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  • @DC10_
    @DC10_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11634

    The ending with the man dying on the street is not about faith in humanity or whether people will stop and help. It's all about making Gi-hun bet on his first human life, showing he is not better than any of them. Il nam won the 7th game the moment Gi-hun took the bet.
    Gi-hun could’ve left the room and helped the drunk man himself but he chose to stay and watch from above, just like the VIPs watched the games

    • @DarkLight-4
      @DarkLight-4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +733

      You cracked it

    • @goodvibesimprovement8983
      @goodvibesimprovement8983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +808

      Thank you!!! I was thinking the same thing. All along I was waiting for him to go outside and help the homeless but he didn’t because he is an hypocrite

    • @victorialuxxe
      @victorialuxxe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +173

      Damn, you’re right

    • @sarahdoshi2135
      @sarahdoshi2135 3 ปีที่แล้ว +100

      Damnn that's truee

    • @Nazyaali110
      @Nazyaali110 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      Brilliant

  • @shinomura8267
    @shinomura8267 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4298

    After he "dies" the front man gets a call and says "glad you enjoyed the game, sir"

    • @jatin2008-d6u
      @jatin2008-d6u 3 ปีที่แล้ว +328

      Omg I never noticed that!?

    • @josuesachezsilva4981
      @josuesachezsilva4981 3 ปีที่แล้ว +455

      He said it in english. He wasn't talking to the oldman but probably with some kind of vip manager

    • @talkin2myselff
      @talkin2myselff 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      No he died gamer

    • @JoeMama-kj7bq
      @JoeMama-kj7bq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +246

      @Maryum69 The VIPs were Il-nam's friends, so Il-nam could have probably spoken English, so it could still be him.

    • @matthewbest5421
      @matthewbest5421 3 ปีที่แล้ว +142

      @@JoeMama-kj7bq Even after he was exposed, I still find it incredibly hard to believe that he was friends with scumbags like them due to his warmheartedness with Gi Hun. You know he was a powerful and impactful character when you still view the main antagonist in a fond light

  • @borrow4654
    @borrow4654 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2817

    really glad to finally see someone point out the ideological flaw of a "fair game" with the glass bridge game all because the VIPs were bored

    • @iPanicyt
      @iPanicyt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      More like a game of chance instead of a game with strategy? Funny, reminds me of how the Elite says "you can get to the top if you work hard and think smart" while they try to indebt you, bribe politicians, avoid taxes. It reminds me of how getting rich is more a game of chance, than actual strategy since a market crash can vaporate your whole capital while the elite gets bailed out

    • @JaneParkerBowls
      @JaneParkerBowls 3 ปีที่แล้ว +241

      the glass bridge game was also unfair how it killed the woman with the glass shattering despite her getting across the bridge succesfully

    • @krytzzz
      @krytzzz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@JaneParkerBowls she did not die by the glass m8

    • @JaneParkerBowls
      @JaneParkerBowls 3 ปีที่แล้ว +215

      @@krytzzz well not directly but it made her pass out due to blood loss, enough for sang-woo to sneak up and kill her. They were supposed to be put in good health for the final game, as they were given a full meal, but she wasn't offered any medical help for the glass injury they negligently caused her

    • @dr6770
      @dr6770 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      @@JaneParkerBowls I didn't get why the glass was even blown up like that? To tie it to fairness, if it was done to injure players before the last round, how is that fair when they made it to the end of the bridge by playing by the rules?

  • @gusclips
    @gusclips 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3002

    Another issue I have with the fairness of the games is the fact that they never said it was last man standing. They only said whoever finishes all six games wins the money. That would mean that multiple people could win

    • @majnushetty5583
      @majnushetty5583 3 ปีที่แล้ว +135

      It’s r/technicallycorrect but for killing people

    • @iPanicyt
      @iPanicyt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +474

      It wasn't last man standing. The final squid game can be played with as many players as you can imagine. Especially since they stand on one leg and can take up way less space. Sure if they tread outside the gameline they'd die and if a full team of 10v10 was in the game it would be hard not for at least one person to not step outside. The second to final game already proved that they could keep the marble and bring it into the game. So could they have used their glass waterbottles or marbles to break the glass that isnt tampered. The reason why they cut the lights were because the VIP's had arrived and it's a metaphor for how the elite will switch up the rules according to their mood.

    • @TKUA11
      @TKUA11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      Last man standing is a terrible metaphor for capitalism. Anyone can start their own business and become rich. Communism is a better metaphor where there is a ruling class and a working class; and it’s a zero sum game for the resources available as the state owns all resources

    • @1mol831
      @1mol831 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      @@TKUA11 however the current state of society is a mixture of capitalism with communist characteristics, aka the market is capitalist but when rich people don’t get their way then they can command the government to intervene in their favour and collect money from everyone and give it to them

    • @HeartFeathers
      @HeartFeathers 3 ปีที่แล้ว +159

      @@TKUA11 "Anyone can start their own business" No they can't. You need money to make money. You need money for at least a few of the following depending on the nature of your business:
      Supplies
      Rent and Utilities on a building
      Shipping cost
      Advertising costs
      Employees
      They say on average it takes 2-3 years for a business to be profitable. Someone living paycheck to paycheck or burdened with medical costs is not going to be able to afford the initial costs let alone wait 2-3 years for a paycheck. On top of that when you are already rich, you can afford to try a bunch of things to see what works. If 5 out of the 10 businesses you tried work then it's not as devastating a loss as a working class person who's one mistake could cost them their only livelihood.

  • @-cookiez-
    @-cookiez- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2744

    I CRIED when Il-Nam "died" and it was the first time I had properly cried in years. Only to find out that those tears went to waste.

    • @reinagrant8572
      @reinagrant8572 3 ปีที่แล้ว +195

      i hope that doesn’t discourage you from crying in the future 💞 tears are never a waste

    • @Mynameisdarkxxo
      @Mynameisdarkxxo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      Same here, I haven’t cried like that in awhile, I was touched by his character

    • @emartin29
      @emartin29 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      yeah same, I felt so betrayed by him.

    • @oahuhawaii2141
      @oahuhawaii2141 2 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      I didn't cry, but it did get me a bit sad and upset. Although I did notice that they didn't show him getting shot. I also recall finally seeing the host (only from behind), and noticed his slight build, and old hands. I missed his gray and white hair, but suspected the plot twist because he had no fear in "Red Light, Green Light" and was the first to advance without being stunned by all the dead participants around him. When I saw a card had "gganbu", I realized 001 is still alive and is the host.

    • @gottfriedhub
      @gottfriedhub 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I want to drink those tears

  • @justlogan6979
    @justlogan6979 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1564

    I’ll never understand how 455 people didn’t think to ask “what happens when we’re eliminated”

    • @ivywt
      @ivywt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +552

      they probably thought that they were gonna get sent home ☠️☠️

    • @MissLaadyG
      @MissLaadyG 3 ปีที่แล้ว +186

      @@ivywt or get slapped

    • @Friendly_Protogen
      @Friendly_Protogen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      @@MissLaadyG maybe both

    • @yoyoabhishek777
      @yoyoabhishek777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      In India or rest of the world there are reality games are like squid games . Where participants do not die but they are sent back home . May be the director got the knowledge of it .

    • @jessicamcdaniels2337
      @jessicamcdaniels2337 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@MissLaadyG The thought of getting slapped would give me even more of an urge to confirm what happens during elimination. Mostly out of the fear of getting slapped again

  • @kolgax2064
    @kolgax2064 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1584

    I think the way the players don't know the first game is deadly until it is also another commentary on how many get into debt without fully understanding the consequences of whatever caused them to get into debt in the first place.

    • @TKUA11
      @TKUA11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Eh are u sure about that? They sign a form that they can read about what they’re signing up for. I feel like a better metaphor is communism, where it is sold as a fair system and everyone is happy, but instead they get a tyrannical dictator.

    • @kolgax2064
      @kolgax2064 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      @@TKUA11 That doesn't make sense, sorry. You don't all compete for a huge cash prize in communism.

    • @krel7160
      @krel7160 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@kolgax2064 In soviet russia, competition does not earn pitifuly monetary reward.
      Contender competes for second class luxury suite! Losers work Gulag. Is fair, da, comrade?

    • @kolgax2064
      @kolgax2064 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      @@krel7160 I'm not really sure why we're talking about communism. This show has nothing to do with it.

    • @krel7160
      @krel7160 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kolgax2064 I don't know either, to be fair!

  • @Benoitblank
    @Benoitblank 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1958

    Also the heirarchy is determinded by they amount of angles (defined as finite vertices) on the mask, the circle has 0 ,triangle is 3, square is 4, the frontman has a load, and the vips have way to many angles to count

    • @mrfreeman2911
      @mrfreeman2911 3 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      plus those are the shapes on squid game.

