Squid Game explores the almost comical capacity people have to accept that they can thrive and emerge as the victor.
Players ‘ almost transcendental beliefs that they are the only ones who will win the game are fuelled by the game’s cruelty and violence. These wants, however, fight with the main civilization of the players.
Camaraderie develops as the people work collectively, and family relationships, earlier friends, shared experience, sympathy and religion all have a clear presence in the present. In the end, however, the overall game’s firm logic glosses over them.
The most outrageous current example of this behavior is American financier Bernie Madoff, who brutally defrauded home and kin in the Jewish community for his own gain.
” TEMPORARILY EMBARRASSED MILLIONAIRES”
Some critics lamented that Season 2 is also focused on the life of the gamers, with only season four of which actually begins the games.
However, this change undoubtedly makes the connection between the real world and the games little more obvious. In turn, it makes the movie’s critique of capitalism yet more prominent.
Although the series ‘ main draw is undoubtedly the high-stakes games, the series ‘ popularity still has a lot to do with its core message, which becomes much more clear in the second season. People can identify with the figures who bravely face hardship to reclaim their life in the face of hardship.
As American author John Steinbeck once put it, some mid- and working-class American see themselves as “temporarily uncomfortable capitalists”. This outlook perfectly captures the constant involvement in a bourgeois structure with only a passing chance of success.
This fluid is exemplified in Squid Game Season 2, which explores how people rationalize their involvement in a game that often contradicts their most fundamental human instincts.
The lyrics to Bertold Brecht’s satirical song March of the Calves comes to mind:” Following the drum / The calves trot / The skin for the drum / They deliver themselves” . ,
It serves as a somber analogy for how our willingness to sacrifice to achieve success frequently conjures it up.
Dirk Matten is professor of ecology and Hewlett-Packard head in corporate social responsibility at the Schulich School of Business, York University, in Canada. This commentary , primary appeared , in The Conversation.