Squid Game 1x8 FULL REACTION
Added 2022-01-20 03:11:21 +0000 UTC
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That was well said James
Sid
2022-01-21 22:52:11 +0000 UTCI think Sang-Woo is the most interesting element in the social commentary. There are plenty of people who are just placed into this rough position where they're manipulated by the game to compete against each other for the scraps left to them by those with money, and desperate poor people becoming more evil in this circumstance makes perfect sense, but Sang-Woo is a little different from everyone else. Sang-Woo acts like a rich bigshot, but in reality he's still a poor person like all the others, he has no prospects, he has more debt than anyone else in the game. He was praised all his life for being a smart golden child, and his ego was inflated such so that he hates to think of himself as poor or a failure. To someone who stops to see the bigger picture, it would seem like the game is the villain, dangling money to make these poor people fight each other, driving them to all this madness. But I think there is a case to be made for Sang-Woo as part of the problem, not because he does bad things, but because he's an enabler for the game. He agrees with the game's rules and design because he considers himself to be a "winner" in life. The conversation at the start of this episode is great, and the 5th game really highlights this criticism. The order they went in was basically pure chance, Gi-Hun almost went 1st and would've died the soonest, but he randomly went last and was one of the few who survived. The survivors can only make it because enough people sacrificed their lives to reveal the right path. Gi-Hun sees success as something that exists because of the sacrifices of others, because of losers, winners exist. Sang-Woo thinks that winners win because they are superior to losers. Sang-Woo is a loser but can't admit it, and has the mindset of a winner. This is exactly the kind of person who allows society to keep working this way. The losers drastically outnumber the winners, but because there are losers who fantasize about being or becoming winners themselves, they allow the system to stay the way it is, they support and engage with the system that hurts them, through denial. Sang-Woo represents the denial that stops the masses from trying to enact true change, from refusing to play a rigged game. The ego associated with being promised the life of a winner.
James J Canon
2022-01-20 07:22:50 +0000 UTCThere's a line in Gganbu where Ji-yeong urges Sae-Byeok to dream bigger and go to the Maldives and share mojitos with her. Sae-Byeok replies mojito? Ji-yeong: You haven't see that movie? The one with Lee Byung Hun (the actor who plays the Front Man)?
Durran
2022-01-20 04:28:33 +0000 UTC
