Before The Hunger Games, Fortnite, and Squid Game was one especially mean Japanese movie.
. This is a perfect excuse to revisit a work that holds up remarkably well 20 years later. It’s easy to see why the movie is a cult hit:is provocative, violent, and maybe more memorable for its influence on film than the quality of its actual filmmaking. It’sBattle Royale
is bloody — sometimes comically, other times brutally, with bright red sprays of corn syrup shooting across the screen. Meanwhile, the high school archetypes here are less along the lines of jock, goth, and nerd and more strongly imbued with adolescent motivation: the loyal romantics, the jealous frenemies, a handful of horny boys, the outsider who learns to be cutthroat . The construction is great, as each student reveals how willing they are to participate in order to survive.
“Most of the characters are loosely drawn, which works here since you won’t get to spend much time with most of them at the clip that they’re dying.”The kids’ performances are not exactly memorable. Thankfully, Japanese legend Takeshi Kitano centers the movie as the class’s former teacher, now running the battle royale from a command center. Solemn, sarcastic, malicious, and, yet, soulful — Kitano is so good you’ll wish there was more of him in the movie.
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