Roblox
This series was not at all the quality I came to expect after playing multiple squid games games in roblox (hexa game, red light, green light, fish game, squid game). The quality of those roblox games were much higher then the show itself, that is precisely why I suggest everyone reading this review to simply play the roblox games instead of wathing this show on netflix (it is not as good). That is all for this review folks. Hope you learned something. Like and Follow for more. Also roblox is very cool (not sponsored=Esta resenha foi útil para você?
great cast, eerie story
As someone who's a big fan of Alice in Borderland, this genre suite my taste perfectly. It's so eerie in a nonchalant way, how each individual factor of the cinematography contributes to the unsettling mood. The music fit in so perfectly, I'm honestly such a big fan.As mentioned in some other reviews, it started off strong and caught my attention however the ending and last few games felt too fast. The ending becomes more and more expected after the halfway mark--which makes it less climatic as it could be. (which doesn't really do some of the characters justice)
On the bright side, the casting is absolutely amazing; I was highkey cringing at the VIPs' acting,,,that english and the things they said were so cringey I would rather have them be Asian people or just Korean. The main casting was really great, I'm glad they didn't decide to cast anyone who was super well known or the go-to norm popular actors/actresses. Seeing new faces (some of them were, at least) was really refreshing :) Also i love how we're seeing more of Wi Hajun these days;; he's very eye candy and gives such manly vibes; i support LOL
This series really makes you question your morals and how you would react if you placed yourself in their shoes... the human instinct and selfishness is very complicated; so I couldn't exactly say I hated any of the characters for acting the way they did (ahem sangwoo smh).
All in all, Squid Game was incredibly good, I'd certainly like to see more of it. The cinematography is beautiful (they understood the assignment alright), the music was such a great contribution, and the casting was the icing on the cake. Great film overall, I highly recommend watching!
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Willie Wonka Run Amok
Oh that beloved Willie Wonka, inviting kids on a great adventure in a colorful, magical playland with the promise of a wonderful lifetime prize! And if terrible things happen to the other kids, does that stop the fun? Does everyone insist they be allowed to leave immediately? Do the parents resort to violence to save their children from a possibly terrible fate? Why no! There's a prize to be won and the terrible fate is only possible, not certain. Besides it's the other guy who's most likely to lose.And thus, Hwang Dong Hyuk pays homage to a treasured children's tale and turns it into a gory story about beleaguered, debt-ridden adults in Nightmare Joseon who receive a golden ticket (actually a business card, because, you know, adults) to play in a game that could forever change their lives. Like the kids at the Chocolate Factory, the Squid Game contestants sign a contract with murky fine print and the fun begins. It doesn't take long, however, for the players to stop playing against the house and start playing against (and preying on) each other. After all, the rich and powerful can never be rich and powerful enough to allow the unwashed masses play against them indefinitely. By sheer numbers alone, the unwashed would eventually become the conquerors. In order for the rich to continue to win, they have to ensure that the masses turn on each other. And the masses do. They always do. Even in children's games.
Seong Gi Hoon is a ne'er-do-well chaffeur from a small town who has had a hard time at life. A failed marriage and failed business ventures have left him a middle-aged, debt-ridden, deadbeat dad who has no qualms about stealing money from his hardworking and sick, elderly mother for a day of betting on the horses. When his luck at the racetrack goes pear-shaped and he learns that his mother needs surgery, it is only with the most minimal modicum of shame that he demands that his remarried ex-wife give him the money he needs. His ex-wife's new husband acquiesces with one small caveat: Gi Hoon can have the money only if he agrees to stay away from his family (including Gi Hoon's 10-year old daughter). Drawing the line at losing access to his child, Gi Hoon refuses the money then meets a mysterious stranger in the subway who invites him to join the Squid Game.
The other contestants (both friends and foes) in the Squid Game have sad and sorry stories similar to Gi Hoon: an old man dying of a brain tumor, small-time loser gangsters, embezzlers, fraudsters, desperate immigrants and pickpocket defectors from North Korea. Whenever one of the contestants dies from the rigors of the game, they are placed in beribboned coffins that look oddly reminiscent of the last-minute gift from an arcade claw machine that Gi Hoon gets for his daughter's tenth birthday (the present inside the gift box is a nice little foreshadowing touch as well). Although the brutality of these games hearken to the Hunger Games and Stephen King's The Long Walk, these contestants are here totally of their own free will (as are the contestants in another dystopian/art-imitates-life classic, "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?") and all of them can stop the games and leave at any time if the majority of the contestants vote to do so.
