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imo, who wouldnt tbh? firstly they just experienced something that most of us wont ever experience, mass killings of the people around them. all they would care about them is staying alive. additionally, the hopelessness of their situation and also their own lives wont make them very observant. and in the end, a lot of viewers wont even have noticed these artworks until someone or the show points it out to them. for example, u stated you only noticed this thing on ur 2nd viewing lol

It's not like it would help a lot, even the easiest one could be seen as hide and seek, and it was the one they had already played anyway. But yeah, I think it's meant to be symbolic, which it is.

But how would that have helped save lives tho?

@@pekoV Straight fax ngl good take

what ur last sentence doesn't make sense r u trying to say we don't help others or not

@@papasscooperiaworker3649 it makes perfect sense, they're saying people in real life don't help others, just as how both the players and the pink men don't help the other players within the game

Great comment rep

​@@mayah2397 No I don't think it makes perfect sense. Jesus, how old are you guys?

@@quangloc97 I don’t need to disclose my age to you, but I had the highest grade in advanced English in a class of 700 all through high school and got A's in college writing, so I don’t believe this is a matter of lack of comprehension on my part. You may disagree with me, though, and that’s totally fine. I’ll break my interpretation of OP's comment down for you: We do not “participate” or “not participate” in the squid game (as in, both perspectives are invalid). The squid game is not a separate entity, disconnected from humanity. Because we (humanity) are the squid game. Giyun did not help the man lying in the snow outside. This implies that he does not view himself as part of the old man’s game/challenge/bet (that no one will come to help). He views himself as a non-participating member of the game/bet. OP is saying that Giyun’s assumption (that he is not part of the game/bet) indirectly implies that we have two choices: 1. We participate in the squid game, or 2. We do not participate in the squid game. However, OP is saying that we have no such choices. The squid game AND the old man’s game/bet are allegories for the real world. In the real world, we can’t NOT choose to participate in life. From the moment we’re born, we are all forced to participate in the “game” of life. We are never outsiders, and we are never really given a choice to “not participate” (unless you consider suicide?). For the old man, the bet was never about participation or non-participation. He most likely wanted to make the point to Giyun that he, and the billions of others on the planet, are the ultimate Squid Game. Giyun SHOULD have gone to help the man, but he didn’t, because Giyun viewed himself as a non-participant. But we as humans should stop thinking of ourselves as having a choice, and we should start thinking of ourselves as morally obligated to help others. Is this interpretation lengthy and a bit esoteric? Maybe for you. Could OP possibly have worded their last sentence better? Sure. But OP's meaning and intent was perfectly clear to me.

But why risk a mans lives to prove that point, especially when nothing is gained by winning this bet?

Why not take the money and help millions of people with it? Gihun was stuck in a place between altruism and selfishness, unable to bring himself to act on anything.

@@emmastrange5557 I think Gihun would have done it after midnight. Since the rules of the game no longer applied to him.

@@Palepetal But why should he care about the rules of the game?

@@emmastrange5557 because he still believed in the goodness of people (which is why he made the bet in the first place). As others said there is nothing to stop him from helping the person after midnight

I think it's partly because people want to see it as an actual game show, or something they themselves could take part in and win, rather than what it truly is: unfair, and deliberately constructed to be that way. Even I was tricked by this, I got really frustrated when Kang got stabbed by a shard of glass and nobody treated her wounds, meaning she only died because she was injured and able to be preyed upon. But it perfectly encapsulated what the series is going for with its mirroring of South Korean society, as said in the video, with inequality even tho it's supposed to be equal But yeah seeing Squid Game clones like Crab Games exist is so weird, like I'm glad people have fun playing it but it very clearly doesn't care about the entire point of Squid Game, imo

@@bigbadgammagnome mf crab game is the googly eye Funi haha KZfaqr game u think it should give a shit abt squid games purpose?

