/ent/ - Entertainment

Looks like a Japanese gameshow

Some say it's an allegory of capitalist hell
https://archive.today/2UZWW
>Korea’s extreme inequality is Squid Game’s central theme. In the show, a group of debt-ridden contestants compete in a variety of children’s games, from Red Light, Green Light to the traditional Korean ppopgi, for a chance at 38 billion KRW (Korean Republic Won — about $38 million USD). There’s just one catch — each game is played to the death. Players who fail are killed on the spot, the risk of elimination escalating with each round. Each time a player is killed, additional money is added to the prize pot, displayed in the form of a giant levitating piggy bank in the middle of the players’ dormitory.
>All the while, a group of ultrawealthy global elites observe and delight in the players’ miserable attempts to win the prize money. They gamble on the players’ lives just as the show’s protagonist, Gi-hun, once gambled his way into life-ruining debt — a creative illustration of how society under capitalism operates by two sets of rules, one for the rich and another for the poor.
>What distinguishes Squid Game from other dystopian content like Battle Royale and The Hunger Games is the series’s explicit focus on class and inequality, particularly in the context of modern South Korea. In episode 2 of Squid Game, the characters return to their everyday lives after voting to discontinue the game in the pilot episode — but the grueling conditions of their lives in crushing debt inevitably lure them back. If they are going to suffer under capitalism regardless, they may as well try their hand at the life-altering prize money promised by the game. Evoking the inescapable nature of Hell Joseon, the episode is titled “Hell.”
>Squid Game focuses on Gi-hun, whose gambling addiction and unemployment have left him broke and indebted. He opts into the games in hopes of winning enough money to pay for his dying mother’s medical bills, and to provide for his daughter in an attempt to keep her from moving to the United States with her mother.
>As the series progresses, it’s revealed that Gi-hun’s initial financial troubles trace back to the loss of his job ten years prior. Squid Game writer and director Hwang Dong-hyuk has said that he modeled Gi-hun’s character after the organizers of the 2009 Ssangyong Motors plant strike, which ended in defeat following sustained assaults by police. In flashbacks, we learn that after Gi-hun and a group of his coworkers were laid off, he and his fellow union members barricaded themselves inside the Dragon Motors warehouse overnight. Strikebreakers busted down the doors, beating striking workers with batons. The strikebreakers bludgeoned Gi-hun’s coworker to death before his eyes. As this scene of violent labor repression unfolds, Gi-hun misses the birth of his daughter.
What's up with this laborwoke trend in S. Korean media, like Parasite etc feels like middle class irredentism
>>7774
Yeah, looks cool though but feels like we're living in the same media loop over and over

>>7792
No shit, It's so funny how every global phenomena out of worst korea is how much their capitalist economic system is horrible and sad

Really makes you think, I read the basic plot and it's just too depressing and a little bit too real for me to watch

So I don't have any full knowledge yet on the whole dialectical materialism thing but like the whole base and superstructure thing has one part that relates to entertainment and culture

And with this show being so popular, will it's message have any effect on the psyche of people? like will this grow more anti-capitalist sentiments among the masses?

>>7796
no but it gives insight into the mind of the masses otherwise making such a movie would not have been as popular as it is. This movie's conclusion should not be mistaken for revolutionary media as it may just as easily support collaborationist views such as poverty alleviation programs as an end in itself.

>>7797
>collaborationist views such as poverty alleviation programs as an end in itself
what does this mean
i haven't watched it yet

I lost interest by the 2nd episode even though it did interesting things

But the scene in the first episode with the masked guy pouring drinks was so fucking disturbing, felt like borderline snuff

I could feel the degenerate rich person-ness of that character, I bet it is a rich america who relishes this kind of perversion and created the squid games

I dunno but after finish watching the first season I am not too keen on calling it anti-capitalist or something like that

Maybe I can't pick on subtlety but I feel the show's message and point was all over the place

Like sure, income equality and how the rich see the poor as a not even human is front and center with it, but I don't really know what the show is trying to say about that
This show needs a proper conclusion, It really needs a second season

The VIP episode had me wanting Resurrection Of Stalin, The main thing I came off after watching this series is that I hate the rich even more

>>7803
Also wtf was up with that north korea plotline
that's one of those things that kinda made me doubt it's anti-capitalist sentiments
Like did the creator include that so the south korean censors or whatever don't think the show is too leftist?

along with that episode "A fair world" the villains constantly saying "everything is fair and equal and good here" kinda striked me as unsubtle anti-communist mirroring

i lub squidwarg
squidwarp my beloved

I thought it was a Spongebob movie.

>>7811
NO DON'T WATCH SQUIDWARD'S MOVIE XVID.MP3(2009) hD

It was banned from television for a reason