"Squid Games" hit Netflix on September 17, 2021, and has caused a sensation around the world so far, in addition to being the most popular non-English original album on Netflix, it has become the most popular work on Netflix, and it is more than 30 million views away from the second place. After watching "Squid Games", are you interested in this kind of survival game theme? I'll recommend it to you today!
Survival game film and television works have always been the favorite subjects of many people, and the reason why people like this type of theme is based on the sense of stimulation they bring to the moviegoers and enhance the generation of adrenaline. The theme in which the characters must use all their intellect and strength to survive always excites the viewer and can also use their brains to solve puzzles as the play progresses. This year's "Squid Game" has pushed this type of theme to a new high, in addition to a variety of attractive game to break through, the portrayal of human nature in the play is a major attraction.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > Squid Game</h1>
"Squid Games" is directed and written by Hwang Dong-hyuk, his first time directing a Netflix original series. The main story axis of "Squid Game" revolves around the protagonist Sung Ki-hoon (played by Lee Jung-jae), a Neite who lives in ShuangmenDong. Originally a happy family, he became discouraged after experiencing career and family changes, indulged in gambling, horse racing, and owed a bunch of debts. The money that had won was stolen and beaten up by the debt collectors. In such a desperate situation, he receives an invitation from a mysterious man to participate in a rich mystery game. The financial situation is miserable, and the mother's diabetes urgent need for medical expenses makes Cheng Qixun take the initiative to participate in the game. After getting caught up in it, it was discovered that this was a game of survival with 456 participants, and the winners could get up to 45.6 billion won prizes, but the loser had only one way to die. The game levels include six seemingly childlike but ruthless games, including "One Two Three Wooden Man", "Lime Sugar", "Tug of War", "Marble Game", "Stepping Stone Bridge", and "Squid Game".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="22" > The Hunger Games</h1>
The Hunger Games series consists of four films, the first of which was released in 2012 and is based on Susan Collins' novel of the same name, The Hunger Games. The original game has a total of three episodes of "The Hunger Games", "The Hunger Games 2: Burning Girl", and "Hunger Games 3: Mockingbirds", and the film version splits "Hunger Games 3: Mockingbirds" into two episodes and releases. The story is set in a North American dystopian fictional state of the Original Mercy Nation, with twelve districts and governed by President Snow. Every year, each borough sends two "tributes" to participate in the country's annual event, the Hunger Games. The game will be broadcast live on television, where contestants will fight to the death in a venue designed by the so-called game designers, and the winner will be rewarded and famous. The Hunger Games trilogy tells the story of a girl from District 12, Kenneth, who transforms into a "tongue-in-cheek bird" and confronts the capital.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="31" > "Moving Maze"</h1>
Maze Moving is a 2014 diestopian, sci-fi, action, and thriller film based on the 2009 novel of the same name. There are three films in the film, including "Moving Maze" released in 2014, "Moving Maze: Burning Judgment" in 2015, and "Moving Maze 3: Antidote to Death" in 2018. The story is about a 16-year-old boy, Thomas, who wakes up from a rusty elevator and finds himself losing his memory and coming to a place called the Labyrinth. The main story is the story of Thomas and his companions trying to escape the maze and uncover mysteries beyond the maze.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="38" > "Listen to the Words of the Gods."</h1>
Listen to the Words of the Gods is a Japanese film released in 2014, directed by Takashi Miike, with the original by Kim Sung-soyuki and painted by Shinji Fujimura. The story is set in an ordinary high school classroom. In the originally good class, 16-year-old high school student Takahata was as always trying to spend boring time in the classroom, and suddenly a Dharma tumbler appeared on the podium and began to play "one two three wooden people", and the terrible thing was that the eliminated students would directly apologize for their sins, and anyone who violated the rules was the same. Such strange phenomena that cannot be explained by science occur everywhere in Japan without warning and irregularity, and people trapped by games must work hard to break through the levels and pass through the so-called "children of god".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="45" > the Human Eradication Project Series</h1>
The first film was released in 2013, and the first one, with a budget of just $3 million, is a miracle film with low cost and high box office. Even though reviews were mixed at the time, it still achieved quite a good box office result, and has since launched sequels, and this year launched another sequel, "Human Elimination Project 5", which also launched the prequel "Human Elimination Project 4". The story mainly tells that since 2014 into the "new era" of the United States is facing a variety of chaotic situations, so the new ruling party "The Founding Father of the United States" as the new ruling party, co-founded the "Clear Day", this day will be the annual "anarchy" day, all criminal acts will be allowed, the police, hospitals, fire departments will stop serving, everyone will have to survive on their own, spend these 12 hours.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="54" > Alice in the Land of the Dead</h1>
Alice in the Land of the Dead is a 2020 Netflix-released Japanese sci-fi suspense thriller based on The manga of the same name by Aso Haruo, which depicts a group of players trapped in an otherworldly world called "Imaba land" forced to participate in a variety of ruthless games, and the variety and difficulty of the game will be determined by the color of the playing cards. For each game that survives, players are given so-called "visas". Once the visa expires, the player will be executed by a red laser fired from the air. The drama stars Ryohei Arisu, played by Kento Yamazaki, Yuzu leaf of Usaki, played by Taiho Tsuchiya, and Daiyoshi Akira, played by Keita Machida. "Alice in the Land of the Dead" has received high positive reviews for its exciting plot and the horror of bloodshed, and Netflix has officially announced the news of renewing the second season.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="61" > Escape Room</h1>
Released in 2019. The plot depicts six men and women with different identities, including physics college student Jooy, alcoholic youth class, sterilization agent Jason, veteran American Armanda, truck driver Mike, and room escape enthusiast Danny, who also received an invitation letter from Minos Room Games on Thanksgiving Day, inviting them to participate in a room escape game in which the first to escape can get a bonus of 10,000 yuan, but only when they officially began to break through, these six people found out. This so-called escape room game had to gamble your life to escape.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="68" > the Belco Experiment</h1>
The Belco Experiment is a 2016 film about an ordinary skyscraper where many people work to make ends meet. However, one day suddenly a radio broadcast said: "Congratulations on your selection as the subjects of this huge social experiment, and for the rest of the time everyone will use the available items to kill each other, the company has 80 people, only one person can escape..." Under the threat of such a horrific statement, how will the people in the office react, and how many secrets are hidden in the seemingly peaceful and harmonious office? Who is behind this horrific social experiment? Although the evaluation of this movie is different, if you are a moviegoer who likes the genre of survival games, you will definitely like this one, the plot not only contains the killing scenes necessary for general survival game films, but also its portrayal of the darkness of human nature is not lost to the previous works!
These are a few survival game works, including albums and film genres, and produced in different countries, but they all have a characteristic, that is, a profound depiction of the darkness of human nature and survival. "A mistake into a thousand ancient hatred", in these games as long as one careless, the loss is not only the game's win or loss, but their own precious life!
I believe that after watching "Squid Game", if you want to see more works of this type, you can have more choices after reading today's article!