Unfair? The only thing I felt was unfair is the girl whatshername getting impaled by a glass shard from the unnecessary glass explosions

@@justinthawsetmyo4173 You can just say you didn’t understand the show…

@@justinthawsetmyo4173 every game is unfair. Red light is unfair because the contestants were never explained what the stakes are, knowing their lives were at risk would have changed the way they approached it, and wouldn’t have lead to the mass panic which killed so many. Honeycomb was unfair because everyone was forced to pick a shape without any context of what that shape meant, and there had to be a set number in each queue, if the triangle queue was full then you will have a worse time. Tug of war forced people to team up without knowing what they were supposed to team up for. Also this is the first game where you are no longer reliant on individual merit to succeed. If you have one person in your team which is not up for the task, you will die regardless of how good you individually can perform. Marbles deliberately uses the feeling of cooperative competition from the tug of war to fool the participants when asking them to make pairs, turning alliances into opponents. They are allowed to form a bond and perhaps even a game plan and then asks them to kill one another, there is nothing fair about that. And stepping stones, forced to choose once again with no context. Going first is mathematically a death sentence, while going last could kill you if the people ahead of you simply decide not to go forwards, and each jump is a 50/50 chance, even when they try to put the odds in their favour the front man removes that from them. It is never about personal merit, it is simply about watching them fall. There is only the illusion of fairness, but the veil of ignorance is so heavily applied that every games lands like a sucker punch.

as much as I am not a professional, I did catch on the color schemes inside the game rooms are often primary colors, since kids are in need of stimulation bright colors connect to their visual stimulation, therefore making them also be "adult sized" kid playgrounds makes them have the perspective of a child again "just playing a game", also the staircases were still primary colors, but pastels, making it a calmer tone visually, while also making it unnerving by adding the guards with actual weapons, the contradiction of safe and danger makes the player be aware of their 50/50 chance of winning or losing the next game, and a maze only navigatable by following those same guards that will shoot the failing players, this makes them feel dependent yet untrusting, as much as they'd wish to go on their own, they could get indefinitely lost, mentally trapping them.

What are your favourites?

Share a few? :)

I agree. Korean movies always feel refreshing. My favorites are: Parasite, Train to Busan, Mother, Chaser and Oldboy. I probably still missed some good ones

@@GimmehLewt you should watch The Guest (2018) I think it's really great👌

The Handmaiden and The Call are both also worth a watch

RIGHT ughh i was so pissed after i watched that scene because evrything the show was building up to had consistent views. And then had GiHun reach this conclusion? Nah

lol! I was thinking the same thing too, I was like oh, Gihun will go and help so it's okay, but he kept staying there, so I then I thought "oh, he's just not done talking to the old man yet, he'll go down once he's finished talking", and then he never did and I was confused why lol and didn't understand the message the writers wanted to give I suppose.

Kinda like another comment said, it’s not about *him* helping others again, it’s a test to see if a complete stranger is capable of showing genuine kindness to someone else. If there is kindness in humanity and if there is hope for the general public.

Giyun is more interested in finding answers than in helping the people around him, with the exception of Sae-byeok. And it's odd that he was more interested in *her* than in reuniting with his own daughter. Remember that he didn't board the plane to the US; he turned around to go after the Squid Game traffickers instead. Why does he care more about Sae-byeok than his own daughter? Maybe it's because he sees her as being on his level, whereas his daughter has a nice lifestyle with a well-off stepfather, but he doesn't help the man dying in the cold because - just guessing here - he sees himself as above that man's level. Plus, he has answers right at hand, when he didn't have answers at hand while he was playing the game.

Yup that's why i called it a goof! ;)

overrated and bad are two *very* distinct things, a lot of people don't understand that

I liked the show, but the hype was too much. People didn't really look at the show, they missed the point and tried to put it into every form of content. Like why is there squid game asmr

Because it's a critique of capitalism and people don't like that.

