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bevelino · 17/10/2021 07:37

I am on episode 5 and can understand why it is popular, but it is one of the most violent series I have ever seen. For those that have watched it what did you think?

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Windows01 · 17/10/2021 07:40

Actively avoiding it as hate violence and feel like I'll soon be the only person not to have seen it.

Bryzoan · 17/10/2021 07:42

I’m with you windows.

Aimee1987 · 17/10/2021 07:44

I'm currently on 5 az well. Has a very similar feel to saw in my opinion.
I like the saw series so I'm actually enjoying it but I can see how it wouldn't be everyones cup of tea

fabulouslyglamorousferret · 17/10/2021 09:24

I don't get why everyone thinks it's horrifically violent! I'm a wimp, Gangs of London traumatised me, I couldn't watch any of the 'Saw' films and I even had to watch Line of Duty from behind a cushion in some parts!!

The violence in Squid Game reminds me of Xbox type games, 'bang, pained face, fake blood spurts from bullet to the head and victim keels over' ... over and over again!!

It's too far removed from reality to be scary or traumatic! The sex scene was no worse than I've seen before the watershed - the talk of rape and torture, was horrid, but was literally one sentence!

NearLifeExperience · 18/10/2021 02:42

I'm also not finding it quite as horrific as I'd heard it would be. I remember there used to be lots of old westerns on telly when I was a child in the 70s; scores of people shot dead. Likewise in older James Bond films, heaps of violent death left right and centre. These were on telly in the afternoons!

DH and I are on episode 5 now too, strangely enough. Really enjoying it. The old man is adorable.

DockOTheBay · 18/10/2021 02:58

I don't think it actually is ridiculously violent. When I started watching it I was expecting a lot more gore, and I wasn't sure i would watch it, but its not gory. 90% off the deaths are shootings. Obviously a lot of people die, but its far less violent (IMO) to many other mainstream shows which feature people getting beaten to death, mutilated with swords, eaten alive etc.

Off the top of my head examples include Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, The Witcher

DoucheCanoe · 18/10/2021 03:15

I didn't make it past Saw 3 and i'm not very good with gore but like pp said it was all very farfetched and almost jokingly fake at times.

I really enjoyed it though and would liken it to the Hunger Games movies in terms of violence and plot.

BunnytheFriendlyDragon · 18/10/2021 03:41

I wasn't going to watch it based on things I had heard but I enjoyed it.

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 18/10/2021 04:21

I loved it.

Didn’t think it was particularly violent. No more do than some of the soaps on television (saw a snippet of Hollyoaks at work at about 7am this morning and someone was shot and the body buried).

Loved the contrast of ‘real life’ being so dark and dingy compared with the brightness and simplicity of their lives inside Squid Game.

Loved the characters.

Properly fancied Ali.

Looking forward to series 2.

garlictwist · 18/10/2021 10:25

I quite enjoyed it but also didn't think it was any more violent than other "violent" things.

I thought the ending was a bit weak and also very slow though and left lots of questions unanswered. Maybe that's the point.

Gonnagetgoing · 18/10/2021 15:31

I don't think it's that violent to be honest. Does it make you think and question people's behaviour (like in the marbles game with friendships?) - yes somewhat.

Is the main character quite hot? (a bit clownish but he has something about him). Definitely.

MyGhastIsFlabbered · 18/10/2021 16:52

Be warned - episode 6 is particularly harrowing - not from a violence point of view. But iMO it was the hardest episode to watch

crimsonlake · 18/10/2021 16:54

Wait til you get to episode 7, I could barely watch...

NearLifeExperience · 18/10/2021 18:08

DD in Y7 is saying that “everyone” in her class has seen it 😲

I sincerely hope not. She hasn’t anyway, and her requests to watch have been denied!

Henlie · 18/10/2021 18:31

I think the violence in Squid Games doesn’t feel as bad as it should do due to it being in quite a surreal setting (it almost reminded me of the Willy Wonka set at times), so doesn’t seem real. And the premise of the film is very far removed from anything that is likely to happen. It’s still a very good watch all the same.

The two films that really disturbed and frightened me, due to the fact you could kind of see they might be scarily plausible to happen are;
Thirteen - a French film (has an element of Squid games in it, but with a much simpler plot and scale). It’s very dark.
And Hostel - (the Quentin Tarantino film). I believe the Bratislava Tourist Board tried to sue Tarantino for this film as it really impacted the tourist trade at the time. I can see why, I found the film terrifying and really disturbing.

