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The director of the series confirmed that the red-blue theory is not true
Yea that didn't make any sense. The players are all killed off, so they need far more players than the guards. Guards really never need to be replaced nor would they want a high turnover rate.
Oh rlly I didn’t think about that theory for a sec I thought that was actually real but it didn’t make sense because the soldiers wouldn’t have gotten anything
@@lilmanq7746 well it could be il-nam will also pay for the guards for doing their job.
Plus you see some of the players playing with a red card when they show peoples backstories on the screen in episode 1. (In this vid, the far left middle video shows a player playing with the red card at around 12:23 )
yes it doesn't make sense to have unreliable people handle the operating of the game
Some other things I have read from the other comment sections,
- There’s several clues throughout the show that hint 001 is 456’s father. When 456 refuses to drink regular milk, 001 says his son hated milk too. On October 24, 001 says his son’s birthday is coming soon. 456 birthday is Oct 31. During the marble game 001 says he lived in a similar neighbourhood, 456 says so did he.The door of the house where 001 gets “killed” at is the same as 456’s mother’s house.
- There was a foreshadow for player 456 as well. When he returned, he was tied up and player 67 was with him. He swore on his mother's life for player 67 to untie him then broke it. When he won the games, he returned to his mother having passed away
- The 7th game was played on the 7th floor between the old man and the protagonist and unknowingly the protagonist becomes the VIP as they are betting on an innocent man's life
- In the first horse race, the horse 6 won it from the horse 8 where the finalist numbers were 45(6) & 21(8)
Damn
I think Il Nam shouted for the dorm blood bath to stop because he genuinely was scared that he might be killed. It was not a game and there was no way he could have any control over the situation.
Hell no bro. I think it was a sign from him to the people watching to stop the game. There’s no way that man was scared after running 50 years of death games
@@adichatterjee Running a death game and being inside of a death game isn't the same at all
@@Hy-BridAbroad He has been participating all these years in these games.. so he is not afraid of death.. Just think about being old as fk and playing tug of war against 10 young men.. he is not afraid of death. He thought people killing each other like this without a game is something not morale and equal as they designed the game. So he just realized it and asks to stop the game.. Even after that scene.. you can see il nam being in tragedy for the game design that was made to kill people without a proper game. Even the guards will come to seize the knife from Dok su because he had advantage of the situation.
@@agentpd4371 There's no sign that he's participated before this years game, just that he's been hosting the Korean games.
@@agentpd4371 no this was his first game he was in. Its pretty obvious when he tell the front man that its his first time in. And he was scared thats why he stopped the blood bath. It was dark and he had zero control over it and it was not one of the official 6 games.
Another small detail that I’ve not seen posted anywhere online:
In episode 2 when Jun-Ho enters In-Ho’s abandoned apartment, we can see the apartment is small and modeled exactly like the rooms the masked workers sleep in on the island - from desk location, to the bed. This shows that In-Ho more than likely became a worker after winning the games in 2015 and wanted to stay in an apartment modeled after their rooms on the island. He probably then worked his way up to become the Front Man. I also believe he is the first and only Front Man.
Another thing about Episode 2: Gi-hun swore on his mother, and ended up losing his mother.
Oooh, good catch!
OMG!
He specifically said "i bet on my mother's life". His friend laughed at him for treating his mother's life so cheaply. So it isn't surprising he went nuts after her death.
oh
Notice how Sang-Woo killed himself the exact same way he killed Sae-Byeok?
yes
Notice how when deok su died, Han mi nyeo also died.
Not exact
I felt like Gi-huns motivation was being compared to the horses. It was their choice to go back in but it was the fact that there are people betting and watching the games and making a sport out of people's deaths, deaths that hit Gi-hun really hard. Like the deaths were their choice but ultimately didn't mean anything to those in charge.
Precisely. To the rich people, the player's struggles and even their lives were nothing more than a Saturday night's entertainment. Since they knew so much about the players backgrounds they could easily have chosen to help alleviate their debts instead of running a death game. This is what Gi-hun is wanting to destroy.
Gi-Hun won 4,560,000 won from the horses he bet on. reflecting on his own number in the game, 456. There is definitely a connection.
yes they went back into the game knowing fully well they might die but what pissed the protaganist was that he became friends with the old guy, he felt really guilty for his death only to know he made the game for his own entertainment. he was pissed that rich people were enjoying their misery and death.
I think the old guy cried out for the riot in the night to stop, because he underestimated how savage it ended up being and he actually said what he believed, which is that everybody would end up just killing each other. But not because he felt sorry for them, but because there would be no contestant left for the game.
The point was to only give them scarce food to ignite "a fight". But what they got was a massacre.
It could also have always been the old guy's aim to simply decide when enough was enough.
And that scene that the old man peed himself...there is a bottle rigth beside him at the bed, so he pretended to do that so nobody would pick him as a partner for the marble game and he could walk away pretending to be dead...
