The ending is good and direct idk why people think it is bad to me it felt like something that would eventually happen, Gi-hun's entire convo with old man in hospital proves he values human compassion over anything.
I read elsewhere that the old man won because he wanted Gi-hun to bet on another human life. It didn't matter if the human lived or not. Also if Gi-hun really cared he would have helped the drunk himself
@@meestersecure9060 better than game of thrones tho !! Believe me I blocked that show so much it’s not even worth watching again because you’re left with the worst ending
I think that people misread the last scene between the Old Man and Gi-hun. I think the Old Man genuinely liked Gi-hun and orchestrated their final meeting in order to help Gi-hun move on with his life. After the Games ended, the Old Man knew that Gi-hun had not touched his prize money and was basically wasting his life away. So the Old Man set up one final meeting with Gi-hun. The whole thing with the guy freezing out on the street and the person returning to help him was set up by the Old Man (just like he set up the Games). They were all working for him. (Didn't anyone find it rather convenient that there would be someone freezing outside who was perfectly in view of the Old Man's window and that somebody would return to help him just seconds before the Old Man's bet with Gi-hun ended?). The whole thing was carefully arranged by the Old Man in order to restore Gi-hun's faith in humanity and allow him to move on with his life after the Games had left him a broken man. So in the end, the Old Man was a true Gganbu. He could have kept his existence a secret, but he decided to expose his identity to Gi-hun in order to help 'save' him. It was his final gift to Gi-hun to restore his belief in humanity after the Games had destroyed it.
@@savvasf7136 : I think he took a liking to Gi-hun as he took a liking to the old man. As for the rest, he doesn't care. Their lives were basically worthless.
@@savvasf7136 the old man didn't care if he won or lost the final bet. He just wanted Gi-hun to bet on another humans life to spark interest in being involved with the games
Maybe Gi-Hun assumed with the death of Oh Il-Nam, the games would not continue. Then, seeing tall handsome man in the subway recruiting for the games makes him realize he needs to put a stop to them. They just dramatized it to happen right before he boards the plane.
I think the cop is still alive, since they shoot him in his shoulder and there’s gonna be another Squid game, but the main character who won will be involved as one of the staff/working with the boss.
I feel like there was another very significant aspect to the death bed scene. Il-nam asks Gi-hun to play a betting game on whether or not anyone will help the drunk man outside in the snow. This was essentially betting on that man's life and despite what Gi-hun is saying about the immorality of squid game, he did the exact same thing by betting on another man's life. The man could have died (and honestly by the looks of it, I'm not convinced he survived). Gi-hun did not bother helping though just for the sake of the game. I'm not great with interpreting stuff but I feel like this is not being talked about enough.
you know what ? thats a really good point you have there, maybe it was a test to see if gi-hun is capable of taking part in upcoming games, even if he may or may not realize that there are no rules holding him back. Since he so easily was able to bet on a mans life that he couldve helped
Gihun obviously is conflicted...... he left his dying mother without finding her help or making her go back to the hospital and then just deal with the payments later and he also left the plane which would have brought him to his daughter. I think he is a great man, however, doesnt always know what is best to do in the moment. he willinging took the old man's marbles too. that whole scene was actually a little confusing causw I wasn't totally sure if he took the marbles or if the old man played dumb with his dementia and actually just gave them to gihun......... cause he wanted him to go on. Ilnam knew that he wouldn't die no matter what and was concerned for Gihun and wanted to make sure he lived........
Becoming a parent starts a new chapter and it all makes sense again. For those who choose not to be a parent, I have no idea how they motivate themselves to carry on, but I'm sure they'll tell me.
I don’t understand Korean but I had to watch it in Korean audio with English subtitles to feel the emotions of the characters. I realized this when Gi Hun’s (456) mom was very upset and told him that his daughter will forget to speak Korean and that he’ll never see her again.
One thing most people seems don't understand: Why Sang-Woo have to kill Sae-byeok while she is almost dying anyway ? It's because he was afraid she and Gi-Hun may both vote for stopping the game before the last game.
NEW THEORY: Why are people so sure that Il-Nam is actually dead? He seemed to have died at exactly 12am which seems a bit too fitting. But here's the main clue which nobody has noticed yet: on the patient monitor, if you look at the top right of the screen it says "SENSOR OFF" and "LEAD OFF". Either the cables may have never been connected to Il-Nam or that he removed it while Gi-Hun 'won' the game as he was looking away. Have a look yourself. After all, his original 'death' was staged by Gi-Hun and all of us looking away. There is a precedence of foreshadowing already with how each player died according to an incident in their real life. Why can't this principle of foreshadowing apply again? That is, he staged his death twice. Why are we so confident we are not being fooled again if practically all of us missed it the first time? Il-Nam may have staged it for both Gi-Hun and the Frontman who arrives after Gi-Hun and closes his eyes. But perhaps Il-Nam played them both and staged it because that would mean in the next season both of them will clash but both of them think Il-Nam is dead which means they feel they can assert control over the game. Only for Il-Nam to reassert himself later in the series and declare that he was okay the whole time and that there is a greater game going on involving the two of them.
You can be right, that's a good theory. But I think that Il Nam died because on the last episode we see that Gi Hun is going to the seventh floor one year later after his winning and we can interpret that the seventh floor it will be the place of the seventh game, after all, Il Nam said that they will play a game about if someone is going to help the man getting cold on the sidewalk or not. And as anyone of the six previous games, the person that loses dies and we can see that the police comes and help the man, so Il Nam loses and die right after that. But it's just a theory that gives another meaning to that moment when Il Nam and Gi Hun see each other again on the last episode.
I'm late too, I just finished it now. Your upload is PERFECT TIMING! So thank you. Btw, didn't expect to actually cry in 2 specific scenes on the last two episodes..
thought the girl who died 8 episode would live with player 456 forever kinda sad........but maybe it didnt end in a happy ending cause they wanted to launch season 2 lol
@@matthewmccartney They did through the records the cop found. Each year only recorded one winner. If more players were left they'd make them play squid game or brawl to the death until only one was standing.
Okay, so after binging Squid Game over the past couple of nights, and I really like the ambiguous ending of Gi-han turning around and going back. We don't know if he's going to play in the games again, or if he's going back to stop them. Either way, he looks determined. Depending on which side you're on, it can be either one. I think it can speak on the nature of how hard addiction is to break. Even when you're at your lowest point (in this case, Gi-han winning the games, coming home broken and beaten, finding his mom dead, etc), and you never want to be back there again, all it takes is a chance of having a second shot that can trigger that want again. Recovery is hard, relapsing is even harder. That doesn't mean that all the work you did up until you relapse means nothing, though. Would Gi-han ever want to participate in the games again? We don't have a concrete confirmation, but how he treated himself afterwards would indicate that he's tried so hard to get back to 'normal', not even thinking about the money and making his quality of life better. It's only when you see him lock eyes with the agent from episode 1 do you see a fire blaze in him again. Because he's been there. He knows. In his heart, he knows that it's never going to end well, a winner's life is bittersweet at most. To quote the MCU: "What did it cost?" "Everything." If there is a season 2 in the works, I'd be excited to see where they take the personal story of the characters still left alive and how they elevate them. But, if there's not, if this is the only season, the story is complete on it's own, and that's good enough.