@@ellealine4159 Lots of people looked at the show. Did you not see all the posts people made dissecting the show? You’re not the only person who looks deep. Please find another excuse because I’m so tired of you pretentious people acting like that’s a reason to hate anything popular. Also there’s a squid game ASMR because people wanted to do two things they like. It’s extremely popular so of course it’s gonna reach the ASMR community so they can keep up with the latest trends. That doesn’t mean they don’t understand the damn show. 🙄

​@@corimoon3360true though I think with sone things it's more like overexposure effect on ppl. Like when a radio song gets "played out".

YES! That scene is highly underated I couldn't agree more

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Well very much appreciated ;) glad you enjoyed it and happy that you liked the way i presented it! Thank you!

You were frustrate because you didn’t understand. We already know Giyun is kind and would help. The bet was about the general public’s willingness to help. Idk why y’all keep saying he should have helped. That wouldn’t have been as powerful.

Pls do a video on House of Cards

Squid Game Deez Nutz lmao

_you saw that, didn't you?_

I cried when he betrayed his friend in the marble game. 😭🥺

Spoilers! During the game where they play with marbles, and several favorite characters are killed. I cried when number 1 was killed, that fucked me up so hard, been a while since I got hit that hard.

Thank you ;) thanks for stickin around and keep watching!

@@SpikimaMovies of course! Your review of Moonlight is legit soo beautiful! You have talent my guy

Fascinating! Love the idea you threw there, and it makes a lot of beautiful sense. :) I'm not 'doubtful', but I do wonder if it'll be meaningful to have one! He's definitely not going to make the second season any time soon, so perhaps it'll be good :)

Lord of the Flies was specifically about the upper middle-classes. It is not an allegory of the darkness inherent in man (or children) more generally, it is a commentary on a very specific social structure.

@@paultapping9510 I stand corrected.

Tbf, hating anything that is popular is like an entire personality type of it's own at this point. Literally had someone say to me they wont watch SG because everyone else is. Like ok? You miss out on a well made and fun TV series 🤷‍♀️ seems like a bit of a self own to me.

Subtitle gang

Did they change a lot?

@@MercedesLefrancois it’s just poorly acted and the translations are often off. watch it with subtitles, the korean actors are extremely talented, it’s a vastly superior experience.

@@sinnsage i have dyslexia so I watched it dubbed first and then watched with subtitles so my dumb brain wouldn’t miss plot lines because I couldn’t read the screen. The original was amazing, definitely lost a ton of the magic in the dub

@@AnaPie896 oh my friend has dyslexia and one thing she does is sometimes watching movies with shitty unofficial dub. it's not always available but you know one when you see it, the lines are always muttered emotionless and there's no synchronisation with the original sound, it's only lightly lowered. it creates this weird effect where you hear both the original and the translation. dunno if this is done in english though, never seen such a bad quality eng dub myself

Right?! I love the explanation of him still living by the rules of the game because, instead of feeling like a helpless observer, he could have gone and helped the man himself. However, someone does help. Why? Perhaps to leave us with a sense of hope for humanity? I feel like rewatching the series after listening to this exposition. I was too caught up in the game, myself… And the game was just an ingenious method of telling a story about the nature of humanity.

After watching his treatment on Ari Aster’s work, I’m hooked. Talk about a deep dive.

Not only the us it blew up world wide man. Where I lived Im pretty sure it was number 1 or top three on netflix

easy its a critique of suffering under hypercapitalism. We identified with it.

Well to be fair, we already live in a capitalist society and humans hate change so their brains purposefully ignore the message (not that they're aware of it)

Yes! Thank you! (I'm Korean though..so...maybe not much credit there)

으윽...올라왔습니다...!!

everyone in the comments getting gihun’s name wrong though 😐 i can literally never escape the stupid westerners

I am indeed. haha

@@SpikimaMoviesnice!

I hear you on that.

‘Shiva Baby’ directed by Emma Seligman (I think)

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