i watched squid game twice already and i want to talk about it the squid game is a new netflix series about hundreds of cash-strapped contestants that accept an invitation to compete in children's games for attempting prize but the stakes are deadly this series was really good that's it thank you for watching this video bye no actually i have quite a lot to say there's a trend of movies and tv shows that are critiquing class and capitalism and this is the most successful one so far and i feel like it's important to discuss it i want to talk about what was great about the show what was interesting about it what it means about society in general and how things are changing and also a few things that i didn't like but first a quick message from today's sponsor blinkist if you enjoy learning but don't have time to read NUMBER_TOKEN books in a month this is where blinkist comes in blinkist takes top non-fiction titles and puts them into NUMBER_TOKEN-minute texts and audio explainers called blinks not to be mistaken for blinks the blackpink fans which i also am use blinks to learn about topics like philosophy history and politics or dive into psychology health and nutrition you've got thousands of titles and NUMBER_TOKEN categories of the world's best knowledge to choose from i've been using blinkist for a couple of years now so clearly i love this app very much and i listened to the future of capitalism by paul collier and even though i disagreed with almost everything that he believed to be effective solutions for the future i'm glad that i listened to these blinks because through listening to the short NUMBER_TOKEN minute summaries you get to sort out the books that you might want to read or listen to the entire thing and the ones that you're glad you didn't spend your time and money on two blinks that i loved listening to are the lonely century by norina hertz and braiding sweetgrass by robin wall kimmerer that i've listened to more than once actually you can use blinkist's NUMBER_TOKEN day free trial to try it out and you can cancel at any time during that period also the first NUMBER_TOKEN people to visit the link in my description will get unlimited free access for one week and NUMBER_TOKEN off the full membership to gain knowledge inspiration and broaden your perspectives in just a blink just a little warning that there are going to be spoilers so the last time that we saw a class conscious film becomes super popular was with parasite which also came from korea and i feel like squid games is even bigger than that it's broken netflix records it became the most popular netflix show to date before parasite there were movies like the platform sorry to bother you snow piercer i feel like the topic of class and capitalism is something that more and more people are relating to so writer and director of squid game huangdong hyuk said i wanted to write a story that was an allegory or fable about modern capitalist society something that depicts an extreme competition somewhat like the extreme competition of life the way that i interpreted it is that squid games is an allegory for what it looks like to succeed under capitalism and it simulates how only a very small percentage of people really succeed out of the hundreds of people
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