This show strongly reminded me of the Stanford prison experiment, I saw a theory that taking the blue square makes you a player, and taking a red square makes you a guard. Both people come from similar situations but act differently based on the roles they are assigned.
No, because when they are showing the players debts before the game you see some of them choosing Red. The Blue and Red symbolise that pill scene from the Matrix.
Other movies that tie in or have overlapping themes I can think of that remind me of Squid Game is “Circle” (2015), “Cube” (1997), “The Platform” (2019), “The Purge” (2013), “Escape Room” (2019), “Saw” (2003), “Snowpicer” (2013) and apparently the tv series of the same name that I have not yet seen. I’m sure there are plenty more movies of similar nature that reflect a breakdown in society with morals and ethics being either stretched, tested, or even broken on some level. It’s interesting to see what mankind will resort to if placed in certain predicaments. Films like these test the viewers own moral compass in a “what if” scenario. Great viewing. Look forward to the second installment of Squid Game.
Thank you! Hopefully soon, Netflix already funded the Charlie Brooker and Annabelle Jones' studio that would produce the next season. So we just play the waiting game!
So I do agree with the red/blue pill theory. It hit me immediately when I saw the squares (probably because I very recently saw that Matrix scene again). Although, I think the red hair is the acceptance of “reality” and the red rose with the card was the offer of reality. Just like Morpheus offers, and Neo must choose to accept. Maybe 🤷🏻♀️
@@Sweettormentt Sae Byeok made him swear that he wouldn't hassle her for the pickpocketed money if she helped him get out of the ropes that were restraining him.
If you watch Alice in Borderland, I highly recommend reading the manga as well in whatever order you choose just whatever you do don't skip over the manga entirely. The show is good, but the manga is a better piece of art. The manga has it's weirdness in its gratuitous frames of most female characters and Arisu generally being the character with the least intrigue or intelligence to show. But if you can get past that, the writing overall is phenomenal, the games are brilliant and the characters (Arisu excluded) are riveting. The show's changes (aging up the main characters, adding cellphones to the games, making Arisu much smarter and making him a gamer to begin with) for the most part make a lot of sense (especially since it's way past time to admit that Kento Yamazaki is too old to be playing high school and middle school aged characters), but some changes (the ending of season one, which games were skipped over and one specific game having the characters changed and thus the plot implications that that game was written for getting erased for no good reason) give me major red flags that make me think that season two is going to go completely off the rails of the manga plot (like Fullmetal Alchemist 03 level weirdness) which is really frustrating as this is the first full adaptation of the manga which was completed 5 years ago so they don't have the FMA excuse of having caught up with the manga and needing to create a new plot line.
i think a great analogy will be, like, before people invented electricity, they had to deal with coal or whatever other energy sources to power their houses, as well as other devices that r necessary to survive. even the one who found out about electricity had to deal with the problems that coal gave them, such as pollution, health hazards etc. it's going to be a process. n in the process, everybody is going to contribute to the problem until we find a solution. just to paraphrase: There is no ethical consumption and production under capitalism. another paraphrase: if u want to find the perpetrator, all u need to do is look into the mirror (v for vendetta)
There will most likely be a season 2 haha But if it makes you feel any better middle chapters are awesome, like Empire Strikes Back, T2: Judgement Day, Aliens, etc.
There’s a theory that those who chose the blue squares during the game with the business man gets offered to be players but everyone who chose red square got offers to become guards
I don’t think this is a big spoiler but at the end when he got his hair cut that kinda killed it for me like by the end of the show I was crying really badly and I usually don’t cry at shows but when I saw his hair cut my face reverted to neutral expressions
As I understand the references to Hunger games and Battle Royoale, they are not compaireble for many reasons. the reasoning behind the games are totally differtent in each to start with.
I personally feel like gi-hun found no joy in having the money is because number one he was suffering from survivors guilt, how can you be happy from winning something when the same ppl that you grew close with and wanted the same thing dies in front of you. Number 2 the main reason he got into the games became null and void since his mother died while he was gone. After all he been through its no wonder he couldn't enjoy the money there was no reason to. He didn't find one until il-nam dies and thinks the games are no more. So he does what he promised to do
Biggest spoil from me : The Old man is Father of Seong , PLease check all dialogs from these 2 character and you guys will understand what is happening.
I don't understand why would he walk out on his daughter AGAIN. Also, how could he not touch all the money? He was so far in debt, he signed on giving away his kidney and eye!
Season 2 comes out December 26th of THIS YEAR!!! LETS GO!! I can't wait for the next season I am going to have to binge watch the first season before Christmas and the new season after hahaha.
Sorry but a Show this successful will for sure have a second season ^^ besides they worked in all the backstory and background with older squid games. Bound to happen
Are you kidding me? The show is too successful. They'll probably double and triple the budget for Season 2 and bring on Lee Byung Hun fulltime as a co-lead
Sir, the cop isn't dead. If a character doesn't explicitly die on screen then it's pretty safe to assume they didn't die at all, and the show established this trope at least twice: once with Oh Il-nam not really being shot after the marble game and before that when the manipulative woman didn't get a partner for the marble game and the guards dragged her off presumably to be killed, only for her to be allowed to skip the marble game into the next round. The cop shot the Front Man in the shoulder in basically the same place and he didn't die. He also fell a relatively short height from the cliff, which is also survivable. Also, your Matrix theory about the red and blue tiles is probably incorrect. I think you're making it deeper than it actually is, if you choose the blue tile you become a player and if you chose a red one you're recruited as a guard. That's why everyone who was participating played with the blue tile when they showed how other people got into the game. Finally, if the actual writer and director of a production explains something, it's probably going to actually be THAT explanation instead of the unnecessarily "deep" explanation you projected on top of it. Not everything has to have some mystical and deep meaning.
It’s a media analysis video. It isn’t exactly about making it deeper than it is, but enriching your understanding of the text (the show) through interpretation. Even if something isn’t the director’s explicit intent, further/other interpretations can still be reached.
This show reminds me of that movie where the women goes to play some games to help her brother w medical bills and she won and everyone else was killed but by the time she got home to say she won, her brother already killed himself becwude he felt bad all the trouble he was putting on her.
I think season 2 would follow 2 protags like the first season, except the first protag would be someone in the games, and the second being Gi-Hun trying to end the games, and in the end they would maybe team up or something? And then they would finally end it.
I like the analysis. I want to add, Hwang Dong Hyuk said that the chose to make Gi Hun's character dyed his hair red because it is something he definitely won't do before. Kinda like an event that points out he is changed, inside and out
@@seeyafornow2642 the ending is left on the viewer so you're the one who guesses how the ending will be and that feels better than a whole another season
There are several things that I keep seeing people say about the end of the story that I disagree with. I don’t think Gi-hun had the same problem as Il-nam and his clients. I don’t think he was bored because he had too much money, I think he was guilty and traumatized. He wouldn’t ever rejoin the games to get more money or for entertainment. He seemed to have no desire for more money whatsoever. He didn’t even want to sit through a conversation with that bank owner about expanding his financial assets. It would go completely against Gi-hun’s character to become the next front man or to participate in the games again for the reasons listed above. We could see how angry he was at Il-nam. Despite never having directly killed anyone during the games, he immediately threatened to kill the old man if he lost the bet. He yelled at that man at the train station to not participate in the games and stole his card. He called the number on the card again to confront the people in charge of it. He was extremely angry. I don’t know why people think that because he called the number on the card, he was going to go down the same path as the front man. I think it’s a strong possibility that he will try to stop the games, possibly by joining them and overthrowing people, but definitely not joining out of greed or boredom.
