wasted potential
high school romance, forced proximity, enemies to lovers, he falls first, love triangle..
this drama had so much potential and i was so excited about it, but it turned out so badly.
first things first, the production was really bad. the acting wasn't good, the way it was filmed wasn't either, the ost always came up so randomly and sometimes didn’t even fit the mood.. everything felt so flat, rushed and forced/unatural.
it's only 8 episodes of around 20 minutes too, which obviously doesn't help since it was so short and therefore lacked many things.
an example would be that NONE of the characters has an actual backstory. not even the mcs. it's impossible to get attached to them because we literally don't know anything. the drama mostly takes place at school & in the their rooms, we don't even know who they live with or what their daily life is like..
this deserved a better production & proper episodes lengths to explore the plot, characters, their stories & personalities, their relationships.. so many things.
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« We are not horses. We are humans. Humans are... »
His sentence is left unfinished on purpose. After everything we’ve seen, how do you define humans? The games showed us the worst. Betrayal. Cruelty. Cowardice. But they also showed us sacrifice, love, and resistance. The word humanity sort of starts to lose meaning when you realize the same species capable of kindness is also capable of cruelty.We critique the vips for their actions, yet we're also watching humans kill each other for our own entertainment. We’ve been waiting for season 3, trying to guess who would die, just like the vips do. This is probably the reason why Gihun looks at us when he says this. Maybe we should think about why we enjoyed watching this.
Squid game also showed that in such a deeply corrupted and capitalist world, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you just can’t change things. The good guys don’t always win. Gihun spent all this time trying to warn people, trying to end those games and save everyone. But in the end, nothing changed. The games have existed before him and will continue to exist after him, because the system is bigger than us. As the front man said, even in death, someone else would simply take his place as the game’s overseer.
It reflects the harsh reality of corruption and the exploitation of people. This concept isn’t meant to have a clear resolution, seeking closure misses the very message of the show.
But Gihun did what he believed was right. The front man thinks every human is selfish, driven by survival and greed, no better than horses forced to run for other’s amusement. Gihun proved him wrong by refusing to play and sacrificing himself.
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