I saw a lot of people mention the book the metamorphosis , and I think those theories are great , but I haven't seen anyone mention "hell is other people" which is another title for the webtoon , it's a saying from jean Paul Sartre from an existentialist play called Huis Clos, or No Exit . In the play, three people are trapped in Hell — which is a single room — and ultimately while confessing their sins to one another, end up falling into a bizarre love triangle.
"Hell is other people has always been misunderstood. It has been thought that what I meant by that was that our relations with other people are always poisoned, that they are invariably hellish relations. But what I really mean is something totally different. I mean that if relations with someone else are twisted, vitiated, then that other person can only be hell. Why? Because … when we think about ourselves, when we try to know ourselves … we use the knowledge of us which other people already have. We judge ourselves with the means other people have and have given us for judging ourselves."
The hell here would be the studio , as he is trapped in there he starts to go crazy and by "confessing their sin" we can maybe think it's about how the dentist forces him to bring out the "psychopathic" nature in him and his killing urge . "We judge ourselves with the means other people have and have given us for judging ourselves." The people around him make him think he's overreacting and imagining things , that the people there are okay and he's just paranoid , so we literally see him become more and more paranoid during each episode , as he starts to believe what other people (especially his girlfriend) are telling him . We can also interpret that , since the dentist keeps telling the protagonist he's just like him , that's why he starts to believe that . His coworker says he only pretends to be a nice person on the outside , so Jong Woo acts according to those prejudices , smashes his keyboard and beats him up sending him to the hospital. If we take the metamorphosis in question , as the protagonist begins his transformation and becomes a bug , he completely forgets what he used to be like and starts to become what the people around him think he is , paranoid , crazy , rude , a murderer . This is just my theory based on what I heard about these books , I'm going to try reading Sartre and Kafka and completing the webtoon and see if I can correct it or come up with more . This drama is really amazing .
I am so conflicted. I really want to know how the story ends but I also want to watch season 2 spoiler-free to…
that's understandable :') but as a manga reader I still enjoyed this season a lot since they changed a few games and some games they played them differently so it still felt fresh watching it. But if you still don't want that you can watch other battle royal type shows while waiting
Do you mean the 7? I don't remember the 4 of hearts.
oh woa great find! I thought of destroying the gear but I thought it would have exploided , but if it's just the googles then it could be done omg amazing!
despite Netflix's bad rep it seems to be delivering better and better adaptations , as a manga/hwa reader this bitch keeps hooking me in dramas with adaptations and I'm afraid I'm loving it . Looking forward to this .Btw read other webtoon from the same author! Pigpen and Bastard , they're great too!
So the story is incomplete? Is the date decided for season 2? I easily forget stuff so I made a rule to wait for…
I've read the manga before watching this and still enjoyed this season , there were a few changes and differences in games or how they were played so watching it felt like a new experience but still pretty great!
Do you mean the 7? I don't remember the 4 of hearts.
No problem and yeah understandable , well maybe the drama will add something more and tell us about how they could have won it in the next season ? who knows , it's not impossible
Do you mean the 7? I don't remember the 4 of hearts.
I don't think there could have been any other solution to that game , the game master specifically made that game to see friends betray and try to kill each other , to mock them and destabilize them .
***********light spoilers for the manga************
Later on , the protagonist keeps wondering why his friends had to die and is stuck on that question ,he's desperate for an answer and she manipulates and controls him that way.
I loved this movie but as someone with borderline that's definitely not a realistic depiction , still a great watch though
As for the ending , so Yeong Sook didn't die , when she fell with the mom she survived , it raises the question of how she disappeared ? But I guess she just changed her plans and decided to help her past self kill them .
finally ! I've been waiting for this ever since I reread the manga and saw there was gonna be an adaptation . I hope more people discover the manga thanks to this .
"Hell is other people has always been misunderstood. It has been thought that what I meant by that was that our relations with other people are always poisoned, that they are invariably hellish relations. But what I really mean is something totally different. I mean that if relations with someone else are twisted, vitiated, then that other person can only be hell. Why? Because … when we think about ourselves, when we try to know ourselves … we use the knowledge of us which other people already have. We judge ourselves with the means other people have and have given us for judging ourselves."
The hell here would be the studio , as he is trapped in there he starts to go crazy and by "confessing their sin" we can maybe think it's about how the dentist forces him to bring out the "psychopathic" nature in him and his killing urge .
"We judge ourselves with the means other people have and have given us for judging ourselves." The people around him make him think he's overreacting and imagining things , that the people there are okay and he's just paranoid , so we literally see him become more and more paranoid during each episode , as he starts to believe what other people (especially his girlfriend) are telling him . We can also interpret that , since the dentist keeps telling the protagonist he's just like him , that's why he starts to believe that . His coworker says he only pretends to be a nice person on the outside , so Jong Woo acts according to those prejudices , smashes his keyboard and beats him up sending him to the hospital. If we take the metamorphosis in question , as the protagonist begins his transformation and becomes a bug , he completely forgets what he used to be like and starts to become what the people around him think he is , paranoid , crazy , rude , a murderer .
This is just my theory based on what I heard about these books , I'm going to try reading Sartre and Kafka and completing the webtoon and see if I can correct it or come up with more . This drama is really amazing .
***********light spoilers for the manga************
Later on , the protagonist keeps wondering why his friends had to die and is stuck on that question ,he's desperate for an answer and she manipulates and controls him that way.
As for the ending , so Yeong Sook didn't die , when she fell with the mom she survived , it raises the question of how she disappeared ? But I guess she just changed her plans and decided to help her past self kill them .