I didn't like squid game. Kinda cool premise that set up for some powerful scenes, but characters consistently made unrealistic choices, surprises felt hamfisted, the villains barely human. I don't get why it's getting such immense praise.
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If you like anime, you should watch Kaiji, it's the same premise but I think it's just better all around
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It’s because according to society. squid games metaphorically depicts society. It’s extreme and metaphorical but the betrayal, suffering, greed, power, the question if people are still good ? Let’s just say looking at the world today people relate idealistically.
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I enjoyed it. But I find a lot of South Korea film/TV is a little ham-fisted with the class allegories. Like US film/TV 30 years or so ago. Preferable to ham-fisted race allegories I guess.
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I liked it. I felt they tried too hard on the main character to keep his "purity" and "goodness" but it was still interesting. I feel like the "realism" you feel it lacks is due to your cultural expectations of what Is around you. Korea is not the same as the US.
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I personally liked this show (and parasite) because it showed a glimpse of how ppl can become so desperate they do really shady shit. It's an exaggeration, of course, but my Korean grandparents did a lot of fucked up things to survive poverty. So this show kinda resonates with me
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About every 15-25 years since the rise of movies American entertainment hits a flat spot so it raids East Asia to dig for new stuff.
East Asian cinema/tv tends to break our rules when it comes to on screen violence & storylines so it feels new to us.
I didn't like it either.
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I thought it was a cool concept that would have been better as a 2 hour movie than a 9 hour series.
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Apparently the English translation of the Korean dialogue was done quite poorly and misses a lot of its richness
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