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Issue #38: When Art and Culture mirror Society🪞

The Hypercritic Weekly Newsletter
Dear Hypercritics,
In this issue, we discover one of Hypercritic’s top tags: Social Commentary.
Art and culture absorb and catalyze the world and turn it into creative forms. Movies, comics, poems, songs, everything carries and brings to light pieces of hidden reality and society we’re living in.
We’ll start with a 2021 TV show that has prompted audiences to debate worldwide.

Spectacle of violence and contemporary tragedies
➡️ Watch Squid Game | Rules, rage and revolution of the TV Rubik's cube
➡️ Watch Squid Game | Rules, rage and revolution of the TV Rubik's cube
In Squid Game, 456 people who had trouble with justice can compete against each other in 6 revisited children’s games, for a cash prize of 39 million dollars. There’s just one problem: in this game, losing means dying.
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➡️ Watch Alfredino | Reconstruction of a national tragedy
➡️ Watch Alfredino | Reconstruction of a national tragedy
Alfredino is a miniseries that tells the story of the incident of Vermicino, a tragedy that left an enormous wound in Italian history.
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➡️ Read American Psycho | The darkest side of society
➡️ Read American Psycho | The darkest side of society
Published in 1991 by Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho portrays the darkest side of society through the disturbing story of Patrick Bateman.
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Remember who you are and who you want to be
➡️ Read The Burnout Society | Han against freedom
➡️ Read The Burnout Society | Han against freedom
In The Burnout Society, the Korean philosopher Byung Chul Han wonders if a society that looks like a computer could explode.
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➡️ Play Frostpunk | Survive the Cold, stay human
➡️ Play Frostpunk | Survive the Cold, stay human
The citizens in Frostpunk survive both the freezing temperatures and the sacrifices necessary to keep a Victorian city going.
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➡️ Read Kobane Calling | Zerocalcare reports on a fight for an ideal
➡️ Read Kobane Calling | Zerocalcare reports on a fight for an ideal
Melding graphic novel and travelogue, Kobane Calling by Zerocalcare is humorous and dramatic, entertaining and informative.
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➡️ Read The Waste Land | A influences constellation in an ode to desolation
➡️ Read The Waste Land | A influences constellation in an ode to desolation
T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is the portrait of a profound crisis of civilization after the horrors of World War I.
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On invisible people's side
➡️ Watch City Lights | The time Charlie Chaplin risked it all
➡️ Watch City Lights | The time Charlie Chaplin risked it all
1931 City lights by Charlie Chaplin is a silent movie realized in the period of sound cinema that conquered the public and critics.
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➡️ Experience Otto Dix's Metropolis displays social and existential crisis
➡️ Experience Otto Dix's Metropolis displays social and existential crisis
Otto Dix’s Metropolis shows the contrast between poverty and social difficulties after WWI, with the excesses and energy of the metropolitan nightlife.
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➡️ Experience The Doctor of the Poor | A miracle in Caracas
➡️ Experience The Doctor of the Poor | A miracle in Caracas
A piece about José Gregorio Hernández’s multiple apparitions in Caracas, not as a miracle, but as part of Susan Applewite’s work of art.
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➡️ Read Welcome to the N.H.K. | Paranoia and Hikikomori
➡️ Read Welcome to the N.H.K. | Paranoia and Hikikomori
Welcome to the NHK tells the story of the hikikomori Satō, the everyday life rulded by paranoia of a young man secluded from society.
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➡️ Read Vita, Morte e Miracoli di Bonfiglio Liborio
➡️ Read Vita, Morte e Miracoli di Bonfiglio Liborio
In Rapino’s Vita, Morte e Miracoli di Bonfiglio Liborio, the 2020 Premio Campiello winner, Liborio Bonfiglio is the village madman and the narrator.
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➡️ Watch Joker | A portrayal of contemporary man
➡️ Watch Joker | A portrayal of contemporary man
Todd Phillips’ Joker serves as a potential origin story for the popular DC Comics character created by Bill Finger, Bob Kane, and Jerry Robinson in 1940.
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Singing together to change the world
➡️ Play Crosby, Stills & Nash | A matter of balance
➡️ Play Crosby, Stills & Nash | A matter of balance
A delicate blend of Folk, Blues and Jazz, Crosby Stills & Nash helped initiate a sea change in popular music. It is now considered a cornerstone of rock.
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➡️ Play Band Aid | Do They Know It's Christmas? From Live Aid 1985
➡️ Play Band Aid | Do They Know It's Christmas? From Live Aid 1985
Band Aid performing at Live Aid in front of 72,000 people in Wembley Stadium, London on the 13th July, 1985. The event was organised by Sir Bob Geldof and Mi…
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With this heartwarming song, we wish you a lovely weekend.
We’ll come back next Friday, with a wintery and Christmas issue! 🎄
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