Yoyo Jae
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Eternal and forever ♾️ - a brutal expose of humanity that crosses time, culture and geography
This was one hell of a loaded series ... it painful and frustrating to watch ... I didn't like it at all, but I have to admit that it was "brutally and in your face " profound.
It reminded me a lot of some stuff I have read around the Stanford Prison experiment and other experiments that were documented in Philip Zimbardo's book "The Lucifer Effect - why good people go bad". It was hard going watching this series ... I stopped several times but finished off the final 5 episodes today. I am shattered.
I thought the actors did an absolutely brilliant job ... No. 3 says in the last episode that no one would believe what happened during the time of the game ... but that is total BS ... it was a brutal expose of humanity ... their greed, their stupidity, their ego, their delusions, their schemes, their vices, the 'kindness' that 'kills' ... it was all on display, up front and centre ... and the characters were acted so well ... I could not remain neutral about them at all.
Their lack of self-awareness was highly frustrating ... they didn't learn anything except to further degenerate and degenerate in diabolical ways. The sad thing is, these types of characters, these types of behaviours are not fictional, I have met real people just like the characters from No1 to No 8 ... everything they did, everything they were, I have seen it in real life ... and see it in real life ... and that is why I hated the series ... because it nailed humanity in all its ugliness and delusion ... and yet gave no solutions ... "move forward in hope" it said in the last episode ... "hope" ... what a load of crock ...
The thing that made me laugh in bitter irony was the number 8 turning into ♾️ (infinity) ... how profound ... Buddha said "all life is suffering" ... and isn't it just ... endless suffering over and over ... lives come and lives go ... but the suffering and the 'game play' has stayed the same ... no matter where you are, or what time you live in ... it is the same old game over and over again.
Oh well ... brutal, depressing and profound ... if you are into psychology, it might be worth a rewatch but I wouldn't rewatch it myself ... I see too much of that kind of behaviour in real life.
I remember some of the music and it was nice but it really was overshadowed into insignificance by the sheer diabolical brutality on show.
It reminded me a lot of some stuff I have read around the Stanford Prison experiment and other experiments that were documented in Philip Zimbardo's book "The Lucifer Effect - why good people go bad". It was hard going watching this series ... I stopped several times but finished off the final 5 episodes today. I am shattered.
I thought the actors did an absolutely brilliant job ... No. 3 says in the last episode that no one would believe what happened during the time of the game ... but that is total BS ... it was a brutal expose of humanity ... their greed, their stupidity, their ego, their delusions, their schemes, their vices, the 'kindness' that 'kills' ... it was all on display, up front and centre ... and the characters were acted so well ... I could not remain neutral about them at all.
Their lack of self-awareness was highly frustrating ... they didn't learn anything except to further degenerate and degenerate in diabolical ways. The sad thing is, these types of characters, these types of behaviours are not fictional, I have met real people just like the characters from No1 to No 8 ... everything they did, everything they were, I have seen it in real life ... and see it in real life ... and that is why I hated the series ... because it nailed humanity in all its ugliness and delusion ... and yet gave no solutions ... "move forward in hope" it said in the last episode ... "hope" ... what a load of crock ...
The thing that made me laugh in bitter irony was the number 8 turning into ♾️ (infinity) ... how profound ... Buddha said "all life is suffering" ... and isn't it just ... endless suffering over and over ... lives come and lives go ... but the suffering and the 'game play' has stayed the same ... no matter where you are, or what time you live in ... it is the same old game over and over again.
Oh well ... brutal, depressing and profound ... if you are into psychology, it might be worth a rewatch but I wouldn't rewatch it myself ... I see too much of that kind of behaviour in real life.
I remember some of the music and it was nice but it really was overshadowed into insignificance by the sheer diabolical brutality on show.
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