Note: I never watch Dubbed versions, always subtitles! However, to be able to monetize this video, it was easier to go with the dubbed version. Thanks! Note 2: I didn't watch the entire series in 0.25x speed. Only the "6 games, Episode 1 and Episode 9". Other than that, everything else I watched as a normal human would. On a different note, everyone ready for some Marvel easter eggs next time around?
Gi-Hun was trying to be nice, while running for his life, by putting a straw that was on the ground back in someone's drink. This is the perfect reflection on how he is good natured but kind of a fuckup. Great improv.
To be honest, I'm GLAD that Ali died. Not because I hate him, but rather makes it hardly distinguishable from other movies and shows, aka "Good guys live, bad guys die" stereotype. If you want to watch those kinds of movies, you can always watch Disney instead.
I heard a theory the glass of water had something in it, so Il-Nam could time either his death or a fake death at exactly midnight. The clock is way too obvious in that scene and the screen cuts to it a lot, even with the game deadline, so I do believe there was a bit more going on. Also the front man being there isn't just coincidence probably. Something I also think is that Il-Nam was shaping Gi-hun to be following him and the last game with the homeless person was for Il-Nam to see how he did in that. Gi-hun could have gone down to help the homeless person at any time. There was no rule against Gi-hun being the person helping, but he didn't go down. He chose to stay with Il-Nam and bet on a person, like it was a horse, which in my eyes proves that Il-Nam at least in some way succeeded to have Gi-hun be like him and bet on people's lives. In that last game Gi-hun was for a bit the same as Il-Nam even if he doesn't want to admit it.
@@denverbritto5606 Exactly. They all would have died during tug of war if not for him. But at his core hes a snake, a powerful weapon when its goals align with yours, but you have to know when to cut off the head or youll get bit.
@@crylok7062 that's true but he was just trying to save his own skin. If they lost he would've died and obviously he wouldn't want that. Just like the candy carving game. He knew what game it was but didn't let on to his team which one it was. Because the more people dead the more money he gets
Just so y'all know, the Frontman knew about the organ selling. He said "I don't care if you sell harvested organs" meaning he probably knew all along. What he may not have realized was that they were helping a player. That's why he killed all the redcoats involved (Including the Square), they gave a player an unfair advantage
He was also mad, because one of them broke the rule and showed his face to a player, but, what's even more interesting, Frontman disobeyed that same rule at the end of a season. He wasn't killed, although he lost his brother he desperately tired to save and I think it's far more worse than getting killed
@@christanzonio8977 I'm pretty sure he said that braking that one rule and also making players unequal upset him and it's punished by death. But I might be wrong. I'm too lazy to check it now.
@@karvistudios who cares he broke the rule? he's their boss, none of them dares to kill him. i guess the rules are just for the guards, not for front man himself. (unfair yeah)
the squid game guards are ranked by edges, a circle has no edge, so lowest, a triangle has 3 edges so middle, a square has 4 edges, so top, and the front man's mask is edges on edges on edges, so top top.
Just noticed at 5:39 when the gun is pointed at Illnam, the guard doesn't have his finger on the trigger at all, actually he's holding the pistol from underneath the trigger guard
Il-Nam's apparent death scene was so well done that I actually felt bad for him and shed quite some tears but at the end, when I saw him still alive and that he was behind it all, it all felt freakishly ironic.
It's like the flaw in BBC Sherlock's deduction that a *left-handed man* could not have shot himself because the gun was in his *right* hand. It's a known practice that some people choose to fire handguns with their non-dominant hand to reduce the risk of injury to their dominant hand. In fact, John Watson himself is shown using his handgun with his non-dominant hand.
Here are some subtle things I noticed in SG. - In the beginning there is a shot of Gi-Hun and Sang-woo playing as kids. in that shot Sang-Woo can be seen trying to pull Gi-hun backwards by grabbing onto his shirt and we are shown Gi-Hun's shirt tears apart allowing him to win while Sang-Woo falls backwards. This foreshadows how Sang-Woo tries to pull Gi-Hun back from winning and makes things difficult for him than it already is. But Gi-Hun finally breaks free and wins, which also demises the fall of Sang-woo. - The games itself is like a series with every season happening every year. Jun-Ho said his brother went missing a few weeks ago or something I don't remember. Thats because upto the date of when the preparation for the games should be started, all the people who are the managers and Soldiers and Workers lead their normal life outside. Which is why their anonymity is kept very secret. Because if you find out the Red manager who runs a death game is your neighbor you would report him to police and it would be really hard to cover it up. Hence they are killed if they ever show their face. My other theory is they are killed after every season of game. Which is most likely not to happen but still a theory though. - Gi-Hun and other players who won in previous years are still tracked with the chip or somethin they kept inside him which they used for identifying players. Which is how they were able to know his location when he called them at the end of season 1. - The Loan Shark who gets a paper of organ extraction signed from Gi-Hun works for Il-nam. Il-Nam said he lends money to people. And as soon as Gi-Hun won the money, he never paid of his debt to that Loan Shark. Nor did the Loan Shark demanded Organs from gi-Hun. - The humans playing the game are seen as horses, as said by the front man. but this is also foreshadowed when they play the Glass Bridge game. Every player model that gets flipped off from the Miniature Glass Bridge replica are Knights from chess, which resembles a horse. -This game is played anonymously world wide. When the VIP's arrive, they say games in Korea are more fun to watch.. which means there are other form of games like these happening. I am not sure about this one, but again.. there is a reason why all of these are called theories. Had to type in all of these just so you Squidgame fans won't miss out even the subtle details.
I was also confused about why the money-lenders never came back to Gi-Hun for his kidney but it makes sense if most of the money-lenders worked under Il-nam to try and make people desperate enough to play the Squid Game.
I loved the character development showed in Gi-Hun. In the beginning, he steals money from his mother for himself. And in the end, he whispers to his dead mother that he won the money for her. I also liked the detail about him dyeing his hair red to symbolize him redefining himself as an authority figure. It stemmed from him choosing offense in the final game. The color also reflected the suits worn by the guards in the game.
The red hair is also a play on the movie "the matrix". Red pill or blue pill. Literally everyone picked the blue square (blue pill) when playing the game in the train station. This symbolized that they were all sleep and ignorant to the truth of society. When he dyed his hair red it represented (red pill) showing the audience that he is now woke and aware of what's going on.
The fourteen who didn’t return weren’t killed, they just forfeit their money. By initially entering the games, they each have approximately $100,000 bet on their heads. 100,000,000 Won. By leaving, they abandon their wager. Those who stayed still have theirs. Those who died don’t win theirs, and it adds to the total possible won. Those who didn’t return should add to the total as if they had died as well because they forfeit.
@@adamvaculka3210 just as the protagonist, they wouldn't because no one would believe their crazy story about Playstation buttoms making them play lethal childish games
@@LaOptimista I think that's wrong actually. In the last scene Gi-Hun calls and speaks to the front man. He knows Gi-Hun is getting on a plane, he is being monitored. The likelihood any other forfeiting contestants would be taken seriously or do anything problematic is low but they have the resources to play it safe so why not. I also don't think the front man would kill the people who forfeited as he has a fairly strict principle of fairness for the games and that was a valid way to survive the game
@@casualt2212 While you are right about the whole plane scene, I feel like there would be a differing level of monitoring between those that won and those who forfeited. Being that those who won would have the resources to actually do some damage to the corporation, compared to those who just gave up. (Seeing as those who gave up are all still in crippling debt). So I don't really think that they would be monitored anywhere near as close for that reason. But you're still right they would still be looked over from time to time.
@@LaOptimista what adds to that is that it seems like when dropping the players off, they paired a person who voted to continue with a person who voted to stop. (Gihun/Saebyeok, Ali/Sangwoo). Because of this, anyone who might want to report the games to the police would not be able to find someone else to back them up - making it all the more likely the police would just laugh them off.
for the organ selling side-hustle, the guy in the survaliance room did get caught. When publicly displaying bodies of those involved to the players, you see a manager with a square mask as well.
I was about to comment this. When they hung their bodies I deliberately looked for the square guy between them just to make sure they killed him or not
but it's such a coincidence that there was always this one guy who always erased the record... like there were many guys watching the records but only this one and noone else always sees it? and how did they make sure that THEIR guy is sitting there to erase it right at the moment they need it... that seems so improbable to me...