I feel that not to be true becaus ethat bottle was left by gi hun
@@jacintsingla4121 the thing is, later in that episode you see Gi-hun hold up the empty bottle as he thanks Sae-byeok for it while they are on lookout. So he didnt use it and just leave it on the bed, he took the empty bottle with him to gesture to later. Why would he then put the empty bottle back onto Il-nams bed hours later?
Either it was a different bottle and Il-nam faked it, or Gi-hun for reason decided during his lookout shift to stand up and put the empty bottle back besides Il-nam
@@braidij7598 that Bootle was of saw byeok I guess she had given that to her
Why would he do that? He voluntarily joined the games, and loved playing them.
@@Rocket1377 I dont think he planned to die in the games. There seemed to be a lot of precautions in place to avoid it. But the game after marbles is the glass bridge which has so many variables (he could be stuck with a low number and fall, he could be pushed, because hes older he may not even make the jumps) and then it's no longer fun for him.so he probably tried to make himself look weak so he could make a realistic leave in the marbles game
IMO Gi-hun hates how the game toys with people's desperation for their entertainment. It's more about DIGNITY. We saw this trait of his earlier in ddakji game where Gi-hun was offended after being slapped that he genuinely forgot about the money, he just wanted to win and get back at the guy. But that was on a much lower scale, in which he decided he could give up one revenge slap for that money. But at much bigger scale? 455 lives, morality, dignity, PTSD, everything was gambled for some strangers' entertainment? No he ain't giving up that revenge.
If this was an American-made show, after the reveal, they would've flashbacked to every scene you've missed instead of trusting the audience's intelligence.
Like in the movie Joker, where they flashback to multiple scenes to show he didn't have a girlfriend and he was standing on his own all along.
A hero saves the planet, democracy wins! God bless in America...same shit as always lol
Isn’t that just anime
Huh? In this Korean made show they flashed back to the pick pocketing and later the daughters hesitation when talking to her father.
@@johnnymittle well yeaa cuz it was GiHun having the flashbacks not really for the understanding of the audience
@@carmenitabangwool8600 Those were 100% for the audience. They didn't trust the audience would remember fully.
Their one rule was that everyone was equal in the game yet when others were dying for failing the game il-nam safely got awayed
Idk it kinda highlights the societal structure in there too , there is no place fair the powerful always get privileges
Jaby and Achara are like Slytherin and Hufflepuff arguing. Jaby implying the game was reasonable, and Achara visibly disturbed by the idea.
I guess it’s pretty obvious that I’m House Hufflepuff through and through lol
@@Achara wai--- u real OMG
When Jaby said during the reaction of glass game that how anyone could possibly know which glass to choose , actually it was INDEED the most unpredictable games from all the games and maybe that's why ill nam decided to leave the games just one game before because in glass game his dying chances were pretty high.
*lmao, in an alternative universe, Il Nam plays the glass game, and you see him run for the #16 shirt.*
@@AzNightmarehe won't play it in alterntive universe too because he would still be having brain tumour and dimentia. Being 16 does'nt win you the glass game, you still have to remember the glasses you have to step on.
@@AP-vi4cj *His dementia wasn't real. He just wanted to test Gi-hun. Brain tumor wouldn't have affected his memory.*
@@AzNightmare his dimentia was real at someplaces , go back to first scene when he was counting the participants. He should have known it already if he is conducting those games for years. Remember Gi-hun was 16th in the glass game and he still forgot where to step on and sae byeok helped him. This shows that game was the nly game based on pure luck.
@@AP-vi4cj *Nah man, in the video at* 3:55 *it literally explains this part. He wasn't actually counting the players, he was trying to size up the players. He never suffered from dementia. The glass game did require luck, but knowing ahead of time, that's why Il-Nam would have rushed for #16 while other players would be struggling to make a decision. Gi-hun forgot, because that's his character trait. Not the brightest, but he's lucky enough to manage through. He was nervous so he forgot.*
Another thing from episode 2 that I haven't seen anyone else say relates to when Il-Nam and Gi-Hun meet up before returning to the game. Gi-Hun says he lives in the area and Il-Nam says that he is visiting a friend that lives in the area. I like to think that the friend Il-Nam is referring to is Gi-Hun.
Gi-hun's animosity at the end is cause of the way they treated him like a horse and not a person
Because the old man said you are a horse and the front man also said samw thing
why is no one talking about the fact that Gi-hun actually survived due to his kindness considering how the old man actually won the game.
I wouldn't say due to his kindness, I'd argue despite his kindness. Kindness was a crutch and got Sae-byeok killed. Yet some how Gi-hun managed to get lucky with tons of things in the game.
