Le Decima Vittima is a film based on an "alternative future" where people can enter a competition where the objective is to assassinate your given victim without being assassinated yourself. While assassinating your target or counter assassinating your assassin is treated as normal, if you assassinate the wrong person, you will be put in jail (As per regular murder laws in these times).
The film follows 2 characters. Marcello Poletti, and the person who is trying to assassinate him, Caroline Meredith. As the film progresses, they gradually fall in love, with Caroline being conflicted whether she should kill him or not, and Marcello wondering if she is his assassin or not.
As the film was made in 1965, the graphics are obviously not up to par with today's visuals. However, this is one of the few flaws i found with the film. For me, the film was a great watch, if only because of the amount of moments that i found extremely amusing. For example, at one point, Caroline decided to transport a sleeping Marcello in a tent onto a truck using a giant crane, so she can assassinate him for a TV commercial. The sheer impracticality, and the fact he somehow didn't wake up during it, just added to the general amusement of the whole film.
On a related note, this film has been adapted to be played in real life, commonly referred to as Assassin or Killer. The principle is exactly the same, though instead of real weapons, various non-lethal objects must be used to "murder" your target, like Nerf guns and wooden spoons.
After finding out about this, I arranged for a group of people on the course to take part in a game. After setting the general rules of the game, as well as what weapons would be allowed, I got my friend to assign each player with a starting target, and if they assassinated this target, they would obtain their target for their next assassination. The last person standing would be the winner.
The game took just over 2 weeks to finish, with a total of 11 people lying dead in various places, with the final winner being none other than myself. The majority of the people were assassinated within the first week of the game, with only 5 people making it to the second week.
All in all, it was great fun and I am currently in the process of creating another round of Assassin as i write this.
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