@@AdelaPondelickova The larger the organization the more difficult oversight becomes, you would be surprised of what people can get away with if the those in charge aren't looking hard enough or assume things are working smoothly. In the Army we are taught complacency is the worst kind of killer. And the front man said he has been looking the other way as long as it didn't interfere with the game. Once he learned of the cheating he corrected the issue. And he was becoming increasingly anxious once he realized the cheating and that their was an intruder, it was subtle but you could see it in the body language. It also seemed like the Squares at the monitors only were responsible for certain cameras, the organization uses compartmentalization to keep most of the workers in the dark. Intelligence agencies use it so not one person could be turned and expose the organization. But that level of compartmentalization coupled with the dark and violent nature of the organization breeds dissent and leads some talking and forming their own sub group. And it was most likely that it was one of the squares that came up with the idea and found the right lower workers to carry it out. I would also hypothesize that the organization abducts orphans and homeless youth involved in crime as their workers. As it would be easy to incentivize and manipulate them into doing such horrible things. Similar to the Death Star having a major flaw that was overlooked and secretly built in. Arrogance and complacency. Which was the down fall of the Jedi as much as it was for the Sith as well.
@@AdelaPondelickova The frontman looks at them from afar when he is in the survaliance room... If the guard is fast enough to delete footage and does it without looking suspicious, I definitely think its possible for the frontman not to notice it... Also most of the time he is at his room rather than the survaliance room. Each guard most likely was looking at a different footage, some of the guards were even monitoring other guards to see everything is legit. Also, don't forget the guards are allowed to talk between themselves when they are outside of their rooms. Or they had it planned even before they arrived to the island (in that case im assuming they were part of the organization for quite a while, not their first time being there). The plan failed when the doctor escaped from the surgery room, up to that point nobody including the frontman had no idea what was going on.
The Front man said before shooting the guard that he doesn't care if they sell the body parts or eat them. He punished those guards mainly because they broke the most important rule of giving equal chances to each player. So, even if he had suspected something he might have ignored it.
No one will ever talk on how Sang Woo managed to survive until the last game without his glasses on 😂 I wonder if they provided contact lens for him haha
I think the players who didn't return didn't get killed. The front man said to keep an eye on them, not to kill them. They are keeping an eye on them to make sure they don't cause too much trouble, like attempt to group up and go to the press to tell their story, for example. As for the money, they got added to the pool anyway even if the players didn't return, as those players got self eliminated by voting and not by death.
Plus it completely goes against the game’s mantra, as twisted as it is. It’s all about fairness and choice ; killing players who left the game when given the choice to do so doesn’t make any sense.
@40- Saarthak Chahal It’s 100m won per player eliminated, not killed. The players who left eliminated themselves, in the sense of the word that is expected for a game, not literally killed as everyone else who kept going.
DETAIL THAT I NOTICED : When Gi-hun is sitting at train station and the guy who recruits all the members, comes to him, Gi-hun says "I don't believe in Jesus" but in the last episode when the games end, when guards throw him on the street, he lands near a guy who was preaching about Jesus. Just a small detail that I noticed :) *Edit : I'm Hindu (Brahmin), everyone who is saying that I noticed this detail because I'm telling y'all to convert then please read this before reading my comment :)*
I think they just had that preacher because the front man said pretend it was a dream and the preacher being there would make him think it was the religious guy so he would conclude the games as a dream but just a theory
Other observations: 1. First and last interactions between Il-Nam and Gi-Hun was of Gi-Hun pouring Il-nam a drink 2. My theory is that Il-Nam is the owner of United Bank for the following reasons: he said he got rich off lending people money; the bank manager called Gi-Hun out of nowhere and asked why he hadn't touched the money, when he didn't give an explanation, that evening he got the note asking him to ultimately catchup with Il-Nam who noted to him when he had caught up with him that Gi-Hun still had not spent the money. It would also allow him to know all the wealthy people who couldn't care less about money anymore and needed more excitement and also all the broke people who were always scrambling/in debt etc.
And both The Women who played marbles in the last 3 minutes, also died- their deaths were heartbreaking too. To me, before watching Ep9, Ill Nam's was tragic too
This guy doesn’t actually watch videos in .25 speed. He is clickbaiting everyone. Edit: ok people seem to be mad that I said this. I’m not going to say that it was a joke because that would be stupid. But you all don’t have to get mad over just a dinky thing I said. Jeez. There is a reason this comment got many likes.
it had it's lows like the VIPs, the guards' and the doctor's interactions and the whole plot around the policeman and his brother. Everything surrounding the games and the participants was really well done.
the horses detail was overlooked because of 456 but its a recurring theme " u bet on horses we bet on humans" and also "listen carefully, Im not a horse"
3:30 Hey, The Canadian Lad, when people point-out the Foreshowing of the characters deaths, no one mentions or compares Gi Hun because he lives, but his death was foreshadowed too: When he's running from the mobsters that are trying to catch him, he trips and falls into someone, that also happens to be a thief. In comparison, in the Red Light, Green Light game, he trips and falls again over someone, as the timer is ticking down: The little girl (representing these new mobsters with a new money debt) looking for anyone fleeing/himself running away, just like the mobsters were looking for him. Gi Hun only lived because Ali, a soon-to-be-thief, saved him - without Ali grabbing him, he would have died right there by tripping and falling.
Jun-Ho's "death" was also foreshadowed. He fights with the masked man inside the van and dumps the body off into the water. He would suffer a similar fate by the Front Man shooting him and Jun-ho falling into the water afterwards.
Gi hun could be dead not just in first game but in many. He's just got lucky multiple times. Like in tug of war it was sang woo and Il nam's tricks saved his life. In the marble game he's lucky that he's playing against il nam though he lost the game to the old man but he managed to survive. In bridge game he's about to pick #1 but in the last minute other guy requested to give him and he took #16.
That’ll be the side we see next series hopefully and also would love to know how frontman became an ex cop and his journey to where he is now and how the old man evolved to be the master behind it all.
The phone thing, left vs right hand: They probably each pick up the receiver with their less dominant hand to be able to input the phone number with their dominant hand. Left handed: Right hand phone, left hand typing. Right handed: left hand phone, right hand typing.
Seeing as how popular squid game is all around the world, it's possible and scary that people might try to re-create the show in real life. Lots of weird stuff already happens in this world, mostly underground
The guard in the surveillance room actually was caught, he was the only square among the organ sellers and you can see him hanged with the other sellers in the beginning of episode 6: Gganbu. He’s the second one hanged from the left.
The bit about the people who didn't choose to return being killed outside doesn't make sense to me because of how much the creators of the game value the players being there of their own free will, and making it as fair as possible.
Maybe those people died by being way too broke, the reason a lot of people played these games was because the outside world was certain death for them, at least with playing the games they had hope of escaping that lifestyle by becoming rich
They already warns the viewers about Sang-woo's selfish character in ep2 where he knew exactly what the game was going to be like after he hears something about melting the sugar. He then deliberately split up so that he gets the most easiest shape and let his team choose the difficult ones. He even tried to warn his friend Gi-hun, who chose the umbrella but he hesitated. Afterall, He was the most smartest person in there so I'm sure he must have figured that one out.
I honestly didn’t think the hairpin was much of an Easter egg considering there’s “squids” and disconnected circles squares and triangles everywhere, plus I saw it
Yes it isn't much of an Easter egg but it was a nice detail which most might have missed. I sure did miss it since I was more focused on the subtitles of the series.
While the first voting everyone who was not sure about their choice (stop the game/keep playing) looked at the money. Only Il-nam watched the voting screen and did not care about the money at all.
I think the phone/gun hands part was perfectly logical. The director was giving us a hint - not messing up with us. If you're right-handed, it's perfectly logical for you to hold the receiver in your left hand, so you can write down a few notes with your right hand. Idem for left-handed people : it would make sense for them to use their left hand to write, while the right hand is used to hold the receiver.
I agree with this... I am amazed that how these small and trivial points were kept in mind and paid equal importance.. Amazing work.. no doubt that this is trending on number 1 ...this deserves..
@@dancingqueenarushi3560 i think that perfection in that part was achieved because the frontman actor really was left-handed and it was more natural for him to put the receiver thingy like that and the cop was right handed... you get the idea
I don’t think they killed the others but they probably died when they were unable to pay their debts. Killing them would have undermined the idea of the democratic process they set up in their 3 rule system. And the front man made it clear that here everyone is equal. I think that another side to the game is the data collected about what people are willing to do in desperation. Even the player who did not return watching them and observing their eventual demise would have yielded just as valuable data and would have reinforced to Ilnam that the chance he was giving them as players was better than their real chances out in the wild where they would die for no money and possibly take their family as well as depending on the type of debt the living family member could still be responsible for.
