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A shocking but realistic ending
The ending was unexpected and heart wrenching but people are losing the whole meaning of what the drama was about.Its about the system of the world— corruption, capitalism, greed, and of course about human nature.
Its chilling how Gihuns(456)’s last words were “We are not horses. We are humans”, which ties up back to the beginning of how he was horse-betting, much like how the VIPS were betting on players. Humans lives are not to be treated carelessly but in today’s world we know the unequivocal balance between the rich and poor, which is shown throughout the show.
Gihun was not able to end the games so in change he made an unexpected decision that lead to the VIPS realize their own cruelty and experience emotion behind their big ego.
Even if Gihun ended the Korean games the question comes of whether or not he would be capable of ending all of them now that were are aware that the American Squid Game. Even if one system falls it does not mean that they all will fall, they will continue to thrive even at the expense of the other’s demise or in other words “every man for themselves”.
Really ties into capitalism and power…
Overall this series made me cry so much over these characters that I came to love but the ending was realistic, which is rare but it truly makes you disect the entirety of what the message is really about. Eyeopening really and this is not even everything I can point out for example Myung-gi(333)’s whole character is a whole other discussion in itself.
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