One of the flaws of this story is that the contestants have nothing more than the masked host's word that the winner will actually receive the cash prize. Unlike with Willie Wonka (and other dystopian tales)--where the media and the public were aware that a major prize was involved so that there would be some accountability--the contestants of the Squid Game are whisked away to a private and secret location and don't even know who their host is. Even the gun-toting Oompa Loompas at the funhouse are masked. The contestants don't even know if the money they are shown in a giant piggy bank is real money, or if the stacks of cash are only blank sheets of paper with real legal tender only on the outside. They are willing to put their lives on the line simply on the Squid Game's host's word that they could win a life-changing prize.
Another flaw is the incredible stupidity of some of the players, even in a game where they have bet their lives. In real life, people can make some incredibly poor choices, but some of the choices the contestants of Squid Game make are beyond the pale. Trusting your opponent when it is clear it's his life against yours, annoucing your game strategy to all and sundry, being fine with killing a whole bunch of people one day, hesitant to kill a solitary person the next. Some of the players obviously have a code, it's just really difficult from game to game to ascertain what that code is. There are no heroes in this extended voluntary death match, which is why it is so strange that the screenwriter is so determined to make it appear that there is one.
The imagery in this series is impressive: the bright, primary colors, the children's playground, the baggy costumes of the guards that evoke blindly obedient Oompah Loompas, the maze of staircases the contestants tread to each new game. Behind the colorful and child-like facade the brutality of the games is revealed and the hardships began. The contestants are given adequate food at the start of the games, but with each subsequent game the food becomes less substantial. The area where they take their rest literally shifts beneath their feet and becomes dangerous and hostile. Bit by bit, the contestants are stripped of provision for their basic needs, peace and security and eventually their humanity.
There are traces of Snow Piercer and Battle Royale in Squid Game as well. Westerners, rich Americans in particular, are portrayed as effeminate, obnoxious, sex-obsessed VIPs who bet on the games and desire to make Asian men their bitches. The acting abilites of the men who portray these VIPs is terrible (as is the stilting dialogue) and I am not sure if they couldn't secure better casting for these roles or if they wanted to portray Westerners as incapable of competent acting as well. Nevertheless, the message of contempt for the West is not subtle.
The eventual winner of the Squid Game becomes disillusioned with money and the workings of the world after his victory and in possible foreshadowing, adopts a hairstyle and hair color strongly reminiscent of Batman's violent counter-cultural revolutionist, The Joker. He learns more about the game as he prepares to take an important journey and once again, the Squid Game changes his life. In subsequent sequels, will the victor find out that like Willie Wonka, the master of the Squid Game was manipulating his life all along? Or, as in Snowpiercer, will he outsmart, outplay and outlast long enough to view the Squid Game as a lesser evil for the good of society and be chosen as the new master of the game? Will elements of another dystopian tale, The Watchmen, factor into future sequels? After all, as today's billionaires show us daily with their ability to circumvent laws and achieve what only the gross natural product of whole countries could heretofore do, money is the new superpower and without it, the rest of us are just desparate contestants in a never-ending, Everlasting Gob-stopper of a Squid Game.
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Utter madness....
Holy hell this bgame show was really madness!Gambling with your life, killing friends, taking lives, all just for a dollars?
The games were utterly wild and there a couple of games i remembered playing but after watching this makes me see the games we played in a whole new light.
The show it self was really good and different, was enjoyable, the players and games were well set up.
A couple of surprises towards as too who the people were behind the masks.
The ending a bit of a disappointment, in the sense he played the game came out the winner and yet he lived his life unchanged, i get going through all of that will take it toll and you would probably need counselling after it, but i do feel he could have been a better person or helped the people he knew.
Overall not something i would re watch in a hurry. But definitely a good show
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Worth the hype :)
I wasn't sure at first that this would be for me, I'm usually more of a romance based story lover, but this really surprised me. Squid game has no romance, and I wasn't bothered in the least about it. I was just an interesting story with morally grey compelling characters.I'm a bit confused about the ending. I'm not sure if they did it that way so that there could possibly be another season or just to make the viewer think? But overall, this kept me very engaged and I really liked it a lot!
