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Between "The Hunger Games" and "Parasites": "The Squid Game" on Netflix provides a sweeping binge on unhealthy competition
The violent Korean hit series plays on the gap between childish aesthetics and murderous dystopia, and at the same time is a satire on the impossible power relations between rich and poor.
Even if the plot is predictable, the ending is weak and not all the details are sharpened to the end, it is easy and fun to continue for another episode and another
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Nadav Menuhin
Monday, 27 September 2021, 09:05 Updated: 09:13
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Trailer for the series "The Squid Game" (Netflix)
Imagine a story: A privileged, sadistic and nihilistic elite watches for pleasure for the sake of escapism or excitement in a cruel game where people from the lower classes compete with each other to death, with the rules arbitrarily changing as the game progresses.
If you think you've seen it before - you're right: the successful "Hunger Games" series revolves around exactly this idea.
Now a successor has emerged on Netflix that has become a huge global hit: the Korean "Squid Game", which looks like the "Hunger Games" movies met "parasites" - when instead of a parody of an indifferent world addicted to reality as a repression of violent oppression, this time social satire on the impossible power relations Between rich and poor.
And of course: a lot of blood, a lot of dead, and one winner who must decide between the urge to survive and the preservation of humanity.
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If you think you've seen it before, you're right. From "The Squid Game" (Photo: Netflix)
Li Jong Jia is Song Ji Hoon - an unemployed divorcee living with his poor and sick mother, and spending his days with compulsive gambling and with debts he is unable to pay. A random vendor encounter leads him to join a mysterious game along with 455 other people, all in a similar social situation, with the rules explained by gunmen with their faces covered.
The method is sickening: the contestants have to win six childhood games with a twist in exchange for a huge prize, and what turns out only gradually is that the losers pay with their lives, and a bunch of rich, degenerate and indifferent watch and convert for fun on the players' lives. Meanwhile the wretched contestants make alliances, confess to each other and do their best to survive, while others slowly strip their dignity and human photographer. At the same time, a policeman looking for his missing brother manages to infiltrate the compound, and is shocked to discover that not far from the big city an alternative reality is being conducted with completely different laws.
The frame is well made, the details are not sharpened to the end. From "The Squid Game" (Photo: Netflix)
The basis of the madness lies in the gap between childhood games and infantile aesthetics and psychopathic murder, and in the fact that everything revolves around money and classes. In this world, below a certain economic threshold - life is not considered and can be played with; Above a certain threshold everything is allowed to be done. The series emphasizes that in a world with such large gaps it is impossible to really talk about the right to vote or consent, which become empty concepts. This cruel game and the forces behind it can only be resisted to a certain extent.
On the sidelines, it’s hard to ignore the Holocaust images of the “squid game,” a world where life is equal to a garlic peel, people are called by their serial numbers rather than their names, and competitors are burned in ovens after death. The arbitrary, ruthless murder routine, in which it is not known today what form of abuse will take place and what new laws will lead to execution tomorrow, also hints at this. These are almost deliberately crude images, the purpose of which is to emphasize how easily one's dignity and life can be crushed.
The aesthetics are impressive, the violence graphic.
From "The Squid Game" (Photo: Netflix)
Even if we put this discussion aside, "The Squid Game" provides an effective and sweeping binge.
Its concept draws the viewer, the relationships between the characters - the stereotypes though - are interesting and the aesthetics are certainly impressive, even if the violence is quite graphic.
It's easy and fun to move on to another episode and another episode and another episode.
But while the frame is well made, it seems that the small details within it have not been sharpened to the end.
The subplots are weak, various elements are not explained at all (what is really the front story from? Who is the salesman?), The plot is incredibly predictable and the ending is almost embarrassing.
These shortcomings prevent the "squid game" from turning from a fine binge into a significant saga, but even that is quite a bit at all.
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