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Originally Posted by Scott
preach
in the hunger games the kids kill eachother for the entertainment of the capitol
in battle royale they do it for... idek why they do it nobody is even watching i think its to teach them a lesson or something idgi
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Originally Posted by Niall
Exactly. Thats another thing that really annoyed me in BR. The actual purpose of the game was never explained in full, and the explanation the film's opening gave was shaky at best. It just seemed a bit pointless, random and just an act of random brutality on the part of the government. It had no effect on me really because it didn't seem to have much of a purpose.
But when you read/see THG, and see all the Capitol people revel in the sport of it all, and how those from Districts 1,2 and 4 see participation as an 'honour' then it just makes the games seem so much more sick and grotesque. It highlights the brutality of the Capitol in the fact that the games are there to entertain people.
BR was just virtually random in comparison.
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That's exactly the point of Battle Royale, is that the game is just a random bit of brutality. In the film Battle Royale is something that the government threatens people with to control them since Japan's citizens are out of control. Best way to make someone do what you want them to is to threaten their children. In the book though it's just to entertain the power mad government. The film and book isn't about the why though it's about how the kids react to the situation they're in.