The movie
I guess were so used to movies not being relevant that when one is, our only response is to diminish it: snicker and make little jokes; roll our eyes at the directors ambition; forget to buy tickets until after its closed. ... But, if critics could drop their smarmy grins and their clock-punching mentality for two hours and watch a movie while not simultaneoussly coming up with a lead paragraph and some clever verbiage then theyd have to acknowledge it: Battle Royale matters. ... Fukasakus gleeful throat-slitter, Battle Royale, is a terrorist act, bred of his disgust at what we do to our kids. ...
The Battle Royale is like summer camp, its like reform school, its like "Survivor", and like those places its educational. ...
Battle Royale says enough - that this is sick. ...
Battle Royale is hungry to take a chunk out of society and it goes after it with its muzzle off, teeth bared, leaping for its throat. ... Its like a twisted version of Disneyland, in reference to Ecos Travels through Hyperreality. ... Battle Royale was reality to the children involved - so much that two of them actually decided to enlist for next years battle. It was as if the message of Battle Royale was that it could deliver more life than real life itself! ... But then again, that also subscribes to hyperreality. ... " (Jean Baudrillard, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place) Im sure that people watching an actual Battle Royale being televised would see it as more of a spectacle than real life. ... Nevertheless, people ate it up as reality and assimilated it into their lives as real, just as Battle Royale would if it were a real show. ... It really does seem true that hyperreality has pervaded every aspect of society. Hyperreality dictates to us things like fashion sense or education standards, and I am perfectly fine with that. ...
Now, what would a movie like Battle Royale do to its unsuspecting audience? ...
The Religion
It seems that Battle Royale and hyper reality tie up quite nicely with religion. Just as Battle Royale had used college in conjuction with survival as the ultimate goal, Christianity uses heaven in conjunction with survival (to spread the good word and such) as the ultimate goal. ... Looking at this, I think that it doesnt take an ultra violent movie like Battle Royale or a television screen to garner the same results.
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