Why are people overthinking it? It is stated that when players are ELIMINATED money are added to the pool. 14 people who didn't return are eliminated, as they are not participants anymore. Frontman's "Keep an eye on them" is just about checking on them so they don't compromise the games, as we can see later, even though they reroute numbers and such, they are still not protected from infiltration. They have already shown that they take a lot of precautions to not be revealed, there is no point in killing players outside of the game and it would be against mindset of the games. Games are cruel, but they are fair. Even if you get fucked by rng or other players, its still all in the rules. Equality, not equity.
@@AJIEKC777 what i don't get is why did they turn off the lights on the bridge game just because the glass factory worker happened to have an advantage? if it's because they want to level the playing field, what about the dalgona and the tug-of-war game?
Actually, if you look closely at 5:56, on the screen at the middle left, you see someone playing with the blue tile on the ground right before the player hits. This means his square was red, and this busts the theory that if you pick red, you become the worker. But still, this is not 100% sure since the square leader guard said "every single person standing in this room is broke blablabla" which could have still included the circle workers behind him, or even him himself.
this clears up a lot of continuity errors i hear people talking about, like how Il-Nam likely would have died, but this shows they had plans to prevent that
Another incredible detail about the foreshadowed deaths was that if gi hun didn't make friends with ill nam then he wouldve most likely died in the marbles game, a game that involves gambling your marbles
I Am So Hyped For The Season 2 as how the storyline on the S1 ended with, and I even like how suspenseful it is throughout when you don't have any spoilers from UA-cam or Internet. I hope the next season be good
@@damnazrishahlol5182 yet, but the director said it’s possible but will take a very long time, he took 6 months writing and rewriting the first two episodes so I think it would arrive early or late 2023-2024
I simply don't agree that those 14 quitters were killed...to "keep an eye" on them didn't mean to actually KILL all of them, it would alert the police! (They kept an eye on them in order to later recruite them, if they get desperate again, not being able to solve their life) I'm passionate about this issue because I think they were the REAL winners, winning back their life, so it was a wise choise to quit a deadly game with virtually zero chamce to win anything, lol. Great info about the tug-of-war, I didn't understand why the Old Man took that risk...
I think some of them could have been killed by loan sharks, due to their unpaid debt and had their body parts sold. But that's just my possible theory.
I think the players were killed . If the game can manage to wipe off 444 people and get away with it , 14 won't be a much difficult task . Also the front man wanted to keep the existence of the organisation a secret . So releasing the 14 who knew all about it and might have spread the word in the world , this could have been a threat to the organisation and the VIP's might have been disappointed with it , ultimately the front man would have been held responsible for all this as he was the leader .
@@shreyasadvirkar6192 Naw, doesn't sit with the mechanics. Gi-Hun can't be the only dude to've ever gone to the cops between the first round and the return round. There's got to be a system in place that is working to keep such reports from rising too high in the system. It's completely plausible that a 2nd season could reveal that the guy Gi-Hun talked to who shrugged him off as a kook at the police station is on the take and reported the incident to the organizers of the games. There's a decent chance that even if that guy isn't on the take, his superiors are. This is a situation like Fight Club or Hostel where the roots of control would run deep and there's no reason to kill someone unless all other options have been exhausted.
Gi-hun non-reaction to his own mother's death is more because, at that point he is just emotionally spent... he should be sad, he should be full of regret, but he just can't give anymore at that point. Spends whole next year living with his guilt and trauma though.
His titles are shit. If he really watch it at 0.25x He would finish the whole series in 2023. This dude is just shit. I hate him because of his fake titles
Hey Lad, I noticed one thing that when the old man and Gi-Hun were playing the marble game, the old man told Gi-Hun that he forgot to bring gift for his son on his birthday and he promised to bring that next year. Just like what happened to Gi-Hun. So that might have been foreshadowing that the old man knew it all. Hence, he was behind all these :)
I don’t think that the players that didn’t return were killed off screen. In the start of the voting, the GM mentioned that if they leave the money would be distributed to the families of the deceased and the current survivors would lose their cash prize. So the cash prize could be the same overall as it was forfeited into the pot since they did not return.
It was not forfeited but it depended on how many people died. So if 14 people did not return their money shouldn't be added but it did. So they may have been killed
@@Jinxed.Jr. Did they specify that they had to die? 100 million won for every player that are shared between the remaining players in the end. It shouldn't matter if they quit or were killed, they're out of the game so the money is added to the pot. The part where the money is going to the families of the deceased was only true for the case that the games were to be terminated iirc, in that case all survivors loose the money.
Some people originally thought that the meaning of the 2 cards meant that they became a guard or player but this is false. Another theory was that it was a reference to the popular movie series "the matrix" where when you take the blue pill you stay ignorant but when you choose the red you learn the harsh truth and you are no longer ignorant. this was further given evidence for when gi-hun dyes his hair red after winning symbolizing he is now woke and is no longer ignoring the truth. turns out these are both false as it meant to symbolize a korean folk tale of a ghost taking you into a room and making you choose red or blue, it does not matter what you choose as you die either way lol. we know this cuz the director confirmed it.
@@r.shreyas9680 But at least that one makes more sense. Otherwise, the first theory would ultimately contradict the fact that the organization preys on desperate and cash-strapped people and let them compete for money.
Also in the Matrix red symbolizes coming out as transgender and blue symbolizes enjoying the privilege but falsehood of remaining in the closet. Probably not what Squid Game is about
Something that many people hadn't noticed: Deok-su has 3 "henchmen" 2 of his henchmen, 303 and 040, team up in marbles. 040 loses the game and is shot, but 303 is never to be seen again. He just disappears
No, I'm pretty sure he pushes one of his henchmen off in the 5th game. (He stops and when the guy tries to push him, Deok-Su pushes him off the ledge after which Mi-Nyeo kills Deok-Su
@@danokoji3567 it's probaly the last winners are allowed to be guards since a guard did not even hesitate to take off his mask to get killed and end his misery
When a player died, 100 million won is added into the prize money. When Gi-hun and Sang-woo are the only players left, the prize money is 4.54 billion won. But when Sang-woo died, the prize money is 4.56 billion. Does that mean Sang-woo is worth 200 mil won?
I suspected from the start Ilnam was sus, first clue was his overconfidence in first game, second one was how he was able to stop the riot by literally standing out, third one was his "old-hand cameo" and finally the scene where he was supposedly killed, everyone got on-screen death while his was ambiguous
As far as the guy in the surveillance room having not being caught, that wasn't even a problem for the storyline. Remember, the foreman didn't even care that a black market organ operation was taking place. What he did care about was the equality of each player having been stripped from them, giving favour to one player in particular with inside information. The entire storyline wasn't leading up to a point of the organ trade being caught out, because in the end, the bodies would have still been incinerated to prevent them being found out. It was all about the inequality and cheating. It was about giving power to the antagonist faction going against the protagonists. Had they not given the doctor information about the games that entire sub-plot would have been irrelevant. I actually suspect this information leaking was suspected by the foreman even before they were found out. For this insider in the control room to have been relevant to this extent, he'd have had to have been the one providing insider info. By the lack of action there, we can assume that this person was merely checking cameras and deleting evidence of the organ trade, but didn't have any further role than that, thus was irrelevant to the cheating arc.
While it doesn’t show how, if you go to the part where the soldiers are hanging off the room for selling organs, there was one square, which means that he did somehow get caught. Great review though!
They found the room where the harvesting took place. They just had to find out which Square guy was in charge of the cameras leading up to that area. Logically he was either in on it, or really incompetent. Either way, he was punished.
Also the masks matter too. The circle guards are less respected and mostly there for guarding or cooking basically doing work. While the triangle ones are a little more respected and they have the authority to move the players from one room to another. The square players are the most respected and mostly manage how the games go and lead the other shape guards. The front man is the main because he doesn’t have a shape but many folds on his mask. The owl or il-nam is the leader because of his exquisite mask.
you idiot are wrong triangle is not more the triangle is the highest of the three guard types. its circle > cube /square > triangle > front man . and i dont think the front man masks shape had any matter it simply was special different and that way different from everyone else anyways xD as well he was completly different dressed superrior anyways.
