"When they go back, they will find that their lives are more like hell than this game," is what the old man who planned the game said.
Nowadays, "Squid Game" can be described as a fire all over the Internet, and this "battle royale" Korean drama produced by Netflix has swept the world once it was released, and now it maintains extraordinary popularity in China.
The series tells the story of 456 selected people who together participated in a game of life and death, and in the end only one person survived, receiving 45.6 billion prize money and becoming the biggest winner.
The games we participated in were very simple, one,two or three wooden men, tug-of-war, marbles, etc., all of which were games we played when we were children. But the punishment behind it is very cruel, and if you lose the game, you will be killed.
The reason why the TV series is so popular, in addition to the tense and exciting plot, it also reflects the good and evil of human nature to the fullest, so that people can get some insights from the TV series while they are addicted.
The most hidden in the TV series is undoubtedly the old man who participates in the game, he looks weak and windy, and he also suffers from Alzheimer's disease. In fact, everything is pretended by him, and he is the manager of the game.
After the first game, the organizers gave them a choice to give up four hundred and fifty-six billion and go back to their lives so they could all survive.
But these people are all quite poor people in real life, every family has a difficult scripture, some people are owed wages, they don't even have money to go home, and some people owe a considerable gambling debt. If they were brought back to reality, what they would have suffered would not necessarily be much better than dying in the game.
So the organizers launched a vote to let them choose not to participate in the subsequent game, and in line with the principle of minority obeying the majority, the final vote was fixed at one hundred to one hundred. The last vote came to the old man, who thought twice and decided to bet the vote on the abandonment.
In this way, two hundred people regained their freedom and returned to real life.
Here's a question, the old man obviously prefers the game to continue, why should he give up the votes instead of choosing to continue the game? Quite simply, there are three main reasons.
For these people, reality is more like hell than games
The old man is a lot of managers of the game, has seen a variety of contestants, the vast majority of them can do whatever it takes to win, which can be said to show the evil side of human nature to the fullest.
The old man clearly enjoyed this, and he knew that for these people, reality was more like hell than a game. Although some people choose to give up, they will eventually return to the game.
Holding such a game, the old man obviously likes to play with human nature very much, plus he is terminally ill, and time is running out, so he wants to get more fun from this game and see more of human nature.
Second, set up a person to deceive the protagonist
In the game, the old man is very interested in the male protagonist Qixun, who has his own bottom line in this game. Although he may not necessarily help others, he will certainly not harm others.
Qi Xun is not a bad person, he will celebrate his daughter's birthday, and he will also distribute the fish to stray cats on the side of the road, which shows that he is not bad in nature, but he likes to gamble and owes a huge gambling debt.
In this game, Qi Xun helped many people, including the old man, which aroused the old man's interest. After all, in this game, ninety-nine percent of the people will do whatever it takes to win.
In the game where you lose and you will die, there are people who will keep a trace of kindness in your heart, which makes the old man have a little good feeling for Qixun. In order to be able to continue to observe, the old man must be good for his kind and senile dementia personality, so that the male protagonist Qi Xun believes in himself.
Third, the idea of the TV series can better reflect human nature
Let's imagine if the old man had voted for the continuation of the game, a game in which four hundred and fifty-six people would have been forced to accept the organizers' request and "fight" each other.
Although this can reflect the evil of human nature, it is inevitably too monotonous, after all, they are forced to fight and do bad things under the pressure of being forced, so some people will think that they are not so natural.
But if they are allowed to leave on their own and come back, then the game will become voluntary, and all the evil deeds they have done are their own choices, and no one will force them.
This can better reflect the evil that people show in human nature when they are faced with interests.
But showing negativity is definitely not the intention of this TV series, even if he is in a desperate situation, the male protagonist Qixun still maintains the kindness in his heart and shows a glimmer of brilliance in the darkness. And it was such a person who won the final victory and received a prize of 45.6 billion.
Therefore, the TV series is just a negative story to set off the brilliance of human nature, but at least it is a positive energy TV series.
Even in the end, the male protagonist wins, but he still lives in the self-blame of killing people, and even his own mother does not dare to recognize him.
It can be seen that the story of shaping evil is unavoidable, and reflecting the good in human nature is the true intention of this TV series.
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