What does Squid Game say about society?

Squid Game reflects a deeper anxiety about South Korea’s place in the world and what it took to rise from a poor Third World country to one of the top global economies. In a strange way, the show is about globalization but has cleverly concealed its critical message to reach a global audience.

How is Squid Game a metaphor for capitalism?

In this plot about forcing the financially desperate to gamble their lives for a shot at riches, Squid Game literalizes the traps that capitalism sets to keep citizens obeying its cutthroat rules, even as they’re deprived of security, respect, and their own bodies.

Is Squid Game a social critique?

But though Squid Game’s social critique most obviously aims at extreme inequality, its satire is most effective when it targets a principle that has served to support, justify, and perpetuate such inequality. Squid Game is perhaps at its best when viewed as a critique of meritocracy.

Is Squid Game based on capitalism?

The show’s creator Hwang Dong-hyuk told Variety that he “wanted to write a story that was an allegory or fable about modern capitalist society, something that depicts an extreme competition, somewhat like the extreme competition of life.”

Is Squid Game illegal in North Korea?

By Matthew Gilbert Globe Staff,Updated November 26, 2021, 2:57 p.m. This story is haunting. According to Radio Free Asia, a man has been sentenced to death by firing squad in North Korea for smuggling in and selling copies of Netflix’s “Squid Game” on USB flash drives.

Is the old man in Squid Game evil?

In the show’s final episode, however, it’s revealed that Il-nam actually survived and that he was the original founder and leader of the evil organization running the games. He still passes away from his brain tumor, but not before sharing the truth with Gi-hun. Clearly, Il-nam is a deeply bad person.

Did Gi-hun spend all the money?

Sang-woo stabs himself in the neck instead, and Gi-hun, the last player alive, wins the prize money. He doesn’t spend any of it, though. For a year, Gi-hun lives as a beggar, after discovering that his elderly mother had died while he was in the Game.

Why is Squid Game so brutal?

Violence in the show looks very lifelike, but it is figurative and allegorical. It mirrors people who run into a dead end after failing to survive the competitive society. If there are teenagers who watched this show, we can discuss current issues of our society with them.

How is player 001 still alive?

His “Death” Happens Off-Screen Obviously we now know it’s because Il-nam was never executed, and lives beyond the games. When Gi-hun tracks him down after the games are over, the old man is on his hospital deathbed. We do see him die this time, but by then we already know exactly who he is.