This is one violent movie. Words cannot express how violent it is. I can't wrap my head around the violence in this movie.
Here we go: premise of this movie is that two groups' of boys from two different schools plane crashed. They ended up stranded on an island. They thought they saw a beast. They wanted to kill it, but to no avail. They ended up-now here's the horrendous part-killing their own. There's also a fat boy who wore glasses. The other group took his glasses to start a fire. They ended up killing Piggy, the fat boy by pushing a boulder in his direction; poor guy didn't even see it coming cos he didn't have his glases on. And he was washed out to shore. Maybe even drowned? Now only the level-headed guy was left. They were after like banshees... until they came face-to-face w/ their rescuers. Hallejah!
My opinion of the movie: I would say outstanding except it wasn't. Well it started fine when Jack with the help of Piggy use teamwork to keep the boys in line.
Then it kinda sorta fell apart when they went on the hunt for the 'beast.' It went crazy beyond crazy. It was out of control. Simon and Jack and Piggy didn't believe there was a 'beast.' When Ralph took over things got out of whack! Ralph turned all the boys into barbarians. Their actions were barbaric, killing anything that moved like Simon who was taking a look at the 'beast.' I realised that they have to take care of themselves, but it's unbelivable how things turned out. In Piggy's case, Ralph never treated Jack and friends nicely. He slapped Piggy on the face, breaking his glasses; he can only see out of one eye. He called him all sorts of names-not nice names too. Piggy was killed by his tribe. I mean, boys can be boys, but this is reducing themselves to murderous little boys. Sad to say, rescue came way, way too late.
Which boy do I like? Well, Ralph for one, but I didn't like how he always bullied Piggy. Ralph was so bold so courageous.... and so deadly. What I didn't like about Ralph is that he denied killing Simon. Even though he said he didn't kill Simon, he wanted to go on and 'kill the beast.'
But you also can't help but like Jack, who's so level-headed. He knew that there's no such thing as the
'beast.' And there's nothing he can do to stop the mayhem that Ralph has created. Even though he was elected as chief in the beginning, no one would listen to him now with Ralph as the new leader of the 'hunters.' And Ralph hated how Jack always sided with Piggy. Ralph's tribe always hunted for food while Jack was given the food by Ralph's cronies.
Lord of the Files is a totally barbaric story about boys who would stop at nothing to attain their mission, which is to 'kill the beast,' their enemy whether it be the strange thing on the island or Jack.
I highly don't recommend this movie.
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