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@marthasadie I mean, I only watched the first ep because it made me uncomfortable to watch! but Battle Royale slowly filtered through as a "look at this gory foreign film I found a VHS of" - just v different framing than Squid Game.Look on archive.org
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@marthasadie but also I think nowadays the "capitalism is an inescapable, cruel and arbitrary system" subtext is one that people are really primed to hear. it's not a shocking message any more, the horror of that statement has been numbed through exposure.Permalink Look on archive.org