I talk about them in my next video that I'm putting up either today or tomorrow. Specifically analyzing a line of dialogue from VIP number 3, hopefully you'll find it insightful. I'm going to find out more about them. Love the suggestions, keep them coming!
also part of the red and blue thing. in the beginning of squid game he picks the blue paper thing right? but then a few minutes into the last episode gi-hun is offered a rose (red) he hesitates but he picks it. then his life slowly starts turning around
Brilliant show, but far too many gaps and frustratingly slow to watch at times especially in the latter episodes I found myself forwarding on past the boring dialogue. The glass Bridge for example too predictable get on with it!!
Completely agree, I think is great and has a point, but way overrated… Not a new concept. Still going to watch season 2 since I already watched first one 🤷🏼♀️
An argument could be made that there are a few things on communism. Seeing how equality is such a thing in the game. Not to mention the "unfair advantage" the glass maker had with figuring out the glass stepping stones. That's just me. The lovely thing about art is that it is open to interpretation
In real life you cannot be the winner for the second game, front man and other crew most likely kill you In the beginning since you learned a lot from the previous game.
Ideally, that's why they kept their location and identities a secret, as well as the phone numbers and so on. That way, the only connection the previous participants would have to the games would be the Salesman, but these people are lower in society (in terms of how they're viewed) as they are either criminals or people struggling with loan sharks. So it's hard for their word to be valid, and we saw that the concept is already so ridiculous, that the officers didn't believe Seong Gi-hun when he tried to get their help.
The old man is the father of the main character. This is from a youtuber named Minhoaurs, he made this video speculating that the old man is the father of the main character. 1. The main character runs into the old man front of a convenience store near his home. The old man say he doesn't live here but came to see someone that he indebted with a gratitude. He also tells the main character that maybe them running into each other isn't too much of coincidence. After their meeting the main character finds an invitation to the squid game underneath the door. High possibility that the old man left the card there. 2. The drama never mentions about the main character's father and there were no pictures of him at his house. 3. During the marble game the old man tells the main character that he once lived in a place just like this and the main character also tells the old man that this place reminded him of his childhood neighborhood as well. (Main character was probably a young child so obviously he wouldn't remember it 100% accurately, but the place does reminded him of this old neighborhood). 4. When the old man finds a house that looked exactly like his old house he says he lived with his wife and a son. 5. When the main character asked for a chocolate milk instead of a regular milk, the old man said to him "you must've gotten spanked a lot as a child." The main character asked him "how did you know that?" The old man replied "my son was just like you." 6. The old man asked the main character. "Does your mom gets good food made by your wife? The main character tells him he is not married, then the old man shows little bit of disappointment. (Probably felt bad for his ex-wife). 7. When the old man passes away there were no one, not even his family around him except for the main character. (The old man probably never got remarried after leaving his family to make money). 8. After the first game, the old man was the last person to press the button to either go on with the game or end the game. He pressed the button to end the game because he probably felt bad for his ex-wife who her son didn't even get married so he might've wanted him to go back to his mom. Also the old man might've wanted to give some money to his ex-wife so he finally visits her but finds her dead, so he couldn't give her the money. That is how the old man ran into the main character front of a convenience store near his home. Then the old man tells the main character he was in the area to meet an old friend who he owes gratitude. 9. The old man probably didn't wanted to just hand over the money to the main character since it was the main character's immaturity that his ex-wife lived a harsh life and died alone. The old man probably wanted the main character to earn his money and learn some valuable lesson. 10. While playing games the old man teaches the main character some wisdoms not to trust anyone, and while playing marble game he tells the main character that he is naive that he was lying about the number of marbles to win the game against him. 11. Almost at the end of the marble game the old man tells the main character that his son's birthday was June 24th. Well, the main character's birthday is April 26th. If you just write this in a number 624 vs 426. If you just switch the first and last number it is the same number. The old man probably got the month wrong just like the main character who is not good with remembering his daughter's and mom's birthdays. Also old man tells the main character about how he promised his son he was going to buy a robot toy as a gift for his son's birthday but forgot to do so just like how the main character got a wrong toy for his daughter. Father like son. They are so similar in that way. 12. Throughout the drama the old man was giving the main character hints that he is his father by telling him about how he spanked his son because he wouldn't drink regular milk, story about how he sneak peek to check his son playing, and telling him about his son's birthday. 13. When the main character gets out his mom's credit card, it shows his mom's name Oh, Mal Soon which is the same last name as the old man's. It could be that they have the same last name. Or, since this show was originally made for not just Korean audience but for international audience as well. For example in America, women adapts their husband's last name so maybe the director was using that idea to give a hint to the audience. 14. When the main character asks Sae Byeok for a knife to cut the ropes after they were thrown into the street she refuses to give it to him. He then says he won't betray her by promising under his mom's name but yet as soon as he cuts the rope he betrays her and asks her for his money. Also at the end of the drama, when the main character is about to get into the plane to see his daughter he turns around to join the game again. This shows how the old man and the main character are alike. The old man leaving his family to make money when he was younger and the main character leaving the plane to join the game instead of meeting his daughter. Thanks, hope ya'll enjoyed it.
@@novaya3537 Thanks but it is not from me, I just translated it. As I mentioned it in the beginning it is from a youtuber named Minhoaurs. All the credit goes to him. Thanks again.
@@felix8greenasmr14 I need to re-watch the episode but I thought he went to his home and saw the card under the door and just took the card and left without going inside his home?
If the frontman was the cops brother, and the front man was a past winner of the game which came with whatever tens of millions of $ was worth no matter what year it was won, and is also the FRONT MAN with what would have to be the highest salaried position within the game itself, why was he renting a SRO room from a landlady who verified she knew him and said he owed back rent?
Maybe this was his first year as front man and he had maintained his “normal life” up until he was asked to come be front man. So when he took the position and didn’t notify family he became “missing” and I guess forgot to pay his rent. This was the old mans first year as a player and wouldn’t be able to entertain the VIP’s. So he needed someone. Idk, just a ridiculous theory for a ridiculous ending IMO.
@@universalcollective427 he kept the apartment to give a clue to his brother. There's no other reason to keep the apartment afloat and leave a Squid game invitation card laying around. He obviously killed a lot of people while playing the game and as a frontman. He's basically stuck between good and evil. He was standing in front of the mirror but seeing his brother in the reflection. The kidney that his brother got was not his but brought from the black market. He had to take bribery to pay for the kidney to save his brother. Then forced to enter the game.
@@universalcollective427 he served as police “chief” at a sub police station straight out of police academy. Then he joined the National Police Agency similar to FBI. Then he had a bribery charge and jobless when he joined the game. Those are the facts. It’s just strange that there are so many story arc relating to human organs. My theory is he didn’t condemn organ harvesting by the guards because black market organ also saved his brother’s life.
When the screen shows most of the contestants choosing the blue squares, could it be that the people who chose the red squares were the contestants who didn't come back to the island?