@@Wolf-fighter circle is workers and lowest, triangle is soldiers and middle, square is chiefs, in the series they mention the rule not to speak to a superior unless you are told to, and the circles can’t talk to a triangle unless told so, just like triangle doesn’t talk to a square unless spoken to first or told so
@@Isaac-ye5ri then why did a square guy had to get a triangle dude to let the 2 (well originally it was 1 ) girl go to the toilet then she even asked the guard on the door to get his superrior (he was a square and if that was on top that would mean his only superrior would have been the front man) he could have let them go himself if he was the highest of the three i guess lol
I don't think the frontman cared about them selling organs, what he did not like was that they used a competitor who they might have brought in themselves to harvest the organs for them.. now if the guards were doing the harvesting themselves without using one of the competitor for it, then it would have been ok...remember the guards talked about raping a dead competitor (or almost dead) after she was eliminated, this game has been happening for a few years , surely the frontman was aware but it didn't matter as it did not compromise the rules of the game.
To keep the same amount of prize money, kills would be needed. Besides, it's dangerous to keep people who know about the game alive. So many allegations of the same thing are suspicious.
1:16 Actually on phones like this having the receiver on the right is the left-handed way. That's because the more complex activity (dialing) is performed with the left hand, while the right hand simply holds the receiver. However, the receiver cord traditionally goes behind the phone, not in front of it, as the Front Man has it. BTW, that phone is a Western Electric Model 2500 from the US (or one of several licensed clones). The receiver has become somewhat discolored, as the phone is likely at least 40 years old.
What's heartbreaking about Gi Hun and his mother's death is that, it's the most genuine time where Gi Hun was deeply in denial. He's always been overly optimistic of thing to the point he is in denial of what the reality is.
Cracking me up to see people typing the characters names. If i was in the game and one of the games were to match a character name to the face, i'd surely be dead.
You missed one that gives away Il Nam - During the 4th Episode, he was on the top of the beds during the dorm killing spree. He was taken there to be safe, and only when he shouted, the manager decided to end the game.
Wait why was he playing if he was a VIP? Also I heard their were white VIP actors watching the games for fun, the f who watches people dying for fun? Why was he taken there, also why did he shout? The manager ended the game how wasn't he also supposed to play Il-nam because it was supposed to be a fair chance to every player right? Also, did they ever get caught did the police catch on to anything?
@@maryammoeen2452 He was already dying thus wanted to play. Considering the VIPs there are many other games in their areas. He was taken to the top of bunk bed to be kept safe from everybody else, how I don't know. Manager ended the game when he shouted as they will kill everyone.
I don’t have any way to prove this theory but I like to think he was up there counting how many players had died. You’d need an even number of players for tug of war. His shouting was giving the signal to the guards that they had the right number of players
Every important characters death was shown. I noticed that when Il-nam got shot, they didn't show the scene. That is where I started to have any suspicions towards him and his meaning in the game and thought, that maybe he wasn't killed. Then we got to see a peek of an elderly VIP, who didn't attend the VIP-party. It all kinda clicked at that point :D
@@Mompare hold on so that could mean that was Il-nam? What about the guy at the end I hate the old guy if he had so much money he could have just donated it do you know why he made up this whole game? He didn't die either but he was shot in the marble game, he was left behind. I haven't watched the series I dont have Netflix but by watching clips on UA-cam that's what I saw.
I knew something was odd about Ilnam when i noticed that he's the only old player, and not to mention having player 001 as his number... Also how happy he was when playing red light green light made it super questionable for me that he has something to do with the game
Why is everyone saying he's the only old one. If you rewatch the series, there's actually quite a few. For example the lady with grey hair and glasses on the glass bridge. She's quite old
was he doing his best? or did get her a gun lighter so he could "hold onto it til shes old enough" when a stuffed animal was right there and easy to get. he could have even asked that kid for a free one for his daughter.
@@occludedzeitgeist Yep he really was trying but you know he kinda has a gambling addiction (or he borrows alot of money) too which is why he doesnt have enough money to prove to his wife that he's responsible to take his daughter custody
Also, the name of the finale episode “One Lucky Day” is the same name of a story where a man, who has not seen money for ten days because of bad luck, comes home to find his wife dead on the floor (paralleling Gi Hun finding his mother on the floor)
There is the reason why Il-nam makes the bet with Gi-Hun before dead. Because he wants to see Gi-Hun ends up betting on a human having trouble (maybe even freeze to dead). Edit Gi-Han to Gi-Hun
There's also the fact that when Ill Nam seemingly got executed in Ep. 6 we only hear the gunshot, not him actually getting shot onscreen, nor is there a sound of his body hitting the floor. Little hint towards him being involved behind the scenes of the game.
The only problem I have with this is this was a planned event and assuming the games are all the same from year to year this would have happened in the past too, so did they just not stop it in the past?
I was look for this. A couple people do actually pick red. And it doesnt make sense to show you the guards game if they are killed as soon as someone else sees their face.
Its funny how when Il-Nam is first man when Gi-Hun is always last I mean he made it inRed Light, Green Light in the last second, same in Dalgona, he was the last one to join the games and he was last in the glass bridge challenge
YOOOO I HAVE A THEORY!! You remember when Il Nam asks for the glass of water and drinks it right? I always thought that it was strange that he died exactly at midnight (or 11 pm I don’t remember), the exact time in which their little hobo game was supposed to end. What if Il Nam put something in the water to make him die at that exact time? I don’t know the reason, maybe he wanted to take a weight off of his shoulders and tell someone about the origins of the games before dying (???) but it could be a possibility right?? (English is not my first language I apologise for any mistake)
I think there's 7 games in this show. Because on the last part when Gi-hun went to il-nam on the 7th floor, there's only 7th floor in the elevator. And then when il-nam said if someone help the homeless guy by midnight he wins if no one help the guy he loses with a timer of 25 mins on the clock. I think that's the 7th game of the show
And also when all were fighting with each other , ilnam climbed at a height to be safe so he knew it all along that masked men will try to do something to create a fight . Also when he said to stop the fighting, they immediately turned on the lights and stopped it. Clearly shows they were following his orders.
They actually caught the manager that erased the surveillance footages and killed him with the doctor and two soldiers (triangle masks). They were hung with the circle guy that the police killed somewhere in the staircases.
Because the guard doesn't shoot him actually the guard shoot the ground and if you wanna know why it's because ilnam is the host of Squid Game or Squid Goreng 😂 and going to meet the VIP
Im fairly certain the ones who didn’t return weren’t killed, maybe some of them though. Frontman wanted to keep an eye on them if any of then tried to expose the games, those former players were most likely killed. But I imagine not all of them.
Yes, true. Or in case, if they wanted to join the game again in the future. Anyone involved in the game will always be monitored, even Gi-Hun who won the game is still being watched.
Also if I remember correctly, the salesmans actor played a horrible dad in Train to Busan, which is a bit ironic because Gi-Hun is some sort of horrible father as well
Those 14 “kills” were not kills, they were players who decided not to return to the games Edit: Thanks for the likes! It’s now my most liked comment! *that I know of 🤗*
Agreed. It seems excessively petty and cruel to kill them for not returning, especially as the old man more than once emphasized the choice factor to justify putting the players in danger who voluntarily decided to return.
@@atkim122 if i remember correctly the rule is if the majority choses to play you have to play.Since majority returned now by those rules you must participate right?And the other rule is if you refuse to participate you will be eliminated hence ez kill.
One thing I learned in this series is that no matter how kind and humble you are you'll always find something or someone who will break you since they will take advantage of you. That applies to Ali and Sang Woo
I found your theories great. However, the one about the missing players makes no sense. The reason for this is that players 1 and 456 didn't die. The prize money would be 45.4, not six. They probably just added 100 won for the players that survived as well. Meaning that the players that quit could have gotten killed, but they also just as easily could have survived.
Except Frontman literally got one of his squares to follow the 17 that didn't return. They were most likely killed not for the money, but to hide evidence of the kidnappings and the games. If Gi-Hun was the only survivor, people would label him crazy and dismiss the idea of the games. However, if Frontman decided to let them live, even the crooked police would be force to investigate a dozen or more of the same eyewitness accounts.