LadyCatStark · 18/10/2021 18:35

@fabulouslyglamorousferret

I don't get why everyone thinks it's horrifically violent! I'm a wimp, Gangs of London traumatised me, I couldn't watch any of the 'Saw' films and I even had to watch Line of Duty from behind a cushion in some parts!!

The violence in Squid Game reminds me of Xbox type games, 'bang, pained face, fake blood spurts from bullet to the head and victim keels over' ... over and over again!!

It's too far removed from reality to be scary or traumatic! The sex scene was no worse than I've seen before the watershed - the talk of rape and torture, was horrid, but was literally one sentence!

This is exactly my thoughts on it. The dubbing into English is so bad it makes it seem cartoon like and comical. I think something like Stranger Things is much worse.
TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 18/10/2021 18:51

Ooooo, the set!

The weird Escher stairs and the doors that open onto another door… Mad.

We didn’t see enough of the set.

StormyCornishSeas · 18/10/2021 19:38

I'm another person who doesn't like violent things but I'm actually quite enjoying it. Ok it's a bit much for me but I'm just on mn/ internet window shopping at those bits

JacquelineCarlyle · 18/10/2021 19:45

I don't like violent programmes and could never watch Saw or anything like that, but I really enjoyed Squid Game and watched it with my 13 & 15 year olds. We actually talked a lot about the show and society (don't want to say too much due to spoilers) - it's really got us talking.

imblueduboodee · 18/10/2021 20:08

I think people have referred to it as violent when really it is more emotionally distressing. I don't know about you but I found myself imagining how I would feel in that situation, and there were shocking parts which really felt scary like when they tipped them all out their beds to fight, and when they asked them to pair up in the game only to go against each other. Also the questioning of how those people working there could do such a job and how they got their?
It was really well done and has stayed with me, loved it!!

Wearethetwirl · 18/10/2021 20:50

I agree @imblueduboodee

There was a strong morality to Squid Game which was different to the way say violence is portrayed in other shows, where the gun toting, wise cracking hitman who sprays bullets like confetti is the one we as the viewer are meant to be rooting for. Hmm Here you are definitely rooting for the victims who are staring down the barrel of a gun not the ones carrying the firearms. The main character Gi-hun also does his best not to harm anyone.

And as a pp said, Episode 6 is particularly heart breaking.

JacquelineCarlyle · 18/10/2021 23:01

@imblueduboodee

I think people have referred to it as violent when really it is more emotionally distressing. I don't know about you but I found myself imagining how I would feel in that situation, and there were shocking parts which really felt scary like when they tipped them all out their beds to fight, and when they asked them to pair up in the game only to go against each other. Also the questioning of how those people working there could do such a job and how they got their? It was really well done and has stayed with me, loved it!!
My 13 year old has a theory in that the ones in red are just as desperate as the players but at the start when they're asked to pick a colour and they pick blue, that means they're a player whereas if they'd picked red, they'd be staff.

Not sure I agree as there's no way the main character would be one of the people in red, but I could see the rest of them being red people, so he could be right!

ImUninsultable · 18/10/2021 23:05

@JacquelineCarlyle

That's a theory going round reddit/Twitter etc. Its been widely debated.

JacquelineCarlyle · 18/10/2021 23:11

Oh really, he's not on either of those but maybe one of his friends did and told him about it.

Enterifyoudare · 18/10/2021 23:19

@imblueduboodee

I think people have referred to it as violent when really it is more emotionally distressing. I don't know about you but I found myself imagining how I would feel in that situation, and there were shocking parts which really felt scary like when they tipped them all out their beds to fight, and when they asked them to pair up in the game only to go against each other. Also the questioning of how those people working there could do such a job and how they got their? It was really well done and has stayed with me, loved it!!
This is what I think about it. The scenes with the main character's daughter and his friend's mum are most distressing to me. The violence is almost cartoon like.

Definitely agree with others that the outside world is worse than the inside world. I hate the way that stealing people's internal organs seems to be some socially acceptable form of currency Confused.

The English dubbed is terrible too and I can't take it seriously. But DH who needs his eyes tested refuses to watch with subtitles.