La Decima Vittima/The 10th Victim (Spoilers ....Duh)

Adding to my previous blog post about Pervasive Games I would like to talk about the film La Decima Vittima or to you and me The 10th Victim.

Now this film is probably the inspiration for the game that I was talking about in the blog that I have mentioned and that game is Killer/Assassin. The reason I say that this could possibly be the inspiration is because the film is essentially a game of Killer/Assassin that is used to avoid big wars as it allows players to kill legally in the "Big Hunt" which is considered a form of entertainment in the film, the aim of the game in the film is to survive ten round of the big hunt, these rounds consist of five rounds of being a hunter and five rounds of being the victim, whoever survives all ten rounds is the winner and receive a large sum of money and can retire.

There are rules that are to be followed in the film just like the game that people play today, like there are certain areas where players are not allowed to kill unless they have permission from the owner of the establishment.

The film follows Caroline Meredith a huntress looking for her tenth victim, who happens to be Marcello Poletti, Caroline knows who she has to hunt and knows what he looks like and where to find him, she gets this information because of her sponsors who are using her in an advert for their product, Marcello however has no idea what his hunter looks like or if they are even male or female, all he knows is that he is being hunted.

In the film things get complicated because Marcello figures out that Caroline is more than likely there to kill him however he can't bring himself to kill her before she can him because he starts to fall in love with her. Well in the end it turns out that the feeling is mutual, she helps him fake his death and just as you think everything is going to be good, he shoots her, she comes back surviving the shot due to a really good bullet proof vest, just as you think it's all over the make an escape together from Marcello's crazy ex wife (who I completely forgot about).

I guess I strayed from the point of this blog a little, I was going to use it to make the connection between the game played today Killer/Assassin and the film, but the film was just that bad that it was actually rather good, not that I recommend you go and buy it but if you see it on Netflix then give it at watch you might be surprised.