If the creators were to do another show set in this world, I would LOVE to see more about how it started, how the workers are chosen and just more about the frontman. The frontman had the potential to be a really interesting character, the story just wasn't focusing on him. I just want to know why he chose to join the game maybe even (SPOILERS) see what his original game was like and ultimately led him to abandon his family and become a major part of the game.
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It was interesting to see how the games were inspired by children's ones although some of them were better than others and two of the games seemed really boring to me as for a viewer.
The characters were realistic and I was really happy to see the Indian actor there who scored quite a major role in the drama!
I rate Squid Game 8/10. It left me with some unanswered questions and the latter games weren't that interesting but it was still a wild ride to watch in a good way.
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Una serie perfecta para ver de una sola sentada.
La serie narra la historia de un grupo de personas que deciden convertirse en jugadores de un misterioso y enfermizo juego de supervivencia mortal que tiene como premio la enorme cantidad de 45 mil millones de wones.Bueno, lo primero y lo más importante, es extremadamente entretenida. A ver, puede que los primeros dos capítulos se sientan medio lentos por partes, pero una vez que comienzan de verdad los juegos, a mí se me hizo adictiva, qué decirles (además, los juegos me parecieron muy originales y bastante bien llevados). Y eso que la empecé con muy pocas ganas debido a la sobresaturación que hay de esta serie en redes sociales.
Otra cosa positiva que tiene (al menos para mí) es que es bastante sangrienta y tiene escenas muy poco vistas en lo que son las producciones coreanas (lo más probable es que esto sea porque la serie fue hecha exclusivamente para Netflix y no se planeó para transmitirse en televisión, pero estoy hablando sin saber). Teniendo en cuenta la temática de este dorama, se agradece que representen tan visceralmente las consecuencias de participar en una competencia así.
Los actores son otra cosa que en general aplaudo, ya que no hay ninguno que pueda considerarse "malo". Eso sí, hay personajes que se roban la serie y otros que pasan más desapercibidos (el sujeto con aspecto de mafioso y la loca de rulos me encantaron a niveles cósmicos, a diferencia de ciertos personajes que inundaron mis redes desde el día cero).
Ahora bien, como tiene cosas buenas, también tiene cosas malas: es bastante predecible, hay subtramas que no llegan a ningún lado, por momentos hay situaciones que se sienten muy convenientes, a veces le dan más importancia a lo estético que al realismo (igual, visualmente es una fantasía), algunos personajes terminan sin aportar nada o solo están ahí con el objetivo de producir un golpe bajo, etc, etc. Pero bueno, a pesar de todo eso, es tan entretenida que sigue siendo recomendable jaja.
Oh, y a mí el final me gustó, qué sé yo.
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I soldi del diavolo
Molto inquietante questa storia sulle diverse sfaccettature dell'abiezione umana per ottenere soldi ma c'è anche una forte nota di riscatto e redenzione altruista.Chi cade nel giro dell'usura, sia come usuraio che come usurato, gioca, in questo ambiente, senza esclusione di colpi.
Si arriva a vedere scene di decadimento morale come in una discesa all'inferno: quanti massacri, quante vite eliminate , quanti dolori fisici e psicologici, quanta sofferenza e quanto cinismo ma anche quante belle scene di compassione, di solidarietà e sollecitudine per altrui a dispetto tutto il cinismo possibile.
Ho messo 8 alla storia per le brutture esposte e per gli ambienti surreali che , fortunatamente, non esistono in questa maniera tanto spinta nella realtà. Ma la trama è ben costruita per la coerenza nel concatenamento dei fatti e degli effetti.
La sceneggiatura è scritta bene : consentono allo spettatore di entrare nelle situazioni e negli ambienti; i dialoghi sono costruiti con le battute che danno il tono della personalità di ciascuno personaggio: semplicità, eleganza, freddezza, bullismo, volgarità, calore umano, disprezzo e insensibilità.
La regia ha dimostrato maestria nelle riprese: commentano bene le situazioni, gli ambienti , le sospensioni dell'animo,le crudeltà reciproche e l'empatia reciproca e pure la tenerezza che compare a sprazzi . Le riprese hanno un giusto livello di lunghezza : ne troppo lente, non si attardano sulle situazioni ed espressioni delle emozioni, ne troppo veloci danno il tempo allo spettatore di immedesimarsi .
