Nice video, but you missed the fact that the brother (black masked leader) of the detective was concluded that he won 1-3 years ago and has been helping the squid game for a long time. The detective found his brother's name in the book records. Which also concludes why his brother hasn't been keeping up with his family, and why it was normal for him to not respond to the calls by the detective. Only because of the main character going to that police station leaving that card, that connected detective's brother's card.
I have a question about the development of the Pakistani character. This was very intentional and I think it’s a beautiful ode and compliment to Pakistani people. Is this a reflection of love that Koreans have for Pakistanis? He is portrayed as strong, loving, compassionate and innocent and physically strong. The compliments don’t get better than that! I think it’s beautiful and this is why I love Koreans so much!
@@MrHeroicDemon whoa thank you I didn’t put that together. Wow so he got contracted to work after he won? Why would someone wanna go back underground after getting rich? But maybe it’s so traumatizing that reentry into normal life isn’t possible after. I feel that the brother should be alive. I feel like he didn’t get fatally shot and only the fall could kill him unless he fell in deep water. I’m hoping he makes a comeback if the series continues. I also hope to see a new interesting ethnicity in the next season and age range. There are so many possible outcomes with squid game!
The ending with the man dying on the street is not about how 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 game the moment Gi-hun took the bet.
Another thing I noticed: When Gi-Hun and Sae-Byeok are tied up and thrown out into the street after the first game, Sae-Byeok goes to walk away after Gi-Hun unties her. He then swears on his mother that he won't ask her for his money if she unties him. As soon as she unties his hands, he lunges at her demanding his money and breaking his newly made promise. The next time he sees his mother is in the hospital, and the next time afterwards is when she is dead - encapsulating the broken promise.
I have never been so concentrated while reading comments..This comment section is full of theories and I really appreciate the effort that was applied in this series.
@@siddheshpatwardhan4920 They were told to smile. Notice how Sang Woo doesn't smile at all. Also, the guy that showed his middle fingers to the camera, dies first.
The old man faked having dementia and taking his time playing the marble game in order to be the last group of players alive, that way no other group can witness he wasn't shot and surviving, worked out perfectly because of course Gi-hun couldn't bear watching the old man getting shot after taking advantage of him by cheating.
@@florentin4061 sangwoo played it dirty! I first thought that his plan was to have them team up and play against two others making it so get got 20 marbles each. But i was wrong...
At the end, when Il-Nam asked Gi-Hun to bet whether anyone would help the man in the snow, Gi-Hun unwittingly ended up doing exactly what Il-Nam and the VIPs did; betting on whether someone would live or die, instead of just going to help the man himself.
Just like the games, there were many ways to play but only a few figured it out. In the end, they were more alike than expected. Both could change things for the better but chose to bet on the horses.
This one gave me goosebumps, how did I not see it too?! What if you continue that line of thought to what it could be foreshadowing… gi-yun becoming il Nam after accepting that taking down the game is fruitless.
Ali was scammed and taken advantage of by his boss, saying "go ask the other guys if they got paid", later on sang woo uses that very same tactic to win in the marble game.
Sang-Woo tried to commit suicide, died by killing himself. Sae-Byeok held a knife to someone's neck, died by getting her throat slit. Ali took his boss's money, died by getting his marbles stolen. Deok-Su jumped off a bridge to escape the gangsters, died by falling off a class bridge. --VLK (in another video)
@@xeraphyx7903 Before Saebyeok held the knife she also attacked the broker with a glass teapot, she was later injured by glass shards. Also Sangwoo was drenched and submerged in water during both instances.
@@xeraphyx7903 and number 212 (I can’t remember how to spell her name, but she was the one who killed Deok-su) said she felt so powerful leaning back in tug of war and that’s how she basically died. (I watched this on a theory thing bye)
Sang Woo was a psychopath that manipulated Ali with reciprocity, telling him he wouldn’t ask Ali to pay him back (while never letting Ali pay him back to clear his debt and keeping him in a constant state of owing. When Ali tries to pay Sang Woo back, Sang Woo gives Ali half of the food, not fully accepting the favor) when he needs to he reminds Ali of the favors he did for Ali, invoking reciprocity, pressuring Ali to give him a chance.
Some awesome foreshadowing: when the recruiter and Gi are playing the first game, Gi finally wins but forgets about the money and tries to hurt the person that’s been hurting him, shows how he will win the game and instead of enjoying the money he will seek to hurt the people in charge of the game for causing them all so much pain
No no. This moment was for showing that he let the unknown man slap him infront of everybody for money and nothing more than this. This was brilliant scene. I love the actor.
It’s shows his character. He puts his money over character so much so that his only thought was “ maaaaan if I win ima slap the shit out of this guy” it’s not about money for him. And how people will be humiliated for money.
@@youngreap1564 yes exactly. How people can be agree to be humiliated for money. Cz he choose it himself. And licking the honeycomb cookie is about how ppl licking dicks or whatever for money. The whole scene of it is disgusting with that camera angles.
@@youngreap1564 yeah but it’s defnitly about money for him, from the beginning he wouldn’t have done any of this if there wasn’t money involved. I think it also shows human nature, he’s so comfortably in debt that he’d rather return the pain than get the money, short term satisfaction over long term
Did anyone mention that, in episode 9, the '7'th floor meant the seventh game (betting on the drunken man outside) between the old man and Gi-hun? The elevator had only '7' printed on the door.
There's a foreshadowing of the winner in the racecourse scene of episode 1. The 6th and 8th horses were on the same level in horse racing, but the 6th horse reversed and won (Sangwoo: 21"8" main character: 45"6"). In this race, the 3rd place is horse no.7 (saebok: no.6”7”)
Facts!! In that moment I truly believe it's all about personal self preservation!!! No one truly has your back and it proved always protect yourself.... in life, career choices, social environment s, and in economics!!!! When he died, my rose colored glasses came of regarding choices and being smart!!!
If you look at who picked up each player when they decided to go back to the game, only il-nam doesn't have a red driver, but a black one, who is potentially the front man coming to pick him up personally.
Are you sure? I went and rewatched that scene after reading your comment and I think that hand on the steering wheel is in their standard red colour. But it's also pretty hard to tell because of the reflection of those hospital neon signs.
@@MrOs-dn2tj Yeah, he is bullshiting. Maybe he tought that just because we can't clearly see the driver, it must be the Front Man because of his black clothes, but if you stop and look at it, it's obvious that the driver is just leaning back and is covered by the doorframe. Also yeah, their signature red/pinkish colour is clearly visible (if you pause at the right moment) between the reflections of those hospital signs and it that previous shot where we see Il-Nam and the hospital from the front, there is nothing there that could have made that reflection, so it must be the drivers hand.
I was wondering "why even pick him up if he potentially can already be at the games?" But it makes sense that with his brain tumor, he was literally already at the hospital for a routine check-up, so it just worked out in his favor to be picked up like the rest of them for plausible deniability.
One interesting thing is when Frontman found the dead body with Jun-Ho's wallet he instantly stopped actively looking for the intruder, because he knew it was his brother. He also shot Jun-Ho in the shoulder nowhere near his heart, when he normally shot people in the head, because he couldn't stand the sight of killing his own brother. Jun-Ho is not dead and I am certain he will return to the show.
He had to play like he didn’t knew his brother, because he was going to put himself at risk, that’s why he decided to shot him in the Shoulder, to make it look like he wanted to kill him, but he never did.
I didn’t see the twist ending coming and since I hadn’t encountered any spoilers, I’m very glad I was able to enjoy this intriguing series to the fullest! Now, during the aftermath, I’m enjoying on point breakdowns like this and thus expanding the great experience of Squid Game even further.
Agreed. I watched the whole series in one night and looked up breakdown/easter egg vids later and I love seeing all the things I missed. Or seeing the things I noticed were noticed by others!
Exactly What the main characters did after leaving and before reentering the game is foreshadowing their deaths. 1.) Jang Deok-Su/ Gangster - killed others and jumped off a bridge -> was killed by jumping off a bridge 2.) Kang Sae-byeok/ Love of my life - wounded someone and threatened to stab their throat with a knife -> got wounded and stabbed in the throat with a knife 3.) Abdul Ali - took something valuable from someone and ran -> got taken something valuable from and dude who did it ran 4.) Cho Sang-Woo/ evil best friend - tried to unalive himself in a suit, drenched -> unalived himself in a suit, drenched These are too many coincidences
@@jadedplacebo24 I know really! Man I gotta say this is my first Korean show as I'm not a big fan of korean dramas But damn ! The story and the delivery is well done , everything in the movie have a purpose, every little scene and dialog leads to end. The acting of all the actors except the VIPS Is just amazing and I think the VIPs were meant to act bad just like thier character
I think the gift of gihun for her daughter that is a Gun-spitting fire is foreshadowing that most players will die to gun shots and then burned. And yes, the gift box is the same as where they put the dead bodies. PS. this is the most likes I have in my yt comment. I just want to add. Squids are known for releasing black ink to their predators/prey to temporarily blind them just like how Gi-hun threw a sand to sangwoo's face to blind him temporarily as well.
The red and blue cards from the start may be a reference to the matrix's red pill and blue pill. The blue pill being ignorance and the red pill meaning learning the truth. It could also be why 456 had his hair died red as he knew the truth of the games.
Yeah i saw another video that was explaining this. Its gotta ge the right theory.. the whole "gaurd or player" theory is just dumb for many different reasons.
I like how Oh Il-Nam pretends to 'lose his marbles' while literally losing his marbles. Not sure if this was deliberate as it might not be an expression in Korean, but I found it pretty fitting.
What's really heartbreaking is, earlier Sangwoo told Ali "Call me hyung(older brother) from now on". So Ali has been calling Sangwoo "hyung" instead of sir/boss, and even before he died Ali kept calling for "older brother" ..
Nothing CRAZY, but I thought it was pretty funny that when Gi-hun was first approached about the game with slapping consequences he immediately tells the guy “I don’t wanna hear your religious crap” (something like that). And the way the game was ended for him was him being thrown out to the street and a Religious Preacher was the one who found him off the ground and then offered the word of the lord 😂😂. Overall great writing and great details. Love the show.
There were a LOT of religious references within! The "pastor" who keeps praying to a Christian god and holding up the game. The girl in the marbles game who confessed that her pastor father used to beat up her mother and molest her. The fact that Gi-hun says that he comes from a long line of Buddhists. Etc.
he called him a "missionary" or a "salesman for new pyramid schemes" and he comes from a long line of Buddhists so he wasn't interested in speaking with him
You’d be surprised how fanatic Korean Christians can be lol I grew up there for 17 years and seen so many crazy shit done by those who “speak for the lord”
Another Hint you missed, Mi Yeo mentioned that she felt powerful when she leaned back after tug of war. She died by leaning back on the glass bridge killing Deok Su with her. She was in power when she locked him with her arms and she was in power when she LEANED back falling down from the glass bridge
@@elliotoliver8679 no there is nothing like that-you see the part where that young girl with a nose piercing said that she will make sure that sae-byeok would win no matter what- that's why she sacrificed her life for her and she didn't have anyone in her life too-
@@elliotoliver8679 No, that was a severely sexually abused girl who was forced into murdering her father-with nothing to live for after the murder of her mother, making sure that another girl gets a chance to have the family she will not.
The frontman tries to find the intruder hiding in his room, once the guards find the dead body that had been floating in the water with the detectives ID, he stops looking for him. He knew it was his brother from that point on and didn’t want to kill him.
@F The News yeah, and front man almost always shoots in the head. He definitely didnt want to bring too much damage to his brother but I don’t think he wanted to look bad in front of the guards ig.
Exactly, even once the frontman reached the island that his brother escaped too, he told the soliders to "bring him alive". He clearly didn't want his brother to die.
The part after the steak dinner when they packed up everything except the knives...that was one of the darkest scenes I've ever seen in a series, especially since they were all friends trying o survive together
How? Sang-Woo knew they were playing the Honeycomb game yet allowed Gi-Hun to pick the Umbrella, basically knowing that it's almost a guaranteed death sentence.
yeah that scene had me the most shook, esp since it lightly indicated that one of them would have to kill each other for the final game (which is easier to play with two positions). so yeah that scene was the most gruesome because it literally encouraged murder to a higher steak (hahah). it promoted killing one another even more than ep4 where the night fight broke out, because it was somehow possible to stay safe that night. but that final 3 dinner was a set up and i think it was set up for saebyeok to loose because sangwoo probably thinks saebyeok is a bigger threat to beat than gi-hun
Also the very last game they played, the old man lost on the bet and was “eliminated” like the rules he made the players to follow, once you lose, you die. The entire series emphasize on Karma, every single one who’d died, died the same way they killed somebody, 456 won cuz he didn’t intend to kill anybody so he lived. 218 stabbed himself in the neck the same place he stabbed 67. 67 always carried a knife picking pockets and she was hit by the glass where she used to pick people’s pockets. The lady who commit fraud 5 times lies all the time and was betrayed by 101.