    • @emberdragon4248
      @emberdragon4248 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      And the host only wears his face, which has an even less countable number of angles

    • @_Seru_
      @_Seru_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      @@emberdragon4248 He has an owl mask though.

    • @laykni
      @laykni 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      The weird thing is technically a circle has the most angles because it has 360 angles

    • @iku_turso123
      @iku_turso123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      @@laykni circle workers true hosts of squidgame confirmed?

  • @zoorenard1101
    @zoorenard1101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +902

    I just wish we learned or saw more of the policeman and his brother (the front man). It's a plot point I was very interested in and it went by so quick!

    • @Alex-ym5ox
      @Alex-ym5ox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      the writer has already said that's the focus of season 2!

    • @MrWizeazz
      @MrWizeazz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Wasn’t he also a former cop too?

    • @melarie205
      @melarie205 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@MrWizeazz yes

    • @ive-3692
      @ive-3692 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@MrWizeazz wait he was?

    • @Marcell2aG
      @Marcell2aG 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      It appears that the policeman may still be alive and was just shot in the shoulder. To me it makes sense because the Front Man even gave his kidney to his brother, so he may not have even intended to kill him.

  • @user-nb2ub9hn8s
    @user-nb2ub9hn8s 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1202

    I think it's ironic to see how we see some people "sympathizing" with number one when he died, even though they would hate on sang woo no problem. Shows how the series accurately portraits reality, the people down the line gets the blame, the upper ones get sympathy, even when what they're doing is far more destructive and harmful.

    • @JKweez
      @JKweez 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      The story was about the human condition and how greed corrupts people. A sophisticated story teller gives depth to the "villains" in the story. Mature adults don't see individuals as purely bad and purely righteous. That's some nonsense that universities in the west are trying to indoctrinate students into believing. It's the same thing religious leaders used to do to maintain control over their subjects as well. I don't think you understand the true theme of that show.

    • @user-nb2ub9hn8s
      @user-nb2ub9hn8s 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @@JKweez Writers try to give "depth" to villains because they're in denial and humanity in general are in denial that people can do evil, and their intentions doesn't have to be complex or justified. When you kill thousands and thousands of people for your own entertainment, "depth" of your personality or your morality doesn't change the fact that there were people killed, and in comparison, it really doesn't matter.

    • @stephendoe7594
      @stephendoe7594 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      @@user-nb2ub9hn8s You can view Il-nam as evil, but do not deny that he is human. He is deeply flawed, and searching in the last moments of his life for the unadulterated joy of childhood. He has been corrupted by wealth and power, but he is not some otherworldly figure. Always remember Hitler was a human, Stalin was a human, serial killers are all human. Given the right circumstances anyone can commit acts most might deem evil. To suggest writing a human villain who has depth is to be in denial of the evil people do is frankly ridiculous. Villains in the real world to not have horns and pointy sticks, they are not caricatures...they are people just like the rest of us, people who have made different choices. Writing a sympathetic villain, whose motivations the audience understands even if they find the actions the villain takes abhorrent, is not being in denial. It is showing evil in its true form...its human form.

    • @user-nb2ub9hn8s
      @user-nb2ub9hn8s 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      @@stephendoe7594 evil doesn't mean a person has horns or some cartoonish villain laughs. He's human alright, but his morals are twisted. Hitler was a human too, so what now? Go and sympathize with him? My original comment is clear, you can have a 10 hour long depth analysis for this guy, doesn't change the fact that he was a horrible person who abused the flawed system that gave him advantage, then decided to kill so many people and destroy their lives as well as their families' just because he wanted to have fun. If I'm supposed to give sympathy I'd rather give it to those who deserves it.

    • @abigailkahiga5179
      @abigailkahiga5179 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@user-nb2ub9hn8s I think what the character is trying to bring out is that two truths can exist at once. The actions being judged on their own and the justifications on it's own.

  • @DuchessOfSuccess
    @DuchessOfSuccess 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1157

    This really does does speak to how some ultra wealthy people will justify the most unethical things to feed their egos, pockets, and dark desires. Often preying on the vulnerable in the process.
    If you’ve got enough money to buy a whole darn island, you’ve got enough money to invest in people to help them help themselves and tackle inequality.
    Anyway, excellent acting by Yeong-su Oh. Finally getting global recognition after a long career.

    • @PrincessAndBear
      @PrincessAndBear 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Exactly! Why not create a non-profit organisation and put all his money in there to help people in need! That would bring me more joy and meaning to my life than creating sadistic games to entertain myself and other rich assholes!

    • @PrincessAndBear
      @PrincessAndBear 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      That’s why I have zero sympathy for the old man! I find it annoying that TV and movies nowadays are making excuses for villains and turn them into sympathetic characters. We’re all responsible for our actions no matter what happened to us and our circumstances. For example you can’t be an asshole and treat people horribly at work then say it’s because you’re going through a tough time in your personal life! Bullshit!

    • @EmbeddedWithin
      @EmbeddedWithin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@PrincessAndBear Dr Doofrensmiechn: Hold my Beer-inator

    • @javiervillarrealdelbueno1687
      @javiervillarrealdelbueno1687 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Totally agree

    • @dianeridley9804
      @dianeridley9804 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Let's all go to the stratosphere! We don't need no stinking astronaut!

  • @dylanfalcone3301
    @dylanfalcone3301 3 ปีที่แล้ว +720

    Another thing I feel like no one is talking about is how every player has a chip implanted behind their ear when they arrive, maybe that’s how they’re able to know where the players are at all times? Even when they’re back in the real world?

    • @nodiggity9472
      @nodiggity9472 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      But that is for the player's protection. The easier option would be for the game organisers to just kill everyone who decided not to play. This way, they don't have to kill everyone. There is obviously a non disclosure agreement in place allowing those people to go back to their lives, one that has consequences if its broken. Break it at your peril. That's as fair as fair can be. An opt out clause that allows people to return to their lives, unmolested. Rules are rules, and everything is above board. No-one is being duped, or lied to.

    • @jokebiscuit1272
      @jokebiscuit1272 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Pppööö

    • @acdesegurgels8663
      @acdesegurgels8663 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@nodiggity9472 makes no sense gi hun goes to the police to talk its not like the police will believe anything someone says without evidence which they wont have ever

    • @bonfirebuffallo789
      @bonfirebuffallo789 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You mean track the one person who was alive?

    • @tashabatiste9177
      @tashabatiste9177 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@bonfirebuffallo789 15 people are alive 😊

  • @Xx_Draxxo_xX
    @Xx_Draxxo_xX 3 ปีที่แล้ว +825

    It’s true that he probably wasn’t safe from the big targeting doll in red light green light, but considering he’s probably watched this game plenty of times, he knows exactly when the doll is going to say red light and turn around, especially considering he stopped walking almost every time a split second before the doll turned around.

    • @Lilitha11
      @Lilitha11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +121

      I don't think that requires any special knowledge, and everyone should be able to tell when it was going to turn around. What made him so good at the game was he walked with a very balanced and stable stance, where as if you just run you have a harder time coming to a complete stop. After all, most of the people who played the game survived(there was definitely a huge number who died because they ran away, so subtracting those out, it had a higher survival rate).

    • @The-MemeCow
      @The-MemeCow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      But the games are different every time

    • @Xx_Draxxo_xX
      @Xx_Draxxo_xX 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@The-MemeCow are they? I don’t remember seeing or hearing that anywhere but I’m not the most thorough show watcher so maybe I missed that

    • @heralddynast7997
      @heralddynast7997 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yes i agree lil but lol the doll was not even scanning him

    • @justateapot3847
      @justateapot3847 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      The doll wasn’t scanning him, so he definitely was safe

  • @kanishkkala8324
    @kanishkkala8324 3 ปีที่แล้ว +255

    Really felt bad for the mirror manufacturer.He lost his life just because those stupid VIP's were bored and didn't enjoyed seeing him working with strategy.