What annoys me is how many people day Sang-woo got Gi-hun to the end while not mentioning the honeycomb bs. Or how Gi-hun potentially saved Sang-woo and others lives by making Daek-soo?(snake tattoo) paranoid about his team so he'd not do another massacre that night.
All main characters died because almost all had criminal background. Even old man was criminal of the society by making game against law. When old man gives his last marble that time director wants to say morally directly or indirectly all are criminals. Even Gi hun has done mistake by frauding old man in marble game which is also against law.
During Marbles, Ji-yeong calms down Sae-byeok by getting her to agree to delay their marble game until the last minute, as the outcome would be the same, and it would give them time to speak. During this conversation, they share their backstories with one another, and Ji-yeong mentions the famous actor Lee Byung-hun (StormShadow). While this can be dismissed as just a random pop culture reference, no other famous figure is referenced throughout the show. Moreover, the best K-dramas are known for using famous faces for cameo roles, such as how Squid Game’s recruiter, The Salesman, is played by Gong Yoo of Train to Busan, Coffee Prince, and Goblin. In addition, while Lee Byung-hun is listed in the official cast, he hasn’t made an appearance prior to the mention of his name in the series, suggesting that he could be one of the faces behind the Squid Game masks.
I think the one thing that bothers me about all of these speculation videos about squid game is the fact that they don’t touch on the theory that the old man was the lender of all of those peoples money. That’s how they knew who you are and where you were and what your birthday was and how much money you owed. Sang-woo (dunno if right spelling) said that they only knew about a portion of his debt, which suggests that he took out money from multiple lenders, hence the gap in info. Also Il-nam literally tells Gi-Hun that he makes his money lending it to others.
Ahhh they made me cry over that old maaaan.
Man I was pissed.
Kihoon's backstory, his work place, Dragon motors and blue color workers protest against merciless owner, and one of his best colleagues' death during that turmoil, he previously got traumatized before he join in the game. As critics also referred about it, this is based on actual incident happened recently in S.K. Ssang-yong (literally Double Dragon) Motors employees protest against the owner's decision to lay-off. So many employee's brutally quelled in the process and some committed suicide later. He got actually double -traumatized after all.
In the 1st episode the 456 player gambled against horses. in 7th episode when they cross the glass bridge, glass knight (chess piece horses) used to represent each player. in 9th episode the player 456 refers that he is not a horse in that phone call.
There is so much clue that foreshadows that, Gi-hun is the old man's son.
1. The neighbourhood they play marbles, Gihun also states his childhood neighbourhood was also similar to this place.
2. The old man wanted to play the games with his son but only watched all these times. This time he played with GI hun.
3. Gi hun hates milk and asks for chocolate milk. The old man says you must have got beatings from your parents. Gi hun questions how did he know and the old man replies, My son hates milk too and I used to beat him for this.
4. Gi hun's bday is 26th april ( for the atm pin, he puts 0426 and states it as his bday) and the old man during marble asks if it's 24th today and says my son's bday is coming up, I need to get him a gift.
5. This game was secretly pushing Gi hun to win, because the old man wanted his son to win and take it over. He died before explaining. That is why he passes the 001 to Gi hun. And Gi hun's number is the last number because the 1st no and last no 456 is distinct and easy to identify by others.
6. He was also explaining that playing with Gi hun brought so many old memories back and died before finishing what he was saying.
7. The big one: Gi hun's mom's name in her debit card is 'OH' mal soon. And the old man's name is 'OH' Il Nam. Her first name is same as the old man's name.j
I agree with number 1-6!
But number 7 is not reasonable I think. Korean Last Names are not as unique as in most western countries. Oh is a relatively common last name + women don't change their last names after marriage. Children then mostly carry their fathers name.
I was waiting for this reaction as soon as you finished the series!
I also think the cop survived because in the middle of one of those games the cop asked gihun whether he knows someone named Hwang junho(which is the name of the cop himself) and gihun confusingly says no. So maybe both of them get together and work in S2
He asked Gihun whether he knows Hwang Inho (Cop's brother)
He tried to find his brother in the players
@@bourneethan3190 ohh is it...ok..
I would argue slightly about his life being better because of the game, sure he got super rich and can potentially win his daughter back but in doing so he wasn't there for his mom who died while he was playing these death games, she never knew why her son just up and disappeared other than he probably got murdered by debt collectors.
I think the reason behind Gi-Hun's anger was the method Game provides. Hear me out.
There are people who provide money to other poor people for smuggling drugs and to kill or abduct.
While the people who do it, do it on account of their own accord it is still wrong. It's taking advantage of someone's vulnerability.
I agree the protagonist doesn't have anything alternative to this but place yourself into his shoes.
His whole life is destroyed. His Mom, his friends are all gone. His soul which was a joyful one was tarnished and he saw good people like his friend turn Evil all influenced by Money which was lured by this organization.
