Netflix restricted Korean drama! The scale explosion is comparable to "Squid Game", and there are all domestic dramas that dare not be filmed!

Sir Movie

2024-05-28 18:30Published in Guangdong film creators

was swiped by another "Internet celebrity Korean drama".

This time it was very controversial.

I like it, and say it blends the essence of "Squid Game" and "Hunger Platform" to create a thrilling social experiment.

Don't like it.

It doesn't deserve to lift shoes for "Squid Game".

Because of these two poles, Sir watched this drama in one go (only 8 episodes).

I found that there are only "Squid Game" and "Hunger Platform", you can also see the shadow of a large number of works such as "Time Planning Bureau", "Gambling Apocalypse", "Alice in the Dying Country", "A Clockwork Orange" and so on.

难不成。

Korean dramas are copied again?

Hold your horses.

If you only see this superficial similarity, I'm afraid, you still underestimate it.

"Dog Huan" new drama:

The 8th show

The 8 Show

01

Hidden rules

Without further ado, let's follow the male protagonist (played by Yoo Junyeol) into this money game.

As with all players who are susceptible to being spotted by the "system".

The actor is a low-educated, low-IQ, and cheated of money, an out-and-out standard wastewood.

In the face of a foreign debt of 900 million won, it is impossible to pay off the money no matter what serious work you can do.

Instead of living in the shadow of debt all day long, it's better to give it a go.

What's more, they give too much.

It's just that when inviting players, each text message will come with 1 million won.

Who isn't impressed by such sincerity?

Thereupon.

Randomly select a room card (the male protagonist chooses the 3rd floor),Open the scarlet curtain,The game officially begins。

How to play?

In a nutshell, just two words:

Taipei.

Not only is there food and shelter, but there is no werewolf-style elimination, and there is no task that must be completed in order to survive.

All you have to do is sleep peacefully in your room.

As long as the game doesn't end, money will always fall from the sky.

Quite a bit of freedom.

Take our male protagonist as an example.

For every minute he lies in this game, 30,000 won will come in, and if he lies down for a full day, it will be 43,200,000 won (equivalent to about 230,000 yuan).

How easy it is.

Are you also like Sir, drooling all over the ground?

But.

The game will naturally not allow you to earn a huge fortune while eating hot pot and singing.

Since the main focus is on a "survival".

Then your daily needs will become a last resort.

It's not.

When the actor was about to sleep, he found that it was too cold, so he decided to buy a blanket.

It was found.

This price is outrageous, it is actually 100 times that of the outside.

Sure enough, there is no such thing as a free lunch.

I want to live.

There is no need for a lot of consumption all the time.

It all takes money.

However, this is not difficult for the actor who has the life experience of the poor.

Thereupon.

He buys a kilogram of waste newspaper, a piece of cardboard.

Sleep peacefully.

So, the essence of this game is an indoor wilderness survival? See who can do more with less?

No, no, no.

Our beautiful player on the 8th floor (played by Qian Yuxi) lives like this:

It's not just like living in a presidential suite.

You can also buy a bathtub casually.

Yes, this is also the most eye-catching setting of this game.

Players are inherently unequal.

Do you remember that the male protagonist chose a 3rd floor at that time?

That's right, it's random.

But the result is very different.

Not only is the floor from low to high, the room area is getting larger and larger, but the hourly rate of the room also increases according to the Chibona number (i.e., 1st floor + 2nd floor = 3rd floor, 2nd floor + 3rd floor = 4th floor, and so on).

But the price of buying things in the room is the same.

In simple terms.

The higher the floor you choose, the more money you can win by lying down, and the lower the floor you choose, the less money you can win by lying down.

How much worse?

34 times.

So the players on the lower floors calculated that they could only buy an empty mineral water bottle for half a day to solve their physiological problems, while the players on the top floor said they could buy the toilet.

Players on the lower floors pinched their fingers to buy the cheapest sleeping bags, while players on the top floors were already lying on comfortable mattresses in silk nightdresses.

What's even more terrifying is that here, you can buy anything, but you can't buy food and water.

12 bottles of water and 12 lunch boxes a day, starting from the 8th floor on time every day.

This means that players on the 8th floor have directly mastered the most important source of life.

When others are hungry and thirsty, the lady on the 8th floor can carefully match today's nutrition and take a bath with the water source that others rely on for survival.

The difference between the poor and the rich is clear at a glance.

What comes to mind?

Yes.

Stratification solidification.

