MaliA wrote:
Mimi wrote:
Grim... wrote:
The latter. If it was the former they probably shouldn't go looking for more stuff like it.
I wasn’t sure if you meant in a ‘well, if they thought
that was bad then they should should see some of
this stuff!’ kind of way.
Not anime, but it reminded me of what I remember of Battle Royale. I guess you found say Hunger Games too, but the psychology seemed closer to the ideas in Battle Royale.
I probably need a rewatch, but I didn't think much of Battle Royale at all at the time.
I rewatched it today as I’m not feeling too good and so put it on, and I think it still stands up to what I remember, and it’s a good film. The lead-in doesn’t seem to make much sense (it’s an annual ‘competition’, seemingly held by the Government, yet none of the kids seem to have ever heard of it and the whole thing just happens to be overseen by their old teacher), but I think the students’ characters are developed enough in their individual motivations and way they deal with the situation. I still think it’s a great film.
IMDB Movies is odd. There are very short ad breaks, but it’s like they’ve been put in at random, in the very middle of scenes. It would get I. The way if you were watching something where you had to give it some concentration.