{"id":3702,"date":"2021-12-27T19:37:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T19:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2021-12-27T19:37:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T19:37:33","slug":"squid-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2021\/12\/squid-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Squid game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Started watching it.<\/p>\n<p>First 30 seconds I was already out (too many rules).<\/p>\n<p>First episode I was wondering why (so much violence).<\/p>\n<p>Fourth episode, I\u2019m not getting it really. This shit is slow as hell.<\/p>\n<p>Episode five. I\u2019m watching this thinking about what funny things could happen; when they walk in the Escher-esque stairs, I imagine the spoof of getting lost while the ominous music abruptly stops. <em>\u201cI thought it was this way; is your gps on?\u201d<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>I imagine SNL did it, didn\u2019t they. (after looking up, no, they didn\u2019t)<\/p>\n<p>Episode six. Hold on, this cop can Metal Gear Solid his way in and out of anywhere ala Rambo\/ninja now? Isn\u2019t it supposed to be super high tech with tracking and stuff?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m on seven. Mmh, ham-fisted stuff left and right. SOS, I\u2019m bored as hell trying to make sense of this and why should I entertain myself with anxiety on camera for hours? Societal anxiety and depression triggered by blatant financial unfairness. Mmh. I wonder where I\u2019ve seen that before because it\u2019s really familiar..<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t really get the editing. More interminable than a long cat.<\/p>\n<p>The end becomes ultra obvious quite rapidly in the last two episodes.<\/p>\n<p>This definitely should have been a movie (as it was supposed to).<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t believe that it only came out in September. I would have bet my left hand that it did come out in like, May. Virality and the pandemic are blurring everything.<\/p>\n<p>I need to write about ultra violence and brutality as aesthetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started watching it. First 30 seconds I was already out (too many rules). First episode I was wondering why (so much violence). Fourth episode, I\u2019m not getting it really. This shit is slow as hell. Episode five. I\u2019m watching this thinking about what funny things could happen; when they walk in the Escher-esque stairs, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3703,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions\/3703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}