Look at shows like caught at the airport where people get busted for carrying drugs. They regret this and confess they all did this for money and how people took advantage of their vulnerability. This is what Gi-Hun is going to destroy. Maybe he will come up with an alternative to this in the process.
Really enjoyed your reactions guys!
Also il nam was the first player (001)
Cuz he wanted to play aswell so he became the first player
I think Gi Hun's motivation as to end the game once and for all is to stop the killing of people for the entertainment of a few wealthy people altogether. I get that Jaby is trying to say that the game provides alternative to people who seem like they have no hope at life anymore, but Gi Hun doesn't have to provide another alternative to all those potential players. He's just a character who sees the killing as morally wrong. And he sees the fact that people are being used as "horses" in a horseracing betting game like Squid Game as morally wrong. Gi Hun isn't going to end capitalism nor the problems of debt. If for example, instead of the game involving people risking their lives in order to get money, it's a game involving people getting mutilated or sexually exploited for the pleasure of some sick rich men, would it not make sense to stop the game from occurring again because it's still ethically wrong?
Those people who enter the games are all manipulated into thinking that they have a fair chance, when they don't. Even as audiences, we're unsure of whether more than one people can walk away with the price money until the latter stages, just like the contestants. I don't understand Jaby's gripe with Gi Hun's motivation to simply end the game, because to me, the game is horrifying enough such that nobody should have to go through that even if they volunteered, because nobody who volunteered knew the extent of how horrible the games would carry on, despite witnessing the first game. Gi Hun was one of them. He thought the risk was worth it. But he saw it with his own eyes how inhumanely horrible the games escalated till the very end. And even when he won it all, he walked out of it more empty and traumatised than ever before. He doesn't want to wish it for anyone else. That to me, seems like a powerful enough motivation to want to simply end the Squid Games altogether.
I 100% agree with that... it is ethically and morally wrong, isn't that enough
I just want to put one more clue that il Nam knew everything: Before the game of marbles, while getting their partners il Nam did not choose any partners because he knew that he could continue without doing the game, so he did not participate at all ( but everyone thinks that he is old to be picked so he just sat at the corner).
This also is the reason why he calls Gi Hun his Gganbu I believe, since he partnered with him and wanted lost to Gi Hun..
I kinda got the hind in episode 4 when Il-nam screamed something along the lines of ‘I Am scared, stop’ on the top most bed. (Strobe Light scene)
At the end of Tug-of-war game you can see Il Nam hand lock is not attached with the rope when he is lying whereas every one hand is l9cked
There is also another deep theory I read somewhere that Il Naam is father of Gi Hun. In his dying moments he lured him into this game to straighten him out. Maybe he was watching him all his life. This theory is a stretch but its backed by 1. we never see Gi hun's father's picture in his house or anywhere. 2. When Gi Hun asks for chocolate milk, Il Nam chuckles and says his son was fond of chocolate milk too. 3. He gives fatherly advice and lives his dream of playing all the games with his son and also helps him win the marbles game. 4. In his dying moments he arranges meeting with him and no other person. The frontman only comes when he dies because he is like a second son to him.
Like I said, its a stretch but this theory can easily be weaved into season 2 as another twist.
I didn’t quite understand what happened with the man behind “Front Man” in the end when he was in the limo while Gi-hun was tied up and then he appears after to shut the eyes of Il-Nam’s passing. Could someone please explain 😅?
The video should be called conspiracy theories instead of hidden clues cos the director confirmed that the red blue card thingy was fake and the reason why gihun coloired his hair was simply cos red hair represented youth, smthng that gihun wouldn't do considering everything he's been thru. He was trying to start life anew and so he decided to do smthng he would never do.
So ye if u want to see the video u can get it on TH-cam soo...
What I love about this show is the discussion that results from it. There are such a wide range of opinions from watching the same show (subtitle difference aside) that I think mirrors the challenges we face in the real world.
Gi Hun's rage and him standing up to the game is him regaining agency. Something he didn't have when he entered the game, even moreso the 2nd time.
It happens too often in our society, that people in vulnerable positions "willingly" sign up for these shitty opportunities. Instead of compassion and guidance for such desperate individuals, our society is full of squid games to take full advantage of them. And I feel this show is an allegory of that reality
Look how many people sign up to test out drugs etc. for money. 😔 You think they really want to risk those side effects? Often involving increased thoughts of taking ur own life, internal bleeding, rashes, and death.
Gi hun won 456 million won by horse racing gamble which is his back number and the final prize.
i got goosebumps to realize that they were big enough to manipulate the winning odds and winning horse as well.
Explaining Jaby's view :
It's like Falcon and Winter Soldier's last episode, when Anthony Mackie gives a speech to the Senate " You need to do something" (ref. Pitch Meeting) .... Like What?...what we need to do? What will the senate do? There's a motivation without solution...similarly after the squid game is shut...then what? People will still die miserably by poverty and all...what's the alt?
