose a seemingly unreasonable way to exit, but in the end, he forced the surviving young people to send the train of cruel reality, and also freed himself from the meaninglessness of competition itself. As an adult, he has been looking for beauty, but also destroying beauty; in the end, his mission ended, but he could not get any meaning that he could hold on to, so he chose to die; before dying, in despair, he could only use the real The pistol smashed the cell phone that had been carrying hope. So far, he has become the most tragic character in the film. His life process is under the limit of heaviness. However, the connotation of his life is actually infinitely light and empty. It is only in Noriko's dream that he can get a A little understanding, gratitude and warmth.
So is there no other beauty in the competition? To this question, the film has no answer, and in fact it is impossible to answer. Because if it comes to this, then the most essential issue of human life has been touched, and if this issue can be calmly told and thought after facing so much blood and cruelty, the narrator and thinker are no longer belong to Humans now. In other words, the story of "Battle Royale" may one day be told to children of another life like a fairy tale, but this fairy tale has no corresponding beauty and fantasy, so it can only be regarded as a story A framework, a draft, nothing more.
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