"I loved" Squid Game ", and so did my 11 year old son"

The

Internet users

are divided into two camps.

Those who have children and those who don't.

Surprisingly, the phenomenal success of Netflix's Korean series, Squid Game, worries the second category instead.

Like Marlene who "would never show such a series to her children" if she had any, and who moreover "did not watch this horror.

“However, the question is seriously posed when the children are now on vacation and are likely to claim the Netflix codes from their parents ...

Fortunately, some

Internet users

saw the series and responded to our call.

We wanted to know if the success of this series made you watch it, a little out of obligation: to check that it is suitable for children, to find out what your

fan friends are talking about

, or simply to be in the cut.

"My son did not find this series violent"

Many parents were intrigued by

and chose to watch it to get a feel for it. Like Valérie: “I loved this series and my 11 year old son too. He was the one who told me about it. My son did not find this series violent unlike

whom he stopped seeing in the 2nd episode, terrified by the scene of the suicide. This series allowed us to tackle many subjects: extreme poverty, gambling addiction, social inequalities, organ trafficking, violence, probabilities… ”

Unlike this mother, many viewers of the series consider her too violent for children under 16. Marie-Pierre, a 49-year-old mother, has "two grown children who have seen the series without worry" but she understands "perfectly the concern of certain parents to see their child imitating certain scenes in the schoolyards. However, how did these young children come to know about it? The problem of access to the youngest "to screens" seems to me to be at the heart of the problem or that of the education of our adolescents vis-à-vis their younger brothers and sisters ... "

Jonathan, "father of three children including a 9-year-old who heard about it at school" and cinephile who "loves Korean cinema" has therefore chosen to "watch out of curiosity".

Verdict: “Of course this series deserves the classification forbidden to under 16s because it is a bit gory.

You have to be stupid to show this excellent series to young children, but it is worth a visit for an informed audience.

"

"A very unhealthy and disturbing side"

Beyond children and parents,

divides as to the message it conveys. Lydie, 22, is shared: “Part of me finds that this series sends a strong message about this world of bullies in which inequalities push people to their extremes, risking their lives, in the hope of improve their situation and that of their families. However, another part of me finds that this series has a very unhealthy and disturbing side to it, in using children's games to get its point across… ”

Elsa, 25, was "at first reluctant because not very attracted by a visibly commercial series which seemed to take up a plot and codes already seen and reviewed" but was "finally intrigued by its phenomenal success", and was pleasantly surprised " by this series, which proves that even a giant profit-oriented platform like Netflix can offer content which, without being revolutionary, is somewhat out of the ordinary, in particular by highlighting a five-star Asian cast.

"

"A message on the darkness of the human being"

Alain, 73, “first looked a bit by chance. And then we like to know what will happen… ”He too was surprised to find in

“ a message about the darkness of the human being and the difficulty of having an altruistic attitude. The episodes become frankly gripping from the 6th, which is frankly moving…. "Nicola, 21, made the same observation on the

message

" a pity that with all the messages that the author gives us, the people who have watched this series do not question the construction of our society. "

Like them, many Internet users believe that the controversy over the age of

spectators

is a bit ridiculous. Magalie, 50, is “a fan of Korean series and South Korea in general. I have already seen hundreds of Korean series and I do not understand the outrage aroused by this one. In my eyes there is nothing very shocking and it remains in the lineage of Korean productions! "

Elodie, 45, believes that “children have not waited for

 to mimic what they see on the screens and even less to hit each other. The role of adults is precisely to supervise them, to educate them, and certainly not to offload their responsibilities by accusing a TV series. "This Internet user is therefore neither worried nor annoyed by the success of the series but is angry with the French media who have blamed a few isolated incidents" to make

 a threat, just because it's Korean.

The discourse of the French press on this series takes us back to the time of the attacks on Japanese cartoons in the 1990s. The worst part is that the journalists who write these articles undoubtedly come from this generation which had These attacks against Japan were badly experienced at that time.

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