Another easter egg I found is that at the end where gi-hun meets the old man, he meets him on the 7th floor. The final game he plays with the old man is the 7th game he plays in the squid games
Long comment incoming! 11:53 i disagree with the use of the phrase "sang woo's moral breakdown". I believe that sang woo actually had the same morality throughout the entire show. He is a utilitarian. The way he decides what is right and wrong is simple: he tries to be kind to others, and he will absolutely do it if it doesnt come at a large cost to himself. However, he will always put himself first if he has to make a choice between living or dying for someone else (unless that someone else is his mother, perhaps). He will do anything to survive. At the start, sang woo lent ali his phone and gave ali money because those things would not cost him anything (what difference is 10000 won when you are billions in debt?) In a totally neutral no-stakes situation, he chooses to be good. This proves he is not evil. He is not the type to kill for sport, and perhaps we can even say he is good at heart. During the early and middle squid games, he is a benevolent leader towards his team, and he tries to be kind to others. However, his motivation for doing this is at least partly for his own survival. He knows that having a team he can trust will help him win the games. He also tries to exclude women from their group for the tug-of-war game, which shows that winning is his top priority. Now, lets discuss why sang-woo decided to let gi-hun take the dalgona candy with the umbrella on it. It could have been because sang woo was not sure about the game, but i think this is not true: sangwoo chose the triangle for himself, and the flashbacks showed that he recalled the dalgona candy from his childhood and made the connection. More likely it was because he knew gi-hun would be a threat in the future. Sang-woo is intelligent, he knows the truth that in the end only one person can survive and win the game. Gi-hun was not a threat yet at that point, but he would inevitably become one. And furthermore, sang-woo was probably thinking that if gi-hun was killed in the candy game, it would spare him the trouble and heartache of killing gi-hun on his own later on. It was ultimately a decision that sangwoo made for his survival. We can see that sang-woo did hesitate in his decision to let gi-hun take the umbrella. Sang-woo did feel a brotherly bond with gi-hun, as they were childhood friends. But despite that, sang-woo chose survival, because he knew only one person could win. It like everyone was already dead from the start, except the one winner. Wouldn't you do the same? I dont think that makes him evil. It just makes him pragmatic. Towards the end, we see sang-woo committing murder on the glass bridge and also killing sae-byeok. I dont think that those events were proof that he is evil. He only wanted to survive, and he acted the way he did because of the situation. He had no other options. When he murdered the glassmaker on the glass bridge, it was because there was no time left, and the glassmaker's indecision was a threat to his life and those behind him. When he murdered sae-byeok, it was because he knew that gi-hun and sae-byeok would have the majority vote to end the game. Not getting the prize money was equivalent to dying, because he was in so much debt and used his mother's house and shop as collateral as well. He could not bear the thought of his mother losing everything because of his reckless trading. Furthermore, at this point, so many people had already been killed. He even had to kill Ali, who was his friend. Sang-woo was probably thinking that he could not have come all this way for nothing. At the very end, when sang-woo decided to kill himself to let gi-hun win, i believe sang-woo did that because he knew that he was already on the edge of death from getting beaten by gi-hun. He also knew that gi-hun would try to end the game, because gi-hun isnt able to kill a friend, but that would only result in both of them returning to their normal lives, except with more injuries, shame and regret (and sang-woo would probably not survive his injuries). Sang-woo thus decided to kill himself, because he knew he would not be able to survive long anyway, and at least gi-hun could win the money and take care of his mom. This is totally in line with sang-woo's morality from the start. The way he decides what is right and wrong has always stayed the same. Sang-woo was never evil. He was only always pragmatic, he had clear goals in his mind and he would do whatever was needed to achieve them. He never deluded himself into thinking that he could survive without the death of others, because he knew only one person could win the game.
We also see foreshadowing of sang woos morality in the first scene on episode 1. Were he tricks gi hun to look the other way so he can advance in the squid game
Little detail I found: in the first scene of the show, the black and white flashback with the kids playing the squid game, young gi-hun distracts young sang-woo by saying his mom is behind him, and thanks to that wins the game. I think this mirrors the last game, in which sang-woo repeatedly mentions his mother ("When we were kids and played games our mothers would call us for dinner, but now nobody calls us." and what he says as he dies) and loses the game because of his mother.
I understand what you are trying to convey, first he distracts him by mentioning his mother, at last he throws sand at sang-woo to distract him. Your idea goes well with foreshadowing, but it feels like the writer intends to mean that he distracts him to win. (you can see that he distracts sang-woo in the same place of the squid game court, both at the start and at the end)
@@shamrithponlingam1656 yeah, i didn't mean that mentioning his mother is what he does both times to distract him, what i think is foreshadowing is that in both games he loses because of his mother, one way or another.
On other videos I’ve been saying that he isn’t dead, but most people keep saying he got shot in the chest. Blind mice. They both shot each other in the shoulder. Two brothers not wanting to kill the other, just a “stop it”shot.
JunHo is still alive. It's a horror movie setting and he fell off the cliff into water and nobody checked for the body. That's top tier teasing for 'YEAH, I'M STILL ALIVE! WAIT FOR SEASON 2!" vibes right there.
Also - JunHo shoots The Frontman (his brother InHo) in the shoulder - which was not fatal. InHo then shoots JunHo in the shoulder - this should also not be fatal... JunHo is a police officer and would be expert in shooting so could easily have killed InHo... why didn't he? Is it because its his brother? Likewise InHo could have killed JunHo with a shot to the head or chest... but also chose the shoulder... InHo had also told his soldiers he wanted JunHo alive...
@@Josh-mm4iw in tv shows or movies, no body, no confirmed death. That reason is why when they shot the old man but didn’t show his body, I knew he was involved to some degree.
One cool thing that just came to me, which I do not think has been covered in any video, is that Sae Byeok is accused of being a spy from the north. For the second game she actually goes on a spy mission to see what is going on in the building.
I feel like no matter who became il-nams marble partner, he would have let them win. Il-nam knew that he had special protection in the other games, but if someone were to push him off the glass bridge he'd be screwed. So he tapped out early
Yeah, I think Shadz is right. I think he also explained that the reason he let him win was because he liked him. If it was any other player I don't think he would have cared tbh
@@InfuZedShaDoWz But even if you are last up you can lose because those before you can pause and not move, so you'd be killed when the time was finished.
@@InfuZedShaDoWz picking last # wouldn't guarantee you the win. First of all he is old, and that is a lot of jumps for an old man to make, second of all you can always get sabotaged, so it was way too risky for him to participate in that game.
Since Inspector Royal is a title you win by playing, it could also refer to Gi-hun. After he wins he seems pretty set on taking them down, and is now the best equipped to do it. He becomes Inspector Royal.
The rules for the playground game version of the squid game mirror the plot of the TV show: the ‘secret inspector’ (Jun Ho aka the cop) infiltrates the squid (Squid Game island), then attacks it from the inside out (forces the VIP to confess on video), before getting pushed out of bounds (off a cliff).
My observation: The night in which all players were killing each other, the old man was on top of the bunker beds. When Gi-hun asks him how he reached there he doesn't answer him. He was probably helped to get there to protect him. Also, when the old man says stop, the boss takes the decision to end it
I didn't guess the old man, because I was so fixated on the frontman being the brother. I guessed that one fairly early on, so the old man was a shock to me. I thought his attitude (about being happy playing etc) was due to his tumour (if he is going out anyway due to his illnesses than he might as well not worry about the games doing it type attitude).
Lol! That's awesome! Mine was the opposite case. I called the old man from the beginning! It was only up until the episode before I guessed that the frontman was the detective's brother.
Yeah same i def thought the frontman was the brother but also i think everyone thought he was the head guy of it all no one saw the twist of it being the old man
@@hg13589 at first i thought the inho was the head guy but then there was a scene where he answers the phone and talks about the host to someone and i realized he wasn't. still never guessed it was ilnam though🤡
Yeah I for sure thought he was just an old man with a tumor cause the only time you really see him experience negative emotions at all is when the riot is happening and he's just scared and wants everyone to get along. I thought "oh he's just been terrified the whole time underneath but he's staying upbeat and pleasant to get through it." Nope... didn't see it coming at all...
Fun fact: the episode called "Hell" already foreshadowed their deaths. 1. Gi-hun swore in his mother's life. His mother died 2. Sang-woo tried to kill himself in his house bathtub. He killed himself in the last episode. 3. Sae-byeok threatened a person with a knife on a neck, She died when someone stabbed her on the neck. 4. Ali took money from his boss. He died when someone took the marbles from him. 5. Deok-su jumped off a bridge to escape from thugs He fell from the glass bridge... This movie is filled with uncountable number of easter eggs LOL
Before Sang Woo was about to end his life, he calls his mom. While talking, his mom was interrupted by a customer asking for "Three squids" foreshadowing the three finalists Sang woo, Gihun, & Sae byeok.
Also with the old man wearing the owl mask in the one part he talked about how old people don’t need much sleep which owls stay up all night all the time
The more relevant forshadowing for Ali's death is that he had believed his bosses lies that he would be paid eventually for a really long time, despite evidence to the contrary - the same way he believed Sang-woo when he said he had a plan.
I thought about that too. But I also thought, it would perfectly represent the status of them both. Gi-Hun choosing triangle (soldier) would automatically leave square (management) for Sang-woo (who actually was a manager). It could also forshadow, what Gi-Hun would do in the end, to also choose not to join the "upper class" (management & money) by using the money he was given but to be a fighter (against the management behind the game).
This is a stretch and a theory, but the VIPs are architects of the squid game in their own country. If you noticed, most of them had different accents and when they first entered, they said “South Korea has the best games” maybe implying that South Koreans games doesn’t compare to their or the other VIPs games. Idk tho
Yeah that could also just mean they tire of traditional sports or gambling games of other places (which to them is very low-risk because they are so wealthy). Whereas the squid game is high risk due to lives being on the line. Just to give a counter argument to your theory.
@Good Apple But he's saying that they may all be architects of games in their respective countries, like Il-Nam. Don't mock others' comprehension when yours is lacking.
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.
What I find interesting is that GI-Hun is introduced to us as a gambler and throughout the game he gambles with his life (like everyone else...not that important) like when he chooses to play with Oh Il-nam (marbles). That could of course be taken as an act of kindness/pity which it probably was (I'm reading too much into it). But at the end he could go and help the drunk person but instead he decided to bet on his life. It looks like Gi-Hun had a character development but at the same time...it honestly ended as it started. He started with not helping his mother, gambling, disappointing his daughter and wanting revenge instead of money in the game of ddjakji. At the end of the season he couldn't help his mother, gambled with the life of another human, disappointed his daughter and went to seek out revenge.
The beginning kind of foreshadowed this. Look at his encounter with the recruiter. He won the money, but wasn't interested. By then he just wanted to beat the hell out of the recruiter for hitting him.
Something that bugged me is that a bag of rocks sounds nothing like a bag of marbles when you move it with your fingers or as ot jiggles around your neck. But I would suppose with your life on the line and heads getting popped all around you might not notice. I feel like I would have tho.
@@pheckeht That's a good point. With all the noise and everything that was going on around him, Ali might not have noticed that the contents of the pouch sounded different. Maybe that was the last thing he thought of paying attention to, given that he was in such a high-stress situation. Another possibility is that, in the show, Ali mentioned that he had never played the game before (implying that he's never had glass marbles as a child). This could be another reason why he probably wouldn't be very familiar with the sound marbles make when in contact with each other, being carried around. That's just my opinion. I never thought much about that detail until you brought it up :)
My marble game theory: I think they were counting on the old man not getting picked and so he would get “escorted” out of the games to avoid the danger of the next. When he did get picked, they realized they didn’t want to kill a “real” player, and so they let the girl live and move onto the next round. Remember the rules; if someone doesn’t play the game they get killed - so why would they have spared her life otherwise? Edit: I want to thank you for a nice discussion, but please, if you disagree with my theory - no need to get nasty! Lets keep this an open space :)
@@BWillTheAddict but what the first comment means is that they were expecting the old man to not get picked so that way they could take him out of the game but Gi-hun ended up picking him so they kinda had to go along with it by not killing the girl.
@@SuperiorChaotic but they don't care, there r rules, and they had to follow them. It's y they wanted old man to not get picked, to "kill" him and let him watch the ending of the game, but him getting picked screwed up the game so they let her live
in the marble game the rules only said u must take ten marbles from your partner in order to win not that u had to end up with twenty which makes me wonder what could've happened if two people just switched their marbles then possibly both of them could have survived?
had same question but people at that point didnt even think about each others's life like in beg they were for saving their ass then for money then they started to treat each others as toys that they saw blood as if nothing, they started to want to kill each others even when they killed each others in the room if u see how they kill they dont hit 1 slash they hit multi hits with the knife as if they dont give a shit i broke my heart that ep
@@jborrego2406 the differance in saw is that in saw they got 1 main point which is survive they kill each others with tears with a turama they killed someone but in squid game they dont give a shit they killed with cold blood even tho first ep they were crazy about each others's blood u know they changed by time which is insane
Yes I literally thought the same thing. First thing when I heard the rules, I was like oh so just switch with your partner??? Thought that’s what business guy and Ali were going to do 🥺
100%, and its exactly what the video has easily missed. In traditional Korean culture, a hooting owl was believed to be a forbearer of famine, disease, war/strife, or widespread death throughout a household or village. It admittedly would be a very Western thing to project on Il-Nam the idea of him being all-wise...but to the (superstitious) Korean viewer it conveys that he's something far more sinister.
Jun Ho is definitely still alive. Anyone shot in the shoulder makes a full recovery as per movie/television law. No matter if they fall off a cliff or fall into lava afterwards. 😂😂😂
Another thing throughout the show is the psychological impact that starvation has on the contestants. The first meal included basic components of a standard meal, the second meal was a biscuit thing and some milk, third was the water and an egg, then a potato, and finally some corn. This is until they "ranked up" and began to eat steak dinners. This could symbolize the minimalistic way of life or could represent how good things were to how bad things have gotten (besides the steak dinner as a sign of victory)
I think it was to parallel starvation/lack of resources in the real world, and how that causes people to become more and more desperate and to turn on each other😬
No i think small meal represent that food start to mean nothing when you want to win big price and especially when you have to kill or became evil person for this. You don't think about food and don't complain about it towards the end
9:00 wrong, Il Nam won. The REAL bet was to see if Gi-Hun would run out and help the drunk man...but he didn't, just like the VIPs he just looked at him and wavered a persons life in a silly bet
The bet was to see if humanity really had any good. if Gi-hun himself went out to help that would have defeated the whole purpose. What good is it to prove just 1 person in society is good at heart?