None of us have the right to choose where we come from, and if you are lucky enough to be born into an upper-class family, you will have many more opportunities than others, and if you are unfortunate enough to be born into a low-class family, you will have far fewer opportunities to acquire resources.

It's really not fair.

But what can you do?

Class solidification is a problem that human beings have been unable to solve for thousands of years.

And for these 8 losers.

Will they see much less in the real world than in the game?

No way.

The "birth" I chose, for the sake of money, can only continue to play like this.

02

The Law of the Cow and the Horse

Isn't it "Hunger Platform"?

But if you think that this Korean drama is just imitating "Hunger Platform" and talking about some class issues, then you may also look down on it.

Hierarchy is just the background.

What it really wants to talk about is actually the process of social development.

One keyword: time.

"Time is money."

As mentioned earlier, the remuneration for "lying flat" is calculated by time, and everyone will get a certain amount of money every second, so how long is this time limit?

At first, they thought it was 24 hours.

Once the countdown is over, players will leave with the money they have accumulated in their room.

I didn't expect it.

After the 24 hours were over, suddenly the time increased again, to 24 hours.

Why?

After analysis, it turned out that they had collectively climbed the stairs before the countdown ended.

Meaning, labor in exchange for means of production?

So in the next few days, they climbed the stairs again, and sure enough, the time was extended again.

Looks.

Endless labor is the ultimate answer to increasing wealth.

But here's the thing.

Labor is inevitably accompanied by the need for more food, but what can be done when food is limited?

Hence the social division of labor.

Today Group A, tomorrow Group B.

Today's workers can get more food, they can rest tomorrow after working today, and the enthusiasm for production is also mobilized.

However, the disparity between individuals is also highlighted in the division of labor.

On the 1st floor, which has a leg disease, there is no way to climb the stairs like everyone else, but it has to eat like everyone else.

Discontent began to emerge.

On the first floor, he came up with his own solution, and he would take care of everyone's garbage.

Since it is impossible to provide more value in labor, it is necessary to find another way to undertake more social and public affairs.

The sacrifice of the disadvantaged seems to bring this small society to a state of equilibrium again?

No.

Unexpectedly, after climbing the stairs several times like this, the time suddenly did not increase.

Why?

If we continue to analyze, we will find that what determines whether the time will increase or not is not actually determined by whether or not you work or not.

A detail.

After one of the girls climbed the stairs and caused epilepsy, there was a conflict between the people who wanted to buy medicine to save her, and those who were not in favor of buying the medicine felt that the medicine was very expensive, and buying it was equivalent to using up all the time, and the game was over, and those in favor felt that not treating it would cause brain damage.

The trial of human nature has led to a chaotic group fight.

Unexpectedly, at this time, the time suddenly increased to 40 hours.

And even more outrageous.

After the time increased, the medicine was delivered, but the time remained unchanged for 40 hours.

What's the situation?

It turns out that whether to increase the time, and how much, is not fixed, and the standard for all this depends on the organizers of those programs.

They think, whether they have found fun.

换言之。

The game is actually open to some people in real time through the camera all the time, and if these "viewers" find it interesting, they will "tip" the group of people time, and the amount of time is directly related to the degree of "audience" that they find interesting.

Similar to how you tip a streamer.

So.

If it were you, would you want to end the game early and leave, or extend the time and earn tens of times more astronomical figures?

The latter, of course.

Thereupon.

In order to stay here, they have to "increase productivity" and constantly meet the spiritual needs of the "audience".

For example, a variety of talent shows.

and the increasingly curious "self-made variety show".

Even.

There is also a "physical performance" with no lower limit.

In short, there are various ways to "ask for rewards".

But the problem is that this kind of "mental work" is more likely to reflect the differences between people than physical work.

Just like the current society.

In fact, the level of birth and the level of personal ability cannot be equated.

What to do?

As a result, in order to carry on the game harmoniously and achieve the "win-win" imagined by everyone, a familiar social form has emerged:

Fairness and democracy.

New modes of production have emerged, and the old system no longer corresponds to the status quo of society. It is also unreasonable to let the first floor be responsible for disposing of garbage, and the room on the first floor is already small, and it will not be able to live in it if it continues like this.

A democratic election was born.

With great power comes great responsibility, and the 8th floor, which has the largest room, was elected as the person in charge of garbage.

Okay, the 8th floor verbally agreed, but what about the action?

Not only to fulfill my responsibilities, but I will not even give you the food agreed upon in the past.