*CAN SOMEONE PLEASEEEEEEE EXPLAIN THIS.....* Okay so in the beginning of the series the cop is looking for his brother who hasn't been missing for that long. He went to his apartment and as the landlord said he's been missing for lil bit but if he's not back soon he will be evicted for not paying the rent. The cop finds the box with the card in it then puts the clues together and ends up posing as a guard to enter the facility and find his brother. *THEREFORE* HOW DID HIS BROTHER GET BUMPED UP TO FRONT MAN IF HE'S ONLY BEEN THERE FOR AS LONG AS THE TIME THAT THIS NEW GAME STARTED? ..... When the cop looked through the records it said that his brother, the now front man, won the games YEARS AGO. Sooo...YEARS AGO front man was just a player, fighting for his life and won the game.... .... ..... ... HOW DID THAT EQUATE TO HIM BECOMING THE FRONT MAN ALL THESE YEARS LATER? HOW DID HE REACH SUCH A HIGH POSITION AND KNOW ALL THE RULES IF HE JUSTTTT WENT MISSING NOW? AM I MISSING SOMETHING?
I don't think Catholicism is specifically referred to. Most of the Christians in the show are Protestant. The preacher on the street, the pastor who rediscovers his faith, the girl who killed her father the pastor (Catholic priests can't get married). The way Koreans pronounce their word for God is also different depending on the Church they follow- Catholics and liberal Protestants (basically none of the people in the show) say Haneunim, conservative (most likely the Evangelicals in the show) Christians say Hananim.
I think Seong Gi-hun will work with the police to infiltrate the games in S2. They made a big thing about him being mocked by the police, so I can see him working with them as a spy.
So the show says that capitalism is bad if I understanded it correctly. Soooooo what would technically happen if I go on the island blasting the soviet union anthem?
I don't think Squid Game is like hunger games or battle royale. While in the aforementioned ones there is only one person that's left as a winner, it isn't necessarily the case in Squid Game. You'd only have to kill all the others to get even more money, but that doesn't mean they need to die. They could have solved the games together instead of fighting each other down.
Gi Hun was going to go on that plane to meet his daughter in the US and before he boarded the plane, he called the number on the card And In ho said to get on that plane as in "you got your money, now leave to US" but he turned back and went back to Korea to stop the squid which means there is a 2nd season
Alice and border land, hunger games, squid game are all in the same universe because the VIPs say Korea's games were the best so hg is america AIB is japan and sg is Korea
So wait what is the difference between the front man and the host? The front man was the guy in all black that could speak English and the host (which is the old man) like invented the games? The old man founded squid game?
The blue Danube song always is the first song of the new year on the radio in Austria and many other countries probably Korea also plays the song for new year somit might just be a song for a change of events.
The ending is good and direct idk why people think it is bad to me it felt like something that would eventually happen, Gi-hun's entire convo with old man in hospital proves he values human compassion over anything.
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The ending sucked, the show was okay but meh overall.
I read elsewhere that the old man won because he wanted Gi-hun to bet on another human life. It didn't matter if the human lived or not. Also if Gi-hun really cared he would have helped the drunk himself
@@meestersecure9060 better than game of thrones tho !! Believe me I blocked that show so much it’s not even worth watching again because you’re left with the worst ending
@@meestersecure9060 show was good and ending beast.its your opinion that it sucks not fact.
I think that people misread the last scene between the Old Man and Gi-hun. I think the Old Man genuinely liked Gi-hun and orchestrated their final meeting in order to help Gi-hun move on with his life.
After the Games ended, the Old Man knew that Gi-hun had not touched his prize money and was basically wasting his life away. So the Old Man set up one final meeting with Gi-hun. The whole thing with the guy freezing out on the street and the person returning to help him was set up by the Old Man (just like he set up the Games). They were all working for him. (Didn't anyone find it rather convenient that there would be someone freezing outside who was perfectly in view of the Old Man's window and that somebody would return to help him just seconds before the Old Man's bet with Gi-hun ended?).
The whole thing was carefully arranged by the Old Man in order to restore Gi-hun's faith in humanity and allow him to move on with his life after the Games had left him a broken man. So in the end, the Old Man was a true Gganbu. He could have kept his existence a secret, but he decided to expose his identity to Gi-hun in order to help 'save' him. It was his final gift to Gi-hun to restore his belief in humanity after the Games had destroyed it.
Excellent insights!!
There's no logic in the old man's thinking, why would he go all the way to kill thousands of people to then teach one of them about human compassion?
@@savvasf7136 : I think he took a liking to Gi-hun as he took a liking to the old man. As for the rest, he doesn't care. Their lives were basically worthless.
@@savvasf7136 the old man didn't care if he won or lost the final bet. He just wanted Gi-hun to bet on another humans life to spark interest in being involved with the games
@@PeterSpeak Nah I think he did want him to win.
Maybe Gi-Hun assumed with the death of Oh Il-Nam, the games would not continue. Then, seeing tall handsome man in the subway recruiting for the games makes him realize he needs to put a stop to them. They just dramatized it to happen right before he boards the plane.
Heavily agree with this comment
Yup. Exactly.
I think the cop is still alive, since they shoot him in his shoulder and there’s gonna be another Squid game, but the main character who won will be involved as one of the staff/working with the boss.
Exactly that!!! Because the 2015 winner joined the staff… I’m hoping not tho because I love the main character
I actually think the cop is still alive as well, I'm talking about that in my newest video that will be up either today or tomorrow
@@BryceEdwardBrown how?! it's impossible. I'm looking forward to your video. Maybe you can convince me
I think the front man will play the way the old man did
It's horrible to think that he might join the staff. That would ruin it for me, unless there's a very good reason
I feel like there was another very significant aspect to the death bed scene. Il-nam asks Gi-hun to play a betting game on whether or not anyone will help the drunk man outside in the snow. This was essentially betting on that man's life and despite what Gi-hun is saying about the immorality of squid game, he did the exact same thing by betting on another man's life. The man could have died (and honestly by the looks of it, I'm not convinced he survived). Gi-hun did not bother helping though just for the sake of the game.
I'm not great with interpreting stuff but I feel like this is not being talked about enough.
I thought the same thing. he actually had enough time to go help the man himself. it wasn't against any rules.......
you know what ? thats a really good point you have there, maybe it was a test to see if gi-hun is capable of taking part in upcoming games, even if he may or may not realize that there are no rules holding him back. Since he so easily was able to bet on a mans life that he couldve helped
Yeah I actually thought it was gonna end with Gihun going out to save the man himself but nope…
Gihun obviously is conflicted...... he left his dying mother without finding her help or making her go back to the hospital and then just deal with the payments later and he also left the plane which would have brought him to his daughter. I think he is a great man, however, doesnt always know what is best to do in the moment. he willinging took the old man's marbles too. that whole scene was actually a little confusing causw I wasn't totally sure if he took the marbles or if the old man played dumb with his dementia and actually just gave them to gihun......... cause he wanted him to go on. Ilnam knew that he wouldn't die no matter what and was concerned for Gihun and wanted to make sure he lived........
Gi hun unknowingly became one of the VIPs himself by watching another man fight for his life just for a game.
This relates to me I had a great childhood and felt alive . When I got older I started worrying about money I lost my sense of enjoying live .
Right? The simplicity fades, and everything gets way more complicated
Becoming a parent starts a new chapter and it all makes sense again.
For those who choose not to be a parent, I have no idea how they motivate themselves to carry on, but I'm sure they'll tell me.
I don’t understand Korean but I had to watch it in Korean audio with English subtitles to feel the emotions of the characters. I realized this when Gi Hun’s (456) mom was very upset and told him that his daughter will forget to speak Korean and that he’ll never see her again.