Actually, Il-Nam did die. He died in the marbles game. About the remaining 100.000.000 won, maybe it was always in the game. Perhaps regardless of how many people leave or come back to the game, the prize would always be 45.6 billion won. Also, maybe, if the players had chose to end the game, I don't believe that the collected money was given to the families of the dead players. I think that part was made up to make the people stay. Also, if you look at the files the detcctive rummages through, you can see that every game from the few preceding years has a winner, meaning that they weren't terminated. I believe that list goes on for decades.
001 got ELIMINATED, meaning that there would be more prize money added which means it'd be 45.5, the prize money also includes the 100M gi hun won at the start from the salesman, making it 45.6, besides, 001 would've died anyways, he said he had a brain tumor.
In addition to what I said, if the other 14-17 players did get killed and there was originally 45.4B won, then the prize money would be WAY more than 45.6B, because 100M is added every time a player gets eliminated.
One thing most people seems don't understand: Why Sang-Woo have to kill Sae-byeok while she is almost dying anyway ? It's because he was afraid she and Gi-Hun may both vote for stopping the game before the last game.
Note: I never watch Dubbed versions, always subtitles! However, to be able to monetize this video, it was easier to go with the dubbed version. Thanks!
Note 2: I didn't watch the entire series in 0.25x speed. Only the "6 games, Episode 1 and Episode 9". Other than that, everything else I watched as a normal human would. On a different note, everyone ready for some Marvel easter eggs next time around?
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Rules in mysterious shows: If a character’s death is not shown on screen, they’re not dead.
But Ali’s death was not shown on screen but he’s dead
Ali got cheated...and you know how they feel about cheating...lol
@@gsr6829 ep 7 literally opens with Ali's dead body 🤦♂️
@@gsr6829 you never know lol
@@daniel-jj3yc he's dead dead
Gi-Hun was trying to be nice, while running for his life, by putting a straw that was on the ground back in someone's drink. This is the perfect reflection on how he is good natured but kind of a fuckup. Great improv.
Yea
gi han
@@lasteri *h a n*
Gi Han solo
Gi hun no no gi han
Ali's betrayal was the most painful thing to watch ever. He was such a soul that didn't deserve that. Sang woo did him real dirty mannnnn
and if you were him what did you do? you sacrifice yourself in order to safe basically a stranger?
To be honest, I'm GLAD that Ali died. Not because I hate him, but rather makes it hardly distinguishable from other movies and shows, aka "Good guys live, bad guys die" stereotype. If you want to watch those kinds of movies, you can always watch Disney instead.
he was too naiive
I think Ji yeong’s death broke me a little
That's just how world works... Be soft & you get splashed
I heard a theory the glass of water had something in it, so Il-Nam could time either his death or a fake death at exactly midnight. The clock is way too obvious in that scene and the screen cuts to it a lot, even with the game deadline, so I do believe there was a bit more going on. Also the front man being there isn't just coincidence probably.
Something I also think is that Il-Nam was shaping Gi-hun to be following him and the last game with the homeless person was for Il-Nam to see how he did in that. Gi-hun could have gone down to help the homeless person at any time. There was no rule against Gi-hun being the person helping, but he didn't go down. He chose to stay with Il-Nam and bet on a person, like it was a horse, which in my eyes proves that Il-Nam at least in some way succeeded to have Gi-hun be like him and bet on people's lives. In that last game Gi-hun was for a bit the same as Il-Nam even if he doesn't want to admit it.
Yeah I agree with you !
Correct
good one, we have clue from the begining that despite his nice forms, Gi-hun is a real bastard
this is such a great explanation and view. I love it!
He was/is his father.
One thinng i learned from this series is that it's better to have an enemy like Deok su than to have a friend like Sang woo.
Sang Woo was good to have on your team, you just have to know not to trust him.
@@denverbritto5606 Exactly. They all would have died during tug of war if not for him. But at his core hes a snake, a powerful weapon when its goals align with yours, but you have to know when to cut off the head or youll get bit.
Well sang woo saved them on tug of war
@@crylok7062 that's true but he was just trying to save his own skin. If they lost he would've died and obviously he wouldn't want that. Just like the candy carving game. He knew what game it was but didn't let on to his team which one it was. Because the more people dead the more money he gets
But...but... Sang Woo went to SNU! Didn't you know?
Just so y'all know, the Frontman knew about the organ selling. He said "I don't care if you sell harvested organs" meaning he probably knew all along. What he may not have realized was that they were helping a player. That's why he killed all the redcoats involved (Including the Square), they gave a player an unfair advantage
He was also mad, because one of them broke the rule and showed his face to a player, but, what's even more interesting, Frontman disobeyed that same rule at the end of a season. He wasn't killed, although he lost his brother he desperately tired to save and I think it's far more worse than getting killed
@@karvistudios maybe its becoz he was not seen by a player but by his brother
@@christanzonio8977 I'm pretty sure he said that braking that one rule and also making players unequal upset him and it's punished by death. But I might be wrong. I'm too lazy to check it now.
@@karvistudios yea but his brother is not player or even a worker
@@karvistudios who cares he broke the rule? he's their boss, none of them dares to kill him. i guess the rules are just for the guards, not for front man himself. (unfair yeah)
the squid game guards are ranked by edges, a circle has no edge, so lowest, a triangle has 3 edges so middle, a square has 4 edges, so top, and the front man's mask is edges on edges on edges, so top top.
a circle is actually made of infinite amount of edges
Wow that's a great fact. Thank you for telling.
@@prepthenun infinite is not a number
the front man sure is edgy
@@yuanxinwang8219 its not a number but its made of numbers
Just noticed at 5:39 when the gun is pointed at Illnam, the guard doesn't have his finger on the trigger at all, actually he's holding the pistol from underneath the trigger guard
That's interesting! Thanks for pointing that out.
When I first watched this I was crying because the old man died, but you founded out he didn't die
Good eye!
Nice. I wonder how he shot though, he probably shot on the ground or somewhere on the ceiling.
@@HappyPerson-de7mdme too
Il-Nam's apparent death scene was so well done that I actually felt bad for him and shed quite some tears but at the end, when I saw him still alive and that he was behind it all, it all felt freakishly ironic.
Samee
Yall so lucky to experience that, cuz TikTok was spoiling it for me everywhere
SPOILERS DUDE. WTF.
@@rozalyndavis6027 you joking 😂
@@rozalyndavis6027 lesson 1 never check comments of the series while watching the series...
Picking up the receivers with their non-dominant hand is how they keep their weapon hand free. Think Clint Eastwood in For A Few Dollars More.
*TO TELL THE TRUTH I MAKE GOOD VIDEOS BUT PEOPLE DON'T WATCH 😞😭😭*
It's like the flaw in BBC Sherlock's deduction that a *left-handed man* could not have shot himself because the gun was in his *right* hand. It's a known practice that some people choose to fire handguns with their non-dominant hand to reduce the risk of injury to their dominant hand. In fact, John Watson himself is shown using his handgun with his non-dominant hand.
i just gave the 456th like. this was fun
@@ruslanchik3421 k
Make sense
Here are some subtle things I noticed in SG.
- In the beginning there is a shot of Gi-Hun and Sang-woo playing as kids. in that shot Sang-Woo can be seen trying to pull Gi-hun backwards by grabbing onto his shirt and we are shown Gi-Hun's shirt tears apart allowing him to win while Sang-Woo falls backwards. This foreshadows how Sang-Woo tries to pull Gi-Hun back from winning and makes things difficult for him than it already is. But Gi-Hun finally breaks free and wins, which also demises the fall of Sang-woo.
- The games itself is like a series with every season happening every year. Jun-Ho said his brother went missing a few weeks ago or something I don't remember. Thats because upto the date of when the preparation for the games should be started, all the people who are the managers and Soldiers and Workers lead their normal life outside. Which is why their anonymity is kept very secret. Because if you find out the Red manager who runs a death game is your neighbor you would report him to police and it would be really hard to cover it up. Hence they are killed if they ever show their face. My other theory is they are killed after every season of game. Which is most likely not to happen but still a theory though.
- Gi-Hun and other players who won in previous years are still tracked with the chip or somethin they kept inside him which they used for identifying players. Which is how they were able to know his location when he called them at the end of season 1.
- The Loan Shark who gets a paper of organ extraction signed from Gi-Hun works for Il-nam. Il-Nam said he lends money to people. And as soon as Gi-Hun won the money, he never paid of his debt to that Loan Shark. Nor did the Loan Shark demanded Organs from gi-Hun.
