Washington: Netflix’s biggest ever hit Squid Game is still proving popular across the world and inspiring memes, fashion trends, and, of course, controversial.
The theme of the show of deadly games are eventually revealed to have been orchestrated by bored billionaires, who find amusement in pitting debt-laden players against one another.
In the show, all players join the games as being forced by desperation, drowning in debt under capitalism; at one point, the poverty-stricken protagonist even has a flashback to the time he was savagely beaten by police officers during a labor strike.
Creator of the show, Hwang Dong-hyuk, said that story for the show was written during a difficult time in his life as he was financially struggling.
He said that he inclined to write a story that was an allegory or fable that depicts an extreme competition of the life.