The foreshadowing was the biggest surprise to me, followed by the games on the wall.
The flaw with "Everyone chose to come back" made that decision under duress and most importantly *unaware that other competitors could kill them outside the game, in their sleep.*
There is no justification. Justification is what Il-nam used to try and not feel guilty about all the murder. The type of duress the players were under I'd argue is the same type of duress people go through when they plead guilty to crimes they never committed because police manipulation.
I feel Gi Hun also had a shift in his view about the game the further it went, too. He joined to win (part of) the prize, like every other contestant. But due to the bonds he made, by the end he would have been willing to give up the prize and vote to leave the game with Sae Byeok, if it meant saving her life, which was why Sang Woo killed her. And of course at the very end, he wanted Sang Woo to leave the game with him too. The contestants didn't go in knowing there would only be one winner. Otherwise that husband and wife couple wouldn't have joined together. Based on Round 1, everyone had a chance. Either way I feel like the way it all turned out helped Gi Hun realize how beyond depraved the whole game is, including that it is all gambling for the sick rich people.
I also disagree that Gi Hun is better off after winning the game. He helped out Sae Byeok's brother, and Sang Woo's mom, but he himself is forever traumatized. There are things worse than death.
the cop guy's death was also foreshadowed in the episode where he infiltrated and dropped the circle guy into the sea to take his place
Another thing is if you look at when all the characters are laying down after tug of war, Il-nam is the only character not padlocked to the rope
People say that the locks are symbolisms of debt, considering Il-nam is rich.
that's not true
@@CodyCha yes it is, look closely
@@zupyta3593 he’s tied to the rope. The pad lock is partially cover by his hand. You can’t see sae-byeok’s chain tied to the rope either because her hand completely covers it.
*It makes no sense. What is the point of him not being padlocked? Is he going to let go and just let everyone else fall? Then what? Reveal he's the creator because he's the only one still standing on the platform when the rest of his team fell to their death?*
During the first two episodes I kept telling my boyfriend that something was off about the old man. Especially during the scene in episode 2 when they are eating the Ramen. I just couldn’t shake the feeling that there was something sinister behind his smile. But as I continued through the episodes and watched Gi-hun befriend him I couldn’t help but develop a protective affection for him as well. The dementia scenes in particular pulled on my heart strings because both of my grandmothers suffered from dementia too.
Needless to say I felt strangely vindicated and betrayed at the same time in the end.
Lesson learned: always trust your gut instinct.
New to the channel and really enjoying the reactions. Keep up the good work! @Jaby, regarding your questions as to why Gi-Hun held such animosity toward the game, I think the point the show is presenting through Gi-Hun's point of view is that, notwithstanding that participation in the games was voluntary, and was thus a choice made with free will, that free will was manipulated by presenting an inherently immoral choice. I think one of the show's main themes is forcing the audience (through the characters) to grapple with the question of whether it is truly free will or whether it is truly a moral choice. When Gi-Hun and others choose to return to the game in ep. 2, I think they are, in a sense, seeming to agree with Il-Nam and those running the game that the answer is "yes." I think his experiences and where his character falls by the end of the show personify the opposite answer. And we, the viewers, are left to debate which side makes the most sense in circumstances where, as portrayed in episode 2, real life is best described as "hell," but the alternative is perhaps even more hellish.
His animosity came cz post 1st game it was understood that people d die if they don't play the game properly but when they came back Gi-Hun felt as a murderer as his victory in Tug Of War and Marbles game resulted in someone else dying that's where his anger & frustration came up.
this what makes a show great. creating a conversation/argument lol.
Also someone in TH-cam pointed it out that at u see at 9:08 every other player like Ali had a silver lock on their hands over the black thing that was tied to the rope but at 9:13 Il Nam has no such silver lock on the black thing so even if they lost he could've let go of the rope and not get dragged by it to death. So unlike as said in the video he wasn't actually chained to the rope.
Also him peeing his pants may not be true coz there was a emptied water bottle beside his pillow which he might've used to fake it.
It’s personal now, he grew to develop connections and care for people in the game only to have them die, he got all the money but because of the time he spent away, he couldn’t even be with his mother when she died, all he is left with are traumatic memories, guilt for as long as he lives, he can live comfortably but can he really enjoy anything he does with that money, taking the game down gives him purpose and he has all the means to do it
They are tracking him from some sort of implant in his neck. When they arrive at the Island the second time, the workers all use scanners to read an implant in their necks. The guards are also scanned as well.
I completed this series by seeing your videos
Remember that not all who left came back...I believe they said 93% or 95% returned.
The Front man then instructed the workers to keep tabs on those who didn't return!
I can already hear the "What happened to cop guy? - He went swimming all the way to season 2 presumably" from Ryan George.