One thing most people seems don't understand: Why Sang-Woo have to kill Sae-byeok while she is almost dying anyway ?
It's because he was afraid she and Gi-Hun may both vote for stopping the game before the last game.
I knew that.
4:25 looks like Hogwarts went out of business and got bought by Dunkin' Donuts.
Yes.
I love it when 2 of my faves interact lol
Lmao
NOOOOOO
Haha true 😂
NEW THEORY: Why are people so sure that Il-Nam is actually dead? He seemed to have died at exactly 12am which seems a bit too fitting. But here's the main clue which nobody has noticed yet: on the patient monitor, if you look at the top right of the screen it says "SENSOR OFF" and "LEAD OFF". Either the cables may have never been connected to Il-Nam or that he removed it while Gi-Hun 'won' the game as he was looking away. Have a look yourself. After all, his original 'death' was staged by Gi-Hun and all of us looking away. There is a precedence of foreshadowing already with how each player died according to an incident in their real life. Why can't this principle of foreshadowing apply again? That is, he staged his death twice. Why are we so confident we are not being fooled again if practically all of us missed it the first time? Il-Nam may have staged it for both Gi-Hun and the Frontman who arrives after Gi-Hun and closes his eyes. But perhaps Il-Nam played them both and staged it because that would mean in the next season both of them will clash but both of them think Il-Nam is dead which means they feel they can assert control over the game. Only for Il-Nam to reassert himself later in the series and declare that he was okay the whole time and that there is a greater game going on involving the two of them.
You can be right, that's a good theory. But I think that Il Nam died because on the last episode we see that Gi Hun is going to the seventh floor one year later after his winning and we can interpret that the seventh floor it will be the place of the seventh game, after all, Il Nam said that they will play a game about if someone is going to help the man getting cold on the sidewalk or not. And as anyone of the six previous games, the person that loses dies and we can see that the police comes and help the man, so Il Nam loses and die right after that. But it's just a theory that gives another meaning to that moment when Il Nam and Gi Hun see each other again on the last episode.
@@LuizFernando23250 Your theory makes more sense to me.
@@LuizFernando23250 that’s a great theory.
@@LuizFernando23250 Excellent point and is quite fitting with the theme of the series. It was the old man's Last Hurrah.
I'm late too, I just finished it now. Your upload is PERFECT TIMING! So thank you. Btw, didn't expect to actually cry in 2 specific scenes on the last two episodes..
Eyyyy! So glad you can make it! Hope you like the video!
This was the type of analysis I was looking for! Lots of others are just rehashing the same thing over and over again.
thought the girl who died 8 episode would live with player 456 forever kinda sad........but maybe it didnt end in a happy ending cause they wanted to launch season 2 lol
If you really think of it it’s realistic that she died even though it was the saddest part for me. Either way there was gonna be only one player left
@@tenidbwy3241just imagin maybe both could have lived?........this world is too crazy for anything! (i dunno wut i just said lol)
@@tenidbwy3241 they didn’t explicitly say there could be only one winner
@@matthewmccartney They did through the records the cop found. Each year only recorded one winner. If more players were left they'd make them play squid game or brawl to the death until only one was standing.
Damn this show is great.
Agreed!
What other shows match this
@@jeffguzman6497 kings game or Alice in borderland ig
@@BryceEdwardBrown please call gi-hun -> gi-hoon
It's the right pronunciation
I know cause I'm Korean
@@timothy378 Critical information lmao 😉
I've watched it once by myself, am half way through again with my fiancee & I've watched every video about it 🤣
Hopefully you find this one insightful! haha
@@BryceEdwardBrown I did! Thank you!
@@Mekanacbf did your fiance enjoy the series and the conclusion?
Okay, so after binging Squid Game over the past couple of nights, and I really like the ambiguous ending of Gi-han turning around and going back. We don't know if he's going to play in the games again, or if he's going back to stop them. Either way, he looks determined. Depending on which side you're on, it can be either one. I think it can speak on the nature of how hard addiction is to break. Even when you're at your lowest point (in this case, Gi-han winning the games, coming home broken and beaten, finding his mom dead, etc), and you never want to be back there again, all it takes is a chance of having a second shot that can trigger that want again. Recovery is hard, relapsing is even harder. That doesn't mean that all the work you did up until you relapse means nothing, though.
Would Gi-han ever want to participate in the games again? We don't have a concrete confirmation, but how he treated himself afterwards would indicate that he's tried so hard to get back to 'normal', not even thinking about the money and making his quality of life better. It's only when you see him lock eyes with the agent from episode 1 do you see a fire blaze in him again. Because he's been there. He knows. In his heart, he knows that it's never going to end well, a winner's life is bittersweet at most. To quote the MCU: "What did it cost?" "Everything."
If there is a season 2 in the works, I'd be excited to see where they take the personal story of the characters still left alive and how they elevate them. But, if there's not, if this is the only season, the story is complete on it's own, and that's good enough.
Then it's definitely season 2, we'll learn what happened after the protagonist decided to cancel his flight. Love it
Right? This totally means we're getting a season 2!
This show strongly reminded me of the Stanford prison experiment, I saw a theory that taking the blue square makes you a player, and taking a red square makes you a guard. Both people come from similar situations but act differently based on the roles they are assigned.
No, because when they are showing the players debts before the game you see some of them choosing Red. The Blue and Red symbolise that pill scene from the Matrix.
Other movies that tie in or have overlapping themes I can think of that remind me of Squid Game is “Circle” (2015), “Cube” (1997), “The Platform” (2019), “The Purge” (2013), “Escape Room” (2019), “Saw” (2003), “Snowpicer” (2013) and apparently the tv series of the same name that I have not yet seen.
I’m sure there are plenty more movies of similar nature that reflect a breakdown in society with morals and ethics being either stretched, tested, or even broken on some level.
It’s interesting to see what mankind will resort to if placed in certain predicaments. Films like these test the viewers own moral compass in a “what if” scenario. Great viewing. Look forward to the second installment of Squid Game.
Literally just finished the show! I was wondering if there was going to be a season two
There has to be a season 2, so much left open!
It's made a lot of money so it's a guarantee there will be a season 2.
#capitalism lol
@@ltlrms I can smell the irony through my screen XD
The director said he doesn't want to do season 2 as he lost 6 teeth in season 1.
But Hollywood and Neflix will bribe him. The money power wins!!!
I always like your analysis of the videos :), especially the black mirror ones... do u think there will be a season 6?
Thank you! Hopefully soon, Netflix already funded the Charlie Brooker and Annabelle Jones' studio that would produce the next season. So we just play the waiting game!
I knew that was the cop's brother before he took off his mask! Definitely think that plot point isn't over
You're right, more to come from it for sure. Would love to find out more about The Front Man
The brother he shot I believe is still alive
@@Lilbird2fye he is coz we didn’t see if he died
Same
wonderful video essay, as usual!!!! been around since black mirror 😌🤝😌
Thanks for sticking around red bean sprouts!
Seconded!! I started watching for black mirror and stayed because mr browns great analysis across the board!
So I do agree with the red/blue pill theory. It hit me immediately when I saw the squares (probably because I very recently saw that Matrix scene again). Although, I think the red hair is the acceptance of “reality” and the red rose with the card was the offer of reality. Just like Morpheus offers, and Neo must choose to accept. Maybe 🤷🏻♀️
I think the people who chose the red card become the guards
@@jeeneeuz nice! That would make a lot of sense!
