The squid game as an anti-capitalist manifesto

The global film industry has reached a special level. This is a global level, upon reaching which a particular product ceases to be national, belonging to one country, one creative team, and becomes transnational. These projects today can be safely attributed to a South Korean-made web series called "The Squid Game".

Just a few weeks after its release, this series from South Korean director Hwang Dong Hyuk was watched by more than 100 million people around the world, including Russia.

The Squid Game today can hardly be positioned as an ordinary adventure series. Many people, from Seoul to Washington, from Rome to Moscow, from London to Santiago, saw the manifesto in this film. A manifesto against the aggressive capitalism into which society has been plunged headlong. And this is from a director from South Korea, which has always seemed to be a stronghold of capitalist prosperity.

The script of the film tells how people are ready for practically anything for the main prize of several tens of millions of dollars. These are people who exist in all countries of the world: they are suppressed by loans, they could lose their jobs due to the crisis, they are looking for a way out of the vicious circle, but they do not find it.

And this anti-capitalist manifesto finds more and more fans, because many suddenly saw themselves and all of today's life from the outside.

Konstantin Semin tells about the motives and development of the script in his "Agitprop":

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[Niko]

Ecclesiastes 8: 9 "there is a time when a person rules over a person to his detriment" And that some of us saw something else?

[knn54]

It is interesting to put yourself in the shoes of a hero - are you ready for EVERYTHING in order to achieve ANY goal?
Society seems to be becoming more civilized, but a person, a unit of society, does not change, even degrades.

[Flooding]

Quote: knn54

Society seems to be becoming more civilized

no one took measurements
and there is nothing to measure
I, for example, have doubts about this
depending on which time period to consider

[Niko]

Quote: knn54

It is interesting to put yourself in the shoes of a hero - are you ready for EVERYTHING in order to achieve ANY goal?
Society seems to be becoming more civilized, but a person, a unit of society, does not change, even degrades.

In my opinion, it is undoubtedly degrading. And the fact that now more and more people are ready "for anything", and for the sake of nonsense, such as momentary whims, is an indicator of degradation

[ViacheslavS]

Society becomes more civilized from a relatively well-fed life, however, in difficult situations, the entire civilization quickly disappears, fights in supermarkets for toilet paper during quarantines that swept across many civilized countries clearly confirm this.

[Alien From]

All this has sunk into oblivion. Together with the Strugatskys. The world is ruled by capital, it was so, it is and it will be so ........ And this is a fait accompli!

[Pilat2009]

Quote: knn54

Are you ready for EVERYTHING to achieve ANY goal?

Each person has an inner limiter, desperate or obsessed with bad habits, a gambling person is ready for a lot

[Nikolay1987]

I note that many subscribers of Konstantin Semin's channel disagree with him about this series. Konstantin saw what he wanted - a society decomposed by capital, while others noticed that there were no positive heroes, and therefore - why are we watching this ?!

[Flooding]

Quote: Nikolay1987

Konstantin saw what he wanted - a society decomposed by capital

I agree
in the "Autumn Marathon" or "Prisoner of the Caucasus" you can also see the manifesto, there would be a desire

[Aleksandre]

Quote: Nikolay1987

there are no goodies, and therefore - why are we watching this ?!

Have you seen a lot of positive characters in the same Dostoevsky? And nevertheless, education on negative examples is also education and has a place to be.

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

who the thread can briefly explain what kind of garbage these squids are, for two weeks now they have been writing about them

[kamakama]

"Running man" ?!

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

so how does this baiga end ?!

[Mavrikiy]

Quote: Gnefredov

You will receive as many emotions from the plot and characters as more than one project has not caused over the past few years.

I don’t want ..... I haven’t looked and I will not. Tickle your nerves, this is for the poor. I'm going to read Bolotov, though I'm already old ...

[Avior]

Entertainment, invented by one rich man for the same, with various children's games, like tug-of-war and the like. The losers are killed. There must be one who will receive the prize, and he remains. The inventor of the game himself also participates in it, he is terminally ill, but temporarily survives, dies later.
In short, the authors of The Hunger Games have revisited.
The name itself is from the old Korean children's game of pushing the enemy off the playing field, it is also used there.
The series is simply promoted by advertising, the plot is frankly contrived

[Vasilenko Vladimir]

Well, at least I understood something, but it became, I did not look and I will not look

[Alien From]

This is shit, in short.

