After a failed business venture, the debt-ridden chauffeur Seong Gi Hun lives his life gambling away the money he mooches off his elderly mother while failing to provide for her and his estranged daughter. When his life finally hits rock bottom, he receives an irresistible offer promising him a ?45.6 billion prize in exchange for winning traditional Korean children's games against 455 other players, among them his childhood friend Cho Sang Woo. Commencing the games, the participants soon learn of the deadly consequences that come with losing.
Dystopian thriller about fallen people, marginals and debtors who can't live anymore in the mainstream society.
The ML is drown in debts and can't pay the loansharks. He's rescued by a man who offers him to live in in a mysterious town where they can live without worries. He discovers he can't return to his previous life and that he's trapped in the city.
Lot's of similarities in the way they arrive to the city/ island, the way they are controlled by microchips in their heads, the tasks they have to perform in the island/ city that undermines or destroy their own sense of morality, ethics and self-esteem.
Both show how certain organisations takes advantage of getting rid of all the people that have no productive value in mainstream society.
The ML is drown in debts and can't pay the loansharks. He's rescued by a man who offers him to live in in a mysterious town where they can live without worries. He discovers he can't return to his previous life and that he's trapped in the city.
Lot's of similarities in the way they arrive to the city/ island, the way they are controlled by microchips in their heads, the tasks they have to perform in the island/ city that undermines or destroy their own sense of morality, ethics and self-esteem.
Both show how certain organisations takes advantage of getting rid of all the people that have no productive value in mainstream society.
Once a month, students at Baekyeon Girls' High School cast their votes in a popularity poll. The result? A brutal ranking system that determines the entire social hierarchy of the school.
Sung Su Ji has just transferred and scores a zero. After starting at the bottom and becoming a target of school violence, can Su Ji make her way to the top of the pyramid? Or will she topple the game altogether?
Sung Su Ji has just transferred and scores a zero. After starting at the bottom and becoming a target of school violence, can Su Ji make her way to the top of the pyramid? Or will she topple the game altogether?
Somebody is a psychological thriller and therefore not everyone's cup of tea, just like Squid Game. It's heavy - one might feel extremely unwell and disturbed by it. There's no romance in neither, that's not the primary focus at all. There are, however, many explicit scenes of physical violence, murder, nudity and sex. It reminds me of Squid Game, which is known for its gore and murder scenes, but also its psychological concept which fits the subgenre of both.
