The children's games are highly symbolic because they imply that life and death competition begins as early as our childhood. Despite the resemblance to the above foreign films, however, Squid Game has its own idiosyncrasies.įor one thing, the six survival games consist of children's games popular in Korea, such as red light/green light, cutting a shape out of a honeycomb without breaking it, tug-of-war, marbles, crossing a glass bridge and, finally, the titular squid game. The themes and motifs of Squid Game are thereby ready-made for universal appeal.
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Adopting the motif of life and death survival contests, Squid Game evokes American movie The Hunger Games as well as the Japanese film As The Gods Will and anime Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor. The problem is that only the final survivor can get the prize money, while all of the others must die along the way.īehind the game, a sinister organisation actively scouts and recruits people who are broke or in deep debt, and tempts them to go through six deadly games to win the advertised money. Squid Game tells the story of 456 desperate and down-and-out men and women who decide to go through a cut-throat survival game for an astronomical prize: 45.6 billion won (S$52 million).
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SEOUL (The Korea Herald/Asia News Network): Recently, the Korean television series Squid Game has become the top-rated programme on Netflix in many countries, including Korea.
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