The 8th floor is the supreme power in this small society that holds the material source of life.

When you try to make her take more responsibility, you will only double the responsibility and suffer in vain.

After 3 days of water abstinence and fasting.

The person who was forced to accept the tragic fate because of the 8th floor's lack of respect for democracy had to apologize to the 8th floor instead, as if she had caused her to be treated unfairly.

Everyone understands that it's just her luck, but this is the rule and fate, so what can she do?

Under the rules of fate and intangibility, the inferior will never have the ability to oppose the superior, so he can only bear and force himself to be happy.

An absurd democratic election has pierced the mask of the most hypocritical of this small society.

In an already unfair game.

"Democracy" is only a handout for the powerful.

So the next story should be familiar to everyone.

In the famous Stanford prison experiment, the inmates and the guards quickly adapted to their identities, and a third of the guards exhibited genuine sadistic tendencies.

And in the 8-person show in the play.

The "people from the bottom" and the "people from the top" also quickly became familiar with their identities.

Absurd tyrants, liberals seeking equality, hypocritical speculators, and weaklings who failed to take a firm stand led to the defeat of the revolution.

The class game has also entered a white-hot stage.

That's the story.

Do you really think it's just a game?

03

Wake up or pretend to be asleep

"The 8th Show" did not achieve the same high scores as other "battle royale" film and television works.

The main reason for this.

Maybe it's because the show has lost flesh and blood to both the characters and the story after the concept is highly abstracted.

This has led to a lot of bugs.

It's like the characters at the bottom of the food chain in the play: the 1st floor.

As one of the few characters with prehistory, the first floor has a daughter who is seriously ill at home because of poverty, but in the show, he can't feel the first floor's thoughts about his family.

And his obsession with money is only because he has always believed in his heart that if he earns 1 billion won, he can change the floor to the 8th floor.

Pure "profit", lost "love".

However, Sir actually couldn't help but think when he watched it, if it were me, would I really want to participate in such a "lying to win" game?

That's right.

Such a story has been staged in reality, but it is really linked to such an exaggerated money, and Sir is also worried that human nature will hardly stand the test.

For example:

Sir mentioned earlier that this model is actually similar to live broadcasting, and it is similar to all kinds of chaos in the live broadcast market.

As long as it is profitable.

Aren't those who hunt for curiosity, rub the edges, fan the flames, and wantonly smear everywhere?

Swept away a group of people.

Another batch will grow in the corner.

What the?

Doesn't that happen to you?

To know.

Testing human nature is the most dangerous thing in the world.

No one can be rock solid.

Just like in the play, before the conflict of interest is known, the 7th floor, the representative of wisdom, also shows the posture of a messenger of justice who pursues peace and maximizes the interests of all at the beginning.

But in the end.

When he understood the rules of the game, when he gradually adapted to his identity as a superior person, the evil in his heart was completely stimulated.

He was even able to design a game that was even more inhumane than the 8th floor.

Yes.

Greed allows the torment to continue endlessly, and the inferior nature of human beings is magnified and magnified in the space of high stability.

Players in the game have fun torturing each other.

And often forget.

Whether it is the superior who seems to write the rules of the game, or the lower who bottoms out and hits the stone with an egg, they are just clowns for the organizers to have fun.

They are like the invisible hand of fate and the laws of society.

Holding everything high above.

So that there is no need to show up, it is enough to play with the common people like ants.

What to do?

Changing the rules of the world?

Maybe.

This is also the reason why this drama makes many people "unhappy":

The end of the episode.

Our protagonist resolutely smashes the monitor and shoots all the "eyes" staring at him.

Looks like the ultimate rebellion.

But has he really changed?

When the curtain was raised, it was found that such a rebellion not only did no harm to the power itself, but even to the game itself, it was in vain.

And our protagonist.

After the game is over, you still have to return to the real world with the prize money given by the organizer.

Keep going.

That's right, such an ending is cruel.

Under the rule that people do not destroy heaven and earth for themselves, we cannot glimpse the goodwill belonging to people from any role.

There is not even a trace of compassion in sight.

This makes people feel that human power and human emotions are so pale and powerless, and fairness, kindness, and hope are all useless phantoms.

But at the same time.

As a reflection of the real world, we also know where the root of it all is.

Is it those "eyes"?

No.

It should be the person behind the "eyes".

It is not the so-called organizers or cameras that dominate everything, but every anonymous viewer who pursues sensory stimulation, the desires behind them, and the inner projection.

It's also invisible, you, me, and him.

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