BATTLE ROYALE
Just finished watching it-- goddamn--- one of the best fucking flics i've seen in months--
as of now (and i dont see it happening ever) it hasn't been legitimately released here. That's not because of the violence (which is arguably tame by some american movie standards and my own personal opinion). here's the quote from the official site:
"It's the fact that the violence is being inflicted by fifteen-year-old characters on other fifteen-year-old characters. We see plenty of high-schoolers and college students get sliced and diced on American screens by masked maniacs. But never have we seen ninth graders kill other ninth graders in a sustained, wall-to-wall series of violent attacks."
its for the best-- everybody will get sued the next time something awful happened in a high school somewhere. but for people who's feet are firmly grounded in reality and can tell the difference between right and wrong, Battle Royale is a brilliant work of escapism-- just fun splatter stuff.
the fan site:
http://www.battleroyalefilm.net
Just finished watching it-- goddamn--- one of the best fucking flics i've seen in months--
as of now (and i dont see it happening ever) it hasn't been legitimately released here. That's not because of the violence (which is arguably tame by some american movie standards and my own personal opinion). here's the quote from the official site:
"It's the fact that the violence is being inflicted by fifteen-year-old characters on other fifteen-year-old characters. We see plenty of high-schoolers and college students get sliced and diced on American screens by masked maniacs. But never have we seen ninth graders kill other ninth graders in a sustained, wall-to-wall series of violent attacks."
its for the best-- everybody will get sued the next time something awful happened in a high school somewhere. but for people who's feet are firmly grounded in reality and can tell the difference between right and wrong, Battle Royale is a brilliant work of escapism-- just fun splatter stuff.
the fan site:
http://www.battleroyalefilm.net