An important announcement

I feel the need to share with you exactly why Battle Royale is an incredible film. But first, an overview:

A class of schoolkids is taken to a remote island and ordered to fight to the death in order for the last remaining student to be named the victor.

(Sound familiar?

Yeah well BR was published in 1999 and the film in 2000 so yeah.)

Here is a concise list of reasons why it is necessary for you to watch Battle Royale as soon as is humanly possible:

1. It's the best way I've spent four hours of my time in the last week (yeah, I've just finished watching it for the second time shh);
2. It's brilliant for being brilliant; incredible story, funny in places, touching, brutal, engaging, heartbreaking, horrifying, every other adjective that I wish I was awake enough to attribute to it;
3. It's brilliant, for all the ways it's brilliant as well as all the ways it's shit. The hilarious way all the deaths are conveniently timed ("Thank... you... *dies*" makes numerous appearances) and the questionable acting both spring to mind;
4. Kazuo Kiriyama, a deranged, emotionless, violent psychopath, is the best-looking Asian redhead I believe I have ever seen. (And I've spent a lot of my life pining for a certain video game fighter. Called Hwoarang.)

Hey look, it's everyone's favourite psychopath.

Aaaand it's late, my eyes keep gumming together and I just want to retreat into my little dreamworld where I can hang out with Shuya and Noriko and Hwoarang. 

Oh God when did I become one of those people