Recently, the Korean drama "Squid Game" produced by Netflix has exploded all over the world.
For a time, various social platforms in China were playing the game of candy.
Every street, everyone's mouth, open mouth and mouth is a sentence "무궁화 꽃이 피었습니다".
But does fire mean excellence? Not necessarily.
"Squid Game" can become a hit, perhaps just a single choice in the current lack of film and television dramas.
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"Squid Game", also known as "Waste Wood Version of Boys and Girls RushIng Forward".
The people who were chosen to participate in this game were desperate and heavily indebted people.
But the end of the game is not a color TV refrigerator, but a huge amount of cash. The eliminated people will not fall into the water, but will die directly.
There are a total of seven games set up in Squid Games.
The first is actually a warm-up before the official game opens – "Playing Picture". The purpose is to screen (lure) entrants.
The game is very simple, Kong Liu does not randomly invite people to play pictures at the subway station, as long as the other party's pictures are overturned, you can win 100,000 won. The loser can give money, or he can use his body to pay off the debt, and he can be slapped with a slap for 100,000 yuan.
After the "picture play" is over, Kong Liu will hand out a game invitation card with contact information written on it.
Most people will willingly bite the bait after tasting the sweetness of making money. It's also a ticket for everyone to enter this game of death.
The contestants are assembled and the game officially begins.
They have to go through a total of six levels, and only if they are all alive can they win the prize money.
The first level is the "one-two-three wooden man" game that is caught by the grimace doll and you will die when you move.
The Wooden Man tests reflexes, and before the game starts, the contestants don't know what elimination means.
So when they found out that someone was really dead, people began to run around, and the sound of gunshots, screams, and blood splashes mixed together, directly causing more than half of the deaths in this game.
The second level is a game of "candy" that can't be cut down and will die.
There are four patterns on the "lime candy", there are four patterns of umbrellas, stars, triangles, and circles, and the contestants must cut out the pattern on the "lime candy" within the specified time, and the tool only has a needle, and the loser is summarily executed.
The third level is a "tug-of-war" game that kills together if you lose.
The tug-of-war is carried out at a high altitude, in groups of ten, and during the game, each hand is locked on a rope, and the losing party will fall directly to death.
But in tug-of-war, physical strength is not an absolute advantage.
The fourth level is a game of "playing marbles" in which a good friend always has one person to die first.
Pinball game in pairs, the person who wins all the marbles of the other side wins.
In the previous group, the team members were cooperative partners. Only in this game, the team members are competitors, and the two people are either you die or I live.
Therefore, the portrayal of human nature in this scene is the most cruel.
The fifth level is the "Glass Bridge" game that luckily does not die.
Half tempered glass, half ordinary glass. Sixteen people lined up for a limited time, and the person at the front of the line died the first, and the protagonist at the end of the line was of course the protagonist.
The last level is a one-on-one "squid game" that only one person can survive.
In a squid-like pattern, it is stipulated that one side attacks and the other side defends, and if the attacking party successfully enters the small space of the squid's head, it is judged to be victorious, and once it is pushed out of the line, it loses.
The simplest game, the cruelest rules.
You can cheat, you can cheat, you can also come to a werewolf to kill direct night knife people, reducing competitors.
The male protagonist fought all the way and finally became the final winner and won a huge prize.
But after a few years, he found out that the game he was playing was just a design game with an audience, and the big boss was actually by his side all the time.
Audiences who are familiar with watching three hundred movies may have a collection of N movies in their minds when they see the plot introduction.
For example, if you are caught playing games in debt, isn't this a one-night gamble of "Gambling Apocalypse"?
However, in the latter setting, the gambler does not burp directly, but becomes an underground slave who works for the chaebol and completely loses his freedom.
The high-altitude balance beam in Gambling Apocalypse is also similar to the glass bridge in this film, and there are also perverted VIPs sitting in rows, excited to watch the death live.
The game of "one-two-three wooden people" played at the beginning is also similar to the "one-two-three-pop ball tumbler" in 2014's "Listen to the Words of the Gods".
For example, the dying old man is actually the big boss, and he actually catches people to play games because he wants to re-understand the setting of life, and the first thing that people think of must be Wen Ziren's "Chainsaw Horror" series.
As for the survival game as the theme of the work is more, 2 Japanese director Fukasaku Shinji in 2000 directed "Battle Royale", can be said to be the originator of this type of film.
Set against the backdrop of rising unemployment, social unrest, and a surge in juvenile delinquency in the new century, adults, fearing that teenagers would lose control, enacted the New Century Education Reform Act in an attempt to control teenagers through a game of survival on a desert island.
In 3 days, 42 middle school students, an isolated island, and a battle royale battle game that can only allow one person to survive are brutally staged.
