Could you kill your best friend?
This film really is one of the weirdest, eeriest and surrealist things I've ever seen. The premise follows a class of Japanes schoolchildren who are chosen at random to take part in the government's new scheme for dealing with delinquent school kids - The Battle Royale Scheme.
What happens is very simple, the children are stranded on a remote desert island with only a small amount of food and water and one weapon each. Oh and just one more thing - they have three days to fight to death and kill each other, because there can only be one winner, and that is the person who survives. Which brings them to the gastly question - 'Could you kill your best friend to survive?' You'd be surprised. And there is no way out of this game, because if there is more than one survivor left after the three days then the electronic necklaces that each school child is wearing will automatically explode.
This film is shocking and brutal but I also love the idea, which is creepily interspersed with classical music throughout, and the lengths that some of the children will go to to stay together, or stay alive.
An ingenius and brilliantly acted film, showing exactly how far some film makers will go to show what is wrong with our society.
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