While madness Squid Games As MaG is taking over the entire planet, the reasons for the flash success of this new series calibrated for Netflix. Squid Games is carried out by Hwang Dong-hyeok and comes directly from South Korea, a country that has enjoyed some international dynamism in recent years. After Parasite that highlighted the gap between the poor and the rich, well isolated in their villas, Squid Games proposes a personal reading of the Battle Royale morning class struggle. There is also the same main actor Song Kang-hoThis time camped in the role of the sweet peas. The topos is simple. 456 overindebted, ruined, are recruited for a game where they will have to face willingly to pull the grelot: 45.6 billion won (32.5 million euros) to the key!
« I wanted to live, not be a loser anymore, and I failed »
The fashion of Battle Royale in the video game (since PUBG, Warzone or Fortnite) as in cinema (with Hunger Games well before him, Battle Royale who will give his name to the genre). Suffice it to say that the aesthetics of the video game was all found for the series, while it has long been used to an ever more fierce competition between players sometimes going so far as to fight 200 hard on the same card, where death is guaranteed without return in most cases. The final sign of the relationship with the media, the tenants who ensure compliance with the rules wear combinations in a way Casa de Papel with a kind of helmet, with a front, a cross, a triangle or a round as a face, like the keys of a controller playstation. These jailers even remind the hero of Ruin, while the top VIP ranks evoke animal masks of Hot Line Miami. Finally, the test-tested episodic structure recalls the dungeons or worlds of a video game, each time with a theme playful and a different visual identity. It must be noted that the concept of Battle Royale has beautiful days ahead of him.
By exposing the despair of its participants, Squid Games questions about our limits. How far are we ready to go to regain our social dignity? Because, here, it's all about debts. In the eyes of the wealthy, these poor have a societal debt. They either engaged in gambling or could not profit from their intelligence, which is according to the neoliberal belief of the runaway business of will first of all said... Precipitous in this game life-size where a part of a two-three sun quickly turns into a hecatombe, they cover a form of freedom that was previously confiscated from them. The choice or abandonment of the game, which can stop at any time by vote of the majority of the participants. A breath of democracy in the midst of unfair rules, where it is paradoxically often the chance that prevails over intelligence.
« This is hell. What are the rules in hell? »
Like the big lottery of the modern world, some manage to cheat and have hints and advantages upstream. Killing your neighbour is not prohibited and the physical and amoral predisposition of the most determined is indirectly encouraged. It is difficult to decide at the end of this first season where the motivations behind the creation of the Squid Games and its purpose are only sketched. If the first clues do not harm the credit of the series, we can still legitimately wonder if it will not end in muddy water with, hopefully, something other than Manichean clichés on rich ones who bore and have the nostalgia of the ancient arenas.
In a recent Article The daily newspaper recalls how much the series Squid Games is closer than there seems to be the despair of a part of the South Korean population, particularly affected by the wealth gap, so much so that the infamous Seoul death bridge would have 800 suicide victims this year, the majority for debt overhang. « Hell is outside » As one of the participants rightly points out, without any real knowledge of whether he shows dementia or lucidity, while his companions wish to put an end to the death adventure.
« You don't trust people here because you can. You do it because you have no one else. »
Mirror of wild neocapitalism, where there is only the chance left to the least endowed or the constitution of opportunistic alliances, Squid Games is a cynical work that, by trivializing death through its childish aesthetics, recalls how dehumanized the world is and disembodied life. Dying at the big Russian roulette is only a matter of a handful of seconds in these unbalanced games. We will not reveal the trials to preserve the surprise, but one of them with windows that can yield at any moment is the acclaimed point of injustice. If the structure Squid Games This also results from a combination of effective actors, although psychological archetypes are a little too rigid and predictable. While waiting for season 2, there's more than just to cross your fingers so that the series can wisely invest the course it has chosen! Wigs only when the ditch becomes abyss between the 1% and the others, the series has beautiful days ahead.
« You can use your body to pay. »
This year again, in South Korea « the 20% highest wages were 166 times higher than the 20% lowest, a disparity that has doubled since 2017 » Reminds the World. Heavily indebted people even came to dial a phone number assigned to Squid Game, believing they would join the game organizers, to participate. In reality the real owner of the number, Kim Gil-young, had nothing to do with the hoax. An anecdote that tells a lot about the state of despair of the poorest. Isn't the body itself a commodity when, at the death of one of the participants, the urn fills with green notes with a slot music? By becoming against all expectations, the most viewed series in Netflix's history, the crown of Squid Games is a success story Inversely proportional to the chances of its participants, delivered to the wheel of the unfortunate!
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