There’s something I love about the Japanese culture in its attitude toward childhood. I’m not talking about the mass hysteria of pedophilia. I am talking about the idea that a person’s life is decided by the actions he or she takes in youth. High schoolers go through all sorts of hell in cartoons, comics, and movies. It’s just a reoccurring theme of boys becoming men and girls becoming women.
Just got a call from Red Cross. Girl sounded cute.
Back to the action!
Battle Royale starts out as a non-stop joyride of dramatic death! I saw the stereotypes: the romantically driven hero and heroine, the war-wise veteran, the homicidal maniac, the cold-hearted bitch… and I fucking loved it!
Until the end. I should’ve stopped watching at a point when the plot twisted. I totally saw it coming, and immediately after, I knew that it wasn’t over, and I kicked myself pretty damn hard, because everything after that predictable “twist” was irrevocable shit. Fuck that ending.
It was good, though, watch it. It shall be my figurehead of my notion of “trash culture”.
If underage Japanese girls turn you on, you should be forced to watch them die horribly at the hands of the people who care most about them. Call me sadistic, but it’s the kind of erotic thrill I can also get by watching beautiful, innocent young women being eaten alive in zombie movies. Have you read American Psycho? The movie was great, but Bret Easton Ellis really knew what kind of horrible deaths could rev me up.
How can I possibly say these things? I’m a humanist and I love women!
Well, we can’t always keep our erotic interests locked in a box. How many have I found within myself? Jesus, more than I can count.
Cannibal Holocaust was really the one that made me reexamine my approach to all of this. It made me so sick.
I started going into a strange direction with this.
No real… plans for this. I didn’t put down any ideas beforehand, and I just started typing immediately after watching, so who the fuck could guess what would get put down?
I wonder how old that woman working with Red Cross is.