[Snail N9]

I started looking and dropped it. Nothing new is another "game of survival", that is, "in the South Korean manner. The only thing for which you can watch the series is to get acquainted with the nuances of life in South Korea. If we talk about the anti-capitalist message and protest, I did not see it there (maybe In my opinion, what the author wrote about this series (protest and all that) has long been said in the classics and even in films, for example, in the old film: “They shoot the driven horses, don't they? "...

[Pilat2009]

Quote: Vasilenko Vladimir

then for the garbage these squids,

Shootout game for children. "Squid" - final task

[ViacheslavS]

Everyone sees what he wants, but there is no point in looking for some meaning in the fact that what people don’t do for “money”. Money in quotes because under the money can be anything, official position, food, etc.
If you read Shalamov, Thomas Sgovio and a number of other people who went through labor camps in difficult times, then as it turns out, a person very quickly “degrades” in conditions of a lack of resources, in this case food and sleep.

[Sentinel-vs]

Just an unreal hype about this series (Korean term for drama). For me, duck, a lot of money is invested in marketing and advertising. Heaps of posts, tweets, pictures on the Internet, and all the young people repost it with frantic frenzy. I posted about the Squid Game, which means fashionable, which means in a trend, means in a stream (now such expressions are also fashionable). I tried to chat with the reposters, what is interesting there, what is so catchy, why are you reposting? And in response to moo-oink. I didn’t really understand anything myself, and sometimes I didn’t even look, but it’s necessary to repost, because it’s in trend.

[SASHA OLD]

Korean term - drama

A drama is a Japanese TV series made as an adaptation of a manga or anime. But yes: now Yu.Korea is actively filming dramas herself (they are also called there). And there are almost more of them than the Japanese.
Regarding all this hype: I only after reading this article found out that this is generally a movie ...
But on many sites, forums, etc. about the "Game of the squid" they trynd all the time. And the film "Parasites" from the same director watched - awesome!

[Pilat2009]

Quote: Sentinel-vs

what's interesting there

Just an interesting TV series.

[rocket757]

Just a few weeks after its release, this series from South Korean director Hwang Dong Hyuk was watched by more than 100 million people around the world, including Russia.

What could be there that in life may or may not be?
In general, arguing about the taste of bananas with those who ate them is not worth it ... and therefore NOT INTERESTING.

[Tank jacket]

Squids in our Central Bank also watched the film ...

The Bank of Russia reacted very nervously to a prison sentence for Iranian colleagues

The leaders of the Russian Central Bank understand that they can apply for much more serious terms.

True, their actual inaction to curb inflation, sabotage of the president's instructions on preferential mortgages for low-income citizens, inability to establish loans for production to ensure normal economic growth with ten or even eight years in prison do not threaten. They draw on two articles of the Criminal Code - negligence, which led to the infliction of especially large damage (punishable by correctional labor for up to two years) and infliction of especially large damage (punishable by imprisonment for up to five years). But abuses in the revocation of licenses from banks, undermining public confidence in the banking system, attempts to prevent the creation of domestic competitive ecosystems and outright cheating with statistics and reporting in order to embellish the real state of affairs are fraught with other - much more serious articles of the Criminal Code. Here we can already talk about falsification of financial accounting and reporting documents (from three to seven years in prison), restricting competition (up to six years), manipulating the market (up to seven years), abuse of office, which entailed grave consequences (a term of imprisonment up to 10 years).

The first deputy chairman of the Central Bank Olga Skorobogatova, who organized a number of dubious schemes and is suspected of having high-speed connections with foreign banks, companies and, possibly, government agencies, may find herself in a particularly unenviable position. Here the articles "Organization of a criminal community by a person using his official position" (up to 20 years) and "High treason" (from 12 to 20 years) can be formed. As a makeweight, Ms. Skorobogatova may also receive complaints about the organization of an IT system that does not provide adequate security for users' biometric data and creates a vulnerability for the planned digital ruble. This is an article of the Criminal Code "Violation of the rules for the operation of means of storage, processing or transmission of computer information and information and telecommunication networks, resulting in grave consequences" (up to five years in prison).

