La Decima Vittima

La Decima Vittima is a film based around a fictional reality in which killing is the game and anyone could be playing. The game focuses around a world that treats killing like a competition, a gracious sport to reward the victors in. The game bares similarities to more recent films such as 'The Hunger Games' and I also felt there were fair similarities to an Asian movie called 'Battle Royale'. The winner of the event becomes some what of a hero amongst the world; a glorified celebrity. The film clearly aims to raise questions amongst society and force generations to question how different this reality is from our own. While we may not condone killing, it soon becomes clear that the underlying message of this film is in relation to the way in which we compete with each other in every day life, sometimes to the point of near death. The costs are obviously higher in this movie and the human nature is bewildering in some cases. I thought about it from a historical point of view though, and what I came to realise is that this was simply a modernised version of the Roman coliseum battles. 

The game sparked a lot of controversy around its time; it not only aggroed certain groups of people, but it also inspired others. While some people shunned the film as condoning violence, others chose to perceive the game as a bible for a world in which to immerse themselves; and thus was born 'Assassin' a game in which the 'players' enact themselves within the real world to eliminate their opponent in a mock assassination of one kind or another. Everyone is assigned a target and everyone is a target, it's defined as a pervasive game; games that take place across several media; also known sometimes as transmedia or alternate reality games. Simply put; it's a game played in real life. The essential ideology behind the game is that all humans are out to win, and that games are an instinctive part of life, and in some cases are life.