    • @a.p4066
      @a.p4066 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      He lost his life because of cold-hearted Sang woo who pushed him. He had a 50-50 chance until Sang woo gave him no choice

    • @stopplayingwiththefuckingi2054
      @stopplayingwiththefuckingi2054 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@a.p4066that’s not the point of the show, it is a critique of capitalism and how it drives regular working people to drastic measures in these conditions. Sang Woo wouldn’t have pushed him if the VIPs didn’t demand the lights be shut off

    • @a.p4066
      @a.p4066 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@stopplayingwiththefuckingi2054
      Sang Woo pushed him because Sang Woo made the DECISION to push him, just like Gihun made the DECISION to spare Sang Woo’s life and forfeit the entire winning prize

    • @unoqualunque5484
      @unoqualunque5484 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Fr, that is just another example of the hypocrisy of the game

    • @cristhofferdiazsantana6354
      @cristhofferdiazsantana6354 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      The dude knew how to identify the glass but watched them all die. He was stalling, could have tried to win right there. I'd have pushed him too

  • @keiarash5058
    @keiarash5058 3 ปีที่แล้ว +531

    I interpreted Ilnam's death differently. I saw it as symbolism of his mind being unable to accept the reality of his actions. Evil people rarely believe that they are evil. Their ego will create a rationalisation as to why their bad deeds are justified. In Ilnams case, he believed that he was doing the less fortunate members of society a favour. Despite the 1/456 survival rate and sadistic nature of the game, he justified this by believing no-one else in society would help these people. When he was on his death-bed, he was so confident in his belief that he bets that the homeless man would be left outside to freeze. When someone finally comes to help the homeless man, his illusion is shattered. He was forced to face the fact that people in society do care, and are willing to help the less fortunate. He no longer had a reason to justify all the killing caused by the game. His mind cannot handle the fact that he's nothing more than a monster, which is why he is shown to die almost instantly.

    • @Waters..
      @Waters.. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      OMG this is the first time I’ve seen this interpretation and I LOVEEEE IT!

    • @angellightraven8257
      @angellightraven8257 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      He should have shared all his money for free, instead of making them to play a survival stupid game

    • @anonymousperson4370
      @anonymousperson4370 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@angellightraven8257 But he didn't, his ego and hubris contorted his ideals of humanity and society so much so that his vanity and pride prevented him from seeing any wrong in his work. He considers himself morally justifiable up until the end, which makes his character so intrinsically evil yet so interesting.

    • @astraldirectrix
      @astraldirectrix 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@anonymousperson4370 Might I add that it’s entirely possible Il-nam’s childhood took place during WWII (when Imperial Japan occupied Korea), and he lived through the Korean War and the aftermath. He probably bore witness to so much death, destruction and heinous atrocities that he came to believe that humans are inherently good for nothing beyond it, and compassion is a sham. His way to escape it was to make so much money he would never suffer again, but what he didn’t expect was that pleasure would also lose its meaning.

    • @glossygalaxydiaries2806
      @glossygalaxydiaries2806 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Perfect example of how a narcissist is...they never accept their wrongdoings

  • @Cole_blooded97
    @Cole_blooded97 3 ปีที่แล้ว +232

    I really hope season 2 addresses what happened to those 14 players that decided not to reenter the game.

    • @mamawhereareyouu5286
      @mamawhereareyouu5286 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That would be cool

    • @fentpusher
      @fentpusher 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      they either were k1ll3d in the outside world or they were recruited as soldiers

    • @Anh2V
      @Anh2V 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@fentpusher or they are being monitored

    • @AleTitan
      @AleTitan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I'm thinking they keep tabs on them and maybe send the invite again.

    • @adithyagowda4642
      @adithyagowda4642 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      they didn't

  • @unknown1239
    @unknown1239 3 ปีที่แล้ว +653

    One thing I love about Squid game is *Front man's Mask.*

    • @tomthecat9317
      @tomthecat9317 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Agree bro

    • @Tabirus1661
      @Tabirus1661 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same

    • @zeheid
      @zeheid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The Moyai Emoji personalized. 🗿

    • @JohnS-il1dr
      @JohnS-il1dr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Darth Vader should have upgraded to that mask

    • @khakala97
      @khakala97 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @yeti gaming tf2 they are happy.. trigger happy

  • @kreativekudi8547
    @kreativekudi8547 3 ปีที่แล้ว +401

    He wanted to have fun in playing in the games.. he did put his life at risk...but he had some advantages
    During red light green light..I saw this theory that the doll does not detect player il naam..and he was the only one who was smiling and happy while all others were scared...during the midnight fight he was actually helped by the team of the front man to get to the top where no one could kill him...the tug of war was risky but since he knew the perfect strategy it was somewhat less risky...during marbles if u saw he was the only one sitting in the corner not choosing anyone coz he thought that no one would choose the old man and he would easily escape since people would have thought he was killed...but since gi hun chose him...he tricked him till the end and waited for everyone else to either die or leave and then let gi hun win...bcoz he could not take the risk of the glass stepping stones games since anyone could push him and he didn't know the order.....also bcoz he had to attend the vips..so ya he is a mastermind

    • @wrf8245
      @wrf8245 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      his strategy failed in tug of war

    • @MistaLister
      @MistaLister 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      In tug of war, he wasn't locked to the rope like the others were. He had the wrist straps, but no padlock

    • @WhamBamTySam
      @WhamBamTySam 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Yeah, he really was just playing for fun. He wasn't playing for money, he wasn't intending to play all the games, and he probably wasn't ever in any *real* danger. He just wanted to feel alive again, one last time. Everyone, playing like children, when you had nothing but games.

    • @TheGreatestSpy4life
      @TheGreatestSpy4life 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@MistaLister
      That was debunked. You can clearly see his locks when they're all leaning backwards

    • @oahuhawaii2141
      @oahuhawaii2141 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's right! After tug-of-war, there are 40 survivors, but the doctor is caught and killed, so the marbles game starts with 39 survivors, leaving 1 unpaired. If it's him, he can be passed off as "killed", and nobody will suspect anything. As it happened, the prostitute is unpaired, but she is allowed to go on to the glass bridge game.

  • @powerkraze9996
    @powerkraze9996 3 ปีที่แล้ว +257

    I never cried during a movie or show, until I watched the marble game.

    • @beater_y363
      @beater_y363 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Cuz emotional attachment related deaths started with marble game.

    • @jinsakai3752
      @jinsakai3752 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That episode was so strong. Ali realizing he is done for and the scene with Il Nam and Gi Hun. Super sad.

    • @missawsum4918
      @missawsum4918 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      i have cried before but not often but i was really sad during that episode and and last ones too

    • @oahuhawaii2141
      @oahuhawaii2141 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well, how did you feel when you found out Il-nam wasn't dead, and in fact, was the one behind these games of death? Betrayed? Can't take back those tears.

    • @AceCorr
      @AceCorr 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @jinsakai3752 How about that man and his wife? The man had to kill his wife to spare his own life.

  • @siihamoamm4490
    @siihamoamm4490 3 ปีที่แล้ว +538

    The game in the beginning was without informed consent and even after people were informed and given a chance to leave it's still extremely unethical because they exploited the people's desperation for money which they themselves created. And the way they treated the game as entertainment is highly dehumanizing.

    • @TKUA11
      @TKUA11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maybe, although I felt like everyone in the game was such an idiot and an F up that they deserved to die. They just mess everyone’s lives up

    • @nickname-kr1yx
      @nickname-kr1yx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      They lacked a capacity to contract due to economic duress. The legal system has laws regarding capacity to contract for those who are under the age of majority, mentally impaired, intoxicated or subject to physical or economic duress for a reason. The host knows that the contestants have nowhere else to turn. He knows that most of them suffer addictions, are incompetent or at least have a history of making irrational decisions out of desperation. If we really want to get in the weeds of it, the contract lacks consideration on the part of the contestants, which would make it unenforceable. The consideration was the lives of the players, which was not explicitly stated in the contract. One might argue that the consideration was the performance of the players, but that is clearly not true as they only add money into the piggy bank when a player dies.

    • @katliit9442
      @katliit9442 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The old mans logic is that they would have died on the outside world or suffered a lot more (like the guy freezing on the street final episode) compared to the consequent deaths in squid game. His logic is that the deaths in the game are just putting them out of their misery and suffering, and that humanity is unjust.
      Still a stupid logic because with that money he could have helped donate it or something instead of putting people out of their misery

    • @davidskelly3046
      @davidskelly3046 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@katliit9442 Charity is a crap shoot. It does nothing to address the "root" problem of poverty and the money eventually is exhausted. So in the end it solves nothing and is unlikely other billionaires will follow example once the money supply runs out and you have nothing to show for.
      The old man at least died having fun which was his entire motive for hosting the Game.

    • @oahuhawaii2141
      @oahuhawaii2141 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@davidskelly3046: Yes, getting rid of a few poor peoples' debt usually doesn't solve their underlying problems with money. It only lets them continue on to get into more debt. And the rich will still run out of money before all the other folks' debts are covered. The average 2020 US household debt is $140,416, while the median was $65,000. A million dollars will spare 7 to 16 typical households.