Well, the cherry on the cake can be light crimes against this solid background, such as forgery (up to 4 years) and arbitrariness (correctional labor for up to two years).
In an unfortunate combination of circumstances, the leaders of the Central Bank may be charged under 11 articles of the Criminal Code, which threatens them with up to 20 years in prison. There is something to spoil the mood.

[Grandfather]

Quote: Tank jacket

In an unfortunate combination of circumstances, the leaders of the Central Bank may be charged under 11 articles of the Criminal Code, which threatens them with up to 20 years in prison

not under this power ...

[Tank jacket]

Judging by the violent reaction, the Central Bank had doubts that it was not with this
"On Saturday, October 16, 69-year-old Valiolla Seif, a former governor of Iran's Central Bank, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for damage to the Islamic Republic's currency system and currency smuggling, IRNA reported."
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Nayuyulina in '14 collapsed the ruble.
The withdrawal of capital continues, and a ban on ruble investments is in effect.

[Elturisto]

Yes, Nabiullina is to blame for everything, she is the messenger of Satan, the main thing is, do not strain yourself so analyst Olginsky ...

[Gips]

At the heart of any growing personal gain lies a growing egoism, which needs a growing relationship of violence, since the growth of egoism of one subject can be satisfied only by reducing the ability of many other competitors, the same egoists, to satisfy their egonomic needs. Competitors, as you know, do not stand on ceremony with each other, because they know that "Bolivar will not stand two." In competition, everything is decided by the balance of forces, including the innate forces of egoism, about which Soros shamelessly wrote in his books.

The question of attitude to capitalism is an excellent test for determining the degree of a person's egoism and, consequently, his behavior in family relations. You can be sure that the goal of the ideal adherent of capitalism will be the desire to take everything from family relations, without giving anything in return.


Relationships of private property without relations of violence do not arise and do not function. As soon as the balance of forces between the owner and the applicant for the same value changes, they change roles without changing the essence of their egoistic relationships.

And I could not watch the series beyond 1 episode. There is nothing new for me there.

No director can tell better about capitalism than Marx.

[Elturisto]

Well said. I shake my hand comrade.

[nickolai.maliugin]

Squid and oysters are bred in elevators for serving, and steam is very important to capitalism. Some in this world build missiles, tanks ... Other nuclear bomb shelters. For example, in Switzerland, which is not threatened by anyone, so many shelters have been built that exceed the population of this country. All these films are not aimed at fighting capitalism; the bourgeois will not go anywhere; they will simply be served as good uncles. This is where everything goes.

[Alex66]

Playing squid is childish compared to playing COVID. The whole world participates in it and the winners lead it, everyone else has already lost. Only those who understand this do not want to participate in the game.

[savage1976]

So VO began to promote this series and advertise Netflix.

[Flank]

Quote: Alex66

the one who understands this does not want to participate in the game.

That is, does not want to be vaccinated?

[Woodman]

South Korean production web series

Hmmm ... I watched Yu-Korean films a couple of times. All of them (both two) were a little bit ... Zizanuty. Not Koreans. Films. If you try to discern the manifesto in any delirium, then you can start delirious yourself.
PS This series has not been watched. IMHO: Semin, like that cat, has nothing to do.

[Vadim237]

Semin raises HYIP on any mass-known crap - the blogger's work is the same and on other people's content the same HYIP so who is he and his ilk as not "Parasites"

[Knell wardenheart]

Nothing is new under the sun - at one time, Eve seduced Adam inaccessible, and capitalism also seduces a person inaccessible, whispering in the ear the cherished "you deserve more." And a person climbs into loans and plows like the devil - because somewhere in the depths he wants to see himself in the center of a luxurious life, or at least its semblance. He is tempted)

[Vadim237]

This desire to live better is embedded in human nature - and capitalism is just a consequence of the development of each individual in their own way with freedom of action in the system of commodity-money relations. And therefore, it is impossible to deal with the consequence of idiocy - and with the cause it is unrealistic from the word in general.

[Wanderer_GO]

What kind of comments - I did not look from the category, but I condemn! ...
A MAN is shown with his "alterations and nozzles", as in a mirror, and let the one who says that this is not so, throw a stone at me ...

[vindigo]

The Chinese have a good film on the subject, "Animal Planet" 2018.