Architecture and inspiration of the Netflix Squid Game
Few series of the thousands that are produced per year hit the nail on the head like Netflix's "The Squid Game". It is not for less that expert sociologists, analysts, subject each of the chapters, dialogues and history to analysis, but also architects and artists are attracted by the scenarios.
The production has already been described as a masterpiece of the contemporary world, and a global phenomenon and is close to or is already the most watched series on the platform.
The series, which far from being a parody of the modern world, not only in Asia but also in the European Union, Latin America and North America, is a portrait of social inequality and the deception of democracy in the world.
Playing with imposed rules that, although they seem harmless, are deadly, is the scoop. In any part of the world, there are not a few people who end up living under a bridge. Those persecuted by debts and mortgages there are by millions, of those who struggle to reach the end of the fortnight and not to mention.
While many end their days in the most devastating poverty. Politicians, officials and billionaire businessmen who only watch, speculate and change the rules every time.
Chef Sherry teaching some Tribal youth how to clean and cut radishes grown on the farmstead https://t.co/PCijaVsJAt
— Pequot Museum Wed Aug 17 16:02:40 +0000 2016
Others agree that success is child's play, something similar to the Chuky movie years ago. What children play around the world is no different, in each country and culture, the games are easy to learn and of dramatic crudeness and cruelty, for example, when making teams, the least fit are left at the end.
If we talk about the architecture of the spaces where the players move, it immediately refers to the creative universe of MC Escher, the Dutch artist, whose influence extends to our days in the form of cinema and television series.
Going a little further, it also refers to the imaginary of the 18th century Italian artist, architect and engraver, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the spaces of natural stone and dark stairs that descend to the bowels of the earth are part of the more than 2 thousand engravings that they have inspired architects and artists who preceded him.
Although the staggered and geometric form of construction is also very similar to some of the works of the Spanish architect Ricardo Bofil, born in Barcelona in 1939. The staggered walls and the combination of inoffensive pastel colors and the small spaces that the players walk through leave the feeling of to be something already seen.
The visual inspiration and references of the series could not be more successful.
Thus, it is not only the political theme, the promise of social justice for the participants in the game, and the architecture, but also the personal and varied connection that the series achieves with the spectators and the characters. The personal difficulty of each one in this modern world facing the pandemic, and the prison to which all of humanity has been subjected this last year are the ingredients that make it a successful series for these times.