- The humans playing the game are seen as horses, as said by the front man. but this is also foreshadowed when they play the Glass Bridge game. Every player model that gets flipped off from the Miniature Glass Bridge replica are Knights from chess, which resembles a horse.
-This game is played anonymously world wide. When the VIP's arrive, they say games in Korea are more fun to watch.. which means there are other form of games like these happening. I am not sure about this one, but again.. there is a reason why all of these are called theories.
Had to type in all of these just so you Squidgame fans won't miss out even the subtle details.
I was also confused about why the money-lenders never came back to Gi-Hun for his kidney but it makes sense if most of the money-lenders worked under Il-nam to try and make people desperate enough to play the Squid Game.
This is an incredible breakdown, thanks a lot! My questions have been answered
japan squid game: guess this anime opening or die
@@therandomguy6200 that would be fun for me😁
Wait.....
I don't wanna play squid ga....
I know I can only say A but FINALLY SOMEONE WHO THINKS THERES A CHIP IN PEOPLE
I loved the character development showed in Gi-Hun. In the beginning, he steals money from his mother for himself. And in the end, he whispers to his dead mother that he won the money for her.
I also liked the detail about him dyeing his hair red to symbolize him redefining himself as an authority figure. It stemmed from him choosing offense in the final game. The color also reflected the suits worn by the guards in the game.
The red hair is also a play on the movie "the matrix". Red pill or blue pill. Literally everyone picked the blue square (blue pill) when playing the game in the train station. This symbolized that they were all sleep and ignorant to the truth of society. When he dyed his hair red it represented (red pill) showing the audience that he is now woke and aware of what's going on.
@@milliondollarman13 good one 👍
Nice analysis.. 👍
The fourteen who didn’t return weren’t killed, they just forfeit their money. By initially entering the games, they each have approximately $100,000 bet on their heads. 100,000,000 Won. By leaving, they abandon their wager. Those who stayed still have theirs. Those who died don’t win theirs, and it adds to the total possible won. Those who didn’t return should add to the total as if they had died as well because they forfeit.
they just propably kept eye on them to not tell anyone about the game or something.
@@adamvaculka3210 just as the protagonist, they wouldn't because no one would believe their crazy story about Playstation buttoms making them play lethal childish games
@@LaOptimista I think that's wrong actually. In the last scene Gi-Hun calls and speaks to the front man. He knows Gi-Hun is getting on a plane, he is being monitored. The likelihood any other forfeiting contestants would be taken seriously or do anything problematic is low but they have the resources to play it safe so why not. I also don't think the front man would kill the people who forfeited as he has a fairly strict principle of fairness for the games and that was a valid way to survive the game
@@casualt2212 While you are right about the whole plane scene, I feel like there would be a differing level of monitoring between those that won and those who forfeited. Being that those who won would have the resources to actually do some damage to the corporation, compared to those who just gave up. (Seeing as those who gave up are all still in crippling debt). So I don't really think that they would be monitored anywhere near as close for that reason. But you're still right they would still be looked over from time to time.
@@LaOptimista what adds to that is that it seems like when dropping the players off, they paired a person who voted to continue with a person who voted to stop. (Gihun/Saebyeok, Ali/Sangwoo). Because of this, anyone who might want to report the games to the police would not be able to find someone else to back them up - making it all the more likely the police would just laugh them off.
for the organ selling side-hustle, the guy in the survaliance room did get caught. When publicly displaying bodies of those involved to the players, you see a manager with a square mask as well.
I was about to comment this. When they hung their bodies I deliberately looked for the square guy between them just to make sure they killed him or not
but it's such a coincidence that there was always this one guy who always erased the record... like there were many guys watching the records but only this one and noone else always sees it? and how did they make sure that THEIR guy is sitting there to erase it right at the moment they need it... that seems so improbable to me...
@@AdelaPondelickova The larger the organization the more difficult oversight becomes, you would be surprised of what people can get away with if the those in charge aren't looking hard enough or assume things are working smoothly. In the Army we are taught complacency is the worst kind of killer. And the front man said he has been looking the other way as long as it didn't interfere with the game. Once he learned of the cheating he corrected the issue. And he was becoming increasingly anxious once he realized the cheating and that their was an intruder, it was subtle but you could see it in the body language. It also seemed like the Squares at the monitors only were responsible for certain cameras, the organization uses compartmentalization to keep most of the workers in the dark. Intelligence agencies use it so not one person could be turned and expose the organization. But that level of compartmentalization coupled with the dark and violent nature of the organization breeds dissent and leads some talking and forming their own sub group. And it was most likely that it was one of the squares that came up with the idea and found the right lower workers to carry it out. I would also hypothesize that the organization abducts orphans and homeless youth involved in crime as their workers. As it would be easy to incentivize and manipulate them into doing such horrible things. Similar to the Death Star having a major flaw that was overlooked and secretly built in. Arrogance and complacency. Which was the down fall of the Jedi as much as it was for the Sith as well.
@@AdelaPondelickova The frontman looks at them from afar when he is in the survaliance room... If the guard is fast enough to delete footage and does it without looking suspicious, I definitely think its possible for the frontman not to notice it... Also most of the time he is at his room rather than the survaliance room. Each guard most likely was looking at a different footage, some of the guards were even monitoring other guards to see everything is legit.
Also, don't forget the guards are allowed to talk between themselves when they are outside of their rooms. Or they had it planned even before they arrived to the island (in that case im assuming they were part of the organization for quite a while, not their first time being there). The plan failed when the doctor escaped from the surgery room, up to that point nobody including the frontman had no idea what was going on.
The Front man said before shooting the guard that he doesn't care if they sell the body parts or eat them. He punished those guards mainly because they broke the most important rule of giving equal chances to each player. So, even if he had suspected something he might have ignored it.
No one will ever talk on how Sang Woo managed to survive until the last game without his glasses on 😂 I wonder if they provided contact lens for him haha
The sand throw during the squid game would’ve have worked. Try winning a knife fight while hopping around on one leg.
Lol, because of sang woos glasses gone, i was confused that the doctor died but sang woo still there
@@LennoxLewis86 why did you say "have" after "would've"? would've = would have
@@xXrandomryzeXx Probably auto correct or an accident
Maybe he had reading glasses on 😂😂😂
ㅇ: 워커(Worker)
ㅅ: 솔져(Soldier)
ㅁ: 매니져(Manager)
Brilliant! Using the inticracies and simplicity of Hangul to help foreign audiences recognise things!
와 진짜네 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
감사합니다 나는 그것을 주셔서 감사합니다.
Genious how it simultaneously also follows the "more edges = higher position" rule
@@Vario69 Nice. The circle is ambiguous, as in some cultures it has infinite sides, and in others, 0.
I think the players who didn't return didn't get killed. The front man said to keep an eye on them, not to kill them. They are keeping an eye on them to make sure they don't cause too much trouble, like attempt to group up and go to the press to tell their story, for example. As for the money, they got added to the pool anyway even if the players didn't return, as those players got self eliminated by voting and not by death.
You have 199 likes, its Ali's player number
maybe new players joined
Exactly, the contract doesn't say you have to die to eliminated it just that all of the games kill you when you eliminated
Plus it completely goes against the game’s mantra, as twisted as it is. It’s all about fairness and choice ; killing players who left the game when given the choice to do so doesn’t make any sense.
@40- Saarthak Chahal It’s 100m won per player eliminated, not killed. The players who left eliminated themselves, in the sense of the word that is expected for a game, not literally killed as everyone else who kept going.
DETAIL THAT I NOTICED : When Gi-hun is sitting at train station and the guy who recruits all the members, comes to him, Gi-hun says "I don't believe in Jesus" but in the last episode when the games end, when guards throw him on the street, he lands near a guy who was preaching about Jesus. Just a small detail that I noticed :)
*Edit : I'm Hindu (Brahmin), everyone who is saying that I noticed this detail because I'm telling y'all to convert then please read this before reading my comment :)*
I think they just had that preacher because the front man said pretend it was a dream and the preacher being there would make him think it was the religious guy so he would conclude the games as a dream but just a theory
Now don't go on about saying "Jesus is our savior, accept jesus as our savior or burn in hell"
@@BlueEyes-WhiteDrag0n bruh,it's your choice to believe in Jesus or not
@@BlueEyes-WhiteDrag0n "burn" like in the coffins
yeah i remember that
Other observations:
1. First and last interactions between Il-Nam and Gi-Hun was of Gi-Hun pouring Il-nam a drink
2. My theory is that Il-Nam is the owner of United Bank for the following reasons: he said he got rich off lending people money; the bank manager called Gi-Hun out of nowhere and asked why he hadn't touched the money, when he didn't give an explanation, that evening he got the note asking him to ultimately catchup with Il-Nam who noted to him when he had caught up with him that Gi-Hun still had not spent the money. It would also allow him to know all the wealthy people who couldn't care less about money anymore and needed more excitement and also all the broke people who were always scrambling/in debt etc.
