Squid Game’s backdrop is South Korea’s present-day, very real wealth inequality.

 

Squid Game: the hellish horrorshow taking the whole world by storm https://t.co/t390MWW9gW

— Guardian culture (@guardianculture) September 28, 2021

The small print: if you lose, you get killed. In the first episode, a game of Grandma’s Footsteps (known as Red Light, Green Light in South Korea) leaves bodies piled high as the shell-shocked winners proceed to round two. It’s blood-splattered child’s play – a kind of Takeshi’s Castle with fatalities, or Saw with stylish shell suits.

Its success won’t come as a surprise to a generation of viewers who got hooked on murderous dystopian series The Hunger Games and cult favourite Battle Royale

But Squid Game’s backdrop is South Korea’s present-day, very real wealth inequality.

An episode of backstories makes it clear that anyone can fall into debt through bad luck, while the visuals are full of familiar touchstones

要するに、

イカゲーム＝

だるまさんがころんだ　×　たけし城　×　バトルロワイヤル　×　借金地獄　×　格差

なわけだ・・・・・まあ、別に観る気はしないな。