The other half tends to be stuff like random people, or some "punishment" for some perceived transgression or whatever. But it's fucking insane how often it does just start with not being able to afford basic medical care.
Just realized that as I watched Cinema Summery on "Would You Rather" where he's basically like yeah she has no choice but to join.
Reminds me of how after like the first season of Pawn Stars they just started pre-screening and staging all of the interactions because it looked bad when 90% of the people going to the store were very obviously desperate for money and had no chance in hell of ever getting their possessions back.
I haven't seen it, but that's also the problem with breaking bad. Like British Breaking Bad is him just using the NHS
The point of Breaking Bad is that Walter became a massive drug lord not because he needed the money for cancer but because he wanted to. In the first few episodes his big shot rich "friend" offers to fully pay for his treatment and he turns him down. The rest of the series is Walter coming to terms with the fact that he just wants power and to feel important rather than lying to himself that he's becoming a kingpin "for his family" or some bs like that. If it wasn't cancer it would've been something else.
Oh for sure, the show is undoubtedly American and seeped in its fragile masculine culture.
IDK what bothers me more. The fact that we have so many of these death game movies or that no one seems to take away the message that of how its an analogy for the struggles of people that can't afford basic healthcare IRL.
Lmao would you rather sucks so hard, but Jeffrey Combs is incredible in it.
Plays the scummiest guy in the world, you're introduced to him and he's just eating pistachios on a couch and leaving the shells on the cushion.
Yeah, I don't think Squid Game is trying to do "equality and non-discrimination is bad". It's doing what we do here with libs, it's that meme with the drone sent by a woman or whatever.
Plus the DPRK character is badass and the main guy has flashbacks to the strike where his friend died at the hands of riot police when the masked dudes come in. Making the allegory very clear lol.
A lot of these new ones are because Fortnite is popular and has been for years.
It’s odd as the big hits of the genre are explicitly about how the Death Game can only be defeated via radical love and violent revolution of those running the game.