That's a brilliant observation! Making very much sense now.
The most heartbreaking thing about this show :
Ali's death
And both The Women who played marbles in the last 3 minutes, also died- their deaths were heartbreaking too.
To me, before watching Ep9, Ill Nam's was tragic too
I agree
@@cookyking Yea..But Ali's Death Gave Us A Lesson For All That
:Dont Let Your Kindness Turn into your Weakness
So basically marbles game breaks our hearts
Nope the most heartbreaking this video in dub
"We don't see anyone choosing a red tile."
*Literally shows a guy in slides and socks throwing down a red tile in the first column, third row*
True
Oh damn, you're right.
Even right above that is another guy.
This guy doesn’t actually watch videos in .25 speed. He is clickbaiting everyone.
Edit: ok people seem to be mad that I said this. I’m not going to say that it was a joke because that would be stupid. But you all don’t have to get mad over just a dinky thing I said. Jeez. There is a reason this comment got many likes.
@@joshbob694 🗑️🚮
Very true
Canadian Lad: ''Strong and profound characters, great acting, development and foreshadows''
Also Canadian Lad: '' *I would rate it 7,5/10* ''
7/7.5 ratings are so boring
OH NO I SEE WHAT HE DID I HOPE THATS NOT ON PURPOSE
7.5 is a good rating. People consistently ignore the bottom 5 and rate everything above 5/10.
@@derick1618 it's not perfect to get 9 or 10 it's just good
it had it's lows like the VIPs, the guards' and the doctor's interactions and the whole plot around the policeman and his brother. Everything surrounding the games and the participants was really well done.
the horses detail was overlooked because of 456 but its a recurring theme " u bet on horses we bet on humans" and also "listen carefully, Im not a horse"
3:30 Hey, The Canadian Lad, when people point-out the Foreshowing of the characters deaths, no one mentions or compares Gi Hun because he lives, but his death was foreshadowed too: When he's running from the mobsters that are trying to catch him, he trips and falls into someone, that also happens to be a thief. In comparison, in the Red Light, Green Light game, he trips and falls again over someone, as the timer is ticking down: The little girl (representing these new mobsters with a new money debt) looking for anyone fleeing/himself running away, just like the mobsters were looking for him. Gi Hun only lived because Ali, a soon-to-be-thief, saved him - without Ali grabbing him, he would have died right there by tripping and falling.
Ah that's a good one! Didn't notice that part.
Jun-Ho's "death" was also foreshadowed. He fights with the masked man inside the van and dumps the body off into the water. He would suffer a similar fate by the Front Man shooting him and Jun-ho falling into the water afterwards.
@@tomthebuilder794 I like the inverted commas. At this stage, I think Jun-Ho being dead would be more of a plot twist.
Gi hun could be dead not just in first game but in many. He's just got lucky multiple times. Like in tug of war it was sang woo and Il nam's tricks saved his life. In the marble game he's lucky that he's playing against il nam though he lost the game to the old man but he managed to survive. In bridge game he's about to pick #1 but in the last minute other guy requested to give him and he took #16.
WOAHH I NEVER EVEN THOUGHT OF THAT
"We don't see anyone choose a red tile" shows players using a red tile behind the guard.
Exactly. First person in third row from the top. I heard this trivia a lot, and it always bothers me that nobody really noticed this.
Also there is so much preparation, order and rule among the guards that this “choosing the red square would make a person a guard” theory is just BS.
@@FieryHammer Yeah.. OH I CHOSE RED! Guess I'm a hardened killer with no remorse now.
That’ll be the side we see next series hopefully and also would love to know how frontman became an ex cop and his journey to where he is now and how the old man evolved to be the master behind it all.
Does that mean that blue symbolizes the players, and red the guards?
The phone thing, left vs right hand:
They probably each pick up the receiver with their less dominant hand to be able to input the phone number with their dominant hand. Left handed: Right hand phone, left hand typing.
Right handed: left hand phone, right hand typing.
Rightly said
Wow , thats so convincing
same thing even when u have to note something you need your dominant hand and hold the phone with non dominant hand
I thought the same thing too. 👍
I dial with my weaker hand.
This was made me feel like they took "money doesn't buy you happiness" to a whole new level
*Canadian Lad: "I'll be your next front man in the next one"*
Everyone: What?
Canadian Lad: What?
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...in the next "won" XD
@@ruslanchik3421 you channel don't even have videos u have only play lists 😑
Seeing as how popular squid game is all around the world, it's possible and scary that people might try to re-create the show in real life. Lots of weird stuff already happens in this world, mostly underground
that's your mom.
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@@hexa3171 Well, you can not no…
The guard in the surveillance room actually was caught, he was the only square among the organ sellers and you can see him hanged with the other sellers in the beginning of episode 6: Gganbu. He’s the second one hanged from the left.
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I was about to say this
@@ruslanchik3421 TO TELL THE TRUTH YOU BAIT BOTS ARE REALLY ANNOYING
@@abhijithbiju6969 😂me too
The bit about the people who didn't choose to return being killed outside doesn't make sense to me because of how much the creators of the game value the players being there of their own free will, and making it as fair as possible.
And the show literally debunks it by frontman saying to keep surveilling them.
This writer is an idiot.
So i guess, they just count those as deaths
Maybe those people died by being way too broke, the reason a lot of people played these games was because the outside world was certain death for them, at least with playing the games they had hope of escaping that lifestyle by becoming rich
@@JonBuenrostro No, they didn't participate in the game so they can't be eliminated. Died by being way too broke can't be counted as being eliminated
Yes right, "free will"
They already warns the viewers about Sang-woo's selfish character in ep2 where he knew exactly what the game was going to be like after he hears something about melting the sugar. He then deliberately split up so that he gets the most easiest shape and let his team choose the difficult ones. He even tried to warn his friend Gi-hun, who chose the umbrella but he hesitated. Afterall, He was the most smartest person in there so I'm sure he must have figured that one out.
That's ep 3
@@aCiD_MFFFFF oh yeah my bad 😭
Ep 2 is hell
“The most smartest person” hahah
he was the most selfish i swear this honeycomb game literally made me go
"yea he is the one he will kill them all"
My god the dedication this man has
that's your mom.
He earns tens of thousands of dollars
This is he's job bro
Even if he didn't like it
He's have to do it
He said that he only watched two episodes in slow mo.
@hfc he does that’s why we love his work and why he enjoys it even more
I honestly didn’t think the hairpin was much of an Easter egg considering there’s “squids” and disconnected circles squares and triangles everywhere, plus I saw it
Yes it isn't much of an Easter egg but it was a nice detail which most might have missed. I sure did miss it since I was more focused on the subtitles of the series.
While the first voting everyone who was not sure about their choice (stop the game/keep playing) looked at the money. Only Il-nam watched the voting screen and did not care about the money at all.
I think the phone/gun hands part was perfectly logical. The director was giving us a hint - not messing up with us. If you're right-handed, it's perfectly logical for you to hold the receiver in your left hand, so you can write down a few notes with your right hand. Idem for left-handed people : it would make sense for them to use their left hand to write, while the right hand is used to hold the receiver.
Exactly
I agree with this... I am amazed that how these small and trivial points were kept in mind and paid equal importance.. Amazing work.. no doubt that this is trending on number 1 ...this deserves..
@@dancingqueenarushi3560 i think that perfection in that part was achieved because the frontman actor really was left-handed and it was more natural for him to put the receiver thingy like that and the cop was right handed... you get the idea
I agree with this. I'm a right hander and I use my left hand to hold the receiver.
