Battle Royale Reflection, great movie!

Battle Royale

The general story line of this movie, is about the Japanese government putting a class of high school students into an island, forcing them to fight each other to death in three days, there should be only one survivor left at the end of the three days, if not they will all be killed by the explosion of headband they are wearing. This program is called Battle Royale, in short, the BR program.

This movie is labeled as R15 for its violence scene, but the main focus of this movie should be the humanity shown rather than the violence and blood.

There are two other characters that is not from the original class but added to the game, they joined the game under their free will. Kazuo Kiriyama, whom just wanted to kill people, and Shogo Kawada, whom survived the previous BR program, wanted to find out what is the true meaning of the smile of his girlfriend whom died in his arm(but killed by him as she shot him first).

The two main characters Shuya Nanahara and Noriko Nakagawa did not do much in the movie, they did not try to kill others but to avoid it, they got help from Shogo Kawada, who basically knows and prepared for everything, that is also the main reason why the two survived till the end.

The students made different decisions in this situation, some choose to kill themselves, out of pride, like Sakura Ogawa, she threw her bag that contains supplies in the first place, and Kazuhiko Yamamoto(Sakura’s bf), he jumped down the cliff together with Sakura, from the reluctance he had shown in the movie, I suspect he died out of fear and peer pressure from Sakura rather than pride.

Student like Takako Chigusa did not even seem to be affected by the game, she was jogging like how she usually do, but this time, the boy she like was not cycling behind her. She only died when Kazushi Niida, a guy that liked her wanted to have sexual intercourse with her hurt her face, she stabbed him to death and then shot and killed by Mitsuko Souma.

Which we can now move on to my favorite character, Mitsuko Souma. The girl who tired to kill the others from the very start, she did not struggle mentally to kill, she was determined and strong. She was in state of mind for a reason, she was sold to a old man for sex by her own mother when she was still a kid(about 7 to 9?), she did not give in, instead she pushed the man down the floor. This line from her really moved me, ‘You just have to fight for yourself; no one's going to save you. That's just life, right?’.  Also, at the end of the movie, there were this scene where by the boys in the class a are playing basketball, all the others are cheering and having fun, she was into the game and staring at the side. When the game ended, all the classmates where screaming and laughing for the players, but all she do was looking at the crowd with that reluctant look and walked away, she is not used to participate in such activities, she could not blend in, she isolated herself from the others. No one was born to be cruel and strong, it was her tragic pass experience that have shaped her that way. 

Well, the moral of the story may be that, some people who have hope and love in their heart my survive till the end, like Shuya Nanahara and Noriko Nakagawa, even Takako Chigusa, she was completed unaffected till the point she stabbed and killed another person. Kazuhiko Yamamoto died after he found out the true meaning of his gf’s smile, his mission have completed. Some refuse to give in and choose to run away (aka committing suicide) like Sakura and her boyfriend Kazuhiko Yamamoto. Mitsuko Souma and Kazuo Kiriyama was also killed despite being two of the strongest characters, which shows that strength and power does not mean everything.

The teens in the island are like everyone in the society, we are forced to do things we do not like, we have to compromise to situation, even to hurt others to survive.

Generally, this movie is not about how to kill people, but how to survive.

Buildings with funny faces around the city area & Around my house.

So we where in city area last week, found some interesting buildings with weird faces!! Below is some photos taken by me!

Looks like a blank face with round eyes.

Looks like it is smiling

laughing with mouth wide open

Happier than the previous one.

This might be the only sad face I found

Still smiling.

The above two builing looks like the same expression, they looks kind of shy, as if they have rosy cheeks.

Looks like some kind of animal.

Expressionless to me.

Smiling.

Also, I tooke another ten images around my house area that contains "face" in them.

The wall with stains, which looks like tears dropping out of the eyes, full of sad feelings.

The side of my wardrobe, giving a stare that could suck people inside of it.

From the nearby mama shop, some how looks like a cow, a happy and cute one.

Socket, with power on having red eyes, looking surprised.

Dining table, emotionless, robitic eyes.

The stove, does not looked pleased.

The ground under my block, having a shocked look with mouth wide open.

From a stone in my house, having a ghostly feeling that have lots of stories to tell.

The sink in my house, like a person who have not slept for 48hrs, as if there is blood vessels seen in the eyes.

A box from the supermarket below my block, really cute looking, looks like a kid who is very forgetful.

This is all I got, I would say interesting art are all around us, we have to notice them and feel them on ourself.