@@blackfiresprout Both of you have good points. It could also be that il nam was so cunning like an owl (his mask) that either way he would always win. Similar to how he never loses any prior game.
Might have been mentioned already but when Gi-Hun and Sang-Woo have to pick a shape to play the finale, Gi-Hun immediately says 'triangle'. Sang-Woo picked the triangle in the Honeycomb game as he knew he would have an advantage then, so Gi-Hun's choice suggests that he realises now how long Sang-Woo had been deceiving them.
He knew after the second game, he just dismissed it because he assumes the best of people. But after the bridge game, it’s obvious the friend has been cutthroat the entire time
Is it me, or was the winner given to us in the first episode, in the order of the horse race that Gi-Hun won? Horse 6 finished first followed by 8 and 7. Gi-Hun…456. Sang Woo…218. Sae-byeok…67.
I could be wrong but I think the shapes of the squid game parallel the roles the workers are. Circle on the Squid Game court: Starting point, have to hop on one foot, less freedom of movement Worker with circle shape: Has the least amount of freedom of the three shapes Triangle on the court: An area that has to be protected, they can use both feet, but movement is restricted due to having to protect that particular area. Worker with triangle shape: Seem to have a tiny bit more of freedom than those with the circle shape, carry guns, and seem to have a guard/enforcer role. Square on the court: Are not restricted to a small space, can move around, allowed to use both feet Worker with the square shape: Has the most freedom of the three, allowed to talk, takes on a manger sort of role.
@@alexfoxleigh9443 My guess is that they are Westerners living in Korea and only casted because they are white and not based on acting skills. I was an extra for commercials when I studied in Taiwan and crew would address me on the street to ask if I wanted to be in a commercial.
@@guadobobey5785 i think the rich white guys were bad actors because foreign actors are treated way worse than korean actors in korea. Amongst other things, they're given their screenplays only on the day of the shoot without any time to absorb or remember their lines. Sometimes they don't even know what the show/movie is about until they come on set.
The girl who was left behind by everyone wasn't killed because the old man know the pain of not included in games as he would watch others from a distance when he was young.
also, the guards say that the games are based on fairness and equality for all, and it wouldnt be fair to kill her without playing a game. Killing outside of the games was done only by the players, if i remember correctly
The thing I was annoyed about was that they were promoting fairness in the games but then on the glass bridge they injured Sae Byeok after she passed the game and didn't even help her, so that was not fair at all.
We don't know though that they wouldn't have helped her since Sang Woo killed her. Although my personal theory is that they gave them the knives just so that one of them would be eliminated leaving just two for the final game. Her being injured was just an unfortunate coincidence.
I totally agree. they should have shot anyone who didn't cross after the time, not do a dramatic explosion. I thought they were using the glass shard as a setup, so she would have a weapon to use against Sang Woo. But then they gave everyone knives and I was annoyed with that.
I think that's one of the best parts of the show though. The frontman attempts to soothe his guilt by claiming he's giving everyone one last fair chance (just like when he played, another way to make himself feel better for surviving while the others didn't) but just from the mere fact that Oh Il-Nam was a player makes the game unfair. Everyone was not given a fair chance, they all had to play a game of life and death while the wealthiest man there got to simply play to have fun without worrying about debt or death. The riot was even stopped abruptly when Il-Nam said he was scared. Something that was not done for any other player. He knew what the games would be since he chose them, and he was never in a ny real danger. It's another beautiful metaphor for capitalism, while everyone is playing for life and death at the hands of the world's wealthiest people, those same elits make the rules that they are then not held privy to. A detail that I think is far too overlooked is the prize money itself. If we take the net worth of bezos or musk it is well above 200 billion. Then cut it in half just for fun. 100 billion usd. The money offered is about 0.04% of that 100 billion (and thats rounding up). The average net worth in america is about 408 thousand (skewed high due to the top 0.1%) and in South Korea it's about 286 thousand USD. 0.04% of 408 thousand is barely more than $150usd. For 286 thousand it's closer to $115 usd. These numbers have all generously been rounded up. They are fighting for their lives for something that costs the VIPS the equivalent of a concert ticket. or a night at a hotel. This game was never fair from the start, and the people like the frontman who are enforcing the stipulations made from the elite have to lie to themselves in order to live with themselves. So this is all to say I'm not at all surprised that they shot her with a shard of glass and then waited for her to die, waited for her murder, before coming in to simply clean up.
One thing i feel foreshadowed Gi-hun winning was his number “456”. When we were kids we played a game called Cee-lo and despite any variation of the game, one constant is always that rolling a 4-5-6 is an automatic win. Gi-hun a.k.a. 456 won every game.
I love that this show disguises its complexity. It can be loved by the casual viewer but also has lots of depth for those willing to look. Great overview & insights.
The mom's death was also predicted not only from the last episode's title, but because Gi-hun swears on her to Sae-byeok in the second episode, which is kind of like the phrase "step on a crack, break your mama's back." Saw another video about this, and I can definitely see that as a predictions even before knowing she has diabetes in the same episode just later on.
I actually worried about that the moment he swore on his mothers life and broke it straight away. Then his mum was dead and I was just like "It's because you swore on her life you bastard". If I were him, I'd have also just taken that money given by the step dad. The conditions could be taken back later should he win the fortune, his mother needed that surgery asap.
I'm not sure if number 01 died to be honest he could just be playing another trick. If you look at the EKG or whatever health monitors after he flatlines it can clearly be read in text that the 'lead off', and 'sensor off' which to me could also mean he simply removed the health monitors on his body to make the machine appear as though the patient flatlined. What are your thoughts on this?
Good spot. The monitor was a BeneView T8 and the error warning was "SpO2 Sensor Off" which per the manual means "The SpO2 sensor has become detached from the patient or the module, or there is a fault with the SpO2 sensor, or an unspecified SpO2 sensor has been used." As it was working previously, it implies tampering. If the issue was simply he died, the manual says the warning should be "SpO2 No Pulse"
@@robinr3666 Nice theory, but I feel like it could also be that they had no other way to get a flatline from a living actor, unless they disconnected it. It just wouldn't make sense that the front man closed his eye lids and he were still alive.
This is just a theory but I am pretty sure we were already given the hint on how many finalist were gonna be at the end of the game in episode 2 when the lady asks for three squids to be prepared by Sang woo's mother I am pretty sure it was a hint towards the amount of people who are gonna be the finalist
Another great detail is that the "last supper" table is not only a triangle, but it's also set atop a circular dais which is covered by a checkerboard pattern of squares. All three symbols in one!
Am I the only one who thought the meat they were eating was from past players? and the staff who were harvesting some of the players organs gave it to them? Or maybe I’m just crazy cuz I can’t find anyone talking ab that 😂😭
@@eveeee6464 this crossed my mind as well. I was waiting for the players to make a disgusted face while they ate it. Then I paused when the camera panned over their plates and noticed it was indeed...a steak. I thought I was insane for having this as my first thought tho 🤢🤣🤣🤣
I may just be speculating but I don't think the triangles, squares and circles were supposed to be from a PlayStation controller. I think they just made it because these are the exact shapes needed to draw a squid game court.
"frontman" was police too. when his brother found his file, it says he graduated from korean national police university. that means frontman was elite police before.
I think there's multiple police that are part of the operation. When Front Man is searching for Jun Ho inside the facility, he talks about how the gun he used to kill one of the guards is a South Korean police issued firearm. That same type of gun is used multiple times throughout the show by the guards.
@@sundalo916 I don't know. maybe? but i don't think "operation involved" police bring their service gun to the island. i think game host smuggle guns or steal it from korean military/police somehow. frontman used 1911, but korean police are not using 1911 anymore since around 1990.
Gi-Hun swears on his mother that he will forget the money Sae stole when she frees him. He breaks this oath directly. When you swear on someone, you mean "on his life". Afterwards he learns that his mother is terminally ill. He find his dead mother after he wins the games. (Woo's mother says how long she hasn't seen her, I think it was 2 days).
This whole movie is about learning. Starting from the very first scene with the slapping man. Every slap is a learning the person should understand, that it's not everything about money, that you do something wrong in your life and with your life, etc etc
Exactly. They kept bringing up 10,000 won. He kept giving it away and begging for it in the beginning. When he won, that's the amount he withdrew. And that's the amount he asked to borror from the bank manager who implied that he was squandering his wealth. It felt like he was going to deposit it back into the account so his hands were clean of that blood money until a "desperate woman" (a plant, probably) begged him to buy flowers. He was willing to give up all the money at the end to walk out with his old friend despite it all but was robbed of that choice. This whole show is about how money can rob us of choice, dignity, and rights, yet someone make others think that they're entitles to people's bodies like chattle whether through demanding sex or organs or labor
Personally, I think him not spending the money is due to that each person that enters the game is essentially money. That money wasn’t prize money, rather the money that each person was worth when they entered the game, and he knew that spending it was rather spending the life’s of the people that sacrificed themselves inside of the game.
i think more he just didn't have any reason to use it. He had no life desires after that, simply he just wanted to end the squid game as part of his survivor's guilt.
I'll never get over how the first 5 episodes of the show was a drama, mystery, thriller kind of show, and then the 6th episode just made me cry for 30 minutes after getting my heart ripped out multiple times
Why has no one mentioned the fact that the bank offered him a VIP membership? As in he’s got so much money he can join the VIPs watching the games. This is important because 1) hints to future seasons?? 2) suggests the scale of involvement
I think the VIPs watching the game should have a lot more money than a single game's prize to actually regularly bet on the games. I mean it's a bigger league. After all, I think the prize money for every game is collected from the bets. I don't think Il-Nam is constantly giving 456 billion won (385 million dollars) of his money to the winner like every goddamn week
This show has many Karma parallels 1) Gi Hun feeling poor and intimidated when his daughter said she ate steak, he got to eat steak as a victor in the game. 2) Ali getting his boss's fingers crushed, when his own two fingers were missing from a workplace accident. His death was a similar parallel too. 3) Jun-Ho not fatally wounding Frontman even when he didn't know who he was. Justa shot to the shoulder. His brother kinda sparing him by only shooting him in the shoulder, when otherwise he always shoots to the head.
I feel Gi-Hun more didn’t spend the money out of guilt for all the players that died. Not just feeling guilt for those he made friends with, but everyone who didn’t get to live on.
He never realized he and sae byeok could have ended the game, thus giving all the money to the families of the dead, that's why he feels guilty I think
Gi-hun definitely have survivor guilt, but i think in terms of the money he just had no reason to use it. He purely had no intent for life at that moment other than to end the Squid game.
Many Gambling Addicts have no other life pursuits, hobbies, interest...etc. Its the adrenalin rush of gambling, that they Live for. After feeling so much guilt from such an event... and already having so much money... he didnt have a drive or reason to gamble.
no writers. just hwang dong-hyuk (creator) for this season. however netflix's team in korea and the production design as well as the technical aspects - which hwang had less involvement in building, deserve to be appreciated.
Paul, Il-Nam said he used to beat his son for not drinking his milk. Don't you think Gi-Hun would remember that if he was his son? At best, Il-Nam is his GRANDFATHER, which would explain why Gi-Hun didn't know him because maybe Gi-Hun's father had severed ties with Il-Nam when he got older because of the abuse, but there's no way he's his father.
I figured the big reveal after the frontman got the call and said “I’m glad you enjoyed the game” I realized the whole time il nam seemed to enjoy himself the entire time and that we didn’t see him die
I thought the same thing. The one thing about this that doesn’t quite fit in was that the next thing the Frontman said was: “The Host is currently waiting for the VIPS to arrive.” This kind of confuses me as the end points towards Il-nam being the Host. But the call suggests that the person the Frontman was talking to was another person entirely, and couldn’t be the Host or the VIPS. I would love to know what your thoughts are on this or if I’ve missed something!
Another Theory: After the honeycomb game, the frontman himself came down to kill the guard who revealed his face because the guard had a square symbol (which is the highest rank amongst the guards) which means no one in the room had higher authority than square symbol guards except the frontman.
I'm taking this as Canon. You're not supposed to remove your mask, which is known. But if there were a rule to kill anyone you saw without a mask, they would have done so, or The Frontman would have cause to kill everyone who didn't. But there could also be a rule. Also the implication that the man with the most vertices on his mask is the most powerful doesn't check out to me because he asked everyone else in the room for permission before he took jun ho, implying they were equals.
During the marble game, when Oh Il-nam seems to be losing his mind, wandering the neighborhood alleys, perhaps he is looking for a safe/hidden place to fake his death.
And to delay, prolong. He had to die that noone notice, that means at the end when most have finished or currently busy winning. And at closed location. That might have been specific one, I'm sure he was hiding from cameras too, his survival was not to be seen by VIPs either. Player 001 dies, host with golden owl mask never participated....
@@MolnarG007 It would have been a promised place where the camera couldn't capture it. Eventually, other vips would not have known the host's participation.
Fun Easter egg a friend of mine pointed out: in Episode 6 when Sae-byeok and Ji-yeong are talking, the movie referencing mojitos on the beach is "Inside Men" and Ji-yeong actually says Lee Byung-hun's name as the star of that 2015 film!
Exactly haha, me and my friends are guessing the director’s intention was that he wanted us, as the audience, to be part of the game 🦑 making us confused in between the show and the reality, as all the Koreans know about 이병헌 and that line from 내분비들 movie 😄
One of the things I thought of about the show that people might have missed was how he walked away from an umbrella twice prior to joining the games, once when the exes partner came outside in the rain under an umbrella offering money and the second time when the daughter ran out with the umbrella. So the third chance he got to take an umbrella was in the honeycomb game and he decided this time to take it and it of course backfired. Almost like karma for not just accepting help on the outside world.
