What's the hottest drama lately? That must be none other than Korean drama ⟪squid game⟫.
Since its release two weeks ago, this suspense thriller series has become the strongest ratings champion in history and is a topic of talk that many people talk about. I also fell into the pit at the recommendation of my friends. After sending the baby to school every day, rush home to chase the drama.
Although dramas with such themes as "Squid Game" are not uncommon, their impactful visual scenes, empathetic character settings, profound and uncomfortable analysis of human nature, and tense and depressing plots are so overwhelming that this drama has won the admiration of many audiences. The setting is a bit similar to Truman's World, but it's an illusory world, a world full of blood and killing.
In Squid Games, 456 players who are desperate due to debt are lured into a bloodthirsty survival game. If they win the six rounds, they will receive a prize of 45.6 billion won ($39 million). The plot stimulates each other, many details are ironic and innuendo, and carefully thinking about it, this is a gladiatorial arena of human nature, the source of evil is money, and the naked human nature that is magnified has to win except to lose.
One-two-three wooden people, sugar cakes, tug-of-war, marbles, guessing glass, squid games, seemingly familiar to childhood games, full of childlike fun, but here it has evolved into a terrifying killing game. Before each game no one knows what it will be, and after the allotted time begins, everyone is desperate to win, because losing means dying, and dying means accumulating more prize money for those who are alive. In this environment, the darkest side of human nature is exposed, and the killing begins.
For example, in this one-two-three wooden man game, all have to rush to the finish line within the specified time, but when the big puppet looks back, everyone must stay still in place, and once they scan someone to move, they will be shot immediately.
This staircase scene is not very kawaii, this is every time the game starts, everyone queues up to enter the passage, the childlike fun and the bloody contrast that is about to start is not too strong, think about it very scary.
Out of respect for people who have not seen the show, there are not too many spoilers. Although I have a cautious attitude towards suspense and thrillers, it is also worth spending some time on it than those brainless idol dramas and hand-torn ghost dramas.