  • @erwin5731
    @erwin5731 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4924

    No matter how complex his character is, nothing can justify murdering innocent people for entertainment

    • @breadfdx
      @breadfdx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +149

      Survival of the fittest

    • @josephmalham725
      @josephmalham725 3 ปีที่แล้ว +510

      @@breadfdx luckily evolution isn’t about man made death traps. also evolution is not survival of the fittest if it was snails wouldn’t exist but here they are just snailing around

    • @massy6453
      @massy6453 3 ปีที่แล้ว +132

      You just described capitalism. :)

    • @theduke9510
      @theduke9510 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      Even if it may be for entertainment, the point is that they all got a relatively fair chance to get back onto their feet. In the first game, with the first player death, it should have been obvious by then that elimination meant death. They all even signed the legally binding agreement. Hell, they even came back after Il-Nam gave an opportunity for them to leave. It was also clear he wanted the fairness to continue by his dislike of the midnight slaughtering and fights. They had a chance to leave, and the innocence may not be true for all of them. Some, like Gi-Hun, yes. But others like Deok-su and his team of gangsters were clearly not.
      Even though they were gangsters, they were all given a fair and equal chance.

    • @bbboston6275
      @bbboston6275 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      If you think incident people are drug abusers gamblers criminals muderers than yes

  • @evilempryss
    @evilempryss 3 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    Il-nam said "If anyone," pauses to look significantly at Gi-hun, "goes to help the drunk before [midnight], you win". I fully expected Gi-hun to go down and help the man himself, which would have fit with his personality, and was disappointed he didn't. He could have at least called the police to check on him.

    • @evilempryss
      @evilempryss 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@space_2804 Because 1) it fits with his character to help the person and 2) he'd win the game

    • @livgeneral6487
      @livgeneral6487 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      That's what I was thinking of I thought he was gonna run down and help him b4 the time ran out cause of the way it was worded but nope

    • @AK-mf1bo
      @AK-mf1bo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Gi hun was not in his complete mentally and physically fit state. For one year he had been living like a hobo and he was in an emotional turmoil when he found out il nams true identity. He needed answers at that time, that's why he stayed and simply listened to the old guy.

    • @Luffywillfindit
      @Luffywillfindit 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@evilemprysshe was never that selfless you missed part of his character

    • @gavinferguson2938
      @gavinferguson2938 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      ​@@LuffywillfinditBut just because he is selfish it doesnt make him wrong. Hes right in that the games are unjust and that the world *does* need to change. People being selfish and irrational is a product of extreme circumstance, so naturally the solution should be to reduce the frequency of those circumstances for as many people as possible rather than further entrenching them via punching down the weak. Thats not to say people arnt inherantly selfish, only to say that they dont *need* to act that way.

  • @Coophack6584
    @Coophack6584 3 ปีที่แล้ว +692

    Still hoping for the Floor is Lava game in the America contest

    • @notzai428
      @notzai428 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mhm

    • @EmbeddedWithin
      @EmbeddedWithin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Still hoping for the lava is floor in the America contest

    • @scottlette
      @scottlette 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why not a real life re-enactment of Fortnite or a team FPS or death match?

    • @Bobbing4Fries
      @Bobbing4Fries 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      USA:
      Game 1: Floor is lava
      Game 2: Cats Cradle
      Game 3: hide and seek
      Game 4: tag
      Game 5: monkey bars
      Game 6: DODGEBALL

    • @vinxtorian
      @vinxtorian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Bobbing4Fries never heard of cats cradle, what is that?

  • @LittleDP05
    @LittleDP05 3 ปีที่แล้ว +130

    I don't think the staff of squid game would keep an eye on the people who didn't return to just kill them. More like they'll keep an eye on the people who will live another year of their own personal hell and then invite them again to the squid games. They'll end up being more desperate and more willing to accept the invitation

    • @ive-3692
      @ive-3692 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      That’s exactly what I thought too! They don’t gain anything from those people dying outside the game

    • @oahuhawaii2141
      @oahuhawaii2141 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The 14 left the game, knowing what had happened on that island. They must be monitored in case they raise a public stink about the game. The other folks in the game will be (or are already) dead, except the winner, who likely will be happy to get such a large windfall and won't complain.

  • @jaxz7676
    @jaxz7676 3 ปีที่แล้ว +159

    What I’d really like to know is; what would they have done if EVERYONE panicked during the first game and got shot ? How do they get away with 455 people suddenly going missing ? (Excluding the old man obviously)
    And also how have they gotten away with it since 1988 ?? Surely there would be more suspicion over hundreds of people disappearing every year ?

    • @sports_xf1
      @sports_xf1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Well, they were on the toppest of the social hierarchy, so they could simply bribe off the ones who should catch them for doing such a thing, or maybe they have control over this stuff.

    • @acdesegurgels8663
      @acdesegurgels8663 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Its so obvious why police wont look after those people

    • @jaxz7676
      @jaxz7676 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@sports_xf1 it leads me to believe the police are actually fully aware, that would maybe explain why the officer in the second episode doesn’t believe anything Seong tells him

    • @Alex-ym5ox
      @Alex-ym5ox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Cops aren't going to invest much time investigating missing people that are mostly criminals. Sang-woo had some serious agents after him so that's a rare case where I feel like they could really get close to becoming aware of the games. But also, Jeffery Epstein bribed every level of authority and accountability during his entire life, so rich people truly do get away with complex schemes like this.

    • @johnpark7972
      @johnpark7972 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      There’s about 500 people that go missing every year so it won’t look too suspicious. Plus if they’re heavily in debt or criminals on the run, they’ll just think they fled to another country or suicide or murdered

  • @shakebshansfdj
    @shakebshansfdj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +405

    I felt bad for gi hun at the time of 001s death but when I found out he was the host I was just mad

    • @DoubleOhSevenThe3rd
      @DoubleOhSevenThe3rd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      We’re all with u on that bro

    • @yesthisismyname9977
      @yesthisismyname9977 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      The last revelation kinda made the marble game with 001 less emotional

    • @erm388
      @erm388 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mrteco4236 yes!

    • @lordfarquaad1676
      @lordfarquaad1676 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@mrteco4236 They’re a dream kid 💀 II-nam shouldn’t be hated. That person probably hates Sang-woo too

    • @shakebshansfdj
      @shakebshansfdj 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lordfarquaad1676 true

  • @CZsWorld
    @CZsWorld 3 ปีที่แล้ว +773

    He's the same Numba One from Kids Next Door right?

    • @Pyroxinee
      @Pyroxinee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Wut

    • @rockmag1
      @rockmag1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      @@Pyroxinee if I translate u saying wut it says fury lol

    • @iregretthisentertainment6033
      @iregretthisentertainment6033 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@rockmag1 RED DISCORD IS FURRY CONFIRMED!!!!!

    • @arlettejaramillo1
      @arlettejaramillo1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@rockmag1 ya bro it says fury

    • @juancg1060
      @juancg1060 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @•Who_Knows• fury

  • @realizedpotential6640
    @realizedpotential6640 3 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    8:43 actually when they're all laying on the floor its shown that his locks are gone, they were faulty. So the only point he wouldve been in danger would have been when they started killing each other at night and notice how the frontman didnt stop it until Il Nam said he was scared.

  • @rohangeorgekoshy6234
    @rohangeorgekoshy6234 3 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    This show is so well written

    • @starlightrains
      @starlightrains 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      aside from the vip voice lines

    • @rohangeorgekoshy6234
      @rohangeorgekoshy6234 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@starlightrains dude fr that sucked eh

    • @Micolashcage1
      @Micolashcage1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ehh. There are many flaws, but its entertaining nonetheless.
      Screenrants did a good job at revealing the writing issues

  • @justateapot3847
    @justateapot3847 3 ปีที่แล้ว +432

    Something that I never got is the games and how they didn’t match up with the philosophy behind them. Okay, so we’ve established that the games are meant to give equal treatment to the players since they faced inequality from the outside world, and this message is held during red light, green light and the honeycomb shape game, but what about tug of war or the glass game? In tug of war, the men were unfairly given the upper hand because of biology, and the glass game gave the players who had the higher numbers a definitive chance of winning compared to those who picked the lower numbers. Hell, one of the players ended up getting severely wounded not from the game itself, but because the glass accidentally punctured her stomach at the end of it. It’s more like a game of chance instead of a game where actual strategy needs to be used.
    Edit: guys, I know the VIPS and the host are supposed to be hypocrites. It’s just weird how none of the other characters seemed to call this out or realise that some of the games were absolute BS compared to others.