Not exactly the same, but there’s also the scene where the cop is talking to him in the street covered by an umbrella but he is drenched in water. I think that might’ve been another foreshadow to not having an umbrella or always being “caught in the rain/storm”
The television report in the last episode discusses the SK Government removing restrictions on loans, debt, and moneylending. As 001 is a moneylender, his organization’s power is increasing and behind the scenes, is lobbying to create more players for the game.
I heard a theory that when Sae-Byeok and Gi-Hun got dumped on the side of the road Gi-Hun said that he swears on him mother’s life that he won’t beg for him money back if Sae-Byeok unties him but when she dose he begs for his money back and at the end of the show his mother dies so they said that why the mum had died idk just found it interesting
I dont think people picked up on at the end when they are playing the game with the homeless mans life, he is saying how wrong it is to gamble on lives, and then literally does so. He could have ran to help but didn't just to prove his point and risk someones life. I thought it was a clever little detail so wether il nam knew he won or not doesnt matter, just playing the game made his point correct
Has anyone picked up on the fact that the chess pieces used to represent the players on the glass bridge are horses. Ties in with the players just being like horses thing.
Interesting observation. I am not that into chess, but I do know how some of the figures are called. I did found the choice appropriate because of the german wording for that horse figure. In german (my native language) it's called "Springer" wich would translate to someting like "Jumper" and thats what the do on the bridge (or what the cess figure can do in play, jump over/beyond others). In English the chess figure is called "Knight" but I think here relates better with it's horse imagery. Only the korean wording is a bit odd as it is 나이트 and translates in Google to "night" but that would also tie in with the darkness of the scene.
They actually said the name of the actor of the Frontman on EP 6: GGanbu Time stamp 29:05 While Sae Byeok and Ji Yeong were getting to know each other, Ji Yeong told Sae byeok to have a mojito. JY: And have a mojito too. SB: Mojito? JY: Yeah, like the one in the movie. Lee Byung-hun's in it.
He wasnt spending the money he won, not because he had more than he could spend, but because it was blood money that ultimately was earned for nothing. What was important to him? His mother and his child, he lost both, even with his money. Thats why he didnt touch it. That whole experience was for nothing the second he got home. Dont think he ever really wanted billions of won, he just wanted to be out of debt, to be able to afford to give things to his child, help his mom, thats all.
He's an addict. He loves his addiction far more than any person, he cares for his mother and daughter sure. We were shown he does have compassion and kindness. The problem is his addiction always overrode those things. Notice he stops gambling etc after winning....it took him participating in the ultimate gamble=his life, watching all those people die for it to partially click. But his addiction is always center stage, he proved that by not getting on the plane. His ego and need to DO, and be a savior..same rush as his addiction....were more important than his child.
although not spending the money makes all the sacrifices in vain (in the first year). later he donates all to the remaining families of the finalist (the North Korean girl and the suicide guy, can't type their names)
@@anneshields2010 fuck that lol. He didn't know what was going to happen and he couldn't of saved all those people. I'd 100% enjoy the money. He certainly earned it! Went through enough to get it.
Just a small comment, you don't have to assume that In-ho won when he was a contestant. His name is literally on the "list of past winners" that Jun-ho finds. That's how he finds In-ho's file because he cross-references the year from being the past winner to the year of the Squid Archives. No assumption necessary. We know he won.
I figured that il nam would have always stopped at/after marbles. The fact that Han Mi-nyeo was just spared from participating is because they never meant to kill anyone I’m this event. They probably expected il-nam to not get chosen (seeing as il-nam was so cynical about the kindness of others) and then he could have just exited the games at that point and everyone would assume that he was ‘eliminated’. But seeing as it actually ended up being Mi-nyeo they just let her live because they made a point of saying that things were fair in there and it wouldn’t have been fair for her to have just been killed then.
and i don’t think that Il Nam would participate in the stepping stones. i feel like even though he wasn’t as sick as he said, it’s still a very physical game and since he does actually have a tumor, he could have easily forgotten which stones to step on. in the video it said that he could be able to see the thickness of the glass, but the man who could actually tell the difference could because of light reflection not thickness
No because it is consistent with the seven teams of 10 players starting the Tug of War. 3 games killed thirty players and the last to be drawn took the pass leaving forty players to continue. I wondered this as soon as I saw the seven teams. Thought oh someone will have to play twice. But no. They let one team live without playing. Am I the only one that saw that?
I honestly think the guards were specifically instructed not to kill the remaining person in the marbles game, since the leaders were confident that Il-nam would have been left behind. When Han Mi-nyeo ended up being the one, the leaders didn't double back on the order because it would be suspicious to the guards who were instructed in the first place (I believe the guards are just normal people who got into the game because they chose the red toy in the game at the train station). Maybe the being fair thing was the excuse they gave to the guards in the first place, but I really think it was a conversation along the lines of "oh, shit, well... let them keep her, then."
If 001 wasn't chosen to the marbles game, he wolud be "eliminated", and join the vips, 456 choose him messing his plans, and they had to improvise, with "eliminating" him and let the girl live cause there was no reason to kill her. It was just his safe way out, so noone would se him not dying, but still being eliminated, so he was walking all the streets to find a place where they can "eliminate" him without witnesses.
But it's only one in possibly a global network of games. Remember one of the VIPs said that the Korea games were the best this year, or something to that effect?
@@carlamcvittie9128 wouldnt it be cool if another country continued the series with each installment kinda like a death game olympics while still be connected to each other
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Nice video, but you missed the fact that the brother (black masked leader) of the detective was concluded that he won 1-3 years ago and has been helping the squid game for a long time. The detective found his brother's name in the book records. Which also concludes why his brother hasn't been keeping up with his family, and why it was normal for him to not respond to the calls by the detective. Only because of the main character going to that police station leaving that card, that connected detective's brother's card.
I have a question about the development of the Pakistani character. This was very intentional and I think it’s a beautiful ode and compliment to Pakistani people. Is this a reflection of love that Koreans have for Pakistanis? He is portrayed as strong, loving, compassionate and innocent and physically strong. The compliments don’t get better than that! I think it’s beautiful and this is why I love Koreans so much!
@@MrHeroicDemon whoa thank you I didn’t put that together. Wow so he got contracted to work after he won? Why would someone wanna go back underground after getting rich? But maybe it’s so traumatizing that reentry into normal life isn’t possible after. I feel that the brother should be alive. I feel like he didn’t get fatally shot and only the fall could kill him unless he fell in deep water. I’m hoping he makes a comeback if the series continues. I also hope to see a new interesting ethnicity in the next season and age range. There are so many possible outcomes with squid game!
@@edithramirezgomez9713 you need to go to sleep it’s past your
Bedtime
The ending with the man dying on the street is not about how 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 game the moment Gi-hun took the bet.
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Omg yes! 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 game
yoooo you're right. now he really is just like everyone else, betting on human life
Wowwwww. Never even thought of that. Genius catch.
It kept bothering me that he didn't just go to help!!! This makes so much sense 🤯
Another thing I noticed: When Gi-Hun and Sae-Byeok are tied up and thrown out into the street after the first game, Sae-Byeok goes to walk away after Gi-Hun unties her. He then swears on his mother that he won't ask her for his money if she unties him. As soon as she unties his hands, he lunges at her demanding his money and breaking his newly made promise. The next time he sees his mother is in the hospital, and the next time afterwards is when she is dead - encapsulating the broken promise.
Whoa. That's deep. :/
damn, I didn’t notice that. that’s cold.
I caught that last night . I’m rewatching it with my wife so I’m noticing a lot but having to keep it to myself so I don’t spoilt it for her
Very nice!!!
Well---damn
Props to all the actors for their top tier acting, especially that old man. He definitely played me ngl
yess, all fantastic (and great looking) actors they all did amazing
Except the VIPS ,😅
especially everyone that died during the games
@@nderamaharie5360 yeah, not the vips
I thought he was the main character’s father
i can’t stop reading all the comments with the theories, the amount of effort and detail put into this show is INSANE
Just a shout out to The Wire. Also amazing detail, absolutely incredible scripts.
It DID take ten years to produce, so yeah, it’s hella impressive
People always fill the gaps. It is not always writers/directors original intention
Right?! Im catching little things I missed and having aha moments reading all the comments.
I have never been so concentrated while reading comments..This comment section is full of theories and I really appreciate the effort that was applied in this series.
After the old man "dies" the frontman received a call and he said "Glad you enjoyed the game sir"..
WAIT-
Awesome~
Yup I remember that
explain pl,
@@dorianderaj7591 Il nam was eliminated(safely) from the games. Since he’s the boss, the frontman basically told him “I’m glad you had fun”
That clip of Gi Hun smiling for the picture never fails to make me smile as well
He's the only one who is smiling
@@siddheshpatwardhan4920 no, if you go back and look, there’s others smiling. I thought the same thing too at first.
right??? his face lights up - its too cute
Right? His smile is so precious
@@siddheshpatwardhan4920 They were told to smile. Notice how Sang Woo doesn't smile at all. Also, the guy that showed his middle fingers to the camera, dies first.
The old man faked having dementia and taking his time playing the marble game in order to be the last group of players alive, that way no other group can witness he wasn't shot and surviving, worked out perfectly because of course Gi-hun couldn't bear watching the old man getting shot after taking advantage of him by cheating.
He had actual dementia but he faked the dementia episode in the marble game.
@@nikkoraymundo9634 he had a tumor, not dementia. The dementia was all acting.
But he was in tears when he wanted to survive, not like the dude who betrayed to Ali
didn't notice that
@@florentin4061 sangwoo played it dirty! I first thought that his plan was to have them team up and play against two others making it so get got 20 marbles each. But i was wrong...
At the end, when Il-Nam asked Gi-Hun to bet whether anyone would help the man in the snow, Gi-Hun unwittingly ended up doing exactly what Il-Nam and the VIPs did; betting on whether someone would live or die, instead of just going to help the man himself.
Nice.
I noticed the same thing
Just like the games, there were many ways to play but only a few figured it out. In the end, they were more alike than expected. Both could change things for the better but chose to bet on the horses.
This one gave me goosebumps, how did I not see it too?! What if you continue that line of thought to what it could be foreshadowing… gi-yun becoming il Nam after accepting that taking down the game is fruitless.
Whoooa!! 🤯
Ali was scammed and taken advantage of by his boss, saying "go ask the other guys if they got paid", later on sang woo uses that very same tactic to win in the marble game.
He didn't learn sadly
Sang-Woo tried to commit suicide, died by killing himself.
Sae-Byeok held a knife to someone's neck, died by getting her throat slit.
Ali took his boss's money, died by getting his marbles stolen.
Deok-Su jumped off a bridge to escape the gangsters, died by falling off a class bridge.
--VLK (in another video)
@@xeraphyx7903 Before Saebyeok held the knife she also attacked the broker with a glass teapot, she was later injured by glass shards. Also Sangwoo was drenched and submerged in water during both instances.
@@xeraphyx7903 and number 212 (I can’t remember how to spell her name, but she was the one who killed Deok-su) said she felt so powerful leaning back in tug of war and that’s how she basically died. (I watched this on a theory thing bye)
Sang Woo was a psychopath that manipulated Ali with reciprocity, telling him he wouldn’t ask Ali to pay him back (while never letting Ali pay him back to clear his debt and keeping him in a constant state of owing. When Ali tries to pay Sang Woo back, Sang Woo gives Ali half of the food, not fully accepting the favor) when he needs to he reminds Ali of the favors he did for Ali, invoking reciprocity, pressuring Ali to give him a chance.
Honestly, the amounts of details and easter eggs they’ve put in the series is the best thing about it.
Very very true
I dont think half the 'easter eggs' in this video are exactly what they are. some of these theories are just reaching.
Foreshadowing***
I think this movie had started being planned from 2009
I think this movie had started being planned from 2009
Some awesome foreshadowing: when the recruiter and Gi are playing the first game, Gi finally wins but forgets about the money and tries to hurt the person that’s been hurting him, shows how he will win the game and instead of enjoying the money he will seek to hurt the people in charge of the game for causing them all so much pain
No no. This moment was for showing that he let the unknown man slap him infront of everybody for money and nothing more than this. This was brilliant scene. I love the actor.
It’s shows his character. He puts his money over character so much so that his only thought was “ maaaaan if I win ima slap the shit out of this guy” it’s not about money for him. And how people will be humiliated for money.
@@youngreap1564 yes exactly. How people can be agree to be humiliated for money. Cz he choose it himself. And licking the honeycomb cookie is about how ppl licking dicks or whatever for money. The whole scene of it is disgusting with that camera angles.
@@youngreap1564 yeah but it’s defnitly about money for him, from the beginning he wouldn’t have done any of this if there wasn’t money involved. I think it also shows human nature, he’s so comfortably in debt that he’d rather return the pain than get the money, short term satisfaction over long term
@@Piecesoftheshadow i do.
Did anyone mention that, in episode 9, the '7'th floor meant the seventh game (betting on the drunken man outside) between the old man and Gi-hun? The elevator had only '7' printed on the door.
WOW! That's EXCELLENT
Nice!
WOW and the outcome of that 7th game is the death of Ilnam OOF
@@Bob-jp3oe wow
Episode 9 is not as expanded. i think there will be a season 2
There's a foreshadowing of the winner in the racecourse scene of episode 1.
The 6th and 8th horses were on the same level in horse racing, but the 6th horse reversed and won (Sangwoo: 21"8" main character: 45"6").
In this race, the 3rd place is horse no.7 (saebok: no.6”7”)
Nice!!!
1 is the last horse and all of the corrupt characters’ numbers end in 1.
Il-nam was number 001
Deok-su was number 101
Doctor was number 111
@@misterpitters dang squid game is awesome
O.O mind blown
This is the best one I've read so far 😳
Poor Ali being betrayed was the saddest moment for me.
He was a real one too. He saved the main character when he didn’t have to.
