The Squid Game series emerged as one of the biggest TV series from Korea to ever grace our screens, but I've seen movies of the same tempo and quality from Korea that never received the recognition Squid Game did.
I watched Night Has Come two weeks ago and the craft and storyline completely wowed me. Truly, there are a lot of good movies and series that never get into the limelight.
Night Has Come is all about a group of students who traveled to a center for an excursion. On getting there, the next thing they experienced was being forced to play a game where they had to kill themselves during each round, and there was no way to escape.
Yeah, I'm not familiar with the game in real life, but it's surely a very common game in Korea, the Mafia game. Like a joke, the center, which was once filled with other students apart from them, suddenly had only their class left. They found it very strange, tried to leave the environment but when they got outside in the premises, they saw that the lines marked are not to be crossed otherwise the person dies. Yeah, one of them tried and the student was made to kill himself on the spot.
While watching this series, I knew there was something fishy going on because they were being controlled by a voice and nobody else was seen in the environment apart from them. They once tried to trace where the source of the control was coming from. They climbed hills but at the end, they saw that they were in a different world, away from the main world. They couldn't just explain what was happening and they couldn't stop playing the games otherwise they would die.
The craziest scene is where the class prefect suggested that they don't play the games and there's a possibility of them escaping if they don't play when the time comes. They all agreed to submit their phones which are the tools to play the game. When the time came, the voice instructed them to play the game but they all refused. When the time elapsed, they began to die one after the other and they had no other option than to go for their phones but by this time, it became very late and because their phones were kept in one basket, there was chaos in picking their phones to play the game in the midst of the death of students in 1-minute intervals.
This series is really insane. Even though someone watching it already knows that there's something fishy that will eventually be revealed at the end, the smooth storyline keeps the viewer going gradually without losing interest or skipping ahead just to find out what was really wrong in the end.