    • @Kiahhhhhhhh
      @Kiahhhhhhhh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      True

    • @namik0644
      @namik0644 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      I'm guessing the reasoning behind that is because they got to choose who was on their team or who goes next

    • @donnabzzzd6208
      @donnabzzzd6208 3 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      I thought the players being allowed to kill other players outside the games/in the dorm rooms were not fair at all.

    • @reezwave
      @reezwave 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@donnabzzzd6208 this

    • @songroid4847
      @songroid4847 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Bcuz That is real world.

  • @skyreaperskyreaper6453
    @skyreaperskyreaper6453 3 ปีที่แล้ว +190

    “Spoilers ahead”
    Front man: so you have chosen death

  • @sophieamandaleitontoomey9343
    @sophieamandaleitontoomey9343 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    I don’t care what anyone says.
    That final scene with him and Gi-Hun is fantastic and thought provoking and it is the perfect catalyst for Gi-Hun’s rebirth.

  • @Graenolf
    @Graenolf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1483

    Your take on him being the son of God is next level 👌

  • @TheArtofGuitar
    @TheArtofGuitar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    Glad you're having a great time making these. I know that's when I make my best videos. It's almost unreal how we get to do something fun and so many people actually watch it.

    • @doctorpatientmoon
      @doctorpatientmoon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      wait am I actually the 1st like 😃

    • @sugarhoneybee2979
      @sugarhoneybee2979 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Rly just patting yourself on the back with this comment aren’t u

    • @realmrjangoon
      @realmrjangoon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      woah didnt expect you here!

    • @patrickgambill9326
      @patrickgambill9326 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is the crossover I didn't expect!

  • @brandonmiles8174
    @brandonmiles8174 3 ปีที่แล้ว +190

    Of course it's an allegory. Not just the games and the whole setup, but even the character arcs from the North Korean moving south for opportunity only to force herself to have to literally die for a shot at a good life with her throat cut by the capitalist while down and weak, already dying; along with the Pakistani immigrant getting fooled into handing over his wealth with the promise of life and prosperity for both, to the final battle to the death being between two life long friends who had been separated by the capitalist class structure. The two of which, one is a poor worker who watched a fellow striking Union member get killed by the police which helped push him into mental health issues likely leading to gambling addiction, and the other went to a nice school which protected him into a career in finance and investment capital in which it's yet another textbook case of theft, fraud and taking the life savings from his working class small business mother and gambling it away, and in the end the worker still tried to let the capitalist live in poverty and justice for his actions, but the capitalist chose to forego having to deal with the consequences of his actions. It's all there so clear to see if you're looking at all. Then there's the fact that the entire reason for the creation of the deadly games were due to the alienation of the rich man caused by the conditions of the capitalist society.

    • @TKUA11
      @TKUA11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yeah the starving North Korean runs to South Korea and lives a “terrible” life, while not starving to death. Communism in North Korea is a lot better, since everyone starved there equally and fairly

    • @austinhernandez2716
      @austinhernandez2716 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TKUA11 many people in capitalist countries starve.

    • @arz9437
      @arz9437 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@austinhernandez2716 u clearly did not get his point. read it again

    • @daddyfett9857
      @daddyfett9857 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@TKUA11 i guess kim jong un is starving too?

    • @crypticcryptid4702
      @crypticcryptid4702 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@TKUA11 I'm pretty sure her arc was to show that both systems have their issues. Notice how she stays silent when asked which ones worse? Also I'm pretty sure North Korea is not Communist, and also also, the reason why North Korea is in such dire straits is less to do with their economical structure, ignoring the government structure, but more to the fact that during the war that split the country, the North was bombed heavily and they received no external help, unlike the South.

  • @067s_wife6
    @067s_wife6 3 ปีที่แล้ว +154

    I think they killed the ones who didn’t return. Remember when o ill nahm met 456 at that gas station and convinced him to play the games?? I think he did that because 456 had been nice to him and he wanted to spare his life.

    • @fffdddfdfgffhfhhfyr3546
      @fffdddfdfgffhfhhfyr3546 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Why would they kill them? That makes no sense. The only "correct" thing the organizers of the game did is following their own rules, and not breaking them. When most players voted to stop the game, they indeed stopped it. The winner indeed got his prize money. So why would they kill those who decided not to return, if that's allowed by their rules? The people who didn't return are not a threat, as they don't know the place of the game, and didn't see any faces. So while the old man clearly wanted them to return, he didn't force them.

    • @coenhealy-johnson5194
      @coenhealy-johnson5194 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@fffdddfdfgffhfhhfyr3546 they could have killed them to stop them from talking to police etc

    • @bababababababa6124
      @bababababababa6124 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@coenhealy-johnson5194 what’s to stop the winner from talking to the police though…?? Or why would they let them vote and leave in the first place?
      If they’re gonna kill the non-returners for knowing about it then they may as well kill everyone on the outside who knows including Gi-hun
      Or they may as well just gun down everyone there who voted no anyway, not much worse than what they were doing anyway
      It’s more likely they just monitor them to stop them from talking instead
      Then again I don’t work at the show so I wouldn’t know

    • @nodiggity9472
      @nodiggity9472 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@bababababababa6124 When 456 won, even he didn't have a shred of evidence to substantiate such a patently insane story. He had no names, or witnesses, or any idea of where he'd been. It would be like going to the Police and claiming you'd been abducted by aliens, who did experiments on you, stuck probes up your tackhole, then brought you back, unharmed, with nothing to show for it except 40 odd billion dollars in your bank account. They'd just stick you in a nuthouse, and you'd never get to see any of that money again.

    • @fffdddfdfgffhfhhfyr3546
      @fffdddfdfgffhfhhfyr3546 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@coenhealy-johnson5194 Well, Gi-Hun tried that in episode 2. And what? The policemen just laughed at him. The players have no evidence about the game at all.

  • @jeffha4057
    @jeffha4057 3 ปีที่แล้ว +172

    Did Gi-hun ever pay off his debts? He signed away his kidney, but it's never stated how he got out of that if he never touched the money he won.

    • @wpww9506
      @wpww9506 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      He bought bodyguards

    • @Earth.To.Marsss
      @Earth.To.Marsss 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I think he did because when he asked the one guy if he could borrow 10,000 won, he looked very simaller to the one guy threatening to take his kidney

    • @owenonrs
      @owenonrs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      I actually thought about this maybe shark loans and the bank are connected to the games and use the debt people are in to lure them into playing so once gi hun joined the game the debt collectors job was done

    • @designexplainedllc346
      @designexplainedllc346 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Earth.To.Marsss The best thing he could have done was end the game, since 100 million won would have been given to the family of each person who died in the games.

    • @impotatochippppppppp4639
      @impotatochippppppppp4639 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      He had to pay for the haircut and hair dye so he probably gave the loan sharks the money he owes, so he had to use the money to pay for the haircut and the debt

  • @lexideclue
    @lexideclue 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    IM OBSESSED WITH THESE VIDEOS! I watched Squid Game & wasn’t clear on so many things. Now that I’m watching your videos the whole show makes so much more sense! PLEASE MAKE MORE 🥰

  • @mihneazoican2479
    @mihneazoican2479 3 ปีที่แล้ว +186

    Sooo… what about the glass panes? All the other games were about doing something well. The last one is pure luck, and we can see the last 3 players are the ones who come out alive. When the glass engineer tried to tell the panes apart, they cut the lights, bringing them back to luck. Also Sae-Byeok’s death felt really cheap. She won the game but died from a random glass shard. Exploding glass killing somebody isn’t rocket science, they just didn’t care.
    Tl;dr - I just feel the last game goes against everything they claim to do with these games.
    Any opinions on this?

    • @batjackattack5556
      @batjackattack5556 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      ig after the marbles fake fairness isn’t on the player’s kind anymore. not even the money is important, just being alive is all that matters. and the vips and the game makers don’t acc care abt the players, so it’s no big deal if one gets impaled unfairly.

    • @nathanielbendahan7214
      @nathanielbendahan7214 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Great point. I think it's likely another allegory to capitalism. The previous games gave the illusion that skill and hustle were a factor in winning the competition, but clearly, this final game showed that even luck was more important than skill. In the same way that a capitalist society gives us the illusion of upward social mobility with education or skill.

    • @mihneazoican2479
      @mihneazoican2479 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@nathanielbendahan7214 strictly plot-wise, I think it was made to please the VIPs. It’s the largest arena, very.. flashy, for lack of a better term. And the VIPs clearly don’t care about fairness, it’s all about entertainment, and being on the edge of your seat not knowing if the player you betted on is going to fall or not seems fairly entertaining

    • @carolynewaithera3554
      @carolynewaithera3554 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      During glass walk...saw it unfair when the glass maker was correctly identifying the glass due to his experience in his glass making industry,but the foreman switched off the lights.
      That was unfair game according to me

    • @yankoelgueta1116
      @yankoelgueta1116 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yea that game was bullshit

  • @anthonyzeal6263
    @anthonyzeal6263 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    It never occurred to me that the contradiction of the games fairness would be an expression of how we’re told that the free market is fair.. but some that dominate lobby and change rules to suit their own interests.

