Poor Piggy!

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Yep, he was a victim. I also felt sorry for him, cuz that's what happens to chubby kids in real life.

I kind of saw it coming. I knew from word of mouth that a kid gets killed in the movie but never knew exactly who and then when they kill Simon I thought it was just him. But at the beginning I remember seeing Piggy and thinking, "either he gets killed or he goes freako and kills Jack or something." Piggy was annoying but I was upset at his death. Not necessarily because he didn't bug me but I almost thought his speech was getting through to some of them and then when the drop the rock there was just this total feeling of complete madness and barbarism. Like at first they were just a bunch of kids acting like barbarians but not actually capable of truly terrible acts, and then suddenly they were barbarians and you couldn't tell what they would do. Although personally, I thought a better ending would have been Ralph going all Rambo and sneaking into the camp at night and slitting Jack's throat and then declaring himself chief of The Hunter's or something like that. Of course that's just my inner barbarian speaking

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Simon's death was bad enough but when they kill Piggy, that was the real "Oh ****" moment!

Dude he got kicked to the curb in this! that was a cruel death for sure.

When we saw this movie at school, all of my classmates laughed out loud when they killed Piggy.

I had sympathy for Piggy, not only because I was bullied in class myself (since I was the smart kid), but also because he, despite all of his highpitched irritating voice and know-it-all attitude, he still was acting rational in the sense that he was keeping his personal fear in check and tried to act on the challenges they were facing by using the knowledges he had, however unusable some of it seemed.

However, once he dies, everybody in my class laughs. I asked some of my classmates why they were laughing at his death, and the reply was, that they thought the special effect of the rock hitting him was badly made. Laughably so. Besides, none of them liked Piggy and they thought it was fine that he died.

It sort of hit me at the time, that their reaction was very much in line with the point of the story. I know exactly who in my class would have been Jack.

Yes, what happened to Piggy was sad. However I find it surprising that a young man with such poor eyesight should have been admitted to a military academy - but I suppose this is necessary for the story. This is an excellent movie and it deserves a mark of nine out of ten.