the way young woo changed from a complete brat to such a dedicated actor after just one gift was a bit unconvincing to me. but the overall theme and the way they portrayed the rest of the movie was really well done.
i mean, i am not south korean but i am asian & the whole ideology of seeing kids as investments is the most common…
help i just realised i misread your second line in the comment before . i read it as "people misunderstand South-East Asia and South-Asia as the West" sorry about that 😭
as for the other things, idk about selling organs in other countries (in india unfortunately it is a thing. we hear about kidney and liver rackets once in a while) but western media has a tendency to make weird claims about everything. i happen to be a bts stan and the amount & kind of articles that get published every time they achieve something is crazy. it's just them being shocked that countries other than themselves are capable of producing good things. i don't think they'll come out of that mentality anytime soon. one more sad part is that if anyone actually does speak up, they will not be taken seriously and will be ignored. and after covid happened it probably became worse
You are only looking at the consequences of the character´s actions at the end and not what they represent. Sure,…
yup, in my original comment, this is what i said: and yeah, i do see how he could have changed priorities. he simply couldnt go back to his life when he knew another 500 or so innocent people were going to get dragged into this. but still..
i do see that it's goes deeper but the top portion was one side of how i felt. since we're used to seeing character development in one way or the other, i felt disappointed by how things turned out. also, i can't tell what he could do by rejoining the games immediately.
on sang woo, that's a new way of looking at it. the way i interpreted it was that since he was in proper legal trouble and not just in debt because of loan sharks, he wouldnt be able to use the squid game winnings without an investigation into how he acquired the money. even if 001 managed to pull some strings and make it "clean" i felt like sang woo knew he'd be in legal trouble anyway so he killed himself. plus, the shame he felt about the whole thing. he couldn't bring himself to meet heror talk abiut his situation on the phone. when gi hoon asked him what happened, even then it felt like he was dealing with a lot of shane regarding the decisions he made. in the end too, it felt similar, at least to me. as a character, i didnt trust him much so my way of seeing what went on in his head was simply that gi hoon would take care of his mother anyway because that's just the type of person he is. maybe im a bit harsh on him but i've always kinda seen him as cold and calculating, even in his last moments.
i mean, i am not south korean but i am asian & the whole ideology of seeing kids as investments is the most common…
no one thinks south asia is part of the west lets not lie 💀 when has a white person ever looked at an indian or a bangladeshi and said " yeah that person is from west". among most ignorant cases, they just think south asia is a separate region from asia
and yeah, i know so edit your main comment. *you* dont think all that right? so use the correct terms in the original comment
i have to say,, im slightly disappointed. everything seemed to come full circle and not in a good way. gi hoon is still a dad who cant keep promises to his own daughter. sang woo still felt that su*cide was the only way he could escape his debt (the bath tub scene and fight scene). sae byeok repeatedly tries not to trust others after losing money to the broker but ends up trusting a man who could neither save her nor take care of her brother on his own.
but i guess that's how life is. we make mistakes, go through things that had a lesson along with it, know what lesson we were supposed to learn then end up making the same mistakes anyway. i believe freud wrote something about this behaviour but i don't remember what it's called. but the same idea was that humans tend to gravitate towards familiar situations even if it was extremely negative.
one part of me is trying to see it from this perspective. the other part of my brain is asking why, after 1 year of processing his trauma and trying to live with everything that had just happened, after meeting 001 in the hospital and deciding to carry on, after entrusting sae byeok's brother to sangwoo's mom with so much of his fortune (im assuming he meant for her to take care of him for the rest of time on his behalf), after reaching out and trying to be a good dad by promising to meet his daughter america (and maybe try to get half custody?), the very FIRST thing he does is undo all of that.
and yeah, i do see how he could have changed priorities. he simply couldnt go back to his life when he knew another 500 or so innocent people were going to get dragged into this. but still..
also.. what would he even achieve by going rejoining the games *immediately*? there's no plan. like sang woo said, he doesnt know he's in trouble even when he is in trouble. what is he going to do? compete till death while collecting clues on who are behind it? tell other players what terrible idea it is and ask them to vote to terminate? because we've established that a lot of people have no way out and will most probably return. tell them how horrible life will be even if they win the game? appeal to the VIPs to stop it? go on site, kill the people in charge and free contestants? collect footage and report them to the police?