Ki-hoon told Sae-beock that he would swear at his mother, but he lied.
At the end, Ki Hoon's mother died.
Why can't you think that it would have taken a year for Ki-hoon to search for Sae-byeok's younger brother? He overcame the trauma, spending the least amount of money on himself for the people he needs to take care of. It will not be easy at all to search for all the facilities across the country based on the only clue that he is Kang Sae-byeok's brother.
You guys should react to heavy spoilers video of squid game it is also very good
Il-Nam's name was also a play on Korean words..."Il" - meaning one or first, "Nam" - meaning person/player or man...
Also the last game (if someone helps the poor or not) when Il-Nam plays with protagonist which he loses and end of it he dies like other games.
14:14 weren't the Vip's from all over the world and not just US and England, I think that's why they have that English accent. there was one Chinese VIP for sure and maye others were from other parts of world and they all talked in English to communicate.
@9:10 Il-nam was the only one who didn't have locks on his cuffs
Erik Voss and New Rockstars just did another video about Squid Game.
This time, it's about the entire process of these games, and how law enforcement and higher-ups are paid off to keep silent about it.
No one noticed the cheat trick for glass bridge, they were all made to take off their shoes. 16 players, 32 shoes for 32 glass plates. They all would have survived.
Gihun is gonna end up taking over from il-Nam being his successor. Thats why he gave him the 001 jacket, thats why the frontman is watching him, even in the end they were betting on the oldman freezing. Gihun could have went to help that man himself if he was truely concern but he choose to bet with il-Nam instead. Gihun himself is addicted to gambling and now that he is rich, he has everything like what il-Nam said. Remember what il-Nam says "Gganbu" shares everything.
I totally agree with Jaby.
12:28 The guards are not wearing red, they are wearing pink. The theme that plays when they are on screen in the official soundtrack is even called "Pink Soldiers".
솔직히 많은 유튜버들이 오징어게임 리액션을 했지만 두사람의 리액션이 제일 감성적이고 재미있었어요~!^^
Maybe we will understand his motivations in the next season.😃
The Squid Game is a direct criticism to the Korean socio-economic system in particular, and we have to understand how the Korean economic and social systems work in order to sympathize with some of the characters in a way.
I think this TV show talks about humanity at its lowest, when we feel hopeless and dead to a merciless system which doesn't stop or wait for anyone especially the week and left behind. There's a reason why they call it Hell Joseon.
I think the director/writer was asked about the players picking red or blue and whether or not it determines whether you become a player or a guard but the director/writer said no, picking red or blue does not determine whether you are a player or guard. So that theory is disproven by the director/writer.
When Oh Il-Nam (001) cries out in the flashy murder brawl I took it as him shouting to the other players. That would change after the pee pants incident because I did catch the bottle of water being there and I thought it was very strange that he even had a bottle of water because they didn't show anyone else with that bottle, I don't even remember food scene for that night. That sus water bottle made me think back to see if I could thinking of anything strange and the way he was standing on the beds and the way the camera focused on him makes me thing he was counting heads as if too many were surviving and "stop the madness" was actually him shouting "mission accomplished".
Also we don't see our boy Ali die, the circumstance of his death and his death both Mirror that of Oh Il-Nam (001), they both got cheated, the camera cuts before the shot and it cuts to the facial reaction of the person that cheated them.
Let's see the chronology:
The Bad Guy in Ep2 tried to jump off the bridge to save his life eventually dies falling of a bridge in game
Sae byeok tried to stab the broker or whomever he was in the neck with a knife afterwards got stabbed in the neck to death in game
Ali took money and ran away and letting his bosses hand crushed by the machine eventually sang woo took all the marbles from him later he died
Sang woo tried to commit suicide in Ep2 the bathtub scene and then committed suicide in the game
Gi hun sweared on his mother tht he won't ask for money to sae byeok once they left the game and thrown on the street without clothes and hand tied later couldn't save his mom
Sorry for my bad English ✌️🙌
9:13 il nam or the old man actually does not have pad locks in his wrists the moment they are lying down
It's personal. Extremely personal. It's less about social justice and more about personal vengeance. That's what it is. Like all those action films where hero's vengeance/revenge against impossible or improbable opponents is shown and achieved. Here the probability of achieving is too low and impossible to imagine but that doesn't stop him.
Guilt and regret are powerful emotions. These prey on us for years on end. When one loses someone (or a few), especially a parent for whom one was never there, and least of all during the last painful days, that guilt and regret can eat you up. All other sense of responsibility, be it to others or even oneself, takes a backseat. And time is irrelevant here. Because that pain lasts a lifetime. As long as you are living, it continues to live in you. He still isn't over it. He saw some sense only when his gganbu nudged him to action. Because the act of someone helping that drunk man and the old man's revelation triggered his own sense of responsibility.
