Battle Royale: Issues Afflicting Modern Society

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In the film, "Battle Royale" directed by Kinji Fukasaku, Fukasakus film addresses the concerns about issues afflicting modern society. In the beginning of the movie, each student is picked at random as well as each is given a bag with randomly selected weapons and thrown to wolves to fend for themselves. The Battle as a whole represents the competitive atmosphere in which young people are made to fight to acquire placement in prominent schools and eventual profession, which is what the director intended for the audience to see at first. However, when actually analyzing the film I believe that the weapons given to the students were given randomly to represent each student's ability to take what they have and make the best out of it. The world

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