Netflix’s new thriller, Squid Game has taken over social media by the masses throughout the entire month of September.
Squid Game is about a group of people in Korea who are in a massive pool of debt. These contestants are all sent to a bunker underground where they must play kid games but to the death, to win a reward of $38.6 million.
The main character Gi-Hun was chosen to play because he has no way of supporting his daughter, has no job, was caught up in loan sharks, and has a gambling addiction. Gi-Hun soon learns that without this money he cannot send his mother to the hospital to get her foot amputated because of her untreated diabetes. He also learns that his young daughter is moving to the United States and he cannot see her unless he can support her needs.
As soon as the contestants play through the first game of red light green light and watching 200 people being shot to their deaths they realize that they have to win to survive. The contestants took a vote because after seeing the gruesome death of a mass of people they finally understood what was at stake. But when they are released back into the real world they are faced with the same problems they had before. So the majority of the players return to the bunker knowing that their lives are on the line.
Squid Game forces participants and audience to choose between balancing their hapless desire for the payout according to their own philosophical and empathetic shelves facing the barbarity of everything in the universe.
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