As someone who has undergone the traumatic experience, as can be seen in several of the war veterans suffering from PTSD, it becomes extremely difficult and always a constant lifelong struggle to get "back into society". There are several documentaries that show just how difficult it can be, even for those who have a loving family to come back home to. In fact, there are groups that are dedicated to veterans to help keep themselves from falling through the cracks. Suicides among those returning from wars are testament to the gravity of the issue. There are many who have become a staunch critic of war post serving in one.
At the sight of the new recruitment, everything gets triggered and the illusion that he had build of having a possible "healthy" relationship with his daughter, who is already part of a more stable family setting, falls apart. That he thought he could easily forget the experiences he had gone through, makes him filled with rage at what he has become and those responsible for it. His choice to turn back and decide to bring down the people responsible for the game is first and foremost a personal mission. The frivolous manipulation and playing with people's lives, having suffered himself like a race horse, is another. While he says that he is not a horse but a human, he has the blinders on, solely focused on bringing those people down.
Outside of the games, the risks are already there in life and the choices we make, but everyone always has some kind of "free will". That ounce of free will is whatever little "control" that they have left in their lives. The game takes even that away by manipulation and coercing choices they might not have made at all in real life.
He had always chosen to or veered towards leaving the game several times, from the first vote and then when the girl gets injured and at the last game. He had seen what it was doing to him and wanted out, without a care about the money, because by then, the money became irrelevant to him in comparison to the damage he was suffering.
Also, the task/mission gives him a purpose. He could try and be a good dad but he'd still not have his daughter or a family because she already has a family setting without him in it. He could have taken care of his mother but she's no more. So, this impossible task gives him a purpose, adds some kind of meaning to his life that feels empty to him.
It wasn’t that he was scared. From the start they were waiting for a signal to stop the brawl. Him shouting stop this madness was the signal.
Il nam also translates into Number One Man. Owls in Korea have a death or foreboding status.
Il nam can be father of G hun cause he also doesn't like milk like Gi hun and he told tht his son was spanked a lot in his childhood maybe he must have forgotten tht Gihun is his son as he had brain tumour and when the marble episode came they both mentioned tht they lived in a same type of locality in their last years plus when they made a barricade to protect themselves from the second night attack Gi hun had a hallucination of a riot linking to this he said tht many people were killed in his childhood maybe resulting in his and il nam to get seprated and il nam also mentioned tht he wanted to see his son one kast time before he dies and in ep 9 we saw him meeting Gi hun again
Another clue to il nam not dying was that nobody announced "player 1 eliminated"
The frustating thing is you will never watch the second season just for once but twice as we keep looking for clues and get lost in story at the firstThe only clue that might be happening was gi hun is going to join the crew and the brother of cop is being takedown or brought back as the cop is also alive and gi hun might be back with the help of cop
8:42 I am guessing the free-for-all murder hasn't been that chaotic before, either that or he didn't expect it to be that scary. He actually screams out that he was terrified before telling them to stop it all
There is another clue. At the tug-of-war. All the players wear handcuffs with a silver lock on it so they cant espace. But the old man wore handcuffs without any silver lock on it. (So he could escape)
*No, you can clearly see he's cuffed, but besides that, it doesn't even make sense. What would his explanation be once he escapes? He can't fake his death in that game. You either win or you fall to your death.*
@@AzNightmare His explanation will be, "SUCK IT BITCHES I AM THE CREATOR"
Wrong. The old man did not cheat at any of the games he played, and was willing to die in them. He only made the decision to remain alive after losing the marble game, so that he could see if his new best friend Gi-Han would win the prize money.
I knew about the sensor thing. I noticed it right away and thought something is fishy.
7:52 Night time brawl: I think that ties in with the guards being executed when the one in black says that they are all equal in the game. He as inventor doesn`t mind people dying, but he wants them to die during the games and not during what is probably an unscheduled brawl. It is not "fair" as in a brawl he most violent/aggressive/physical ones just kill weaker people while during the game the odds are much are even. The ones watching find joy not just in death, but in death during the games. Else they would just have the players kill each other in a giant brawl
And the legend say they both are still talking 😂
Also, the guards being chosen in a similar way doesn't seem to make a lot of sense, because clearly they were there WAY earlier. How else would some of them find the time and opportunity to set up this side scheme of organ harvesting? Including a "trap door" in one of the incinerators?
Watch Heavy Spoilers videos on this show they're great
In all fairness Seong Gi-Hun English dub is voiced by Greg Chun. The voice actor for Yagami in Judgment and Lost Judgment. A video game for those who don’t play video games.
Don't forget, Gi-hun still has his GPS tracker on him. Just to pointed out one more miss. Which is why they knew he was boarding the plane and his player number.
Tbh I am not afraid to say that
"The show is good but it is not great as much as it could be." And that's something I think people are not understanding. Like we have had lots and I mean lots of shows and movies that delivered as good or even better than this. But the one thing that cannot be taken away from this show is that this one was special.
