Is the Squid Game phenomenon dangerous?
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How to explain the squid game phenomenon?
YOUNGKYU PARK Netflix / AFP
By: Philippe Lecaplain
1 min
We talk about it in playgrounds, while it is not recommended for children under 16.
We talk about it at work, when it can be seen as an anti-capitalist firebrand.
We talk about it among friends, while it denounces the dehumanization of our social relations.
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What happens in the 9 episodes of this series characterized by uninhibited violence and a tangy pop aesthetic?
Characters, over-indebted, hope to win the jackpot by playing playground games, such as the very innocent: "one-two-three-sun".
But, in
Squid Game
, the losers are ruthlessly executed.
It's gory, creepy and trashy.
Why such a craze as if the Circus Games of the Roman era - except for digital effects - had not aged a bit?
To be honest, is this Squid Game phenomenon dangerous?
To discuss it:
- Ophélie Surcouf,
journalist, specialist in Korean series, editor for
K-Society
magazine
, author of
Pourquoi la Korea?
The Korean wave and us
(Notebooks workshop)
- Carlo Fasino
, programmer for the
Séries Mania
festival
, specialist in Asian series
- Sophie Jehel,
lecturer in Information and Communication Sciences
at Paris 8 University
, author of
Adolescents facing trash images on the internet
(in press editions)
and of a book, to be published in December
2021 , The social risks of the digital economy
-
Marianne Chaillan
, professor of Philosophy, specialist in pop culture, author of several books
In Pop we trust,
Game of Thrones, a dark end full of terror, Where is happiness?
(
Ecuador
).
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