    • @mrfreeman2911
      @mrfreeman2911 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The free market is fair.
      The issue is PEOPLE. Human beings.
      It is the greedy who keep everyone else down.
      If it wasn't capitalism is would be another system. There is sadly no way of controlling human nature, else you destroy humanity.
      Many films/books and real history have shown this.
      So many of these things are not critiques of the system, but of the people.
      You think the poor would be different if they were the rich?
      See Kaiji (the japanese anime this seems to be inspired by). It shows the nature of humans much more.

  • @Some_Guy6
    @Some_Guy6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I liked him so much. Him being the Korean Squid game mastermind was quite a shock.

  • @brahmandsaraswat867
    @brahmandsaraswat867 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    I believe Il - nam ideology would be -
    'It is better for 1 person to live happily than 500 person living miserably (a condition worse than death)'
    'Even if I share the money in all, they would eventually grow and fight with each other than helping someone in need'
    'We can see in games, when it comes the condition to save our lives, we doesn't care even it means to kill other 455 person's, And he believes people will behave same in outside world, where for money and better living they won't care to even kill others'
    BUT ALL THESE ARE SILLY EXCUSES PRESENTED BY SOMEONE WHO RAN FROM THEIR RESPONSIBILITY AND NOW EXPLAINING WHY 'HE WAS RIGHT!'

    • @Qwerty_30154
      @Qwerty_30154 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ali just disproves all of II-nam's reasons

  • @chrisxavier1848
    @chrisxavier1848 3 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    I knew 001 was in on it since he found 456 in the real world.

    • @CxerRy96
      @CxerRy96 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I was sure it was him because it was extremely coincidental to me that out of all the people the first one they pick up was some random old man with a tumor since there was no one else similar...my logic is that he's #1 because he's a returning player, possibly for decades, which is why he's so old but they still let him keep the #1 suggesting he's the "first"...even though my path of thinking was never revealed as true or untrue it led me to a good conclusion regardless

    • @liteasura6111
      @liteasura6111 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Based on this logic, the childhood friend is also in on it then since he found Ali

    • @rdr33
      @rdr33 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@liteasura6111 Not really, as they were dumped together after the games were stopped. Like Gi-hun and Sae-byeok.

    • @kingcolor6417
      @kingcolor6417 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I grew suspicious on him when I found out he could afford a doctor.

    • @ive-3692
      @ive-3692 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kingcolor6417 ohh

  • @yogioto
    @yogioto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    If we are honest we all trade humanity for financial stability. Every manager tricking you into unpaid extra hours does it, every parent lying to their kids b/c they cannot successfully argue yet...

    • @Kazemahou
      @Kazemahou 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Humanity wants the world this way. Humans are trapped by their hunter-gatherer-raider biology. If humans were capable of truly sharing, of eliminating tribalism, of working together as equals, there would be no nations, no wars, and things like communism and socialism would actually work. But they don't, because corruption always sets in. Humans cannot feel successful, unless they can compare that success to the misfortune of many others. Humans need other humans to suffer below them, so that they can feel above and better than others. In short, humans, like all great apes, require status to feel fulfilled. Status is hierarchy, and can only exist at the expense of others.
      And while I do not hate humanity for this - they literally cannot help it, it is how they evolved - I do pity them, and rationally, there is no possible path to a compassionate, ethical, equal world. The species just cannot exist like that - it goes against their very biology. It is a tragedy.
      The only real hope I can see for Mankind, is if it can somehow redesign itself - uploading to a machine existence, nanotech, genegineering, something, anything - to make itself no longer truly human anymore. Humanity is innately cursed by the very nature that allowed it to become the dominant predator on the planet - not merely of other animals, but of itself.

  • @DoubleStudentLoans
    @DoubleStudentLoans 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Something to note: when his heart reader flat lines it apparently shows that it wasn’t properly connected, likely intentional (from a director’s standpoint) to either hint he could still be alive, or to make us theorize that he’d be

  • @jaycee5036
    @jaycee5036 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    These squid game videos are so entertaining, MOREEEE!!!

  • @apostatelizzy6836
    @apostatelizzy6836 3 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    Excellent analysis! I love how art sparks conversation about real world concepts. For me, the most important takeaway is INFORMED CONSENT! Ironically, because I grew up in a religion (Mormonism) that denies people their right to informed consent and manipulates, indoctrinates and tricks them, now as an adult I consider it to be an obvious expectation.

    • @DoubleOhSevenThe3rd
      @DoubleOhSevenThe3rd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Great point

    • @elamrani1449
      @elamrani1449 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      100% agree with your point about religion. this whole thing of ilnam claiming everyone chose to be part of the game reminds me of how people are indoctrinated into religions from their childhood but coaxed into being told that it was their choice.

    • @apostatelizzy6836
      @apostatelizzy6836 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@elamrani1449 yup. In mormonism, kids are baptized at 8 years old. They are taught from birth that it is a lifelong commitment (to the church) that extends into eternity! You get a party and everyone celebrates your special day; the day you not only join the tribe and truly become part of the eternal family, but the one day where you will be the most “pure and clean” spirit in the world. With all the familial and societal pressure and expectation most kids in Mormonism don’t even realize there is actually a choice. It’s just a given that they will get baptized, or go on a mission, or get married in the temple. Or even stay a member of the religion! A choice?! Hah! 😂🙄

    • @LizzyCriss
      @LizzyCriss 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@apostatelizzy6836 I am still a member and love the church, but I didn't know what baptism meant when I was 8! 😂 Many years later, I wished I hadn't gotten baptized until I was much older and understood what it was.

    • @valentina-blossom
      @valentina-blossom หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same with Islam. I've left now but it reminds me a lot of it.

  • @ficosmedellin1492
    @ficosmedellin1492 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    What's not explained: how the letter got into the boiled egg...

    • @superfluousnscrupulous
      @superfluousnscrupulous 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Plot convenience is a hell of a thing

    • @CaityRaindrop
      @CaityRaindrop 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I assume some sort of thicker barreled needle to insert the scroll

    • @ficosmedellin1492
      @ficosmedellin1492 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@CaityRaindrop there was shell...i think

    • @CaityRaindrop
      @CaityRaindrop 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@ficosmedellin1492 you can seal the small egg hole with wax, farmers did this to mark chick's with their origin (parents)

    • @patricklutherwinchester4260
      @patricklutherwinchester4260 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Also how there is plenty of and a concrete market of human organ trafficking/harvesting.

  • @Nevverhrrt
    @Nevverhrrt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Great analysis! I saw a whole video by another creator about how "Number 001 did nothing wrong" basically making the point that the games were fair and it was all the players faults they were there and the VIPs were benevolent for giving them the chance to make money in the first place and honestly it was the worst take I could have imagined

  • @krw5723
    @krw5723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Damn you killed this! I’ve been waiting for a comprehensive breakdown of all the ways this game was unethical, just to, idk… get rid of the gaslighting feel once and for all. That there was any hint of fairness. I could see it, I could name all the ways, but this was a great essay that’s a good answer to any hint of equality that’s presented to us by Number One.

  • @for.k
    @for.k 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Idk why I watch you at like mid night
    It gives me the chillz

  • @whoistherealmonster4939
    @whoistherealmonster4939 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    One of the best written antagonist and one of the best written protagonist in recent memory. *Chef's kiss*

  • @thedanielstraight
    @thedanielstraight 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Nearly 19 minutes of the best voice on TH-cam? I've already signed up and arrived.

  • @primezilla37
    @primezilla37 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Ali and Sae-Byeoks deaths were so sad, but Il-nams og “death” made me cry before I knew anything of his past

    • @hammalamiri12
      @hammalamiri12 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Nope, I don’t trust old people

  • @angelface333
    @angelface333 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i love your perspective it’s so detailed and empathetic

  • @scotie1536
    @scotie1536 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Theres a moment where the front man answer the phone and tells someone on the other side “im glad you enjoyed the game sir” “our host is waiting for the vips now” so there must still be people higher than him and maybe different facilities with different host

  • @IDKbruh420
    @IDKbruh420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    More squid game videos please, your videos are the most in depth and overall the best about this show

  • @MPIO2023
    @MPIO2023 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Squid Game: *EXISTS*
    Bryce Edward Brown: *STONKS*

  • @TheTrueMariWho
    @TheTrueMariWho 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Oh Il Nam is still one of my favorites.
    He might also be the main guy’s father.
    Also:
    Square = Manager
    Triangle = Soldier (only ones with guns)
    Circle = Worker

    • @jadeorbigoso5212
      @jadeorbigoso5212 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Squares have 38 caliber revolvers

  • @SuperStingray
    @SuperStingray 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I have mixed feelings about his big reveal at the end. On one hand, it was a fitting and thematic conclusion to the story, testing Gi-Hun's ability to trust and fairly judge other humans, but on the other hand I think it undermines his character development throughout the series. I get that there were hints to it along the way, but he was honestly one of the most powerful and believable portrayals of dementia I've seen in any medium and it's a shame the show couldn't just own that.