Gli attori sono coinvolgenti, come solitamente lo sono gli attori coreani: belle inflessioni di voci, bel rendimento paralinguistico e nel linguaggio del corpo. Ciascuno si cala magistralmente nel ruolo restituendolo effettivo e tangibile trascinando lo spettatore nel vissuto del personaggio.
Sulla musica non saprei dire gran che: non mi ha disturbata me neanche mi ha lasciato tracce di entusiasmo per il bello che me la fa ricordare, come mi è successo in altri drammi.
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I loved this show soo much
okay so yeah I can say this about many kdramas but honestly this show was chef's kiss. I was on edge for every episode and had me yelling. I honestly was devastated when I finished 😢 I seriously have rematches it twice and I still can't get over it. So a definite must watch show because me rating it gives it no justice. The story line will have you hooked and the actors do such a great job. Honestly I was feeling their feelings in real time. I hope there is another season because this show is more than deserving.Esta resenha foi útil para você?
Maratoneable y entretenida
Como toda serie de Netflix tiene una producción excelente; estéticamente está súper bien cuidado; de hecho, priorizan este aspecto simétrico por sobre ciertas cuestiones en la trama, quitándole realismo, aunque visualmente es un placer. La paleta de colores es buenísima. Algo que halago mucho de Squid Game es lo cruda que es; uno se acostumbra a que en los kdramas haya ciertos cuidados con lo que se muestra o que haya niveles de censura y blurring, por lo que el nivel de violencia y escenas de desnudos que esta serie tiene fueron una sorpresa morbosamente grata.De todos los personajes de la serie, no me enganché con ninguno de los que se han hecho tan populares. Mis preferidos fueron un par que nunca me crucé por las decenas de publicaciones que he visto de Squid Game, que son "la loca" y "el mafioso" del grupo. ¡Merecen más amor del público por el carisma y la personalidad rimbombante que manejan! El protagonista me cayó bien, y con los secundarios fui fluctuando, aunque no empaticé con ninguno en particular.
Una de mis mayores críticas es que hay subtramas que no llevan a ningún lado, siendo la peor una que incluye al personaje del policía, que termina en absolutamente nada y está llena de agujeros de guión. Las mejores partes definitivamente son las de los juegos, son MUY entretenidas y te tienen al borde del asiento, con escenografías fantásticas.
Con esta serie es necesaria una segunda temporada, porque quedan muchos asuntos pendientes por resolver y el final es muy abierto, así que si no la han visto, tengan esto en mente. Eso sí, ¡es súper maratoneable!
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Squid Game Review
Squid Game is a good show. No surprise there. It was the talk of the town a few months ago but has basically died off by the time I’m writing this. Everything that I wanted to say about this show, I’m sure has been said before. I would, however, love to reiterate how good the final product turned out to be.There are a lot of ‘win or die’ death game stories out there. ‘Battle Royale’ and ‘The Hunger Games’ are two that come to mind. However, what makes Squid Game that much more interesting is the illusion of choice. The people playing this game are in debt to the extent that they are willing to take their chances dying over it. It’s a horrific statement on the effects of late-stage capitalism and how the rich regard the poor as nothing more than pawns in a game.
Ironically, a lot of rich people seemed to have missed the point entirely. Countless celebrities and influencers are dressing up in tracksuits and breaking dalgona as if they wouldn’t be the leering old men in masks sitting and watching if this were real life. A similar thing happened with the Korean film ‘Parasite’ a few years back but due to the increased popularity of Squid Game, it seems more prevalent now.
It really begs the question, ‘how out of touch do you really have to be to not understand that you are the problem?’
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I believe it is a good kdrama that makes you think about the money situation in Korea although I would say that the characters are not always true to themselves and they eventually start making choices that benefit the plot instead of themselves.The character's backstories are definitely interesting but I wish they could have gone into more detail about it - an example is Ali's backstory, we know he went to Korea to make money and that he had a wife+child as well as that he worked in some sort of factory but, other than that, we don't really know much?
Hopefully, if they decide to do a second season, they will give more thought to all of this.
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