Squid Game: Are You Willing To Die For That Money?

Wow!!!! That’s the only word I can use to start. Because this movie was extremely bizarre. So you might be wondering, what’s my reason for bringing a movie into the Leofinance community, well, it’s impossible to talk about the movie, squid game, without involving the money. While watching the movie, I got lots of goosebumps because, I was shown the length people are willing to go to make sure they get that money. First of all before I start let me give you synopsis about the movie. So you can have an idea.

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The movie is based on a game or tournament that gives every player 100,000,000 won. The currency used is the South Korean currency won. Now the game goes this way, there are 456 people with 100,000,000 won for each players, making the total money to be won by one person to be 45.6 Billion won. There can only be one winner and the game involves players dying. There is a big piggy bank hung in the middle of the space where they slept, for every player that was killed or died during the game play, fills the big piggy tank up with their 100,000,000 won. So 100,000,000 won is continuously added to the piggy tank every time a player dies.

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The organizers of the game created childhood Korean games that were used, but instead of just letting players go when they lose the game, they are eliminated, literally. This way it reduces the number of players and gives the last man standing a better chance to approaching being the winner.

How Were These Players Selected?
Life is very funny, it doesn’t care about your mental health, when life wants to F anybody Up, it does it diligently that the person will consider doing anything to make this money and get out of this situation. The movie showed the different circumstances people go through in their daily struggle in trying to make money. Most individuals, 90% of their problem can be solved with money. So imagine seeing an opportunity where the person’s chance of survival is 10% to make money that will solve their 90% money or life problem.

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Some people had gotten frustrated that death is the only escape for them to be free. So they didn’t mind participating in the game, at least some of them saw that as an opportunity of choosing what and how they died. This is one of the things that get you worried about the world and it’s social economic class. Most people are suffering in this world financially because of bad governance and corruption. This game was organized by a bunch of elite billionaires who had excess money and decided they wanted to see poor people kill their selves for money.

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This is typical, just like the government creating a problem and punishing the poor for having the problem. The organizers of the games target the poorest people that are not just poor but owe debts, this means that their life is already reading in negative net-worth. They walk up to the players at their lowest point, offer them a sweet deal that they can’t resist, by creating a game that is meant for them to win. The rules of the game is created in a way that no matter how many times the poor player plays it, at the end of the day they will amount the winner. After they win, they will be given 100,000 won as the cash prize. Now this was used to entice them at first, then they will be invited into the bigger game to win the bigger cash price which is the 45.6 Billion won.

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Initially before playing the game, they never knew that when a player gets eliminated, they literally get eliminated. But after they knew, they decided that they wanted to quit the game. Well luckily for them, a rule in the game states that when majority of players decide to quit the game, they are free to go. These players were freed, but after getting back to their old lives, they still met their problems, the world didn’t care if they just escaped a near death experience. All the troubles and debt still came back knocking. They decided to give it another shot and go back, knowing fully well that there can only be one winner and their chances of survival was just 10%.

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This was just a financial eye opener for me, you think you have the greatest financial problem, but people have it way worst and they have considered death as their only option. In the movie you will see friends kill friends for the money, you will see husband kill his wife for the money. The winner of the game was mentally unstable and didn’t touch the money when he was given the money. That trauma eats dip inside you.

I tried imagining what and how they felt like being in that situation, knowing fully well that every game brings them closer to their death.

Well as for me am not willing to die for that money at all. I rather work and settle my debt. But once again, the people to be blamed are the governments, and the elite capitalist billionaires that chose a barbaric sport game to organize and watch for their own personal pleasure rather than collectively try to help solve the world’s problem by helping to end poverty.

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I just completed this series an hour ago! I read the plots and the ending in some of the blog post and also in Facebook but nothing beats watching it personally.

It makes us wonder, does this game really exist? Maybe it is I do not know and I really wouldn't care as well if there is. Watching it is too much for some, good thing I started watching the behind the scenes in that way the gore part etc. wouldn't be that heavy. But over-all this one's completely a good series.

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It's a series?

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yes it is a series 9 episodes almost an hour per episode. The first season has been completed and there's clamour that a season 2 should be made as well due to the success of it.

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Exactly, I was like, low key this stuff truly happens. What a world we live in

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I just saw this of recent on Facebook self and I was still viewing and was enjoying it , only for me to log on and see it here too,what a coincidence,but of all this is a very good one mate

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Well you still need to watch it to get the full movie experience. It’s really thrilling coupled with the fact that they are all risking their lives for money.

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