  • @lucaxxrio1088
    @lucaxxrio1088 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I’ve loved all the episodes so far, keep it up! ❤️

  • @sjen2562
    @sjen2562 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    My thoughts are the 14 players who did not choose to participate when the games were restarted were "eliminated" aka killed due to the second clause of the agreement. "Any players who refuse to play the games are eliminated."
    The front man also mentioned to keep an eye on them, yet the cash prize at the end was still 45.6 billion won. How could the total reward still be this much if the 14 people were not eliminated?
    Perhaps the front man mention keep an eye on them and then off screen he ordered his men to kill the remaining 14 when round 2 game of honeycomb began. As the games have started, yet they "refused to play" due to being in the real world

    • @Anh2V
      @Anh2V 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Eliminated doesn't automatically mean dead dude

    • @Anh2V
      @Anh2V 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Then what the old man said in the final episode is very hypocrital, that they had a choice to leave the game when he was gonna kill them anyway.

    • @briandunfee4326
      @briandunfee4326 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No. They weren't killed.

    • @oahuhawaii2141
      @oahuhawaii2141 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No, they weren't killed. The games ended after game 1 finished and the survivors voted 101-100 to end them. They were offered a chance to join a continuation of the games, but 14 declined. There was no penalty to them -- they were left to resume with their lives under crushing debt. Perhaps they'll show up in next year's games, died when the organ harvesters took their key body parts, or ...

  • @denverbritto5606
    @denverbritto5606 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    A lot of people repeat the idea that life on the outside is worse than in the games, but that's as much a lie as Il-nam's claims that what he's done is ethical. None of them had good (or even mediocre) options on the outside, but none of those options were as bad as the life or death ones in the games. The only one who really was risking life or death was Deok Su and that was kind of his own fault to be honest.

    • @oahuhawaii2141
      @oahuhawaii2141 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Some of the folks in debt had signed away the rights to their organs when they borrowed from loan sharks. They're unlikely to survive the harvesting procedure.

  • @bouchrat8030
    @bouchrat8030 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    There were a lot of clues before episode 7 that hint to the old man being the boss or at least the boss being an old man. Especially the fact that the game started since 1988(based on the records), which means the boss must be an old person. Also, another fun thing is the old man's name is Oh il nam, "il nam" in korean can be translated as man one or man#1 or even 1st man, therefore his number is 1 and that's who he was the first player/game maker. Il=one, nam=man 😁

  • @emilyh7982
    @emilyh7982 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love reflecting on how in the opening scene Gi-Hun states that playing Squid Game as a child is the last time he felt exhilarated… it makes me think about how competition, like when you’re a kid, is healthy when there isn’t so much at stake- when it isn’t life and death. In the last episode where Gi-Hun suggested quitting right before he could have won, he wasn’t exhilarated, but was demoralized and broken by the game - so much so that he’d give up all that money to quit and leave with his friend. That contrasts with Il-Han’s experience and choice to play. Even though he gave up in marbles. The contestants played the game because they felt like they had to, regardless of the means necessary, not because they wanted to. When you’re a kid you *want* to play and (in many cases) you don’t doubt that you’ll be called home to dinner after.

  • @xXdutchieeeXx
    @xXdutchieeeXx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    Isn’t the front man just reinforcing the rule of equality by turning off the lights on the glass bridge?
    He said that everyone is equal and the fact that number 17 can tell the glass apart isn’t equal with the other players since they can’t tell.
    It’s kinda like the doctor finding out the games before hand, he is the only one who gets to know, and then tells his team, giving them an unfair advantage, so technically the fact that number 17 can tell the glass apart is also an unfair advantage.
    But that’s just what I think.
    Oh and I think a theory on why the front man might always be playing “fly me to the moon” could be interesting.

    • @horizontalnoodlelmao4286
      @horizontalnoodlelmao4286 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      I don't think you can say using a well earned talent is unfair. The strong typically won tug of war, that's not unfair

    • @luiseneas
      @luiseneas 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      The front man is a hypocrite. His ideology is only enforced downward, and whenever he decides it's time to do so.

    • @danko5866
      @danko5866 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@horizontalnoodlelmao4286 True, that's a good point. To be honest, the front man is biased, they hide the info. about death risk before first game, broke rule by showing his face to brother before killing him, and then dimming the lights

    • @Johsther
      @Johsther 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@luiseneas good analysis, say, do you think he'd do that if the VIPs weren't watching? cause I think he only did it because he felt that the VIPs aren't getting entertained

    • @xXdutchieeeXx
      @xXdutchieeeXx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@Johsther probably. But I still think he was enforcing the equality rule, but everyone is entitled to a different opinion, and I’m not gonna be mad if people don’t agree.
      He may also just be following the old man’s rules, because even though the old man is playing in his game this time, that doesn’t stop him shooting the front man for breaking the rules, after all he did create the game and the front man is only second in command, meaning that he’d still have rules to follow.
      So than perhaps he wouldn’t dim the lights if the VIP’s weren’t there, since one if his jobs is to entertain them.
      You can tell that he does have a light side to him, since we do see that come out sometimes, especially when he thinks his brother is dead, we can see him mourning, and regretting that decision later on, he even hesitated, something that he doesn’t do to other people before shooting them.
      If your good at reading body language you can kinda tell what he’s felling in the show, when his body language changes.

  • @TheContrariann
    @TheContrariann 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    It makes me realise how much we miss due to our lack of minute observations
    Sherlock wouldn't have missed it

  • @AlvsAI
    @AlvsAI 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    8:02 I think that the year when the games started has smth to do with the Olympic Games held in Seoul and Il-nam took inspiration from that. He wanted to keep the country on the map and the money flowing in

    • @oahuhawaii2141
      @oahuhawaii2141 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Perhaps it was his version of the Olympics.

  • @whyjordie
    @whyjordie 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    It may have been ethical if they had been warned that they were literally playing for their lives before the red light Green Light challenge

  • @thomasmeyers933
    @thomasmeyers933 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Hi, would be interested in seeing your take on the doctor playing the games that was also part of the harvesting operation

    • @iPanicyt
      @iPanicyt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He already went over that. The Doc was just a normal player which the corrupt guards used since he could remove organs without damaging them. They snatch him up in the middle of the night when he goes to the bathroom and tells him the next game in return for him harvesting organs so they can sell it and make some extra money on the side. They were probably allowed to sell the organs, but the fact that they used a player from the game (since he could get more money than they could due to his experience) they got hung.

    • @supersaiyangod3361
      @supersaiyangod3361 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@iPanicyt they were'nt allowed to tell the contestants what the next game was. So they got executed

    • @oahuhawaii2141
      @oahuhawaii2141 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@supersaiyangod3361: Yeah, doc got an unfair advantage over everyone else, and that episode got Front Man giving his spiel on "fairness".

  • @movingsocks579
    @movingsocks579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +105

    Bro killed 200 something people before they even clarified what "eliminated" means.

    • @patricklutherwinchester4260
      @patricklutherwinchester4260 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That's what they get for not reading the tiny letters or just right away sign the terms haha

    • @margaretaada
      @margaretaada 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      no. only the 1st one didn't know. the rest saw it and knew the rules. move on green light, stop on red light. they panicked and started running, they were dead

    • @Max-xl5kx
      @Max-xl5kx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@margaretaada everyone would panick bruh, they didnt know that they were going to die and the 2nd person didnt even believe that he was dead, it was a perfect trap for entertainment, how are you justifying this are you a sociopath?

    • @Max-xl5kx
      @Max-xl5kx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@patricklutherwinchester4260 did the letters say that eliminated means death? no they didnt if they did sangwoo would have known that

    • @margaretaada
      @margaretaada 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Max-xl5kx I'm trying to justify it by their rules. Besides, there still were people that stood still, which means that they understood the rules.