For me that was the second saddest. The first one was the girl that dropped the marble...
I was legit heated when Ali died
Facts!! In that moment I truly believe it's all about personal self preservation!!! No one truly has your back and it proved always protect yourself.... in life, career choices, social environment s, and in economics!!!!
When he died, my rose colored glasses came of regarding choices and being smart!!!
@@zyfryth that’s fair. And it was both in the same episode. It was a tough one to get through
If you look at who picked up each player when they decided to go back to the game, only il-nam doesn't have a red driver, but a black one, who is potentially the front man coming to pick him up personally.
He is also the only one who isn't shown being put to sleep inside the van, we just see him get in.
Are you sure? I went and rewatched that scene after reading your comment and I think that hand on the steering wheel is in their standard red colour. But it's also pretty hard to tell because of the reflection of those hospital neon signs.
@@MrOs-dn2tj Yeah, he is bullshiting. Maybe he tought that just because we can't clearly see the driver, it must be the Front Man because of his black clothes, but if you stop and look at it, it's obvious that the driver is just leaning back and is covered by the doorframe. Also yeah, their signature red/pinkish colour is clearly visible (if you pause at the right moment) between the reflections of those hospital signs and it that previous shot where we see Il-Nam and the hospital from the front, there is nothing there that could have made that reflection, so it must be the drivers hand.
I was wondering "why even pick him up if he potentially can already be at the games?" But it makes sense that with his brain tumor, he was literally already at the hospital for a routine check-up, so it just worked out in his favor to be picked up like the rest of them for plausible deniability.
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One interesting thing is when Frontman found the dead body with Jun-Ho's wallet he instantly stopped actively looking for the intruder, because he knew it was his brother. He also shot Jun-Ho in the shoulder nowhere near his heart, when he normally shot people in the head, because he couldn't stand the sight of killing his own brother.
Jun-Ho is not dead and I am certain he will return to the show.
Same here. I hope Jun-Ho returns in season 2
He had to play like he didn’t knew his brother, because he was going to put himself at risk, that’s why he decided to shot him in the Shoulder, to make it look like he wanted to kill him, but he never did.
Jun Ho was one of my favorite characters I hope he's somehow still alive.
I didn’t see the twist ending coming and since I hadn’t encountered any spoilers, I’m very glad I was able to enjoy this intriguing series to the fullest! Now, during the aftermath, I’m enjoying on point breakdowns like this and thus expanding the great experience of Squid Game even further.
Agreed. I watched the whole series in one night and looked up breakdown/easter egg vids later and I love seeing all the things I missed. Or seeing the things I noticed were noticed by others!
Same I avoided anything squid game related until I finished it was only 2 days but still thankful I couldn't predict anything
Exactly
What the main characters did after leaving and before reentering the game is foreshadowing their deaths.
1.) Jang Deok-Su/ Gangster - killed others and jumped off a bridge -> was killed by jumping off a bridge
2.) Kang Sae-byeok/ Love of my life - wounded someone and threatened to stab their throat with a knife -> got wounded and stabbed in the throat with a knife
3.) Abdul Ali - took something valuable from someone and ran -> got taken something valuable from and dude who did it ran
4.) Cho Sang-Woo/ evil best friend - tried to unalive himself in a suit, drenched -> unalived himself in a suit, drenched
These are too many coincidences
@@doggothinks2764 I truly missed all of this while watching the series. This was so well done the way everything was cyclical
@@jadedplacebo24 I know really!
Man I gotta say this is my first Korean show as I'm not a big fan of korean dramas
But damn ! The story and the delivery is well done , everything in the movie have a purpose, every little scene and dialog leads to end.
The acting of all the actors except the VIPS Is just amazing and I think the VIPs were meant to act bad just like thier character
I think the gift of gihun for her daughter that is a Gun-spitting fire is foreshadowing that most players will die to gun shots and then burned. And yes, the gift box is the same as where they put the dead bodies.
PS. this is the most likes I have in my yt comment.
I just want to add. Squids are known for releasing black ink to their predators/prey to temporarily blind them just like how Gi-hun threw a sand to sangwoo's face to blind him temporarily as well.
YES
Holy shit you’re spot on.
Holy shit you’re right
Damn this is not just a series, it's a poem
Wow i agree with that 100%
The red and blue cards from the start may be a reference to the matrix's red pill and blue pill. The blue pill being ignorance and the red pill meaning learning the truth. It could also be why 456 had his hair died red as he knew the truth of the games.
Nice catch, Ali and the woman also mention the matrix after the tug of war game so I think ur right
Yeah i saw another video that was explaining this. Its gotta ge the right theory.. the whole "gaurd or player" theory is just dumb for many different reasons.
I thought this too. The hair thing is interesting too, it is quite a bright red just like the jumpsuits
Makes sense..
Wow ...
I like how Oh Il-Nam pretends to 'lose his marbles' while literally losing his marbles. Not sure if this was deliberate as it might not be an expression in Korean, but I found it pretty fitting.
I like it. Makes sense to me. Everything has meaning in this show it seems.
I totally was thinking that.
I doubt it is an expression over there but probably a cool coincidence, or as they say they are no coincidences
I thought the exact same thing first time watching. It's brilliant whether on purpose or not 👏
Yes!! I was thinking the same thing through that episode!!!
What's really heartbreaking is, earlier Sangwoo told Ali "Call me hyung(older brother) from now on". So Ali has been calling Sangwoo "hyung" instead of sir/boss, and even before he died Ali kept calling for "older brother" ..
oh my god, that just hit me so hard
Ali's death was more disturbing that every single death in this series
even in the most violent movies there is still a limit to the disturbance level delivered to the viewers, this scene exceeded the accepted limit
WHAT...
How dare you hurt me this way!! My heart is broken. Ali's death was too much man :(
Nothing CRAZY, but I thought it was pretty funny that when Gi-hun was first approached about the game with slapping consequences he immediately tells the guy
“I don’t wanna hear your religious crap” (something like that).
And the way the game was ended for him was him being thrown out to the street and a Religious Preacher was the one who found him off the ground and then offered the word of the lord 😂😂.
Overall great writing and great details. Love the show.
Whoa! That was great observation!
There were a LOT of religious references within! The "pastor" who keeps praying to a Christian god and holding up the game. The girl in the marbles game who confessed that her pastor father used to beat up her mother and molest her. The fact that Gi-hun says that he comes from a long line of Buddhists. Etc.
To put it more elegantly, he turned away from who he thought was a missionary and ended up being helped by one.
he called him a "missionary" or a "salesman for new pyramid schemes" and he comes from a long line of Buddhists so he wasn't interested in speaking with him
You’d be surprised how fanatic Korean Christians can be lol
I grew up there for 17 years and seen so many crazy shit done by those who “speak for the lord”
Another Hint you missed, Mi Yeo mentioned that she felt powerful when she leaned back after tug of war. She died by leaning back on the glass bridge killing Deok Su with her. She was in power when she locked him with her arms and she was in power when she LEANED back falling down from the glass bridge
That’s a good one
Nice pickup, the show made me cry, the young girl chose suicide to save the older girl. I thhink there was a hint of sexual attraction there as well
That’s a good one right there, damn
@@elliotoliver8679 no there is nothing like that-you see the part where that young girl with a nose piercing said that she will make sure that sae-byeok would win no matter what- that's why she sacrificed her life for her and she didn't have anyone in her life too-
@@elliotoliver8679 No, that was a severely sexually abused girl who was forced into murdering her father-with nothing to live for after the murder of her mother, making sure that another girl gets a chance to have the family she will not.
The frontman tries to find the intruder hiding in his room, once the guards find the dead body that had been floating in the water with the detectives ID, he stops looking for him. He knew it was his brother from that point on and didn’t want to kill him.
Bingo
Exactly. I had a feeling the frontman would buy that shit for real. This series has so many little details man, mind blowing.
@F The News yeah, and front man almost always shoots in the head. He definitely didnt want to bring too much damage to his brother but I don’t think he wanted to look bad in front of the guards ig.
Exactly, even once the frontman reached the island that his brother escaped too, he told the soliders to "bring him alive". He clearly didn't want his brother to die.
Once he reached the island he fired at the oxygen tank, allerting his brother they had reached the island
The part after the steak dinner when they packed up everything except the knives...that was one of the darkest scenes I've ever seen in a series, especially since they were all friends trying o survive together
I actually thought the meat was human meat and that the winners would end up being guards all of them. And all guards where previous winners
How? Sang-Woo knew they were playing the Honeycomb game yet allowed Gi-Hun to pick the Umbrella, basically knowing that it's almost a guaranteed death sentence.
@@jafar5112 metoo
yeah that scene had me the most shook, esp since it lightly indicated that one of them would have to kill each other for the final game (which is easier to play with two positions). so yeah that scene was the most gruesome because it literally encouraged murder to a higher steak (hahah). it promoted killing one another even more than ep4 where the night fight broke out, because it was somehow possible to stay safe that night. but that final 3 dinner was a set up and i think it was set up for saebyeok to loose because sangwoo probably thinks saebyeok is a bigger threat to beat than gi-hun
@@soraya131 😂the pun
Also the very last game they played, the old man lost on the bet and was “eliminated” like the rules he made the players to follow, once you lose, you die. The entire series emphasize on Karma, every single one who’d died, died the same way they killed somebody, 456 won cuz he didn’t intend to kill anybody so he lived. 218 stabbed himself in the neck the same place he stabbed 67. 67 always carried a knife picking pockets and she was hit by the glass where she used to pick people’s pockets. The lady who commit fraud 5 times lies all the time and was betrayed by 101.
Great observation
Holy damn
girl… my mind is BLOWN!
But Gi-Hun DID kill someone(or meant to) when he cheated during the marble game.
🩸💯
Another easter egg I found is that at the end where gi-hun meets the old man, he meets him on the 7th floor. The final game he plays with the old man is the 7th game he plays in the squid games
ah shiiet good one
Are there not just 6 games in total? And the marble game being number 4?
@@Vanessa-es2ss 6 + 1 last final game btw prota and mastermind
Yeah there was 6 games total plus the last the one he played with the old man (whether people would help the homeless person)
Interesting
Long comment incoming!
11:53 i disagree with the use of the phrase "sang woo's moral breakdown". I believe that sang woo actually had the same morality throughout the entire show. He is a utilitarian. The way he decides what is right and wrong is simple: he tries to be kind to others, and he will absolutely do it if it doesnt come at a large cost to himself. However, he will always put himself first if he has to make a choice between living or dying for someone else (unless that someone else is his mother, perhaps). He will do anything to survive.
At the start, sang woo lent ali his phone and gave ali money because those things would not cost him anything (what difference is 10000 won when you are billions in debt?) In a totally neutral no-stakes situation, he chooses to be good. This proves he is not evil. He is not the type to kill for sport, and perhaps we can even say he is good at heart.
During the early and middle squid games, he is a benevolent leader towards his team, and he tries to be kind to others. However, his motivation for doing this is at least partly for his own survival. He knows that having a team he can trust will help him win the games. He also tries to exclude women from their group for the tug-of-war game, which shows that winning is his top priority.
Now, lets discuss why sang-woo decided to let gi-hun take the dalgona candy with the umbrella on it. It could have been because sang woo was not sure about the game, but i think this is not true: sangwoo chose the triangle for himself, and the flashbacks showed that he recalled the dalgona candy from his childhood and made the connection. More likely it was because he knew gi-hun would be a threat in the future. Sang-woo is intelligent, he knows the truth that in the end only one person can survive and win the game. Gi-hun was not a threat yet at that point, but he would inevitably become one. And furthermore, sang-woo was probably thinking that if gi-hun was killed in the candy game, it would spare him the trouble and heartache of killing gi-hun on his own later on. It was ultimately a decision that sangwoo made for his survival.
We can see that sang-woo did hesitate in his decision to let gi-hun take the umbrella. Sang-woo did feel a brotherly bond with gi-hun, as they were childhood friends. But despite that, sang-woo chose survival, because he knew only one person could win. It like everyone was already dead from the start, except the one winner. Wouldn't you do the same? I dont think that makes him evil. It just makes him pragmatic.
Towards the end, we see sang-woo committing murder on the glass bridge and also killing sae-byeok. I dont think that those events were proof that he is evil. He only wanted to survive, and he acted the way he did because of the situation. He had no other options.
When he murdered the glassmaker on the glass bridge, it was because there was no time left, and the glassmaker's indecision was a threat to his life and those behind him.
When he murdered sae-byeok, it was because he knew that gi-hun and sae-byeok would have the majority vote to end the game. Not getting the prize money was equivalent to dying, because he was in so much debt and used his mother's house and shop as collateral as well. He could not bear the thought of his mother losing everything because of his reckless trading. Furthermore, at this point, so many people had already been killed. He even had to kill Ali, who was his friend. Sang-woo was probably thinking that he could not have come all this way for nothing.
At the very end, when sang-woo decided to kill himself to let gi-hun win, i believe sang-woo did that because he knew that he was already on the edge of death from getting beaten by gi-hun. He also knew that gi-hun would try to end the game, because gi-hun isnt able to kill a friend, but that would only result in both of them returning to their normal lives, except with more injuries, shame and regret (and sang-woo would probably not survive his injuries). Sang-woo thus decided to kill himself, because he knew he would not be able to survive long anyway, and at least gi-hun could win the money and take care of his mom. This is totally in line with sang-woo's morality from the start. The way he decides what is right and wrong has always stayed the same.
Sang-woo was never evil. He was only always pragmatic, he had clear goals in his mind and he would do whatever was needed to achieve them. He never deluded himself into thinking that he could survive without the death of others, because he knew only one person could win the game.
Wow some amazing insight here!
TL;BSTR
Too long, but still totally read
We also see foreshadowing of sang woos morality in the first scene on episode 1. Were he tricks gi hun to look the other way so he can advance in the squid game
Really nice analysis!