This bloody killing game heralds the disillusionment of the dreams of youth, but it also becomes a grand and absurd rite of passage of passage.
The "Hunger Games", which became popular all over the world in 2012, was also called the American version of "Battle Royale".
The Hunger Games follows the setting of teenagers forced to kill each other in Battle Royale, and can only survive one person, but the worldviews of the two are completely different.
The Hunger Games is dystopian, more like a modern version of the gladiator story, and has been added to the form of live television, while the violent elements of the film have been weakened to care for young audiences.
There is also last year's Netflix annual drama "Alice at the Time of Death", which can be called a large live-action escape room.
Three waste woods stray into a parallel world, where the whole of Tokyo becomes a killing field, where only by playing games can you survive, and if you lose, you will die.
Therefore, the plot idea of "Squid Game" is not new, this kind of storyline is nothing more than an alternative version of "Truman's World", a game in an overhead world in which the rulers who only cover the sky play with the humanity of the people at the bottom.
To play differently from others in this same setting is nothing more than to improve the fun of the game setting, the bloodiness of the competition, and the test of human nature.
However, judging from the episodes broadcast, "Squid Game" is still slightly flat for these points.
All seven games in Squid Games were inspired by children's games that were popular in Korea in the 1970s and 1980s.
The feature is that it is simple, and even Ah San, who does not know much language, can quickly get started.
Therefore, compared to "Alice at the End of the Day", it does not have much of a sense of puzzle solving in the game.
The role of each level seems to be to eliminate the tool man and secure the protagonist.
The level of play-off also does not require much INTELLIGENCE, mainly relying on the protagonist's aura and luck. This is also where this film has been criticized.
But the director is clever, and he uses stylized styling to make up for the lack of gameplay.
For example, red and green costumes, black masks marked with different patterns, gift box-style coffins, macaron-colored kindergarten playground sets, plus eerie background music...
Even the voice of the prop doll is childish, but her red eyes when she turns around tell you that this is a killing contest.
The contrast between the warm scenes that should remind people of childhood is full of death is more creepy than setting the scene in the city, the gladiatorial arena, and the classroom.
However, as a drama that sells for massacres, its violent and bloody elements are also very general.
Compared with the Japanese-style fierceness of headshots at every turn, the torture and killing of this film can only be regarded as a small and fresh degree.
The characters involved in the game die on a large scale before they have aroused the audience's empathy, and almost all of them are fatal in one hit, and it is difficult to quickly feel the fragility of the passage of life and the ruthlessness of the game's organizers.
Of course, this is probably why it has become popular all over the world, after all, there are not so visually impactful scenes that can be accepted by most audiences who are curious but scared.
Most importantly, as a drama with the theme of testing human nature, the setting of the human test is actually a bit weak here.
It's not like the big evil people in Chainsaw Horror who are all evil, nor are they the good people who are innocently forced to participate in the evil game.
Therefore, the male protagonist did not give up part of himself to learn in the game like Lawrence and Amanda in "Chainsaw Horror" and transformed, nor did he stop at nothing to make the audience sigh at the end and deeply understand the deep meaning of the game creator.
It is difficult for the male protagonist to say that the winning method of lying down and winning in the round is difficult to say that there is any change to himself, and the unreasonable old man can easily make people guess who the big boss is.
The most unbearable thing is the digging operation of the tenth level of this film.
Such as the origin and background of the game staff? Is the sneaking cop dead or alive? Why is Li Bingxian, as a former winner, still working for perverted capitalists?
An important character line has not yet intersected with the protagonist and then directly broken, I am also convinced.
Of course, the original intention of the creation of Squid Games was ambitious. The script director alone took ten years to come up with it.
The cast is also quite luxurious and excellent, with two blockbuster movie emperors from South Korea joining. Kim Min-hee's famous ex-boyfriend Lee Jung-jae.
Song Huiqiao's famous ex-boyfriend Li Bingxian.
There is also the late-blooming acting school Park Hae-so.
Friendship hit the hole liu of soy sauce.
And the temperament of the cold-faced beauty Zheng Haoyan (the P-figure training template of the domestic fire in the first half of the year).
The director is also very honest about his creative intentions:
The most intense game I played as a child was the "Squid Game".
It's just that in the work it's not children, it's adults. I want to symbolically metaphorically refer to the modern competitive society.
As a survival game movie that relies on atmosphere and acting skills, "Squid Games" has achieved really well, and it has set a record for the first time that Korean TV dramas have ranked first in the global Netflix.
However, the drama filmed without grasping the essence of the battle royale game can only be in an embarrassing position of high or low, and the plot of high and low has also disappointed many viewers.
But in any case, when the domestic "Ultraman" was reported and removed from the shelves because of "violent pictures", foreign countries were using childhood games to reflect on the adult world.
Our differences with the world may be self-evident at this moment.
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