La decima vittima

During out introduction to persuasive games, we learnt about an apparent somewhat popular game simply named "Killer". In Killer you essentially play the role of an assassin whilst also appearing to live a normal life. As a killer you are given basic information on your target to aid you in their whereabouts, however the game may also overlap into real life as the killer you may choose to find your targets location through other means. Essentially the end goal is to be the Killer to be last left alive, or with the most kills.

After our introduction to the game Killer, we began to look at where it may have originated from, we learnt that it had most likely to have derived from a short story by Robert Sheckley, called The Seventh Victim.

After learning a little more on the origin of Killer, we were introduced to a film called La Decima Vittitma, (The Tenth Victim) An Italian film which was based off of  The Seventh Victim by Sheckley.

We watched the entirety of the film from beginning to end, it was an interesting film to say the least and for some odd reason also reminded of The Purge(2013) although they are very different in terms of tone and story direction, they both had one similar premise, the syndication and entertainment of killing, as though murdering is a sport of sorts. That being said, I must admit the plot was slightly more difficult to follow than The Purge, in particular the ending although it was a "twist" of some sort still had me scratching my head by the time the credits had rolled.

Overall the film was quite entertaining and definitely made me laugh at times, even though I'm sure it wasn't the Producer/Director's intention. It was also particularly interesting to find out the Origins of a game that has apparently been played for a few years here now at UCS.