@@blahblah273 another point to the matrix theory is that Ali and Mi-nyeo mention the movie after tug of war
@@jeeneeuzbro literally made a vid on why he disagrees
The ending was quite self explanation but just wanted to hear what others have to say
Hopefully you find this to be insightful!
@@BryceEdwardBrown yeee👍
I didn't understand ending
@@Pavle._. ya that's true
@@Pavle._. same
they created Bruce Wayne in letting Gi win more or less, hes now rich and looking for revenge...season 2 might be pretty wild lol
I'm so pumped! Bring on season 2!
Bruce Wayne?! Wtf
@@xtremearthur8607
Gi is rich with a grudge. if that isnt Bruce Wayne idk what is.
Gi -Hun broke an oath on his mother's life and his mother died at the end.
what was the oath again? :(
@@Sweettormentt Sae Byeok made him swear that he wouldn't hassle her for the pickpocketed money if she helped him get out of the ropes that were restraining him.
Lol
@@abhishekhegde1st stupid man, he didn't even wait until he was fully untied!!
@@themudpit621 So what, he still broke the oath
However there were some problems in the script but the main idea was great and it should be admired.
I've been hearing a lot of similar opinions
I’m so psyched that they set it up for another season!
Same! ahhhhh I can't wait!
You will 100% have a LOT to say about Alice in borderland! Excited for when you do!
Awesome to hear, I can't wait!
If you watch Alice in Borderland, I highly recommend reading the manga as well in whatever order you choose just whatever you do don't skip over the manga entirely. The show is good, but the manga is a better piece of art.
The manga has it's weirdness in its gratuitous frames of most female characters and Arisu generally being the character with the least intrigue or intelligence to show. But if you can get past that, the writing overall is phenomenal, the games are brilliant and the characters (Arisu excluded) are riveting. The show's changes (aging up the main characters, adding cellphones to the games, making Arisu much smarter and making him a gamer to begin with) for the most part make a lot of sense (especially since it's way past time to admit that Kento Yamazaki is too old to be playing high school and middle school aged characters), but some changes (the ending of season one, which games were skipped over and one specific game having the characters changed and thus the plot implications that that game was written for getting erased for no good reason) give me major red flags that make me think that season two is going to go completely off the rails of the manga plot (like Fullmetal Alchemist 03 level weirdness) which is really frustrating as this is the first full adaptation of the manga which was completed 5 years ago so they don't have the FMA excuse of having caught up with the manga and needing to create a new plot line.
Amazing show. Glad you like it too!
I love your Black Mirror videos!
I love your comments!
After watching this series, I wonder how will the world be fixed from either being poor or bored and wealthy?
I hope we get to find out in season 2!
i think a great analogy will be, like, before people invented electricity, they had to deal with coal or whatever other energy sources to power their houses, as well as other devices that r necessary to survive. even the one who found out about electricity had to deal with the problems that coal gave them, such as pollution, health hazards etc. it's going to be a process. n in the process, everybody is going to contribute to the problem until we find a solution. just to paraphrase: There is no ethical consumption and production under capitalism. another paraphrase: if u want to find the perpetrator, all u need to do is look into the mirror (v for vendetta)
I would love to see another squid game video, the show is great!
Yay, so glad to hear! I can't get enough of it
Was waiting for u to do this
Hopefully you like it!
I honestly hope there is no season 2 and this show can just be finished. Leave the ending up to the viewer and don’t kill something popular.
There will most likely be a season 2 haha But if it makes you feel any better middle chapters are awesome, like Empire Strikes Back, T2: Judgement Day, Aliens, etc.
@@BryceEdwardBrown or the Harry Potters. Goblet of Fire is my favorite book.
There’s a theory that those who chose the blue squares during the game with the business man gets offered to be players but everyone who chose red square got offers to become guards
I don’t think this is a big spoiler but
at the end when he got his hair cut that kinda killed it for me like by the end of the show I was crying really badly and I usually don’t cry at shows but when I saw his hair cut my face reverted to neutral expressions
why did him dyeing his hair kill it for u
Dumbest comment lol
I hope my explanation can change your opinion about the haircut!
Man I love your narrative voice so much
As I understand the references to Hunger games and Battle Royoale, they are not compaireble for many reasons. the reasoning behind the games are totally differtent in each to start with.
Yup
I personally feel like gi-hun found no joy in having the money is because number one he was suffering from survivors guilt, how can you be happy from winning something when the same ppl that you grew close with and wanted the same thing dies in front of you. Number 2 the main reason he got into the games became null and void since his mother died while he was gone. After all he been through its no wonder he couldn't enjoy the money there was no reason to. He didn't find one until il-nam dies and thinks the games are no more. So he does what he promised to do
Biggest spoil from me : The Old man is Father of Seong , PLease check all dialogs from these 2 character and you guys will understand what is happening.
Wutt
I felt same in between
@@39madhurie ;-0
I don't understand why would he walk out on his daughter AGAIN. Also, how could he not touch all the money? He was so far in debt, he signed on giving away his kidney and eye!
Yeah I also find it weird that his (and sangwoo's) debts are just kinda left forgotten for a year.
I love your videos!! They are just amazing
Love to hear it, thank you!
So glad you told us about the hair! Totally forgot about the red and blue game.
Awesome to hear!
Alice in Borderland was the reason I got into this show very much recommend it.
Awesome to hear!
Right! But honestly I still prefer Alice In Borderland
Season 2 comes out December 26th of THIS YEAR!!! LETS GO!!
I can't wait for the next season I am going to have to binge watch the first season before Christmas and the new season after hahaha.
squid game and the hunger games feel like they could exist in the same universe
Right?! haha
I don’t think there’s going to be a season 2 but this show hit me hard emotionally
I can understand if they don't do a season 2, but there was a lot left open and I'm dying to know more!
I don’t think they should make a season 2. I think ending is just fine.
Sorry but a Show this successful will for sure have a second season ^^ besides they worked in all the backstory and background with older squid games. Bound to happen
Are you kidding me? The show is too successful. They'll probably double and triple the budget for Season 2 and bring on Lee Byung Hun fulltime as a co-lead
You have made this video 3 weeks later, and I am watching this video 3 weeks later after the upload. Fair enough. 😂
Sir, the cop isn't dead. If a character doesn't explicitly die on screen then it's pretty safe to assume they didn't die at all, and the show established this trope at least twice: once with Oh Il-nam not really being shot after the marble game and before that when the manipulative woman didn't get a partner for the marble game and the guards dragged her off presumably to be killed, only for her to be allowed to skip the marble game into the next round. The cop shot the Front Man in the shoulder in basically the same place and he didn't die. He also fell a relatively short height from the cliff, which is also survivable. Also, your Matrix theory about the red and blue tiles is probably incorrect. I think you're making it deeper than it actually is, if you choose the blue tile you become a player and if you chose a red one you're recruited as a guard. That's why everyone who was participating played with the blue tile when they showed how other people got into the game. Finally, if the actual writer and director of a production explains something, it's probably going to actually be THAT explanation instead of the unnecessarily "deep" explanation you projected on top of it. Not everything has to have some mystical and deep meaning.
It’s a media analysis video. It isn’t exactly about making it deeper than it is, but enriching your understanding of the text (the show) through interpretation. Even if something isn’t the director’s explicit intent, further/other interpretations can still be reached.
