Battle Royale (2000) - Originally Written August 9, 2012
Battle Royale (2000) Watching The Movie: Like most foreign films; if you are not a native speaker, you usually have a choice to make; bad dubbing or spending as much time READING the movie as you are watching it, however for BR, the choice is actually "Do I want to read this in English, or in Korean (and guess which one is on by default). That said, as a movie, it's not all that different an experience from other "survival game" films. Not speaking the language hurts it as a "movie" because you can't really just sit back and enjoy it. Screening the film: "Survival game" imagery (man vs society, man vs man, man vs self, strategy formulation and tactics, information asymmetries, trust choices, leadership and mentoring, and of course, game theory in general). Regimen vs Chaos, political structure. Obviously being a foreign film, there is consideration within a cultural context, in this case, Japanese (The training video girl was AWESOME) and ...