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Personally, I drew many parallels between sword of the Stranger and Battle Royale. The way the plots play out are almost identical. read spoiler for a better explanation of this point of view of mine. and beware of the spoilers. spoiler
The protagonists of both movies are protector/protected groups thrown into a kill-or-be-killed situation against their will. Ultimately, their experience can be seen as a journey, but rather than being a physical location, the goal of the journey is survival. They meet many characters with different goals and motivations along the way, some hostile, some helpful. Finally, it boils down to most actively involved characters dying. What I particularly liked about both these movies, is that the death of almost every important character was directly or indirectly caused by some particular flaw in their personality/outlook on life. One might regard these movies as a sort of parable, which shows, in an overly dramatic, exaggerated way, the explicit and consequent failure of each such faulty character trait/view on life. Ultimately, it encourages purity of intention, altruism, honesty, if not even innocence, as the only characters that survive the severely trying circumstances possess these qualities.
PS: yes, it can be argued that, due to the amount of killing involved, no character can be seen as innocent. That's why I mentioned purity of intention first: if I remember correctly, the protagonists of both movies only kill in self defence, and even then mostly as a last resort. Also, one might argue, some of the characters who died could have been considered innocent, but I'd say that these particular instances illustrate the fault of neutrality: by refusing to fight evil, one is actually helping it, probably unwittingly, but nonetheless, which inevitably leads to evil triumphing over those who don't put up a fight, at the cost of others' lives. Like they nicely put it in the webcomic Order of the Stick: "All that is required for evil to triumph, is for neutral elves to do nothing."spoiler
Gregol
almost 9 years agospoiler
What I particularly liked about both these movies, is that the death of almost every important character was directly or indirectly caused by some particular flaw in their personality/outlook on life. One might regard these movies as a sort of parable, which shows, in an overly dramatic, exaggerated way, the explicit and consequent failure of each such faulty character trait/view on life. Ultimately, it encourages purity of intention, altruism, honesty, if not even innocence, as the only characters that survive the severely trying circumstances possess these qualities.
PS: yes, it can be argued that, due to the amount of killing involved, no character can be seen as innocent. That's why I mentioned purity of intention first: if I remember correctly, the protagonists of both movies only kill in self defence, and even then mostly as a last resort.
Also, one might argue, some of the characters who died could have been considered innocent, but I'd say that these particular instances illustrate the fault of neutrality: by refusing to fight evil, one is actually helping it, probably unwittingly, but nonetheless, which inevitably leads to evil triumphing over those who don't put up a fight, at the cost of others' lives. Like they nicely put it in the webcomic Order of the Stick: "All that is required for evil to triumph, is for neutral elves to do nothing."spoiler