La Decima Vittima

The 10^th Victim – La Decima Vittima

We were asked to look at the film “The 10^th Victim” - an older film (1965) which, while not directly about gaming in general, is about a scenario that is basically a game of survival and would make a pretty awesome game by today’s standards.

So the film is basically about a game of survival, known as the Big Hunt, a ten round game where participants can be the hunted or the hunter. The player – sorry, participants go through five rounds as prey and five as the hunter and at the end of it all they earn wealth and fame (as long as they survive and depending on how many killed they get). So the hunters get large weapons like shotguns (set in the future but weapons look pretty similar: nit-picking) and the hunted get whatever they can get their hands on.

So this sounds pretty much like a computer game already, but the difference is that the 10^th victim is all about actual people going in and a killin’ (by the way, the 10^th victim is a reference to one of the main characters who has killed 9 people so far and is looking for her tenth kill and said victim is a guy and they fall in love and blah blah blah). The film reminds me very much of the Hunger Games type of scenario and it led me to think that the film GAMER is based off of this concept as well.

Anyway, so this film is basically what gamers like to see – the ol’ prey verses predator, and we like see ourselves in this situation and show how’d we’d deal with it, although for most gamers it’s more of a zombies verses prey but you get the idea.

At the end of the day, fun film but it defiantly shows its age. Also the romance plot actually does make you think about how hard it is to kill and shows us the real drama, though again in an older cheesier way. I’d like to see a remake or if there is one and I watched the older film … well I’m wiser for the experience.