What kinda headspace do you have to be in to write some shit like Squid Games?
I think about these things a lot. Like how did you get there?
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“survival game” is a whole genre, hunger games is maybe the most famous american example but it’s big in japan eg. goes back at least as far as battle royale but there’s a bunch in anime / manga like liar game. it’s less shocking once you see all the other examples
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It's not that I'm shocked (I've read hunger games & Saw also came to mind). It's that this form of orchestrated horrors is peculiar as opposed to the senselessness that pervades most real-life horrors.
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I'm struggling to describe myself here but these stories are so tightly controlled and almost clean? In a way that just doesn't happen in real life. It feels like an attempt to seize control and ascribe meaning to acts that are still senseless. Like a defense mechanism.
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Ohhh I'll give this a watch!