Squid Game: A Masterpiece on Netflix That You will Want to Watch Again!

Squid Game - a fictional drama from South Korea - is Netflix’s “biggest-ever series at launch”. This movie is now a big topic in the United States. What does this movie tell? Why this movie becomes so popular? If you haven’t watched this Netflix movie and are curious about all these questions, then you can go on reading.

What is Squid Game?

When you hear the word “squid game”, you may think of the squid in the sea, but that’s exactly what it was originally for children around the 1970s and 1980s to play. But not this movie.

This story depicts a competition with 456 players, all drawn from different walks of life but each deeply in debt, in which 45.6 billion is made available to whoever survives a brutal gauntlet of fatal events which are borrowed from children’s playground activities, expressing a certain simple irony to just how brutal they become.

Overview of Squid Game

Seong Gi-Hun is a divorced and indebted chauffeur. He is invited to play a series of children’s games for a chance at a large cash prize. Accepting the offer, he is taken to an unknown place where he finds himself among 455 other players who are also deeply in debt. All the players are made to wear green tracksuits and are kept under watch at all times by masked guards in pink jumpsuits.

These players soon discover those who lose the game result in death and each death adds 100 million to the potential 45.6 billion grand prizes.

How many games are there in Squid Game? And what are the rules?

There are 6 games that the players have to compete in, which are all based on popular children’s games.

Game 1: The first game is Red Light, Green Light. Red Light, Green Light is a popular kids’ game in many countries. In this game, one person commands those behind them to run (green light) and hold still (red light), and eliminates those who move during a red light phase.

In the Squid Game movie, a giant animatronic girl calls out commands for players to run and stop, and if it catches them moving, the animatronic immediately triggers a gun to shoot them, eliminating the player. And more than half of the players are killed in this game, revealing the sadistic nature of the games.

Game 2: In this game, players are told to try to cut a shape - either a circle, triangle, star or umbrella - out of a honeycomb. Those who break their shape are killed.

Game 3: The rest players are told to form groups of 10 without being told what the game rule is. After they are in their teams, the game is revealed to be a tug of war on two raised platforms and the losing team in each round falling to their deaths.

Game 4: For the fourth game, players are told to pair up without knowing the game rule, either. And the one who has no partner will be killed. When pair up with an ally, they are horrified to learn that they will actually be playing against their partner in a marble game of their choice, and whoever gets all their partner’s marbles within 30 minutes will win and survive and the other one will be killed.

Game 5: The fifth game sees the final players select a number between 1 and 16, and they are then told to cross a bridge with that order in 16 minutes. And each player must jump on one of two glass panels that the bridge is made up of - but only one is strong enough to hold them. Therefore, those who cross the bridge early in the game fall to their death after jumping on the wrong panel.

Game 6: Finally, the last game is Squid Game which is played in a court shaped like a Squid. And the players are divided into the offense and the defense. Once the game starts, the defence can run around on two feet in bounds, while the offence outside the lines are only allowed to hop on one foot.

Metaphor considerations of Squid Game

Is it ironic to the world that the poor will rejoin the game?

The first game is interrupted by the ethics that “it is strange that people die for money”, and Song Gi-hoon and his colleagues return to their daily life. However, the real world they go back to is actually more brutal than the game world. So they go back to the crazy game and die for money.

Why Gi-hun dye his hair red?

After winning the game, one of the most striking change in his appearance is he dye his hair into red. This decision links back to Gi-hun’s nerve-wracking experience playing Squid Game. According to the director, dyeing his hair red seemed like the craziest idea for Gi-hun to do. Also, the redness symbolizes his inner rage ensuing from his traumatic experience.

The works in red are inspired by ants

In Squid Game, the workers all dressed in red, wearing black masks with 3 signature symbols: circle, square, and triangle. Each shape on the mask represents a rank and specific task of the person wearing it. Circle represents a straight forward worker who is in the lowest level; a triangle represents soldiers with weapons; a square represents the most powerful person.

The complete stairs are metaphors for the game

You must feel impressed about the colorful stairs in the Squid Game. In fact, the staircase scene is inspired by the famous painting Relativity by the Dutch graphic artist, expressing the idea that the rules and routines of the real world do not apply in the Squid Game.

Burning questions you hold are answered here

Will there be a season 2 of Squid Game?

If you’ve watched the whole show, you know that the game doesn’t really end. It continues, and the future of “winner” Seong Gu-hun is left uncertain.

Was Squid Game based on a book?

It certainly seems like Squid Game would make a great novel or graphic novel. But right now, you can’t go to bookstore and scoop up a Squid Game book to read.

Is the Red Light, Green Light doll real?

The first game the contestant play is Red Light, Green Light, but instead of a human turning around and trying to catch someone moving during “Red Light”, it is a super-creepy giant schoolgirl robot doll thing. And this doll is real. The tourists can even visit it.

Summary

Squid Game is currently on Netflix now. It is worth watching even though it is not free on Netflix. If you want to watch it over and over again, you can save it on your local file with StreamFab Netflix Downloader - professional download software to help you save online Netflix videos for offline watching.