  • @rashcamindia956
    @rashcamindia956 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    4:42 the rest of the 14 players weren't able to walk away from the game, instead they were killed in the outside world after they left the island, if you closely see that after they have returned, the number on the big screen in the dorm is shown as 187 players, and 26.9 billion won that means that the number has reduced from 201 players to 187 players and they have been killed after deciding not to join the squid games. If the 14 players would have been alive, their part of 100 million won wouldn't have been added to the total sum.

    • @Nobody44112
      @Nobody44112 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I dont think thats True, since They left the games and didnt return, It May be counted the same as getting eliminated in the games (aka dying) so since They didnt come back, They just counted them as eliminated and added the sum.

    • @briandunfee4326
      @briandunfee4326 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i disagree

  • @brandonmiles8174
    @brandonmiles8174 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    In the God metaphor as well, God comes down to his creation to possibly sacrifice himself to save those he loved, and despite Gi-hun's sins against him, still sacrificed himself with the marble game, so that Gi-hun could possibly make it out of hell without having to spend eternity in there.

  • @nnogen5697
    @nnogen5697 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    9:55 your point here is a false equivalence, if gi hun was an expert in licking candy or a candy maker then sure. but all he did was achieve the goal of the game ? the glass manufacturer DID have an advantage over everyone that would’ve meant everyone could survive.

  • @jjanderson1884
    @jjanderson1884 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Gi Hun could easily win the last bet by taking the phone and calling ambulance for the homeless man :)

  • @kjkh3104
    @kjkh3104 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    How the hell are you managing to analyze the movie to such depth?? nice vid

    • @patricklutherwinchester4260
      @patricklutherwinchester4260 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And very precise factual detail. Very good video.

    • @briandunfee4326
      @briandunfee4326 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      smart people.. its hecken weird. like why cant i do that?

    • @oahuhawaii2141
      @oahuhawaii2141 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He could've gone on various forums, collected all the commentary and theories, and then go back to the show to research them.

  • @kjulo88
    @kjulo88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Great video as always. But Number 1 was not in danger in the Tug-of-war game, his shackles are not locked. You can see it on the shot where it pans over all of them laying on the ground just after winning. At least that is what I noticed visually, maybe I am reading too much into it.

    • @alexvaughan1013
      @alexvaughan1013 ปีที่แล้ว

      If Il-nam's team had lost and he was the only survivor, I imagine the other players would realise the games were rigged in his favour and beat the shit out of him.

  • @mailtv910
    @mailtv910 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    I understood "Elon" instead of "Il-nam".

    • @danielx40
      @danielx40 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      He musk have mispronounced.

    • @Lloyd214
      @Lloyd214 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@danielx40 ye

    • @Suite_annamite
      @Suite_annamite 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's possible that in Korean, the letter "L" gets clipped when it is in a cluster of other letter sounds.
      The proper Korean name for "Vietnam" is pronounced "Wollam" (월남, from the Chinese characters, "越南"), even though the second syllable would be rendered as "Nam" if it were on its own.

    • @EmbeddedWithin
      @EmbeddedWithin 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@danielx40 ECKS DEE

    • @emiliosandoval7287
      @emiliosandoval7287 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      THIS AGED WELL.

  • @patricklutherwinchester4260
    @patricklutherwinchester4260 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    1988- present that's over 33 years of Squid Game. And they mention the South Korea version is the best to date.

    • @daviddeida
      @daviddeida 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      More popular today than ever.

    • @johnpark7972
      @johnpark7972 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It’s significant year for our country because it is the year we hosted the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics and really showed our country and name to the world

    • @tatertotfit
      @tatertotfit 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@johnpark7972 oooh are you from South Korea? That is so interesting, so like 1988 is an important year!!?

  • @komal_m
    @komal_m 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Really I appreciate u, thanks for telling the small details which we have missed while watching the series❤️

  • @infernoid404
    @infernoid404 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Oh Il-nam was not safe during tugging game at 8:29 you can see his cuffs are chained to the rope. you can see the chain going from his cuffs to the rope

  • @depthsothenso813
    @depthsothenso813 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I knew he was the host when they shot ill nam, I didn't hear his body collapse.

    • @iPanicyt
      @iPanicyt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      From that logic then Ali could've been the host too?

    • @oahuhawaii2141
      @oahuhawaii2141 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​ @quick schweezy : Next episode showed Ali being put in a box for cremation.

  • @NotFeelingBlauw
    @NotFeelingBlauw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    From your past videos, I didn't get the vibe that you were so "in the know" of how squid game criticizes capitalism. Of course it's mentioned a couple of times but this video was a perfect example! I was pleasantly surprised and even heard a couple of perspectives that I didn't think of myself! Very cool

  • @Chronicle_MV
    @Chronicle_MV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You really give me inspiration to make my own videos on stuff like this. Keep up the good work!!! 😊😊😊

  • @Nock_and_Bolt
    @Nock_and_Bolt 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Literally yes I would watch every single one of those videos if you made one for every character haha-you have such in-depth, thoughtful analyses!

  • @lowlanz
    @lowlanz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    They talk about fairness and equality, but how is playing tug-of-war for life fair when you're a woman or an old man? How is it fair that someone gets to go last when crossing a death bridge and others go first? The director intended these. He is trying to tell that people have different starting point and just giving them the same chances does not mean fairness nor equality.

    • @mostripe480
      @mostripe480 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The game is about equality but not equity. You're right, people have different starting points, and whenever that may be is where they will start, and ofc there is so much irony with that and fairness.

  • @ManFeelsBad
    @ManFeelsBad 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I like how you pronounce his name like “elon” it just sounds like something that elon would have done.

    • @cydneyche1
      @cydneyche1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The fact he kept pronouncing it so wrong smh

    • @emilykaczor6757
      @emilykaczor6757 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah and he says it like 200 times. E Lam. It’s iLL NAM. But whatever.

  • @thecrystaltreasury
    @thecrystaltreasury 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I bet he's still not dead. Looking forward to season 2. ⏺🔼⏹

  • @lanimeyl
    @lanimeyl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    soooo cool, i love your analysis! also, the biblical parallel is fascinating, I like the theory

  • @AdithyaJ.S.Deshapriya
    @AdithyaJ.S.Deshapriya 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This breakdown is legit awesome. Your short but explanative similairities witg the current society makesit very interesting ❤️

  • @bane9951
    @bane9951 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I just thought of this (and this could be a fun thing to try and figure out)
    How much money have the hosts spent on the squid game in total
    They have been running it since '88, and that place doesent look cheap + the prize money

  • @ExplainedThroughRap
    @ExplainedThroughRap 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Great analysis, we came to some similar conclusions in our rap review of Squid Game.
    Great spot that the games started after Black Monday, some great detail on this video thanks very much!

  • @janlangevoort
    @janlangevoort 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Basically the man that stole and made me waste my tears

  • @Eff_It
    @Eff_It 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I swear I would love an Explained video that explains something not completely obvious or that people could not easily find out for themselves.

  • @gaberobison680
    @gaberobison680 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Most participants were killed illegally. In red light, green light, a player behind the starting line is not in the game. Their motion is irrelevant

  • @aussiemozzie107
    @aussiemozzie107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    woah i didn’t know a GUARD uses the gun, he must need to keep track of a lot of people unless they have a radio saying which player is eliminated

    • @cherie..cherry
      @cherie..cherry 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think a part of it that helps the efficiency is the fact there are camera and surveillance everywhere. So everyone is seen. And usually in each game the guards would be right next to the player so if they lost they’d kill them right away, and if not they’d probably get killed too. But everyone is being watched the whole time so not much gets pasts except for the deal with 29 for a while

  • @foodfigh2
    @foodfigh2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    If player 456, the winner, was able to meet player 001, who he thought he had killed in marbles, how was player 001 still alive? Did the triangle guard that “shot” him miss on purpose and then they took him away safely or what?

    • @oahuhawaii2141
      @oahuhawaii2141 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      001 created the games and is the host. He can have a standing order to the guards to not kill him, and only fake his death. 456 thought 001 was dead up until a year after winning the games. When he got the golden card after buying the rose, he saw it had "gganbu" printed on it, and immediately knew who it is. He showed up at the appointed time and place to get answers to his questions.

  • @joseph0998
    @joseph0998 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I’m mad I never caught that he was the host, I even commented on how odd it was that he was so knowledgeable in all the games

  • @MrsMidnight
    @MrsMidnight 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    OMG! What a beautiful reflection on Il Nam’a character! I loved this video and I’m looking forward to see what else you have to say about Squid Game! ⏺🔼⏹

  • @Stringer710
    @Stringer710 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Some say he is the father of The Front Man. Il-nam used to scold his son for not drinking milk. In season 2, The Front Man says he doesn’t drink milk