the ending didnt ruin the show for me in a way that made it irredeemable. the only real issue i had is that im slightly underwhelmed. maybe im just disappointed by my own expectations. given the popularity of the show, i think s2 is definitely going to happen at some point in the future. curious but still underwhelmed :')
One thing I really hate about this whole Squid Game phenomenon is that it brings in a bunch of Western entitled…
i mean, i am not south korean but i am asian & the whole ideology of seeing kids as investments is the most common and accepted mentality you'll find in my country. there are a lot of differences among classes, castes, religion and gender but the one thing everyone (or at least the older generation and a sizeable percentage of the younger generation)seems to agree on is that not having children is seen as jeopardising your life and your old age.
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as for the other things, idk about selling organs in other countries (in india unfortunately it is a thing. we hear about kidney and liver rackets once in a while) but western media has a tendency to make weird claims about everything. i happen to be a bts stan and the amount & kind of articles that get published every time they achieve something is crazy. it's just them being shocked that countries other than themselves are capable of producing good things. i don't think they'll come out of that mentality anytime soon. one more sad part is that if anyone actually does speak up, they will not be taken seriously and will be ignored. and after covid happened it probably became worse
i do see that it's goes deeper but the top portion was one side of how i felt. since we're used to seeing character development in one way or the other, i felt disappointed by how things turned out. also, i can't tell what he could do by rejoining the games immediately.
on sang woo, that's a new way of looking at it. the way i interpreted it was that since he was in proper legal trouble and not just in debt because of loan sharks, he wouldnt be able to use the squid game winnings without an investigation into how he acquired the money. even if 001 managed to pull some strings and make it "clean" i felt like sang woo knew he'd be in legal trouble anyway so he killed himself. plus, the shame he felt about the whole thing. he couldn't bring himself to meet heror talk abiut his situation on the phone. when gi hoon asked him what happened, even then it felt like he was dealing with a lot of shane regarding the decisions he made. in the end too, it felt similar, at least to me. as a character, i didnt trust him much so my way of seeing what went on in his head was simply that gi hoon would take care of his mother anyway because that's just the type of person he is. maybe im a bit harsh on him but i've always kinda seen him as cold and calculating, even in his last moments.
and yeah, i know so edit your main comment. *you* dont think all that right? so use the correct terms in the original comment
i have to say,, im slightly disappointed. everything seemed to come full circle and not in a good way. gi hoon is still a dad who cant keep promises to his own daughter. sang woo still felt that su*cide was the only way he could escape his debt (the bath tub scene and fight scene). sae byeok repeatedly tries not to trust others after losing money to the broker but ends up trusting a man who could neither save her nor take care of her brother on his own.
but i guess that's how life is. we make mistakes, go through things that had a lesson along with it, know what lesson we were supposed to learn then end up making the same mistakes anyway. i believe freud wrote something about this behaviour but i don't remember what it's called. but the same idea was that humans tend to gravitate towards familiar situations even if it was extremely negative.
one part of me is trying to see it from this perspective. the other part of my brain is asking why, after 1 year of processing his trauma and trying to live with everything that had just happened, after meeting 001 in the hospital and deciding to carry on, after entrusting sae byeok's brother to sangwoo's mom with so much of his fortune (im assuming he meant for her to take care of him for the rest of time on his behalf), after reaching out and trying to be a good dad by promising to meet his daughter america (and maybe try to get half custody?), the very FIRST thing he does is undo all of that.
and yeah, i do see how he could have changed priorities. he simply couldnt go back to his life when he knew another 500 or so innocent people were going to get dragged into this. but still..
also..
what would he even achieve by going rejoining the games *immediately*? there's no plan. like sang woo said, he doesnt know he's in trouble even when he is in trouble. what is he going to do? compete till death while collecting clues on who are behind it? tell other players what terrible idea it is and ask them to vote to terminate? because we've established that a lot of people have no way out and will most probably return. tell them how horrible life will be even if they win the game? appeal to the VIPs to stop it? go on site, kill the people in charge and free contestants? collect footage and report them to the police?
the ending didnt ruin the show for me in a way that made it irredeemable. the only real issue i had is that im slightly underwhelmed. maybe im just disappointed by my own expectations.
given the popularity of the show, i think s2 is definitely going to happen at some point in the future. curious but still underwhelmed :')