Not true, some of the people in the video played with red tile
this video is so well made!
what is scary that something like this could exist in irl but we just don't know it
Never knew the show was that deep.
Glad I could add some insight, thanks for watching k whateva!
Frr
Loved the video !
The party don’t start till you walk in, Bryce!
This show reminds me of that movie where the women goes to play some games to help her brother w medical bills and she won and everyone else was killed but by the time she got home to say she won, her brother already killed himself becwude he felt bad all the trouble he was putting on her.
Omg I was thinking the same thing! Are we both thinking of the same movie "Would You Rather"?
@@chuchu6742 yess that’s the one! This one is really similar expect they made a show about it lol
You are incredible! Im so impressed you caught all this
I hope this doesn’t give NK any ideas 👀
😂😂😂😂😂
@@sid7118 I’m not laughing…
@@MsTinkerbelle87 sorry my bad😔😔
@@sid7118 it’s ok but just don’t be ignorant, that place is no laughing matter.
@@MsTinkerbelle87 yes ma'am
Thank you for analyzing squid game! Could you analyze each episode?
Glad you like it Dr. Alexis Carrington! Don't worry I'm going to analyze everything haha
I think season 2 would follow 2 protags like the first season, except the first protag would be someone in the games, and the second being Gi-Hun trying to end the games, and in the end they would maybe team up or something? And then they would finally end it.
I like the analysis. I want to add, Hwang Dong Hyuk said that the chose to make Gi Hun's character dyed his hair red because it is something he definitely won't do before. Kinda like an event that points out he is changed, inside and out
I don't think there should be a season 2 because the show would feel long and stretchy and I think this ending is perfect.
The ending was awesome possum, but I'm very excited to learn more about the games!
the ending seems incomplete if there's no season two
Your opinion is wrong
@@seeyafornow2642 the ending is left on the viewer so you're the one who guesses how the ending will be and that feels better than a whole another season
@@elantonelle an opinion can’t be wrong. Maybe yours is just different
Also Ali mentions the movie Matrix at some point in one of the episodes .
There are several things that I keep seeing people say about the end of the story that I disagree with. I don’t think Gi-hun had the same problem as Il-nam and his clients. I don’t think he was bored because he had too much money, I think he was guilty and traumatized. He wouldn’t ever rejoin the games to get more money or for entertainment. He seemed to have no desire for more money whatsoever. He didn’t even want to sit through a conversation with that bank owner about expanding his financial assets. It would go completely against Gi-hun’s character to become the next front man or to participate in the games again for the reasons listed above. We could see how angry he was at Il-nam. Despite never having directly killed anyone during the games, he immediately threatened to kill the old man if he lost the bet. He yelled at that man at the train station to not participate in the games and stole his card. He called the number on the card again to confront the people in charge of it. He was extremely angry. I don’t know why people think that because he called the number on the card, he was going to go down the same path as the front man. I think it’s a strong possibility that he will try to stop the games, possibly by joining them and overthrowing people, but definitely not joining out of greed or boredom.
Exactly. Thank you. People have no grasp of his character it seems
Hey great video, could you do an analysis on the rich clients if you had any insight?
I talk about them in my next video that I'm putting up either today or tomorrow. Specifically analyzing a line of dialogue from VIP number 3, hopefully you'll find it insightful. I'm going to find out more about them. Love the suggestions, keep them coming!
also part of the red and blue thing. in the beginning of squid game he picks the blue paper thing right? but then a few minutes into the last episode gi-hun is offered a rose (red) he hesitates but he picks it. then his life slowly starts turning around
Brilliant show, but far too many gaps and frustratingly slow to watch at times especially in the latter episodes I found myself forwarding on past the boring dialogue. The glass Bridge for example too predictable get on with it!!
Ahhhh, that's one of the best scenes haha
Completely agree, I think is great and has a point, but way overrated… Not a new concept.
Still going to watch season 2 since I already watched first one 🤷🏼♀️
Note on religion: that was not Christian Catholicism but Protestantism, which is bigger in SK. Protestants are known to proselytize.
An argument could be made that there are a few things on communism. Seeing how equality is such a thing in the game. Not to mention the "unfair advantage" the glass maker had with figuring out the glass stepping stones. That's just me. The lovely thing about art is that it is open to interpretation
I've waited for this...
Hopefully it was worth the wait!
@@BryceEdwardBrown You're fast man lol
In real life you cannot be the winner for the second game, front man and other crew most likely kill you In the beginning since you learned a lot from the previous game.
Ideally, that's why they kept their location and identities a secret, as well as the phone numbers and so on. That way, the only connection the previous participants would have to the games would be the Salesman, but these people are lower in society (in terms of how they're viewed) as they are either criminals or people struggling with loan sharks. So it's hard for their word to be valid, and we saw that the concept is already so ridiculous, that the officers didn't believe Seong Gi-hun when he tried to get their help.
man, squid game is so interesting so many missed things and so many realizations
As a Saw fan I love this show. This is like Saw but way better
A show like this is better off having only 1 season, it adds more to how good the show is
True, but a lot was left open ended
I agree
The old man is the father of the main character.
This is from a youtuber named Minhoaurs, he made this video speculating that the old man is the father of the main character.
1. The main character runs into the old man front of a convenience store near his home. The old man say he doesn't live here but came to see someone that he indebted with a gratitude. He also tells the main character that maybe them running into each other isn't too much of coincidence. After their meeting the main character finds an invitation to the squid game underneath the door. High possibility that the old man left the card there.
2. The drama never mentions about the main character's father and there were no pictures of him at his house.
3. During the marble game the old man tells the main character that he once lived in a place just like this and the main character also tells the old man that this place reminded him of his childhood neighborhood as well. (Main character was probably a young child so obviously he wouldn't remember it 100% accurately, but the place does reminded him of this old neighborhood).
4. When the old man finds a house that looked exactly like his old house he says he lived with his wife and a son.
5. When the main character asked for a chocolate milk instead of a regular milk, the old man said to him "you must've gotten spanked a lot as a child." The main character asked him "how did you know that?" The old man replied "my son was just like you."
6. The old man asked the main character. "Does your mom gets good food made by your wife? The main character tells him he is not married, then the old man shows little bit of disappointment. (Probably felt bad for his ex-wife).
7. When the old man passes away there were no one, not even his family around him except for the main character. (The old man probably never got remarried after leaving his family to make money).
8. After the first game, the old man was the last person to press the button to either go on with the game or end the game. He pressed the button to end the game because he probably felt bad for his ex-wife who her son didn't even get married so he might've wanted him to go back to his mom.
Also the old man might've wanted to give some money to his ex-wife so he finally visits her but finds her dead, so he couldn't give her the money. That is how the old man ran into the main character front of a convenience store near his home. Then the old man tells the main character he was in the area to meet an old friend who he owes gratitude.
9. The old man probably didn't wanted to just hand over the money to the main character since it was the main character's immaturity that his ex-wife lived a harsh life and died alone. The old man probably wanted the main character to earn his money and learn some valuable lesson.
10. While playing games the old man teaches the main character some wisdoms not to trust anyone, and while playing marble game he tells the main character that he is naive that he was lying about the number of marbles to win the game against him.
