[ SECRET POST #1565 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1565 ⌋

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Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 3 4 - not!secrets ], [ 1 2 3 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 - too big ], [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 - repeat ], [ 1 - ships it ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I love Battle Royale. I don't love it for the writing in the novel, or the art in the manga, or the (imo) sort of failed gory in the movie. I love the characters and the way they're presented and the whole psychological aspect of 'hey, let's stick a bunch of kids on an island, tell them they have to kill each other, and see how they react!' I believe that's why Battle Royale is great - it delves into the human mind and explores why some people are willing to kill others beyond 'lol, fighting for what I think is right!'

Hunger Games doesn't have that. Not even close. I liked the first book because of its similarities to BR. The second one was okay, because I liked the arena ... and that was kind of it. I very nearly didn't finish the third, because Katniss is such a terrible whiny brat, but I'm glad I did - I think the ending was decent enough, anyway. The way Katniss shot the President and how Gale quite possibly killed (gah, can't remember her name - Katniss's sister?) was far from how I expected the series to end (which in a rather typical, happy, YA style >>). A new game for the Capitol's children being brought up was also interesting.

Er, back to my original point - HG doesn't have the character depth that BR has. It doesn't try to, really, and it doesn't need it either - it's just a YA series about a heroine who's thrust head-first into a war. I'm not saying it's not an entertaining read, but I think the direction it goes in is completely different from BR.

/wall of text that probably doesn't even make sense ><;

[jaelinque.livejournal.com]

I love the characters and the way they're presented and the whole psychological aspect of 'hey, let's stick a bunch of kids on an island, tell them they have to kill each other, and see how they react!' I believe that's why Battle Royale is great - it delves into the human mind and explores why some people are willing to kill others beyond 'lol, fighting for what I think is right!'

Really?
I'd say that BR is, if anything, a study in self-justifications people come up with to escape the fact, that their lives and their actions are out of their control, and the only choice they have is to act in a way repulsive to them.
Transforming, if only in their heads, acts, made under inescapable duress, into acts of their free will as a way to somehow avoid the crushing trauma of victimhood.
A nice metaphor for human existence as seen through the lens of determinism (either theological or not), with free will and maybe even consciousness itself as epiphenomena, if you will.

Because "why some people are willing to kill others beyond 'lol, fighting for what I think is right" - that's, like, almost any halfway decent book where anyone kills anyone else ever.