Archive for The Most Dangerous Game
Ocean’s owns [blue wave#8]
Posted in pictures, Running, Travel with tags barrel, competition, coral reefs, extreme sports, France, French Polynesia, gold medal, Iles du Vent, overseas, Pacific Ocean, Paris, Paris 2024 Olympics, surf, Tahiti, Tahiti Iti, Teahupo'o, The Big Wave, The Most Dangerous Game on August 7, 2024 by xi'an
Ocean’s wall of skulls [blue wave#0]
Posted in pictures with tags barrel, coral reefs, extreme sports, French Polynesia, Iles du Vent, overseas, Pacific Ocean, Paris 2024 Olympics, surf, Tahiti, Tahiti Iti, Teahupo'o, The Big Wave, The Most Dangerous Game, Vahine Fierro on August 4, 2024 by xi'an
vote against far right!
Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel with tags abstention, electoral posters, European elections, far-right, Fifth Republic, French elections, French politics, French Republic, National Front, no pasaran, Parliament, proxy vote, The Most Dangerous Game, vote against fascism on June 30, 2024 by xi'an
squid games
Posted in Books, pictures with tags fad, games, Hunger Games, King Kong, korean TV series, Netflix, Parasite, plot, South Korea, squid, The Most Dangerous Game on October 30, 2021 by xi'an
Following my son’s prodding, I watched the Korean series Squid Games a few weeks ago, before it became a worldwide phenomenon, as illustrated by the French national public radio, France Inter, hosting a talk show with a philosopher and a psychiatrist on the layers of the game! And the French Ministry of Education warning primary and secondary school headmasters of the dangers of copycats in the playgrounds… My overall impression was one of originality with comparison with other K drama series I had watched, even though the realistic early scenes of a deeply indebted and failed father reminded me of several of them, not to mention the beginning of Parasite. The switch to the game playground was much less convincing, with the military organisation of the guards rather caricaturesque, growing worse with the appearance of the fromt row (?) evilmaster, and hitting ludicrous levels with the depraved male clients from all over the World. It seems to me that the series was trying to mix too many layers in its motivations, from the Korean debt culture, to organ trafficking, to keeping family structures, which made the result unconclusive and unsatisfactory. It sounded too artificial to be really dystopic. And knowing most of the characters were going to die (sorry for the spoiler!) did not help in relating to them. But overall I fail to see why this easy twist of children games is such a danger for humanity. Or carrying any deep message to the World. After all, The Most Dangerous Game did not change the course of history!
