It's like this battle royale, at first I just went for its violent and bloody sensory stimulation, and then I realized after watching it that death is the theme of many R-rated movies, and for the battle royale, it is just a footnote. . It is like a huge sponge, sucking up all the world. You look for every attitude or ups and downs in life, and they are all projected in two hours of endless escape.
At first I didn't understand why the two weakest people in the film survived, and then I thought that they were the only ones who rebelled against the game system from beginning to end. And none of the strong people who knew the rules of the game and abandoned all moral values ruthlessly survived. Survival, although a grand reason, is a mechanical animal instinct.
There are too many films like this that take human nature to the extreme. Death experiments, the ultimate interview, blindness, elevator horror, etc., etc., the ultimate goal of the director is to lift the warm veil of human kindness and tell you that people are not good enough. An exile with original sin. The battle royale endows human emotions with a soul. This is the final tribute to life by the director who has spent his entire life thinking: it is not the strong food that makes human beings the spirit of all things, but some virtual existence derived from life. : emotion, dignity, tolerance and faith.
This game is called, only one can live. When the chance of survival becomes a limited resource, the face-to-face fight becomes the meaning of the title.
The game starts with everyone stepping out of the classroom to fight on their own. It's a 1 in 40 survival rate. This game is about what matters most to you.
Someone immediately got into the game character. Those who are proficient in this way, the first to recommend Soma Photon, one person is a team. She can play tricks, pretend to be pitiful, save her body, and kill her. Weapons, beauty, skills, and cold blood are all weapons for her to kill. Go into battle, because they have been freed from moral shackles, there are only strong and weak without good and evil.
Those who are lucky and weak are sure to die in the game. They struggle with survival instinct and guilt. Idealists take pride in martyrdom, realists take pleasure in slaughter, and only the characters in the mezzanine are the least relaxed. And this category is the majority of the population. They passively accept the rules of the game, and they hesitate to kill people. After killing people, they have a mental breakdown, and they are finally cleaned up by the strong. It is better than the brave girl who refused the rules and committed suicide by jumping off the cliff.
The world outside is bloody, and a group of girls hiding in Utopia to make a fire and cook is caught in a prisoner's dilemma. The crisis of trust is imminent, and heaven becomes hell in an instant.
And the bridge of genius to save the world is stillborn. Because a well-ordered society has a legitimate basis for the elite to defeat the mob.
There are desperate mandarin ducks who both committed suicide, and there are elegy of love killed by the wrong hands of the beloved girl. There are noble souls who are majestic and unyielding, and there are walking dead who kill like numbness.
But in the end, there are only male and female protagonists whose hearts are outside the game system. Even the seemingly ruthless instructor Kitano said to the only surviving girl, I just want you to be buried with me.
Once again, Uncle Kitano was indifferent and fragile on the outside. What he wanted to destroy was his desperation that he could not get love.
what is love? It is a kind of courage in a young age that is reckless. Kawada, a survivor of the last battle royale, repeatedly took out a photo of him and his lover, Keiko, without saying a word. Suddenly, I remembered the poem Dai Wangshu wrote to Xiao Hong: I waited, the night was long, but you lay down and listened to Haitao's gossip. It made Kawada, who was dying on the bow of the boat, forget his fear at the moment. What he remembered was the last smile that the girl he first loved lying in his arms gave him, and that thank you. He just spent the last time of his life comprehending the true meaning of that last word.
And those who survive, just like the end of the film, continue to face one question after another without a standard answer. Life is just the superposition of all the answers. And the world when you came, you can't go back. But at least being able to die with the beloved is the most romantic ending the director can give.
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