It's more than that. Those focus on the spectacle of direct violence as sport. This focuses more on the underlying violence of systems and the ways in which money is used to create and perpete that violence for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.
The most sympathetic characters in the show are an "illegal" immigrant that's trying to get money to take care of his family after his boss refuses to pay the workers for 8 months, a DPRK defector that is for once not cartoonishly anti-comminist, and a union man who watched his friend get killed by police during a sit in strike at the factory.
They are constantly being asked what they're gonna do with the money and all give responses like "feed my family and get my mom medical care" or "buy a house for my little brother and mom". The point being that the system has failed them so hard that they're literally willing to face death in order to just make ends meet. The parallels to pandemic Frontline work is absolutely not meant to be hidden.
One of the last scenes has a background news story playing that's It's saying things like "household debt has been increasing dramatically" and "more and more families are struggling to get by" with it ending "but the good news is that GDP has risen for the 5th year in a row"
The southerner knew what she was doing, her story was honestly more horrific than the defectors. The defector was the victim of a plauge that wiped out half her village and her father was killed trying to defect, but the southerner was a victim of rape and violence from her father and was sentenced to time by the state after killing him for killing her mom.
He was a class traitor, the whole time that were all working together and he was actively working against them. At no point does he make a selfless choice.
Oh no it's not. It's Ultimate Survivor Kaiji, a Japanese comic book with an animated television series and a live action movie adaption. The similarities are too close for it to be a coincidence.
So I saw a video summary of the whole serie and it's just Battle Royale/Hunger Games
It's more than that. Those focus on the spectacle of direct violence as sport. This focuses more on the underlying violence of systems and the ways in which money is used to create and perpete that violence for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.
The most sympathetic characters in the show are an "illegal" immigrant that's trying to get money to take care of his family after his boss refuses to pay the workers for 8 months, a DPRK defector that is for once not cartoonishly anti-comminist, and a union man who watched his friend get killed by police during a sit in strike at the factory.
They are constantly being asked what they're gonna do with the money and all give responses like "feed my family and get my mom medical care" or "buy a house for my little brother and mom". The point being that the system has failed them so hard that they're literally willing to face death in order to just make ends meet. The parallels to pandemic Frontline work is absolutely not meant to be hidden.
One of the last scenes has a background news story playing that's It's saying things like "household debt has been increasing dramatically" and "more and more families are struggling to get by" with it ending "but the good news is that GDP has risen for the 5th year in a row"
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The southerner knew what she was doing, her story was honestly more horrific than the defectors. The defector was the victim of a plauge that wiped out half her village and her father was killed trying to defect, but the southerner was a victim of rape and violence from her father and was sentenced to time by the state after killing him for killing her mom.
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Her one moment of freedom was the choice to drop the marble at her feet.
Wow I've been writing off this off as yet another capitalist anti capitalist movie, but this convinced me that the director is definitely a leftist.
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He was a class traitor, the whole time that were all working together and he was actively working against them. At no point does he make a selfless choice.
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sounds good, but also basically like hunger games.
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oh yeah, nice
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Oh no it's not. It's Ultimate Survivor Kaiji, a Japanese comic book with an animated television series and a live action movie adaption. The similarities are too close for it to be a coincidence.
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