![]() #IN THE DEEP MOVIE. ENDING SERIES#Squid Game is on track to be the most viewed non-English language television series ever for Netflix. While a Squid Game season 2 hasn’t yet been officially announced, the numbers are in-and they are staggering. Photo credit: Netflix What does the ending mean for Season 2? He explained how he reacted to the show's growing popularity: That proximity to Hwang’s own life has made the success of the show somewhat conflicting for him. The director explained that “a lot of hard memories” made their way into the writing. ![]() “All of Squid Game was written back then.” “I initially thought of this piece at a time when I was really struggling - I would say it was the lowest point in my life,” Huang said. Hwang went on to discuss his headspace during his initial writing of the script-10 years before the series would be made. (Hwang even named some characters after people in his own life.) In fact, though the series is science-fiction, the working-class hardships depicted were somewhat auto-fictive. That turn was as much Hwang’s as Gi-hun’s. "That was, in fact, my way of communicating the message that you should not be dragged along by the competitive flow of society, but that you should start thinking about who has created the whole system - and whether there is some potential for you to turn back and face it." While he struggled with this egoism vs altruism dilemma throughout the series, Seong is now certain: the organization's treatment of others is wrong, and the organization must be destroyed. (We first meet Seong in the beginning of the series gambling on horse races by the end, he has become the horse.) ![]() During the final scene, Seong tells the organization that people are not horses they cannot be treated as such. According to Seong, they also deserve the same treatment in return- even if they agree to the violent games.īefore Oh dies, we learn that the “VIPs” gambled on the fate of players. Other people do not always act out of self-interest. Oh’s final game with Seong is significant because it shows that this assumption isn’t necessarily true. They also believe that everyone shares this ethic, making it acceptable to prey on others. The moral beliefs of the extremely wealthy, Squid Game leads us to believe, are essentially egoistic. (It’s telling that Oh and his rich friends, bored with their fortunes, never think to actually spend their money altruistically.) It is also, one might assume, a decision at the root of the show’s portrayed income inequality. This battle between egoism (where self-interest dictates moral decision making) and some form of collaboration/altruism represents the crux not only of the games themselves-where one must first decide if the game is competitive or cooperative-but also the inner conflict for each player. By the end, even under extreme duress, he emerges as the most selfless.) (And, obviously, a further irony is that before entering the game, Seong is shown to be one of the more selfish characters-stealing money from his mother, failing his daughter, etc. (He even choses Oh during one of the last games in an act not dissimilar to the person on the street bending to help the dying homeless man.) The irony is that the only player Seong choses to betray is Oh-the only player for whom betrayal doesn’t matter he is outside the game. Seong doesn’t answer, though throughout the games he had tried to never kill another player. ![]() Oh had first asked Seong if he still retained hope in others after witnessing the manipulation, betrayal, and selfishness demonstrated throughout the games. Oh dies shortly after, prompting Seong to ask if he saw-if he saw that he had been wrong.Īs low stakes as this final game appears, it may be one of the most important of the series. ![]() A person, who stopped beside the man earlier, returns with police a minute before midnight. Oh’s wager: Before midnight no one will stop to help the man. During the meeting, while Oh lies minutes away from death, the two play one final game, betting on the fate of a homeless man, himself minutes from death, below on the street. In one of the final scenes, Seong reunites with Oh and learns the old man’s role behind the games. ![]()
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