As far as sociopolitical statements go, you also couldn’t engineer a better strike to the millennial and Gen Z nerves than SquidGame
The premise ofHunger Games
in which class struggle is literalized via a series of trials devised for the downtrodden by the elites. Somewhere off the coast of South Korea, hundreds of people who find themselves on the brink of financial ruin for various reasons have been recruited to play a series of children’s games in order to compete for $45.6 billion won . To lose means getting eliminated, i.e., shot dead on the spot.
Meanwhile, their primary motivations for competing at all stem from their obligations “outside.” Protagonist Seong Gi-hun , is a compulsive gambler whose internal compass remains intact mostly out of shame for neglecting his aging mother and 10-year-old daughter. Kang Sae-byeok is your typical stony badass-ette whose older-sister responsibilities provide dueling undercurrents of rage and resourcefulness.
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