I don't attempt to understand human beings. I'd be lucky if I really understand myself and understand the people closest to me.
Ouch, that's intense. >.< I'm surprised how kids are growing up these days.... Where is all this violence coming from? Movies? ;;
^Erm in this extreme case; I don't think so.. More like a case of mental unstability. And I suspect the mother 'might' have had something to do with it.
So more of a poor family background thing? If so, then I kind of agree too. Also, another reason could be that the kid lived near the Osaka area where two of my friends are from.... Let's say it's the Japanese equivilant of Portland (sp?) Street in HK, where lots of gangsters run loose. =(
^Another possibility would be the mother had previously subjected the kid to some kind of mental torture or sth to the point that the kid totally lost it.
babyrain: Hm, that's actually really possible. I've heard that Japanese family relations there can be pretty intense due to traditions and social standings.... Women have virtually no say in the family. Maybe that's why she cracked and did something to her son to receive that conclusion....? Either way, I honestly don't think the kid should've gone so far though.... And the fact that he sounded so unfeeling afterwards is even more scary. =( However there is also another factor to be considered. Where is the dad and what role does he play in all this? Hm.... Very suspicious.... itzd0pey: How does it remind you of that movie? Sorry, I haven't seen it. =(
^Yeah the news didn't mention the dad at all, thus I assumed that the kid had a single parent.. his mom.
Was this in world news or something? Because I don't recall coming across it before now. =( What was the end outcome? Did the kid get sent to juvenille detention or is the case still being heard?
Code: Battle Royale takes place in an alternate timeline - Japan is a police state, known as the Republic of Greater East Asia (大東亜共和国 Dai Tōa Kyōwakoku). Every two years fifty 3rd year junior high (9th grade) classes are chosen to forcibly fight against one another until only one student remains alive. The "Program", as it is known, was supposedly created to aid military research and population control, but it is more likely that it is simply a betting opportunity for high ranking Japanese army officers, or as Sakamochi puts it, to rid the country of trust for one another. The outcome of each battle is later revealed on local television. However, in the film, the "Program" was created to discipline teenagers, who had become out of control delinquents, angry at the adult world. One person discovers that the program is not an experiment at all, but a means of terrorizing the population. In theory, after seeing such atrocities, the people will become paranoid and divided, preventing an organized rebellion. Under the guise of a 'study trip', a group of students from Shiroiwa Junior High School (城岩中学校 Shiroiwa Chūgakkō), a Junior High School in the fictional town of Shiroiwa (in Kagawa Prefecture), are gassed on a bus, only to awaken in a school on an isolated, evacuated island (southwest of Shodoshima, also in the Kagawa Prefecture), wearing metal collars around their necks. After being briefed about the program, the students are issued survival packs (along with a random weapon or a tool) and sent out the island one by one. While some of the students receive guns and knives, many students acquire useless items like boomerangs, some common dartboard darts, and forks. In some cases, instead of a weapon, the student receives a tool; Hiroki Sugimura finds a radar that tracks nearby students, and Toshinori Oda receives a bulletproof vest. To make sure the students obey the rules and kill each other, the metal collars around their necks track their positions, will explode if they linger in a 'Forbidden Zone' or attempt to remove the collars, and listen in on their conversations. The Forbidden Zones are randomly chosen areas of the map that increase in number as time goes on, re-sculpting and shrinking the battlefield and forcing the students to move around, eventually meeting in one small area. [b] The students are also given a time limit. If twenty-four hours pass without someone being killed, then all of the collars will be detonated simultaneously and there will be no winner. It is mentioned that only 0.5% of Programs end in this fashion. (In the film version, this occurs after a total of 3 days have passed since the start of the Battle Royale, regardless of the timing with which people die; this was a change made for the film version.)[/b] In the end, only four students remain: Shuya Nanahara, Noriko Nakagawa, Shogo Kawada, and antagonist Kazuo Kiriyama. There is a car chase and shoot-out between the three main characters and Kazuo. Kazuo is killed. Heeding Kawada's advice to "show no mercy," Shuya and Noriko board a nearby ship and kill the soldiers on board. Kawada succumbs to his wounds and dies, and Shuya and Noriko escape to the mainland, where they become fugitives. well lets just say, =O makes you think theres alot of crazeee ass people in japan loL.
holy shits this makes me scared, to be killed by a family member in your sleep?? and so gruesome, i wonder what happened to him that made him do this