11. Almost at the end of the marble game the old man tells the main character that his son's birthday was June 24th. Well, the main character's birthday is April 26th. If you just write this in a number 624 vs 426. If you just switch the first and last number it is the same number. The old man probably got the month wrong just like the main character who is not good with remembering his daughter's and mom's birthdays.
Also old man tells the main character about how he promised his son he was going to buy a robot toy as a gift for his son's birthday but forgot to do so just like how the main character got a wrong toy for his daughter. Father like son. They are so similar in that way.
12. Throughout the drama the old man was giving the main character hints that he is his father by telling him about how he spanked his son because he wouldn't drink regular milk, story about how he sneak peek to check his son playing, and telling him about his son's birthday.
13. When the main character gets out his mom's credit card, it shows his mom's name Oh, Mal Soon which is the same last name as the old man's. It could be that they have the same last name. Or, since this show was originally made for not just Korean audience but for international audience as well. For example in America, women adapts their husband's last name so maybe the director was using that idea to give a hint to the audience.
14. When the main character asks Sae Byeok for a knife to cut the ropes after they were thrown into the street she refuses to give it to him. He then says he won't betray her by promising under his mom's name but yet as soon as he cuts the rope he betrays her and asks her for his money.
Also at the end of the drama, when the main character is about to get into the plane to see his daughter he turns around to join the game again.
This shows how the old man and the main character are alike. The old man leaving his family to make money when he was younger and the main character leaving the plane to join the game instead of meeting his daughter.
Thanks, hope ya'll enjoyed it.
You dissected this so much its not even a theory anymore, jesus christ dude bravo
@@novaya3537 Thanks but it is not from me, I just translated it. As I mentioned it in the beginning it is from a youtuber named Minhoaurs. All the credit goes to him. Thanks again.
You are my new best friend! Awesome theory!
Point 8 Is incorrect as the mom of the main character was still alive when they met there.
@@felix8greenasmr14 I need to re-watch the episode but I thought he went to his home and saw the card under the door and just took the card and left without going inside his home?
If the frontman was the cops brother, and the front man was a past winner of the game which came with whatever tens of millions of $ was worth no matter what year it was won, and is also the FRONT MAN with what would have to be the highest salaried position within the game itself, why was he renting a SRO room from a landlady who verified she knew him and said he owed back rent?
Maybe this was his first year as front man and he had maintained his “normal life” up until he was asked to come be front man. So when he took the position and didn’t notify family he became “missing” and I guess forgot to pay his rent. This was the old mans first year as a player and wouldn’t be able to entertain the VIP’s. So he needed someone. Idk, just a ridiculous theory for a ridiculous ending IMO.
@@sergiomarodriguez plot hole or the landlady worked for the game too
@@universalcollective427 he kept the apartment to give a clue to his brother. There's no other reason to keep the apartment afloat and leave a Squid game invitation card laying around. He obviously killed a lot of people while playing the game and as a frontman. He's basically stuck between good and evil. He was standing in front of the mirror but seeing his brother in the reflection. The kidney that his brother got was not his but brought from the black market. He had to take bribery to pay for the kidney to save his brother. Then forced to enter the game.
@@CodyCha thanks for that last bit, the whole brothers kidney/dr organ thief thing flew right past me
@@universalcollective427 he served as police “chief” at a sub police station straight out of police academy. Then he joined the National Police Agency similar to FBI. Then he had a bribery charge and jobless when he joined the game. Those are the facts. It’s just strange that there are so many story arc relating to human organs. My theory is he didn’t condemn organ harvesting by the guards because black market organ also saved his brother’s life.
When the screen shows most of the contestants choosing the blue squares, could it be that the people who chose the red squares were the contestants who didn't come back to the island?
*CAN SOMEONE PLEASEEEEEEE EXPLAIN THIS.....*
Okay so in the beginning of the series the cop is looking for his brother who hasn't been missing for that long. He went to his apartment and as the landlord said he's been missing for lil bit but if he's not back soon he will be evicted for not paying the rent. The cop finds the box with the card in it then puts the clues together and ends up posing as a guard to enter the facility and find his brother.
*THEREFORE* HOW DID HIS BROTHER GET BUMPED UP TO FRONT MAN IF HE'S ONLY BEEN THERE FOR AS LONG AS THE TIME THAT THIS NEW GAME STARTED?
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When the cop looked through the records it said that his brother, the now front man, won the games YEARS AGO.
Sooo...YEARS AGO front man was just a player, fighting for his life and won the game....
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HOW DID THAT EQUATE TO HIM BECOMING THE FRONT MAN ALL THESE YEARS LATER?
HOW DID HE REACH SUCH A HIGH POSITION AND KNOW ALL THE RULES IF HE JUSTTTT WENT MISSING NOW?
AM I MISSING SOMETHING?
I watched Alice in Borderland after someone said its similar and I'm obsessed 💕
Why is it every time I watch a series on Netflix I end up watching videos to explain it to me?
They should make the prequel now
I feel like we're going to know more about the history of Games in later seasons!
I love the way the video is cropped 🤌🏻✨
Thank you Etceterella!
I don't think Catholicism is specifically referred to. Most of the Christians in the show are Protestant. The preacher on the street, the pastor who rediscovers his faith, the girl who killed her father the pastor (Catholic priests can't get married). The way Koreans pronounce their word for God is also different depending on the Church they follow- Catholics and liberal Protestants (basically none of the people in the show) say Haneunim, conservative (most likely the Evangelicals in the show) Christians say Hananim.
I think Seong Gi-hun will work with the police to infiltrate the games in S2. They made a big thing about him being mocked by the police, so I can see him working with them as a spy.
So the show says that capitalism is bad if I understanded it correctly. Soooooo what would technically happen if I go on the island blasting the soviet union anthem?
This man definitely smashed his English exams
Hated the ending, he won, there’s no reason to go back
You cant tell me you were not hyped when he turned around i was hoping he wouldnt but that look in his eyes was crazy
When you’re addicted, you always go back unless you heal
You didn’t pay attention then
I can’t be the only one still confused about the red hair at the end 😂
Hopefully, I explained it well in this video!
I don't think Squid Game is like hunger games or battle royale. While in the aforementioned ones there is only one person that's left as a winner, it isn't necessarily the case in Squid Game. You'd only have to kill all the others to get even more money, but that doesn't mean they need to die. They could have solved the games together instead of fighting each other down.
I have always loved Korean movies and that that Train to Busan was the ultimate in Korean movies!
Then along came Squid game...
Gi Hun was going to go on that plane to meet his daughter in the US and before he boarded the plane, he called the number on the card And In ho said to get on that plane as in "you got your money, now leave to US" but he turned back and went back to Korea to stop the squid which means there is a 2nd season
ngl everytime the squid game is mentionned a piece of my soul dies because kaiji was more down to earth and even more cruel
Many times i hear pointers towards capitalisam they actrulally talk about corperatism
Alice and border land, hunger games, squid game are all in the same universe because the VIPs say Korea's games were the best so hg is america AIB is japan and sg is Korea
So wait what is the difference between the front man and the host? The front man was the guy in all black that could speak English and the host (which is the old man) like invented the games? The old man founded squid game?
Yes it reminded me of Alice in Borderland bit with simpler games and a tad less cruel.
Yes. More of this.
More on the way!
The blue Danube song always is the first song of the new year on the radio in Austria and many other countries probably Korea also plays the song for new year somit might just be a song for a change of events.
Why didn’t the detective use emergency call?