Name - Squid Game
Released - 2021
Director- Hwang Dong-hyuk
It has taken me a little while, but I finally got around to watching Squid Game on Netflix and I remember the media hype about it at the time and I have to say it lived up to it. It has been one of the best shows I have watched in a long time.
I was really not sure what to expect as usually hyped shows disappoint, but this one I thought was really good for many reasons.
What might at first seem mindless depravity, had actually some good moral lessons to learn in the show and I thought that was really well done.
I cannot watch dubbed shows, so it was also cool to watch in the original language with subtitles This made the show more authentic and you could appreciate it still, even with subtitles.
The show starts of slow as we get to know our main protagonists and you see the dire life situations they have got themselves into. This leads onto one of the first games which was a bit of a shocker if you hadn't heard about it before.
Alok - Let's Play - source
This is the pretty famous game Red Light, Green Light that you can see became quite iconic. The tune by Alok was also pretty cool made with the sample from the game.
The idea of the games was pretty cool and how they had some tragic twists in them was also at times heartbreaking. You even felt at times attached to some of the bad guys being forced to play the game.
However, as the game progresses, you soon quickly realise that the real things to value in life are not inate objects like money, but the people and relationships. Although, a hard situation to be in, the husband and wife team in the marble game was the high point of not believability as why would both join if only 1 could win?!
The super-rich being bored and looking for games is nothing new in film, but it was really well done here and somehow parodied the real world. The sets and use of colors and uniforms were really well done.
The best scene for me was probably the glass bridge game which was just horrific to how they thought of that and how it could work out.
It was also great TV, some of the twists at the end and the bonding of some characters. You could really imagine how you might be in the same situation, but hopefully wouldn't find yourself.
So far there it looks like there will be a season 2 and I will be looking forward to watching it, if the first season was anything to go by.
Have you seen Squid Game?
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