I've seen the film almost 20 years ago and regularly still think about it but never really revisited it (because disturbing). I also tried reading the manga before but that art style DOES NOT work for me. - ThreadSky

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sarochi.bsky.social • 11 days ago

I've seen the film almost 20 years ago and regularly still think about it but never really revisited it (because disturbing).

I also tried reading the manga before but that art style DOES NOT work for me.

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sarochi.bsky.social•9 days ago

Jeez, the book goes especially hard on the theme of fascist governments robbing regular people as complex as any of us of their dreams and futures.

This gets brutal.

sarochi.bsky.social•8 days ago

It's 650 pages and I read it in less than 4 days.

The problem is that you pretty much mourn every single one of those 42 people. 😭

Well, maybe not Kiriyama.

sarochi.bsky.social•6 days ago

I have now also seen the full movie again.

I think I may be annoying about Battle Royale for a while.

sarochi.bsky.social•5 days ago

I always forget that most of the violence in the film is more implied than shown. Someone fires a gun and in the next scene there's some red paint on the other person's clothes, they're not even damaged.

They DO throw around a lot of red paint though.

sarochi.bsky.social•4 days ago

Battle Royale II was ridiculously brave especially in 2003, but also not nearly as good as the first one.

sarochi.bsky.social•1 day ago

The two teachers in these movies being fictionalized versions of their actors is kind of a brilliant addition.

Fascist regimes kill art so Takeshi Kitano and Riki Takeuchi probably wouldn't have made it as actors, so they ended up as suicidally depressed school teachers instead.

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