This show is successful not necessarily because it was good but rather there was something special about this show that lead it to being a huge success. The time could not have been more perfect for the show to be successful.
The very first episode revealed who's gonna win the game. Il name said all the players are horses. And Gihun was betting the horse race and during the race horse #8(Sangwoo218)was leading and #7(Saebyuk 067)was next and #6(Gihun456) was way behind but #6 finished first and Gihun won 4.56million Won.
001 was chained to the rope in tug of war, BUT at this time marker 9:13 , you can clearly see he has NO silver PADLOCKS like the other players... He was still safe
Also the old man spilled water on himself before the marbles game with the bottle of water he was given to seem even more sickly. This way he wouldn't get picked.
Another clue: in the 6th game, a marble is found out of 001's jacket that 456 was wearing. Meaning Il-nam had an extra marble from the beginning.
The way I see it Gi-hun's anger could be because how people died rather than people died.
Till the first game people were not allowed to kill each other over the night. It felt like there were some rules laid to protect the players in between the games but as soon as they "allowed" players to sabotage each other was what got our main character angry and also there is the aspect of human trafficking, everyone knew after the revelation what actually happened to those dead bodies and In-ho(ig the main guard) himself said they don't care if they sell organs according to him the game just needs to be "just".
I don't know man 🤷🏻♀️
Did you know, they’re not actually red? Even looking at the soundtrack, they’re called “Pink Soldiers”.
I thought maybe my tv settings were off because they looked pink to me, not red!
The thing is they didn’t put up front that there will only be 1 winner. Ppl who choose to go back thought they will have higher chance to win portion of the money. If they know there will only have 1 winner, and the rest will die, I will think many will not go back to the win after the 1st round.
They didn’t explicitly say it but they did say at the beginning of episode 2 that there would be 100 million per player and when asked how much the total prize money would be they said ‘as there is 456 players the prize total will be 45.6 billion’. I know a lot of players didn’t pick up on that because it wasn’t explicitly said but I definitely did and assumed the whole way through that only one person could win and I’m sure maybe some other players did too
The manipulation and allure of having "a way out" is the part of the game that truly wrong about the game. The lottery is extremely manipulative and only justified by society because of the government funding coming from it and its "only money" a person is risking. Sure you have your rights to either play or not play but actually WINNING is essentially impossible(imagine being the first in line of the glass stepping game every time you buy a lotto ticket). And thus you have desperate people blowing loads of money(for them) on this "hope" of a way out of their horrible life. Now imagine those people at the lotto are risking their lives instead of just a dollar. So question yourself: Is it morally justifiable to give people false hope through manipulation just because people have free will to refuse?
And this is not even getting into how gambling addiction factors into all of it.
"Where is his animosity coming from"
If you see a dying person on the street do you snap their neck or do you try to save them in spite of knowing that they are very likely dying regardless. THAT is the difference. You dont take advantage of weak people and cover your atrocities by saying "well they had a choice". A desperate weak and dying person has no choices, you are projecting that onto them. Does a poor person steal because they want to? Or do they steal because if they dont their family will starve? Gi Hun very clearly sees the difference and would throw away his happiness and his life to put a stop to the continued massacres. He realizes its his responsibility because HE survived and all the others who died around him didnt have the luxury of attempting to take down this organization.
Yeah his logic is extremely flawed. With his logic anyone could come up with any horrible "solution" to a bigger societal problem and as long as there is no better alternative it's fine to continue to do that horrible "solution" regardless of how morally wrong it is. You could justify all sorts of atrocities with this.
Snap neck...save them... prime opportunity to have used what happened to Sae-byeok as a reference. 😉 slice their neck, or save them.
I need an explanation where we saw that this game is being played since 1999, that means many people were being killed. But how is it possible that no one filed complaint to the police for their relative going missing and no one in the world knew that there is some suspicious thing going where people are going missing all of a sudden.
In Ho becomes the Host, Gi Hun becomes the front man. Somewhere, somehow Jun Ho still alive and got into this again because of his brother.... And a lot new CHARACTERS!!!! S2 FTW! Though I'm still hoping for Sae Byeok and Ali. 😢
I hope we will have more detail on red team in season 2, maybe a prequel. It can be total new cast too since we need more co-star.
@@savann.sun1980 true. It just my mind playing with me.
Another thing about the tug-of-war is that, even if Il-Nam was cuffed to the rope, his cuff didn't have any padlocks on them, unlike the other players...
Actually some parts of squid game gave me vibes of movie escape room it's somehow same
In escape room also they have to do tasks and whoever fails to do so gets killed and even the ending in escape room the girl and the man goes to face off and to destroy the escape room company and same happens in squid game too 🙌
I need another season!!!! 🤪