"Battle Royale 1-Tokyo Holy War", directed by Shinji Fukasaku, starring Fujiwara Ryuya, Maeda Aki, Kuriyama Chiaki, Kitano Takeshi and others. It was released in 2000 and won a series of awards such as Best Picture, Best Leading Actor, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Editing, etc. at the 24th Japan Film Academy Awards. This film is adapted from the 1996 Japanese writer Takami Hiroharu's novel "Survival Game", which created a thriller mode that kills all competitors on an isolated island and wins the survival of one person. The later "The Hunger Games" is based on this, and more Later, it became the source of inspiration for popular games such as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and Elite Peace. Last year, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds also released a set of costumes for the characters in Battle Royale as a tribute to the film.
"Battle Royale" release poster
Left game character costume comes from "Battle Royale" character Chikusa Takako I. Summary of movie plot:
This film depicts a country similar to Japan in the future, in the new century When the economy collapsed at the beginning, the unemployment rate of adults soared, and the subsequent surge in juvenile delinquency, and increasingly disrespect for adults, the country enacted a law called "BR", which roughly means that every year Select a class in the third grade in the country, take them to an isolated island, let them kill each other within three days, until the last person. An ordinary student in the class, the male protagonist Qiyuan Qiu also upholds the idea that he does not want to kill or be killed, and the female protagonist Noriko Nakagawa finally survived in the game, broke through the isolated island, and embarked on an overseas escape. road. 2. Analysis of the characters in the plot: The confrontation between humanity and animality-the reason why you have to brush it twice
At the beginning of the movie, in order to survive, the rules are broken and trampled, and the "BR" law that can never be introduced in this world is introduced, for this group The nightmare of the third year students kicked off. As a ridiculous story and a ridiculous movie, Shinsaku Shinji uses a very extreme theme. When you see it for the first time, you will only tremble for the violence and bloody that is constantly displayed in the film, and you will be afraid of showing the primitive animality for survival. , But watching it again, you will definitely feel that this is a movie full of humanity education.
1, Qiyuan Qiuya
"Battle Royale" has become a classic, a large part of which is attributed to the setting of the male protagonist Qiyuan Qiuya. He is a perfect boy in the traditional sense, handsome in appearance, excellent grades, and versatile. , Life experience is pitiful, so I have gained the love of many girls in the class, and also get along well with most of the male students in the class. Such an outstanding character destined Qiuya to bear an extraordinary fate. After being sent to this deserted island of death, he still maintained his self-clearness and maintained his self-identity as a human being. This is why he is still able to persist in his self-determination even when many classmates continue to fight each other. An important reason for belief. Therefore, he did not degenerate into a murder tool that obeyed the government's instructions and mechanically executed fratricidal orders like others. Instead, he constantly called on others to fight together. In the end, he moved the strongest survival game in this game, Kawada Akago and became him. 'S bodyguard, and eventually survived. It can be said that Shinji Shinsaku’s film is bright because of the role of Qihara Akiya. He has become a symbol representing the director’s last yearning for the beauty of human nature, and has become a signal for the young people he wants to describe to roar to the world. It has also become the final character in the film to test humanity from beginning to end. It is precisely because of this that the Battle Royale can be distinguished from the purely violent aesthetics of Europe and the United States, and it has become a classic movie at the palace level, and has become the deepest human thinking in Shen Zuo Xin's production career.
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2 and Soma Mitsuko:
In addition to the almost perfect character of Akiya, Soma Mitsuko is almost the most brilliant character in the film, and I think it is also a representative of the human animality displayed in this film . As a photon who is completely opposite to Qiuye, what she pursues is to live, not to lead everyone out of the deserted island like Qiuye. She is a woman who completely follows the rules of the game and is constantly struggling to survive in the gaps in the rules. When Photon was young, her father abandoned her and her mother. His mother drank all day long, and when Photon was 5 years old, she sold her to a middle-aged pedophile. Photon pushed him down the stairs in order to protect his life and dignity. Perhaps from then on, Photon began to hate the world. After killing people constantly, he was beaten into a sieve by the strongest killer in the play, Kazuo Kazuma. This tragic ending is largely due to her sense of crisis andCaused by distrust of others. Photon was very cruel. He used her sickle to cut Megumi's throat, shot Hirano and Chikusa to death, physically seduced two boys in the same class and then cut their necks. "I just don't want to wait and die", this should be the most classic line in this movie. Killing is just to survive, just to make an effort to survive, even if you have no friends. Under the threat of life, what she showed was a strong desire for people to really want to live. Only those who will act to protect themselves are qualified to live.
is the end of the cold-eyed woman
in the middle. It is also an elegy for Soma Mitoko. When the team won in the friendship of Class B in the third year, Mitoko stood up excitedly, and the crowd in the distance was happy. Hug, she wanted to go but didn't, and no one came to call her. Her eyes were full of longing and regret, but in the end she just turned around lonely and embarked on her own path. Isn’t this a naked irony for most of us?
3, Chikusa Takako: The last thing
wants to say is Chikusa Takako. She performed the most beautiful and purest scene in this movie, "God, please let me say one more sentence?" is Chikusa's inscription. Before dying, Takako Chiakusa prayed so. In this cruel game, we felt warm and moved through this girl. Her appearance is set against the lush greenery, she is running, and he is behind her, riding a bicycle, helping her calculate the time, the movie music has also become a shallow, clear tune like running water. But when she was sober in reality, everything had disappeared. Chikusa knows that Hiroki doesn't like herself, but this does not prevent her from maintaining her pure body with the toughness of a girl for the boys she likes. Chikusa, who fought to the last moment with this belief, said in a sense Is the most powerful.
Chikusa closed his eyes with regret and happiness.
The last days is a desert island where everyone is in danger. It is a cruel killing where only one person can survive. But even in the face of this degenerate madness, Chikusa still hopes that he can Treated with a normal heart, so she put on sportswear and ran calmly in the bright morning sun. Finally, when she finally met with her beloved boy, but the life was exhausted, she asked Hongshu if she liked her with expectation, and told Hongshu that he was the best man she had ever seen. Child, Hiroki faces the innocent girl in his arms. Although he doesn’t love this girl, but the girl who plays an important role in his emotions and life, tells the truth. He has other girls he likes, and he shed tears. Praising Chikusa Takako as the best girl he has ever seen, Chikusa is also full of happiness and satisfaction and completely closed his eyes in Hiroki's arms. The most beautiful scene in the entire battle royale is presented to us like this.
In fact, the connotation of this movie is more than that. I can’t go into details because of the length. I have always regarded it as the best Japanese movie in my mind (no one). Those who are interested can search and watch it by themselves. There are super clear resources in the post bar of Battle Royale. Trust me, you will never be disappointed.