I love this analysis
Little detail I found: in the first scene of the show, the black and white flashback with the kids playing the squid game, young gi-hun distracts young sang-woo by saying his mom is behind him, and thanks to that wins the game. I think this mirrors the last game, in which sang-woo repeatedly mentions his mother ("When we were kids and played games our mothers would call us for dinner, but now nobody calls us." and what he says as he dies) and loses the game because of his mother.
This is an underrated detail
I understand what you are trying to convey, first he distracts him by mentioning his mother, at last he throws sand at sang-woo to distract him. Your idea goes well with foreshadowing, but it feels like the writer intends to mean that he distracts him to win. (you can see that he distracts sang-woo in the same place of the squid game court, both at the start and at the end)
@@shamrithponlingam1656 yeah, i didn't mean that mentioning his mother is what he does both times to distract him, what i think is foreshadowing is that in both games he loses because of his mother, one way or another.
@@marmag4976 I agree
The front man, everytime he’s shot anyone it was a shot directly to the head except Jun-Ho who he shot in his shoulder
EXCELLENT OBSERVATION.
Damn!!
On other videos I’ve been saying that he isn’t dead, but most people keep saying he got shot in the chest. Blind mice. They both shot each other in the shoulder. Two brothers not wanting to kill the other, just a “stop it”shot.
why do you think Cop Brother said “You know why…” to Frontman Brother?
Yesssss
JunHo is still alive. It's a horror movie setting and he fell off the cliff into water and nobody checked for the body. That's top tier teasing for 'YEAH, I'M STILL ALIVE! WAIT FOR SEASON 2!" vibes right there.
Agreed. In most movies if you don’t see someone’s death, they’re not dead
Also - JunHo shoots The Frontman (his brother InHo) in the shoulder - which was not fatal. InHo then shoots JunHo in the shoulder - this should also not be fatal...
JunHo is a police officer and would be expert in shooting so could easily have killed InHo... why didn't he? Is it because its his brother? Likewise InHo could have killed JunHo with a shot to the head or chest... but also chose the shoulder... InHo had also told his soldiers he wanted JunHo alive...
we don't know they didn't check for his body. they could've easily picked him up off screen too
anytime anyone is injured in a movie and falls into water from a tall place, their survival rate is 100%. This is the biggest cliche in existence
@@Josh-mm4iw in tv shows or movies, no body, no confirmed death.
That reason is why when they shot the old man but didn’t show his body, I knew he was involved to some degree.
The foreshadowing, the symbolism, the fashion, color and design choices are amazing! Korean media is amazing. Great actors.
One cool thing that just came to me, which I do not think has been covered in any video, is that Sae Byeok is accused of being a spy from the north. For the second game she actually goes on a spy mission to see what is going on in the building.
Ah nice
Ooooh
And what does this add to the story?
Ooh this one's new
The police man also fell into the ocean just like when he killed the first guard and dumped him into the ocean
ohh, interesting observation! Ive seen no one picking up on this
@@lisanneke001 because its stupid, they are on an island we're else would he get rid of the body so it can't be found immediately
I feel like no matter who became il-nams marble partner, he would have let them win. Il-nam knew that he had special protection in the other games, but if someone were to push him off the glass bridge he'd be screwed. So he tapped out early
But if he knew then he would have grabbed the number 17 vest so he was last up
Yeah, I think Shadz is right. I think he also explained that the reason he let him win was because he liked him. If it was any other player I don't think he would have cared tbh
@@InfuZedShaDoWz But even if you are last up you can lose because those before you can pause and not move, so you'd be killed when the time was finished.
@@InfuZedShaDoWz picking last # wouldn't guarantee you the win. First of all he is old, and that is a lot of jumps for an old man to make, second of all you can always get sabotaged, so it was way too risky for him to participate in that game.
I think he wanted to get out of the game before the VIPs would start to watch, so I'm with you on that thought
The first scene of the kids playing foreshadows the cop. The ‘secret inspector’ who moves freely through the game.
🤯 good one
Since Inspector Royal is a title you win by playing, it could also refer to Gi-hun. After he wins he seems pretty set on taking them down, and is now the best equipped to do it. He becomes Inspector Royal.
The rules for the playground game version of the squid game mirror the plot of the TV show: the ‘secret inspector’ (Jun Ho aka the cop) infiltrates the squid (Squid Game island), then attacks it from the inside out (forces the VIP to confess on video), before getting pushed out of bounds (off a cliff).
Omg this is gold! I'm surprised noone has commented on this
That's a very impressive emphasis on the text !
"Inspector Royal"
WOAHHH
He wasn’t pushed. He was shot and fell.
My observation:
The night in which all players were killing each other, the old man was on top of the bunker beds. When Gi-hun asks him how he reached there he doesn't answer him. He was probably helped to get there to protect him. Also, when the old man says stop, the boss takes the decision to end it
Exactly, and if people didn't notice that then no wonder they were fooled by the old man
In the moment, I thought it was a hint of empathy showing through for the front man. But makes sense once you know the end
While wathcingz I thought the front man ended the game, because they had arrived at 80 - the number they needed for the next game.
@@l.c.7955 it was obvious he was in on it from start but trying to find it how he doesn’t die in the game lol
@@sly9889 Same
I didn't guess the old man, because I was so fixated on the frontman being the brother. I guessed that one fairly early on, so the old man was a shock to me. I thought his attitude (about being happy playing etc) was due to his tumour (if he is going out anyway due to his illnesses than he might as well not worry about the games doing it type attitude).
Same bro, amazing how they were able to divert our attention through that trope to reveal another twist
Lol! That's awesome! Mine was the opposite case. I called the old man from the beginning! It was only up until the episode before I guessed that the frontman was the detective's brother.
Yeah same i def thought the frontman was the brother but also i think everyone thought he was the head guy of it all no one saw the twist of it being the old man
@@hg13589 at first i thought the inho was the head guy but then there was a scene where he answers the phone and talks about the host to someone and i realized he wasn't. still never guessed it was ilnam though🤡
Yeah I for sure thought he was just an old man with a tumor cause the only time you really see him experience negative emotions at all is when the riot is happening and he's just scared and wants everyone to get along. I thought "oh he's just been terrified the whole time underneath but he's staying upbeat and pleasant to get through it." Nope... didn't see it coming at all...
Fun fact: the episode called "Hell" already foreshadowed their deaths.
1. Gi-hun swore in his mother's life.
His mother died
2. Sang-woo tried to kill himself in his house bathtub.
He killed himself in the last episode.
3. Sae-byeok threatened a person with a knife on a neck, She died when someone stabbed her on the neck.
4. Ali took money from his boss.
He died when someone took the marbles from him.
5. Deok-su jumped off a bridge to escape from thugs
He fell from the glass bridge...
This movie is filled with uncountable number of easter eggs LOL
he literally brought all of these up in the video though…?
@@otisserie.chicken nope LOL
@@Igstreem he did tho
he literally talked about it on an earlier video posted on September lmfao dude
@@Igstreem yes he did LOL
Before Sang Woo was about to end his life, he calls his mom. While talking, his mom was interrupted by a customer asking for "Three squids" foreshadowing the three finalists Sang woo, Gihun, & Sae byeok.
OHH COOL
Lol yeah, it foreshadows that they'd be playing the Squid Game, but Sang-woo killed Sae-Byeaok
Damnnnn
😱😱😱
Does it makes any sense?
The fourth episode called "Stick to the team" where everyones just kills eachother in flashing lights was one of the most disturbing shit I have seen.
Yeah so brutal
Could barely watch it. Turned away from the screen for most of it. Truly encapsulates the desperation the games were designed to bring out.
@@carlamcvittie9128 totally!
@@carlamcvittie9128 same here, I had to skip it
Dam I mean it's a savage scene but honestly there is so much worse in movies tbh
Also with the old man wearing the owl mask in the one part he talked about how old people don’t need much sleep which owls stay up all night all the time
Very true! Old Homie even “clocked out” at midnight which is very late for any elderly person
Omg he actually did say at some point how old people don’t need much sleep
@@witchywandaweasley6428 he….he died?
@@samzod8828 yes, in the last episode
@@samzod8828 bro your watching a channel called heavy spoilers what’d you expect
The more relevant forshadowing for Ali's death is that he had believed his bosses lies that he would be paid eventually for a really long time, despite evidence to the contrary - the same way he believed Sang-woo when he said he had a plan.
He pick triangle in the coin toss. To let his friend know he realize he tried to screw him in the 2nd game.
ohhhh
What coin toss?
@@meapsie6685 before they entered the room to do the squid game. Who was on offense and who was on defense.
I thought about that too. But I also thought, it would perfectly represent the status of them both. Gi-Hun choosing triangle (soldier) would automatically leave square (management) for Sang-woo (who actually was a manager). It could also forshadow, what Gi-Hun would do in the end, to also choose not to join the "upper class" (management & money) by using the money he was given but to be a fighter (against the management behind the game).
@@shiba_inu_mom very good insights.
This is a stretch and a theory, but the VIPs are architects of the squid game in their own country. If you noticed, most of them had different accents and when they first entered, they said “South Korea has the best games” maybe implying that South Koreans games doesn’t compare to their or the other VIPs games. Idk tho
Yeah that could also just mean they tire of traditional sports or gambling games of other places (which to them is very low-risk because they are so wealthy). Whereas the squid game is high risk due to lives being on the line. Just to give a counter argument to your theory.
wow that's so interesting, it sounds really plausible
Taught this myself
The theory is sound
@Good Apple But he's saying that they may all be architects of games in their respective countries, like Il-Nam. Don't mock others' comprehension when yours is lacking.
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.
How do you win the games as a worker though?
@@Aldragon picking the red paper when playing that guy at the subway
@@yaiscontent that’s not winning the game though…
@@Aldragon maybe he did both, won a game and then getting in as a worker
@@yaiscontent if he won, he wouldn’t be in debt to be visited by the suitcase man
What I find interesting is that GI-Hun is introduced to us as a gambler and throughout the game he gambles with his life (like everyone else...not that important) like when he chooses to play with Oh Il-nam (marbles). That could of course be taken as an act of kindness/pity which it probably was (I'm reading too much into it). But at the end he could go and help the drunk person but instead he decided to bet on his life.
It looks like Gi-Hun had a character development but at the same time...it honestly ended as it started. He started with not helping his mother, gambling, disappointing his daughter and wanting revenge instead of money in the game of ddjakji. At the end of the season he couldn't help his mother, gambled with the life of another human, disappointed his daughter and went to seek out revenge.
The beginning kind of foreshadowed this. Look at his encounter with the recruiter. He won the money, but wasn't interested. By then he just wanted to beat the hell out of the recruiter for hitting him.
Ali lost his fingers at his workplace and then ruined his boss' hand.
nice catch
moral of the story: be nice to the old guy and secure that bag.
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Something that bugged me is that a bag of rocks sounds nothing like a bag of marbles when you move it with your fingers or as ot jiggles around your neck.
But I would suppose with your life on the line and heads getting popped all around you might not notice. I feel like I would have tho.
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@@pheckeht That's a good point. With all the noise and everything that was going on around him, Ali might not have noticed that the contents of the pouch sounded different. Maybe that was the last thing he thought of paying attention to, given that he was in such a high-stress situation. Another possibility is that, in the show, Ali mentioned that he had never played the game before (implying that he's never had glass marbles as a child). This could be another reason why he probably wouldn't be very familiar with the sound marbles make when in contact with each other, being carried around. That's just my opinion. I never thought much about that detail until you brought it up :)
@@ajclaret1534 That is also a good point you made I didn't think about, he never had marbles and wasn't used to the sound. :)
My marble game theory: I think they were counting on the old man not getting picked and so he would get “escorted” out of the games to avoid the danger of the next. When he did get picked, they realized they didn’t want to kill a “real” player, and so they let the girl live and move onto the next round. Remember the rules; if someone doesn’t play the game they get killed - so why would they have spared her life otherwise?
Edit: I want to thank you for a nice discussion, but please, if you disagree with my theory - no need to get nasty! Lets keep this an open space :)
It wasn’t by her own choice that she couldn’t play. She wanted to play
@@BWillTheAddict but what the first comment means is that they were expecting the old man to not get picked so that way they could take him out of the game but Gi-hun ended up picking him so they kinda had to go along with it by not killing the girl.
it would've been unfair for her
@@SuperiorChaotic but they don't care, there r rules, and they had to follow them. It's y they wanted old man to not get picked, to "kill" him and let him watch the ending of the game, but him getting picked screwed up the game so they let her live
@@brookgun exactly.
in the marble game the rules only said u must take ten marbles from your partner in order to win not that u had to end up with twenty which makes me wonder what could've happened if two people just switched their marbles then possibly both of them could have survived?
Thank you! That's what I was thinking the whole time!
had same question but people at that point didnt even think about each others's life like in beg they were for saving their ass then for money then they started to treat each others as toys that they saw blood as if nothing, they started to want to kill each others even when they killed each others in the room if u see how they kill they dont hit 1 slash they hit multi hits with the knife as if they dont give a shit i broke my heart that ep
@@rukiichi85 it like saw movie where it was obvious u work together lol
@@jborrego2406 the differance in saw is that in saw they got 1 main point which is survive they kill each others with tears with a turama they killed someone but in squid game they dont give a shit they killed with cold blood even tho first ep they were crazy about each others's blood u know they changed by time which is insane
Yes I literally thought the same thing. First thing when I heard the rules, I was like oh so just switch with your partner??? Thought that’s what business guy and Ali were going to do 🥺
Owls can also symbolize death, which seems fitting for the man behind it all.
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100%, and its exactly what the video has easily missed. In traditional Korean culture, a hooting owl was believed to be a forbearer of famine, disease, war/strife, or widespread death throughout a household or village. It admittedly would be a very Western thing to project on Il-Nam the idea of him being all-wise...but to the (superstitious)
Korean viewer it conveys that he's something far more sinister.
