I’ve watched anime before, even so called “dark ones”, but Squid Game is literally on a whole nother level…
Imagine you and everyone else on the forum went on to play a game. You need to have a partner to play it, so you and Captain Nemo decide to team up. Then, it turns out you have to play against the Captain in order to survive, so it’s only one of you guys who will finish the game alive…
Please take an hour of your time and watch this eye-opening Movie documentary… I won’t spoil it as it contains so many hidden gems, the question is… Are you ready to face and understand the society we live in?
Basically Squid Games is like Hunger Games South Korean version with capitalism & social inequality added into the mix.
South Korea has been churning our good content in recent times.
Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite movie (so goood) launched them into global limelight which they really deserve. His other movie Snowpiercer was pretty acclaimed too. All the three movies highlight social problems.
Evil Nate!
lol, saw the underlying resentment but thought there be the redemptive arc everyone else has.
So that was a fun twist.
Perhaps at the end of the last season (said they were only doing 3)
Just re-watched ROME on HBO. What I like most about the series is its commitment to its premise: Rome was different. There’s no out of place character standing up for 21st Century values. The writers make no apologies. This is not the Sopranos where bad men come to understand their own lack of character. Good and bad are not the opposite poles of this series. Instead, the contrasts are between slave and free, honorable and dishonorable, strong and weak, smarter and just smart (but not enough), and friend and anyone who falls short of that mark.
Finished Chernobyl. If all you knew about Russia/USSR pre-collapse came from Tom Clancy novels, you would think a soulless and venal bureaucracy (with just enough exceptions to make a plot move forward) worked to crush ordinary Russians and the other populations of the “near abroad”. Turns out that’s exactly right, but it undersells it. The exceptional bureaucrats did not outmaneuver other power brokers through trickery, but through the courage that comes from accepting the certainty of death. Virtually every hero of Chernobyl has that quality and every villain lacks it. When your faith in humanity occasionally ebbs, watching this series could set you right.