Deadly Game Movies: These are the movies that have shaped our plausible nightmares over the past few decades.
The future continues to be a cause for concern, as demonstrated by the cinema that reflects our worst fears. Now, new threats are beginning to emerge: from the fear of being deceived by our senses (artificial intelligence seems like a huge threat) to the triumph of totalitarian regimes capable of annihilating individuality.
This was at the origin of some of the great literary works that proposed chilling dystopias, such as 1984, Brave New World any Fahrenheit 451. In all of them technology represented another form of control, manipulation and coercion.
But this was stylized over time by proposing to add macabre games to the equation of this extreme dehumanization and seek a single winner, subtracting the value of human life and transforming us, in some way, into barbarians who enjoy new coliseums, being spectators when we do not participate in the outcome of the fight.
A series of moral labyrinths of all kinds that take us back to the outdoors, now that two adaptations of the novels that Stephen King wrote under the pseudonym Richard Bachman are released. We talk about The running man (which already had an adaptation in 1987 with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the protagonist) and The long march.
Looking quickly, it becomes clear to us that we could not ignore The Hunger Gamesthe trilogy that triumphed in cinemas, even leading to a prequel years later.
But Mãe do Cordeiro, the film that changed the rules, being a precursor to the television phenomenon of The squid game was battle royalethe Japanese film of the year 2000.
Then new versions would arrive, more or less refreshing, updating what and how in films like Guns on the waist (where the tragedy was followed on the Internet) or the retro Kill boy in which the protagonist hunted down members of a family while they broadcast their popular show.
In the end, the common link is unique people who face unjust systems that use macabre logic to try to subjugate others… It is tremendous that the pattern repeats itself decades later as a source of unrest for all of us.
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