Fun Fact: Owls are really dumb they just look wise.
@@HaseoIX if only they were
Jun Ho is definitely still alive. Anyone shot in the shoulder makes a full recovery as per movie/television law. No matter if they fall off a cliff or fall into lava afterwards. 😂😂😂
lol.....the movie universe indeed!
Yeah it’s basically a law for movies lol like how Kylo ren survived lava
I dunno I think the show made a pretty good example of how all flesh is just as soft
Except apparently Tony Stark in What If. 🤦🏽♂️
The difference is he was shot in the left shoulder very close to his heart, as opposed to his brother who was shot in the right
Another thing throughout the show is the psychological impact that starvation has on the contestants. The first meal included basic components of a standard meal, the second meal was a biscuit thing and some milk, third was the water and an egg, then a potato, and finally some corn. This is until they "ranked up" and began to eat steak dinners.
This could symbolize the minimalistic way of life or could represent how good things were to how bad things have gotten (besides the steak dinner as a sign of victory)
I think it was to parallel starvation/lack of resources in the real world, and how that causes people to become more and more desperate and to turn on each other😬
I will not be surprised if they were eating the dead people whom they kill and drink their blood as a wine and not knowing it
No i think small meal represent that food start to mean nothing when you want to win big price and especially when you have to kill or became evil person for this. You don't think about food and don't complain about it towards the end
@Nathan A I believe they said that they would be playing six games in six days.
@@olgazhdanova Your going to know if your drinking blood. Now IDK about people.
9:00 wrong, Il Nam won. The REAL bet was to see if Gi-Hun would run out and help the drunk man...but he didn't, just like the VIPs he just looked at him and wavered a persons life in a silly bet
The bet was to see if humanity really had any good. if Gi-hun himself went out to help that would have defeated the whole purpose.
What good is it to prove just 1 person in society is good at heart?
@@blackfiresprout Both of you have good points. It could also be that il nam was so cunning like an owl (his mask) that either way he would always win. Similar to how he never loses any prior game.
@@eastasiansarewhitesbutduet9825 I really like this interpretation!
@@blackfiresprout I agree with your interpretation.
Interesting username you've made lol
Ultimate theory: the director of this movie had a nasty classroom rivalry with the man whose number he used on the squid game business card
LMAO
I would lose it 🤣🤣
Lmfao ...diabolical
the number they used belonged to the person who beat them in squid game (the original game) when they were kids
@@purplekush079 i binged it in one go so it felt like a very long movie
Might have been mentioned already but when Gi-Hun and Sang-Woo have to pick a shape to play the finale, Gi-Hun immediately says 'triangle'. Sang-Woo picked the triangle in the Honeycomb game as he knew he would have an advantage then, so Gi-Hun's choice suggests that he realises now how long Sang-Woo had been deceiving them.
He knew after the second game, he just dismissed it because he assumes the best of people. But after the bridge game, it’s obvious the friend has been cutthroat the entire time
Tell me you're obsessed without telling me you're obsessed
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Haha this is one of the last ones I promise
@@heavyspoilers if this isn't you will see a shadow in front of you when you upload another.... i know your address
Yes...
@@heavyspoilers One of????
Is it me, or was the winner given to us in the first episode, in the order of the horse race that Gi-Hun won? Horse 6 finished first followed by 8 and 7. Gi-Hun…456. Sang Woo…218. Sae-byeok…67.
woah…
I could be wrong but I think the shapes of the squid game parallel the roles the workers are.
Circle on the Squid Game court: Starting point, have to hop on one foot, less freedom of movement
Worker with circle shape: Has the least amount of freedom of the three shapes
Triangle on the court: An area that has to be protected, they can use both feet, but movement is restricted due to having to protect that particular area.
Worker with triangle shape: Seem to have a tiny bit more of freedom than those with the circle shape, carry guns, and seem to have a guard/enforcer role.
Square on the court: Are not restricted to a small space, can move around, allowed to use both feet
Worker with the square shape: Has the most freedom of the three, allowed to talk, takes on a manger sort of role.
Ooooooo interesting!!!
This is great
excellent catch
The fact that this is 67’s first show shows that she has a lot of potential.
true, she was a legit good actor (unlike the rich white guys)
@@guadobobey5785 Ugh, the guys who played the VIP's were the worst part of that show for me, their acting and dialogue was just cringe-inducing.
@@alexfoxleigh9443 haha. That was the point
@@alexfoxleigh9443 My guess is that they are Westerners living in Korea and only casted because they are white and not based on acting skills. I was an extra for commercials when I studied in Taiwan and crew would address me on the street to ask if I wanted to be in a commercial.
@@guadobobey5785 i think the rich white guys were bad actors because foreign actors are treated way worse than korean actors in korea. Amongst other things, they're given their screenplays only on the day of the shoot without any time to absorb or remember their lines. Sometimes they don't even know what the show/movie is about until they come on set.
The girl who was left behind by everyone wasn't killed because the old man know the pain of not included in games as he would watch others from a distance when he was young.
also, the guards say that the games are based on fairness and equality for all, and it wouldnt be fair to kill her without playing a game. Killing outside of the games was done only by the players, if i remember correctly
she didn't even cheat, so why kill her.
and yes she did cheat in Dalgona, but hey, she got away with it and no one knew about it, so let's remove that out of the equation...
@@SuperiorChaotic exactly, that’s a different thing than not being chosen for the marbles game
He watched his son playing games longing for the days when he used to play the same things without a care in the world. Or at least the adult world.
The thing I was annoyed about was that they were promoting fairness in the games but then on the glass bridge they injured Sae Byeok after she passed the game and didn't even help her, so that was not fair at all.
We don't know though that they wouldn't have helped her since Sang Woo killed her. Although my personal theory is that they gave them the knives just so that one of them would be eliminated leaving just two for the final game. Her being injured was just an unfortunate coincidence.
It was a planned part of chaos that had an opportunity to injury anyone. Sae was just unlucky. So by the games principals it's fair and equal
I totally agree. they should have shot anyone who didn't cross after the time, not do a dramatic explosion. I thought they were using the glass shard as a setup, so she would have a weapon to use against Sang Woo. But then they gave everyone knives and I was annoyed with that.
I think that's one of the best parts of the show though. The frontman attempts to soothe his guilt by claiming he's giving everyone one last fair chance (just like when he played, another way to make himself feel better for surviving while the others didn't) but just from the mere fact that Oh Il-Nam was a player makes the game unfair. Everyone was not given a fair chance, they all had to play a game of life and death while the wealthiest man there got to simply play to have fun without worrying about debt or death. The riot was even stopped abruptly when Il-Nam said he was scared. Something that was not done for any other player. He knew what the games would be since he chose them, and he was never in a ny real danger. It's another beautiful metaphor for capitalism, while everyone is playing for life and death at the hands of the world's wealthiest people, those same elits make the rules that they are then not held privy to. A detail that I think is far too overlooked is the prize money itself. If we take the net worth of bezos or musk it is well above 200 billion. Then cut it in half just for fun. 100 billion usd. The money offered is about 0.04% of that 100 billion (and thats rounding up). The average net worth in america is about 408 thousand (skewed high due to the top 0.1%) and in South Korea it's about 286 thousand USD. 0.04% of 408 thousand is barely more than $150usd. For 286 thousand it's closer to $115 usd. These numbers have all generously been rounded up. They are fighting for their lives for something that costs the VIPS the equivalent of a concert ticket. or a night at a hotel. This game was never fair from the start, and the people like the frontman who are enforcing the stipulations made from the elite have to lie to themselves in order to live with themselves. So this is all to say I'm not at all surprised that they shot her with a shard of glass and then waited for her to die, waited for her murder, before coming in to simply clean up.
@@BuddyismyBaby damn, good comment. I never thought of Il Nam's participation as another symbol of capitalism.
One thing i feel foreshadowed Gi-hun winning was his number “456”. When we were kids we played a game called Cee-lo and despite any variation of the game, one constant is always that rolling a 4-5-6 is an automatic win. Gi-hun a.k.a. 456 won every game.
Ahhhh...thanks for sharing this !
omg
oh wow
I believe this person because they have “456” in their username
Nice lying it's 3 6s and 3 0 is a lose
I love that this show disguises its complexity. It can be loved by the casual viewer but also has lots of depth for those willing to look.
Great overview & insights.
The mom's death was also predicted not only from the last episode's title, but because Gi-hun swears on her to Sae-byeok in the second episode, which is kind of like the phrase "step on a crack, break your mama's back."
Saw another video about this, and I can definitely see that as a predictions even before knowing she has diabetes in the same episode just later on.
Oh this is good
**GASP**
HOLY-
I actually worried about that the moment he swore on his mothers life and broke it straight away. Then his mum was dead and I was just like "It's because you swore on her life you bastard".
If I were him, I'd have also just taken that money given by the step dad. The conditions could be taken back later should he win the fortune, his mother needed that surgery asap.
I'm not sure if number 01 died to be honest he could just be playing another trick. If you look at the EKG or whatever health monitors after he flatlines it can clearly be read in text that the 'lead off', and 'sensor off' which to me could also mean he simply removed the health monitors on his body to make the machine appear as though the patient flatlined. What are your thoughts on this?
Good spot. The monitor was a BeneView T8 and the error warning was "SpO2 Sensor Off" which per the manual means "The SpO2 sensor has become detached from the patient or the module, or there is a fault with the SpO2 sensor, or an unspecified SpO2 sensor has been used." As it was working previously, it implies tampering. If the issue was simply he died, the manual says the warning should be "SpO2 No Pulse"
Season 2 is coming 4 sure
The front man close the old man lids to show that he died.
@@robinr3666 Nice theory, but I feel like it could also be that they had no other way to get a flatline from a living actor, unless they disconnected it. It just wouldn't make sense that the front man closed his eye lids and he were still alive.
I was thinking this too! Wouldn't be the first time and maybe this is a link into his second game
This is just a theory but I am pretty sure we were already given the hint on how many finalist were gonna be at the end of the game in episode 2 when the lady asks for three squids to be prepared by Sang woo's mother I am pretty sure it was a hint towards the amount of people who are gonna be the finalist
ahhh!
Oh wow yeah!
truee, I didn't pick up on that
WOW!!
But only 2 made it to the final
1 got fatally wounded by the game itself after winning rd 5
The Detective is still alive because his masked brother usually shoots people in the head he wants dead.
Another great detail is that the "last supper" table is not only a triangle, but it's also set atop a circular dais which is covered by a checkerboard pattern of squares. All three symbols in one!
I noticed that too!!!!!!!!!!
Illuminati…
Am I the only one who thought the meat they were eating was from past players? and the staff who were harvesting some of the players organs gave it to them? Or maybe I’m just crazy cuz I can’t find anyone talking ab that 😂😭
@@eveeee6464 it's clearly steak. However Player 067's was likely poisoned in case the glass shard didn't kill her, rendering her unable to finish it.
@@eveeee6464 this crossed my mind as well. I was waiting for the players to make a disgusted face while they ate it. Then I paused when the camera panned over their plates and noticed it was indeed...a steak. I thought I was insane for having this as my first thought tho 🤢🤣🤣🤣
I may just be speculating but I don't think the triangles, squares and circles were supposed to be from a PlayStation controller. I think they just made it because these are the exact shapes needed to draw a squid game court.
Xbox fanboy 🙄🙄🙄 jk 😂
"frontman" was police too. when his brother found his file, it says he graduated from korean national police university. that means frontman was elite police before.
Maybe “frontman” is low key trying to infiltrate the operation; which is why he didn’t kill his brother.
Yeah, he also recognises the bullet as the one used by police.
I think there's multiple police that are part of the operation. When Front Man is searching for Jun Ho inside the facility, he talks about how the gun he used to kill one of the guards is a South Korean police issued firearm. That same type of gun is used multiple times throughout the show by the guards.
@@sundalo916 I don't know. maybe? but i don't think "operation involved" police bring their service gun to the island. i think game host smuggle guns or steal it from korean military/police somehow. frontman used 1911, but korean police are not using 1911 anymore since around 1990.
@@부디카 Are there any other interesting details in the files that people who can't read Korean will miss?
Gi-Hun swears on his mother that he will forget the money Sae stole when she frees him. He breaks this oath directly. When you swear on someone, you mean "on his life". Afterwards he learns that his mother is terminally ill. He find his dead mother after he wins the games. (Woo's mother says how long she hasn't seen her, I think it was 2 days).
This comment just fucked me up.... I never caught that!
omg true
She died when he got the “money” in which he swore his mothers life he would forget about.
Yes, this is a great foreshadowing
This whole movie is about learning. Starting from the very first scene with the slapping man. Every slap is a learning the person should understand, that it's not everything about money, that you do something wrong in your life and with your life, etc etc
love how he won 4.56m in racing and his number was also 456
big sus
Because every participant is 10 milion won🤦♀️ and he won 4,56 bilion not milion
@@kriemie1273 have u seen the show? Or watched this video properly? Cos they literally talk abt the horse racing
@@samfraser8192 tfym horse racing lmao
@@samfraser8192 oh nvm
The final table seen has all three shapes. Triangle as the table, square is the pattern of the floor and circle is the platform everything sits on.
My bathroom has squares circles and triangles too. Much Easter egg, wow
He wasn’t bored with his newfound wealth, he felt guilty about it and refused to use it.
