Squid Game(2021)

This series is suggested for ages 13+ and may contain suspenseful themes. Biblical themes explored include {"reference":"Revelation 18:11-13","theme":"Babylon trading in human lives","description":"The game's wealthy sponsors — who watch human beings kill each other for entertainment — embody Revelation 18's Babylon: a system that trades in human lives, that turns the desperately poor into entertainment commodities for the pleasure of those with no material need."}, {"reference":"Luke 16:19-31","theme":"Lazarus and the rich man","description":"The VIPs watching the game through one-way glass, comfortable and entertained, while the desperate poor kill each other below them, enacts the Lazarus parable's spatial logic: the chasm between the suffering poor and the comfortable rich made architecturally literal."}, {"reference":"Amos 2:6","theme":"Selling the poor for silver","description":"Amos's indictment — 'they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals' — describes the game's economic logic: human lives with debt prices, the desperate willing to risk death for the chance to escape their crushing poverty."}, {"reference":"James 5:1-5","theme":"Misery of the rich","description":"James's prophetic condemnation of the rich who have stored up wealth by defrauding workers, who have lived in luxury while others suffered, is the theological lens through which the game's sponsors should be read: the misery they are storing up for the day of judgment."}. We recommend parents review content before watching with younger children.