happy october girls ghouls and ghosts it's officially the season of the witch or should i say the season of the rich squid game or otsungo game has emerged as the most popular show on netflix and it comments on the vice leica grip that money and the wealthy have on our lives with stunning cinematography tight writing and apt cultural commentary it's not surprising to see why it has become a huge hit squid game follows the trend of stories such as battle royale the hunger games the platform as the godswill and alice in borderland all of which set up deadly games with high stakes it follows in the footsteps of the south korean film parasite as both arrive with stair motifs and class commentary and it has elements of black mirror in its present-day dystopian vibe it may come as a surprise that a non-english non-western show has topped the netflix charts but the world has seen a growing amount of attention paid to south korean media south korea has long been producing quality cinema from kim ki-young's NUMBER_TOKEN film the housemaid to the thumbs of park chanwook and of course bong joon ho's NUMBER_TOKEN film parasite made history sweeping the NUMBER_TOKEN awards season it was the first south korean film to garner oscar recognition and was the first non-english language film to win best picture there's also been a surge in popularity in kdramas over the last few years with netflix housing and extensive collection it seems more and more people are overcoming what bang joon ho called the one inch tall barrier of subtitles and giving non-western media the attention and praise it deserves squid game follows a group of NUMBER_TOKEN people as they enter a deadly tournament to win NUMBER_TOKEN billion won which converts into around NUMBER_TOKEN million us dollars NUMBER_TOKEN million euro or NUMBER_TOKEN million pounds the contestants of squid game play seemingly innocent children's games but with lethal consequences huang dong-hyuk the creator and director of the show started developing the script in NUMBER_TOKEN he took inspiration from the japanese manga battle royal liar game and gambling apocalypse kaiji the result of this is a thrilling show steeped in cultural commentary from the characters to the costuming huang doesn't miss an opportunity to examine the class gap squid game illustrates the complete lack of privacy and constant surveillance that's present in our culture like the characters in the show we may feel like we're constantly being watched that nothing we do is truly private that's why vpns like surf shark the sponsor of today's video are so valuable surfshark allows you to browse the internet safely and securely encrypting your information to keep it safe from big corporations and hackers i've used a few different vpns over the years but surf shark is by far my favorite as well as desktop and mobile apps there's a chrome extension that makes changing your location while browsing easy and seamless while researching this video i wanted to watch the japanese film battle royale it's not on irish netflix but surf shark gave me access to american netflix where battle royale was available surf shark has servers in NUMBER_TOKEN countries expanding your netflix catalog to include thousands more
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