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<blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 6228900" data-attributes="member: 70"><p>As I said, it's pointless for me to say anything; you've already decided what the truth will be.</p><p></p><p></p><p>And again, I'd take your opinion more seriously if you had actually read or watched <em>The Hunger Games</em>. As it stands, right or wrong, your opinion is uninformed.</p><p></p><p></p><p>That wouldn't surprise me. There often are. What's visible of the outside world in the movie (including the soldiers, the technology, the fashion and culture) appears more or less identical to today. Given that, and the fact that the "battle royale" is broadcast, it would appear to be a dystopian society that utilizes violence as entertainment and propoganda. See also <em>Death Race 2000</em>, <em>Running Man</em>, <em>The Long Walk</em>, etc, etc. For additional (and better) dystopian devaluation of human life and the transition from child to adult, see Kazuo Ishiguro's <em>Never Let Me Go</em>.</p><p></p><p>(Wikipedia says it's 1997 in an alternate timeline. Not sure that there's a significant difference between alternate timeline dystopia and near-future dystopia except that you can handwave a "history" into existence without having to deal with getting from "here" (current day) to "there" (the event). Definitely pushes it further towards SF; might weaken it as a social critique, since you're explicitly no longer dealing with a consequence of "our" society).</p><p></p><p>I thought I might have <em>Battle Royale</em> on my shelves, but it doesn't look like it. I'll think about picking it up. I've seen plenty of used copies for sale.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nellisir, post: 6228900, member: 70"] As I said, it's pointless for me to say anything; you've already decided what the truth will be. And again, I'd take your opinion more seriously if you had actually read or watched [I]The Hunger Games[/I]. As it stands, right or wrong, your opinion is uninformed. That wouldn't surprise me. There often are. What's visible of the outside world in the movie (including the soldiers, the technology, the fashion and culture) appears more or less identical to today. Given that, and the fact that the "battle royale" is broadcast, it would appear to be a dystopian society that utilizes violence as entertainment and propoganda. See also [I]Death Race 2000[/I], [I]Running Man[/I], [I]The Long Walk[/I], etc, etc. For additional (and better) dystopian devaluation of human life and the transition from child to adult, see Kazuo Ishiguro's [I]Never Let Me Go[/I]. (Wikipedia says it's 1997 in an alternate timeline. Not sure that there's a significant difference between alternate timeline dystopia and near-future dystopia except that you can handwave a "history" into existence without having to deal with getting from "here" (current day) to "there" (the event). Definitely pushes it further towards SF; might weaken it as a social critique, since you're explicitly no longer dealing with a consequence of "our" society). I thought I might have [I]Battle Royale[/I] on my shelves, but it doesn't look like it. I'll think about picking it up. I've seen plenty of used copies for sale. [/QUOTE]
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