Playing Kalmara - why is the so -called film and why did he capture the world?

The South Korean series “Game in Kalmara”, published in September this year, literally in half a month gained incredible popularity in almost 80 countries of the world. The game created by Koreans incredibly captured not only Asians, but also Europeans, among whom are our Russians and Americans.

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Everything suggests that soon in the ranking of manufacturers of the largest series, including the English -speaking, Korean “game in Kalmara” will be released in the first place, while pushing American and British competitors to the second positions. What attracts to itself such an increased attention of the audience this series, which has become truly phenomenal, and why was it given such an unusual name? Read about all this in our article.

Why is the series called the "game in the squid"?

The series, which liked youth and adolescents of almost the entire globe, the director took a harmless, in general, children's game Kalmar, which South Korean schoolchildren like to play.
The meaning of the game is this: children are divided equally into 2 teams - attackers and defenders who will try to push each other out of the land on which sea mollusk is drawn.
The one who can be pushed out of the contours of the drawn octopus will be considered “dead”.

The game with a similar idea is very popular in Korea

What is the series "Playing in Kalmar"?

The series with the original name “Game in Kalmar” speaks of young people brought to complete despair, who, due to huge debts, gave their consent to participate in complete deadly danger of games with sadistic elements.
At the same time, everyone in the group knows that the only person can become the victorious, and he will receive a life in the form of a prize and as many as 46.5 billion won (in terms of rubles it turns out about 3 billion). All other participants are destined for death in this cruel game.
Viewers have to be in constant tension, since in every series, applicants for each other's prize deceive, betray and show the most terrible cruelty.

Why is the “games in the squid” so popular?

One of the reasons lies in the historical prerequisites of the film "Games in the Kalmar." In fact, the theme of social inequality and the cruel attitude of the higher layers in relation to the lower Korean cinema is by no means new.
It is now South Korea is rapidly developing economically, but during the past century she was disastrously unlucky. Due to Japanese colonization, a long Korean war, the Military dictatorship of the junta Park Jung Hu and endless financial crises, the national psyche was greatly violated in this country.
All this gave rise to unhealthy curiosity for the audience for films with plots, which tells how the poor are oppressed by the rich. By the way, such cruel films, when people standing on a higher social step, mock morally or physically over the lower ones, have long been popular in many countries (let's recall at least our Cinderella).
And if you add to the scenes of the cruelty of “games in the squid” also their incredible entertainment and brilliant production, it becomes clear why the youth simply “sticks” to the screens, watching the next series with beautiful plastic actors and colorful surroundings.

The second reason for the popularity of the "game in Kalmara" is the real the obsession of people with all kinds of shows with game elements, which include both harmless television quizzes and are quite dangerous for the players of the show, passing in real time, an example of which the “last hero” can be.
2 human qualities work here: excitement, the desire to become the first, stand out from the crowd, and even earn a bunch of money as a prize. It is such an obsession from a mixture of excitement and the desire of enrichment that all the plot lines of this film are permeated.
The creators of the film keep spectators in constant tension thanks to their successful cinema tricks - and this is 3 the reason for its popularity. The “Calmar Games” factor are the scenes of violence, which have long become characteristic of Hollywood, but Korean cinema has not yet been particularly used.
Now, in order to fill their viewers with “valuable” emotions that increase the blood adrenaline in the blood, the scriptwriters included cruel fights and murders, which, ultimately, should lead the protagonist to success, wealth, celebrity. And each viewer at this time associates himself with this main hero-winning.
The creators of the series “took” the viewer also with a special aesthetics of scenes - and this is the 4th reason for its extraordinary popularity. The seemingly puppet decorations, surrealism and phantasmagoria of events, pink overalls of overseers, etc. - All this attracts special attention. The viewer is maintained in constant tension with strong visual effects.
Another reason for such a great popularity of the film is memes. Thanks to Tiktoku and Twitter Popular memes appeared like a sad old man about Il Nama, waiting for his soul mate (symbolizes a person who has crossed a thirty -year line). Or sweets in the form of sugar hundreds (in the film, players had to cut out figures from them, according to the conditions of one competition).

According to the screenwriter and director of the “Games in Kalmara” Khvan Don Hek, he tried to make the theme of interest to the audience even more interesting, in the form of local survival games. You can please the admirers of the Korean series: the production director plans to make it a continuation in the future, where the main character will be the organizer of the deadly game.

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