Refurbished Mayans when met with Roman’s Bread & Circus.
Holy Wars of Thousand Years remade as Maze Runner Chapters or Predators.
Apocalypto’s physical agony when coated with today’s Corporate mental torment or Leftists poverty porn seduction.
The SAW ‘s franchise made in Series for Netflix.
When Bezos endorsed it, then the above analogies were confirmed.
What’s Squid Game? It’s basically Hunger Games transformation with more blood & butchering. Or Race against Time with instead of trying to save the World or Wife or Love or Kids; playing life threating games to make Money; whilst Entertaining the Antagonists, at the same time.
A team of destitute people entertaining the well-settled ones by metaphorically playing Korean famous game wherein the elimination means the elimination of body & soul itself. Whether Communists or Leftists or Conservative or Liberal or Illiterates or on Paper Qualified; herein all ideologies & backgrounds meet; Being as players or spectators or recruiters or facilitators. Objective is either to bet on players (gambling) or to play the games (made for the destitute), whilst staying alive by either winning the game or killing competitors; & win billions in money as the final prize, to be then metaphorically considered as Maximus Decimus Meridius.
Of course, one would be riveted as an audience. And what else is the purpose of audience since Bread & Circus? To be always riveted to get entertained!
The above review elucidates what one would expect in Squid Games.
Tell the truth but tell it slant. 😊
And no doubt, the main protagonist Lee Jung-Jae is terrific in his performance. And so as Hoyeon Jung.
A good watch.
© Pranav Chaturvedi
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