Exactly. They kept bringing up 10,000 won. He kept giving it away and begging for it in the beginning. When he won, that's the amount he withdrew. And that's the amount he asked to borror from the bank manager who implied that he was squandering his wealth. It felt like he was going to deposit it back into the account so his hands were clean of that blood money until a "desperate woman" (a plant, probably) begged him to buy flowers. He was willing to give up all the money at the end to walk out with his old friend despite it all but was robbed of that choice. This whole show is about how money can rob us of choice, dignity, and rights, yet someone make others think that they're entitles to people's bodies like chattle whether through demanding sex or organs or labor
Personally, I think him not spending the money is due to that each person that enters the game is essentially money. That money wasn’t prize money, rather the money that each person was worth when they entered the game, and he knew that spending it was rather spending the life’s of the people that sacrificed themselves inside of the game.
@@yourlocalopp_ aka blood money
i think more he just didn't have any reason to use it. He had no life desires after that, simply he just wanted to end the squid game as part of his survivor's guilt.
I thought he owe a lot money as we saw in episode 1 no? When he returned after winning the game, it became bad debt?
I'll never get over how the first 5 episodes of the show was a drama, mystery, thriller kind of show, and then the 6th episode just made me cry for 30 minutes after getting my heart ripped out multiple times
The 6th episode had me dead on the inside. I couldn’t even cry.
Why has no one mentioned the fact that the bank offered him a VIP membership? As in he’s got so much money he can join the VIPs watching the games. This is important because
1) hints to future seasons??
2) suggests the scale of involvement
Good analysis. Since the banker guy knows every winner
This is good. 👍🏾
I think the VIPs watching the game should have a lot more money than a single game's prize to actually regularly bet on the games. I mean it's a bigger league. After all, I think the prize money for every game is collected from the bets. I don't think Il-Nam is constantly giving 456 billion won (385 million dollars) of his money to the winner like every goddamn week
@@efearas5228 exactly lol
@@efearas5228 the game is hosted yearly
This show has many Karma parallels
1) Gi Hun feeling poor and intimidated when his daughter said she ate steak, he got to eat steak as a victor in the game.
2) Ali getting his boss's fingers crushed, when his own two fingers were missing from a workplace accident. His death was a similar parallel too.
3) Jun-Ho not fatally wounding Frontman even when he didn't know who he was. Justa shot to the shoulder. His brother kinda sparing him by only shooting him in the shoulder, when otherwise he always shoots to the head.
I feel Gi-Hun more didn’t spend the money out of guilt for all the players that died. Not just feeling guilt for those he made friends with, but everyone who didn’t get to live on.
He never realized he and sae byeok could have ended the game, thus giving all the money to the families of the dead, that's why he feels guilty I think
They were what we call "blood money" tbh.
@@sorenkair sae byeok wouldn't have agreed to that. Till the very end, she cared for her family not the dead players.
Gi-hun definitely have survivor guilt, but i think in terms of the money he just had no reason to use it.
He purely had no intent for life at that moment other than to end the Squid game.
Many Gambling Addicts have no other life pursuits, hobbies, interest...etc. Its the adrenalin rush of gambling, that they Live for. After feeling so much guilt from such an event... and already having so much money... he didnt have a drive or reason to gamble.
I loved this show. Honestly, I can’t believe how talented the writers were to create this masterpiece.
no writers. just hwang dong-hyuk (creator) for this season. however netflix's team in korea and the production design as well as the technical aspects - which hwang had less involvement in building, deserve to be appreciated.
Paul, Il-Nam said he used to beat his son for not drinking his milk. Don't you think Gi-Hun would remember that if he was his son? At best, Il-Nam is his GRANDFATHER, which would explain why Gi-Hun didn't know him because maybe Gi-Hun's father had severed ties with Il-Nam when he got older because of the abuse, but there's no way he's his father.
That actually makes sense
also their family name is different
That is possible, il nam being in his 80s or 90s and Gi Hun in his 30s
whoa. this makes so much sense.
Is there any mention of Gi-Hun’s father in the show?
I figured the big reveal after the frontman got the call and said “I’m glad you enjoyed the game” I realized the whole time il nam seemed to enjoy himself the entire time and that we didn’t see him die
I thought it was sooo weird how he seemed THRILLED playing red light green light and everyone was terrified
@@moonie7155 IKR i just thought he was a demented old man who had nothing to lose lol
Especially Red Ligh Green Light. I was like folks just got shot dead and this old man looks too damn happy
I thought the same thing. The one thing about this that doesn’t quite fit in was that the next thing the Frontman said was: “The Host is currently waiting for the VIPS to arrive.”
This kind of confuses me as the end points towards Il-nam being the Host. But the call suggests that the person the Frontman was talking to was another person entirely, and couldn’t be the Host or the VIPS. I would love to know what your thoughts are on this or if I’ve missed something!
Another Theory: After the honeycomb game, the frontman himself came down to kill the guard who revealed his face because the guard had a square symbol (which is the highest rank amongst the guards) which means no one in the room had higher authority than square symbol guards except the frontman.
oh!!! And that’s probably why he removed his mask. Because he knew that no one in the room would protect him if he chose not to.
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I'm taking this as Canon. You're not supposed to remove your mask, which is known. But if there were a rule to kill anyone you saw without a mask, they would have done so, or The Frontman would have cause to kill everyone who didn't. But there could also be a rule. Also the implication that the man with the most vertices on his mask is the most powerful doesn't check out to me because he asked everyone else in the room for permission before he took jun ho, implying they were equals.
@@stud1o699 who asked for permission? I’m not sure which scene you’re referring to
@@NJHC21 The VIP who was attracted to Jun Ho. He asked everyone else in the room if he could have him.
During the marble game, when Oh Il-nam seems to be losing his mind, wandering the neighborhood alleys, perhaps he is looking for a safe/hidden place to fake his death.
I think he knew from the get go once Gi-Hun chose him as his partner what he was going to do
And to delay, prolong. He had to die that noone notice, that means at the end when most have finished or currently busy winning. And at closed location. That might have been specific one, I'm sure he was hiding from cameras too, his survival was not to be seen by VIPs either. Player 001 dies, host with golden owl mask never participated....
Funny that he actually finds solace that looks just like his house. Yeah and he's stalling so he's the last to die so he doesn't risk anyone seeing
@@MolnarG007 It would have been a promised place where the camera couldn't capture it. Eventually, other vips would not have known the host's participation.
@F The News He didn't join to watch 456 play, he joined to play himself.
Fun Easter egg a friend of mine pointed out: in Episode 6 when Sae-byeok and Ji-yeong are talking, the movie referencing mojitos on the beach is "Inside Men" and Ji-yeong actually says Lee Byung-hun's name as the star of that 2015 film!
Exactly haha, me and my friends are guessing the director’s intention was that he wanted us, as the audience, to be part of the game 🦑 making us confused in between the show and the reality, as all the Koreans know about 이병헌 and that line from 내분비들 movie 😄
Ikr she’s so good
Squid Game is real :trolo:
This show was so well done and written and acted. A masterpiece of horror.
One of the things I thought of about the show that people might have missed was how he walked away from an umbrella twice prior to joining the games, once when the exes partner came outside in the rain under an umbrella offering money and the second time when the daughter ran out with the umbrella. So the third chance he got to take an umbrella was in the honeycomb game and he decided this time to take it and it of course backfired. Almost like karma for not just accepting help on the outside world.
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@@Veromoi4 I know right 🤯
Not exactly the same, but there’s also the scene where the cop is talking to him in the street covered by an umbrella but he is drenched in water. I think that might’ve been another foreshadow to not having an umbrella or always being “caught in the rain/storm”
@@moonie7155 oooooooo good spot!
The television report in the last episode discusses the SK Government removing restrictions on loans, debt, and moneylending. As 001 is a moneylender, his organization’s power is increasing and behind the scenes, is lobbying to create more players for the game.
Whoooa nice catch.
I heard a theory that when Sae-Byeok and Gi-Hun got dumped on the side of the road Gi-Hun said that he swears on him mother’s life that he won’t beg for him money back if Sae-Byeok unties him but when she dose he begs for his money back and at the end of the show his mother dies so they said that why the mum had died idk just found it interesting
i realized that the second i seen his mom on the ground smh that’s why u don’t swear on ppls life if u can’t keep a promise
This show displayed what a karma it would be... you will be receiving what you have done.. i think that was the message.
@@NandaLinnAung yea that was the case for literally every main character. their deaths were all foreshadowed in the end
@@sneakersourcer_3840 indeed. really enjoyed this show. hope we can see more unexpected revelations in next season.
I dont think people picked up on at the end when they are playing the game with the homeless mans life, he is saying how wrong it is to gamble on lives, and then literally does so. He could have ran to help but didn't just to prove his point and risk someones life. I thought it was a clever little detail so wether il nam knew he won or not doesnt matter, just playing the game made his point correct
i was like why are you not helping him i was confused
Has anyone picked up on the fact that the chess pieces used to represent the players on the glass bridge are horses. Ties in with the players just being like horses thing.
Interesting observation. I am not that into chess, but I do know how some of the figures are called. I did found the choice appropriate because of the german wording for that horse figure. In german (my native language) it's called "Springer" wich would translate to someting like "Jumper" and thats what the do on the bridge (or what the cess figure can do in play, jump over/beyond others). In English the chess figure is called "Knight" but I think here relates better with it's horse imagery. Only the korean wording is a bit odd as it is 나이트 and translates in Google to "night" but that would also tie in with the darkness of the scene.
The dinner scene floor is also like a chess/checker board which I thought was a bit peculiar
They actually said the name of the actor of the Frontman on EP 6: GGanbu Time stamp 29:05
While Sae Byeok and Ji Yeong were getting to know each other, Ji Yeong told Sae byeok to have a mojito.
JY: And have a mojito too.
SB: Mojito?
JY: Yeah, like the one in the movie. Lee Byung-hun's in it.
That’s a fun Easter egg! Kind of breaks the 4th wall haha
@@misterpitters Yeah! I searched it before I watched the final ep and got shookt like whut?? HAHA
He wasnt spending the money he won, not because he had more than he could spend, but because it was blood money that ultimately was earned for nothing. What was important to him? His mother and his child, he lost both, even with his money. Thats why he didnt touch it. That whole experience was for nothing the second he got home. Dont think he ever really wanted billions of won, he just wanted to be out of debt, to be able to afford to give things to his child, help his mom, thats all.
I could never have spent the money too knowing all those people died I’d have split it and given the money to the dead’s families
He's an addict. He loves his addiction far more than any person, he cares for his mother and daughter sure. We were shown he does have compassion and kindness. The problem is his addiction always overrode those things. Notice he stops gambling etc after winning....it took him participating in the ultimate gamble=his life, watching all those people die for it to partially click. But his addiction is always center stage, he proved that by not getting on the plane. His ego and need to DO, and be a savior..same rush as his addiction....were more important than his child.
@@df-nk6gd now he's gambling again by doing what jun-ho (the cop) did
although not spending the money makes all the sacrifices in vain (in the first year). later he donates all to the remaining families of the finalist (the North Korean girl and the suicide guy, can't type their names)
@@anneshields2010 fuck that lol. He didn't know what was going to happen and he couldn't of saved all those people. I'd 100% enjoy the money. He certainly earned it! Went through enough to get it.
Just a small comment, you don't have to assume that In-ho won when he was a contestant. His name is literally on the "list of past winners" that Jun-ho finds. That's how he finds In-ho's file because he cross-references the year from being the past winner to the year of the Squid Archives. No assumption necessary. We know he won.
wait--that happened AFTER he tells us his name? I need to watch that again!
I wonder if past winners end up being front men or VIPs. Gi-hun is now considered a VIP at the bank
I figured that il nam would have always stopped at/after marbles. The fact that Han Mi-nyeo was just spared from participating is because they never meant to kill anyone I’m this event. They probably expected il-nam to not get chosen (seeing as il-nam was so cynical about the kindness of others) and then he could have just exited the games at that point and everyone would assume that he was ‘eliminated’. But seeing as it actually ended up being Mi-nyeo they just let her live because they made a point of saying that things were fair in there and it wouldn’t have been fair for her to have just been killed then.
I was thinking the same thing!!!!!!
and i don’t think that Il Nam would participate in the stepping stones. i feel like even though he wasn’t as sick as he said, it’s still a very physical game and since he does actually have a tumor, he could have easily forgotten which stones to step on. in the video it said that he could be able to see the thickness of the glass, but the man who could actually tell the difference could because of light reflection not thickness
I played those games in Korea when I was young. There is this weak spare one called 'kakduki' does exist.
No because it is consistent with the seven teams of 10 players starting the Tug of War. 3 games killed thirty players and the last to be drawn took the pass leaving forty players to continue.
I wondered this as soon as I saw the seven teams. Thought oh someone will have to play twice. But no. They let one team live without playing.
Am I the only one that saw that?
I honestly think the guards were specifically instructed not to kill the remaining person in the marbles game, since the leaders were confident that Il-nam would have been left behind. When Han Mi-nyeo ended up being the one, the leaders didn't double back on the order because it would be suspicious to the guards who were instructed in the first place (I believe the guards are just normal people who got into the game because they chose the red toy in the game at the train station). Maybe the being fair thing was the excuse they gave to the guards in the first place, but I really think it was a conversation along the lines of "oh, shit, well... let them keep her, then."
If 001 wasn't chosen to the marbles game, he wolud be "eliminated", and join the vips, 456 choose him messing his plans, and they had to improvise, with "eliminating" him and let the girl live cause there was no reason to kill her. It was just his safe way out, so noone would se him not dying, but still being eliminated, so he was walking all the streets to find a place where they can "eliminate" him without witnesses.
So the old man is basically Jigsaw then.
He has cancer, he's dying and created this entire elaborate game.
But it's only one in possibly a global network of games. Remember one of the VIPs said that the Korea games were the best this year, or something to that effect?
@@carlamcvittie9128 hmmm-
@@carlamcvittie9128 wouldnt it be cool if another country continued the series with each installment kinda like a death game olympics while still be connected to each other
But what makes this more interesting is that each player choose to be there.
I said the same thing!