This was literally mentioned in one of the last few episodes
I don’t think they killed the others but they probably died when they were unable to pay their debts. Killing them would have undermined the idea of the democratic process they set up in their 3 rule system. And the front man made it clear that here everyone is equal. I think that another side to the game is the data collected about what people are willing to do in desperation. Even the player who did not return watching them and observing their eventual demise would have yielded just as valuable data and would have reinforced to Ilnam that the chance he was giving them as players was better than their real chances out in the wild where they would die for no money and possibly take their family as well as depending on the type of debt the living family member could still be responsible for.
Why are people overthinking it? It is stated that when players are ELIMINATED money are added to the pool. 14 people who didn't return are eliminated, as they are not participants anymore. Frontman's "Keep an eye on them" is just about checking on them so they don't compromise the games, as we can see later, even though they reroute numbers and such, they are still not protected from infiltration. They have already shown that they take a lot of precautions to not be revealed, there is no point in killing players outside of the game and it would be against mindset of the games. Games are cruel, but they are fair. Even if you get fucked by rng or other players, its still all in the rules. Equality, not equity.
@@AJIEKC777 what i don't get is why did they turn off the lights on the bridge game just because the glass factory worker happened to have an advantage? if it's because they want to level the playing field, what about the dalgona and the tug-of-war game?
@@otong4893 In the Dalgona they had a choice, so it is fair. Same as in tug-of-war. The only advantages people had were because they cheated.
@@otong4893 because the VIPs were there and they wanted to make a show of it....
Actually, if you look closely at 5:56, on the screen at the middle left, you see someone playing with the blue tile on the ground right before the player hits. This means his square was red, and this busts the theory that if you pick red, you become the worker.
But still, this is not 100% sure since the square leader guard said "every single person standing in this room is broke blablabla" which could have still included the circle workers behind him, or even him himself.
The one who chose red might have been the doctor who harvested organs for them
You’re right. The left column middle row person.. you can see they threw a red card at the blue card in the ground
Actually the screen above that one shows another person throwing red
@@sapphicdisaster4593 It doesn't quite connect, but that's possible
@@MimiYuYu Yes, that too
this clears up a lot of continuity errors i hear people talking about, like how Il-Nam likely would have died, but this shows they had plans to prevent that
Another incredible detail about the foreshadowed deaths was that if gi hun didn't make friends with ill nam then he wouldve most likely died in the marbles game, a game that involves gambling your marbles
yes
Marbles 😩😏
It's true he lost at gambling more often than he won, but all the people there are in the same boat so it would still be fair odds.
oh my GOD i cannot believe that I never made this connection with gi hun's potential death foreshadowing!!
I think Il nam would have left the game some how as he would have died in the glass bridge game. He had to leave after the 4th game.
I Am So Hyped For The Season 2 as how the storyline on the S1 ended with, and I even like how suspenseful it is throughout when you don't have any spoilers from UA-cam or Internet.
I hope the next season be good
that's your mom.
The writer already said there is no season 2 IF Im not mistaken
@@damnazrishahlol5182 yet, but the director said it’s possible but will take a very long time, he took 6 months writing and rewriting the first two episodes so I think it would arrive early or late 2023-2024
its official that season 2 will come out around december 2022-some time in 2023
@@batonusio I haven’t read that yet but cool!
Il-nam is equivalent to a gamer who sank 5000 hours into a game and started a new game.
Alt account
So we just gonna ignore he cheated in some games?
@@Paul-tj9fb banned
Il-nam NG+
I simply don't agree that those 14 quitters were killed...to "keep an eye" on them didn't mean to actually KILL all of them, it would alert the police! (They kept an eye on them in order to later recruite them, if they get desperate again, not being able to solve their life)
I'm passionate about this issue because I think they were the REAL winners, winning back their life, so it was a wise choise to quit a deadly game with virtually zero chamce to win anything, lol.
Great info about the tug-of-war, I didn't understand why the Old Man took that risk...
I think some of them could have been killed by loan sharks, due to their unpaid debt and had their body parts sold. But that's just my possible theory.
It also seems likely that by opting not to return, their shares of the prize was added into the pot for the other players.
I havent come across convincing evidence they were killed
I think the players were killed .
If the game can manage to wipe off 444 people and get away with it , 14 won't be a much difficult task .
Also the front man wanted to keep the existence of the organisation a secret . So releasing the 14 who knew all about it and might have spread the word in the world , this could have been a threat to the organisation and the VIP's might have been disappointed with it , ultimately the front man would have been held responsible for all this as he was the leader .
@@shreyasadvirkar6192 Naw, doesn't sit with the mechanics. Gi-Hun can't be the only dude to've ever gone to the cops between the first round and the return round.
There's got to be a system in place that is working to keep such reports from rising too high in the system. It's completely plausible that a 2nd season could reveal that the guy Gi-Hun talked to who shrugged him off as a kook at the police station is on the take and reported the incident to the organizers of the games.
There's a decent chance that even if that guy isn't on the take, his superiors are. This is a situation like Fight Club or Hostel where the roots of control would run deep and there's no reason to kill someone unless all other options have been exhausted.
Gi-hun non-reaction to his own mother's death is more because, at that point he is just emotionally spent... he should be sad, he should be full of regret, but he just can't give anymore at that point. Spends whole next year living with his guilt and trauma though.
more what?
@@robictibay5747 more emotion (grief), he’s seen so many people die, even his childhood friend.
The delivery of the line, "mom I brought home some money" was absolutely shattering
@@Shaboops PLS I WAS DEVASTATED WHEN THAT HAPPENED. tho I didn't cry I was crying inside
He was just too tired to shout out, it's a legit thing.
Moment of silence for people who thought he really watched the whole series at 0.25x
Yeah i watched this series at 0.000000001x speed😂😂
It took me 100B years...😂😂
So we got clickbaited in short?
@@woodonfire7406 Yeah😂😂
His titles are shit.
If he really watch it at 0.25x
He would finish the whole series in 2023.
This dude is just shit.
I hate him because of his fake titles
The Square Guard did actually get caught, you can see him hanging before the marbles game.
Hey Lad,
I noticed one thing that when the old man and Gi-Hun were playing the marble game, the old man told Gi-Hun that he forgot to bring gift for his son on his birthday and he promised to bring that next year. Just like what happened to Gi-Hun.
So that might have been foreshadowing that the old man knew it all. Hence, he was behind all these :)
You will also notice that when Il-Nam gets shot, you don’t hear a body hitting the ground.
@authorization batman bruh it's just a comment, chill the fuck out
@authorization batman bro what’s your deal lmao
@authorization batman man someone had a rough day
@authorization batman chill
@authorization batman lmfao why are you so mad? about to get a heartattack because of one comment
I don’t think that the players that didn’t return were killed off screen. In the start of the voting, the GM mentioned that if they leave the money would be distributed to the families of the deceased and the current survivors would lose their cash prize.
So the cash prize could be the same overall as it was forfeited into the pot since they did not return.
It was not forfeited but it depended on how many people died. So if 14 people did not return their money shouldn't be added but it did. So they may have been killed
@@Jinxed.Jr. Did they specify that they had to die? 100 million won for every player that are shared between the remaining players in the end. It shouldn't matter if they quit or were killed, they're out of the game so the money is added to the pot.
The part where the money is going to the families of the deceased was only true for the case that the games were to be terminated iirc, in that case all survivors loose the money.
Some people originally thought that the meaning of the 2 cards meant that they became a guard or player but this is false. Another theory was that it was a reference to the popular movie series "the matrix" where when you take the blue pill you stay ignorant but when you choose the red you learn the harsh truth and you are no longer ignorant. this was further given evidence for when gi-hun dyes his hair red after winning symbolizing he is now woke and is no longer ignoring the truth. turns out these are both false as it meant to symbolize a korean folk tale of a ghost taking you into a room and making you choose red or blue, it does not matter what you choose as you die either way lol. we know this cuz the director confirmed it.
lol but the second theory is equally sensible as the first one ngl (even tho I haven't watched matrix).
@@r.shreyas9680 But at least that one makes more sense. Otherwise, the first theory would ultimately contradict the fact that the organization preys on desperate and cash-strapped people and let them compete for money.
Also in the Matrix red symbolizes coming out as transgender and blue symbolizes enjoying the privilege but falsehood of remaining in the closet. Probably not what Squid Game is about
@@marastephens1457 ?????
What if u don't choose either one? I don't want to choose any color. Then what happened?
Something that many people hadn't noticed:
Deok-su has 3 "henchmen"
2 of his henchmen, 303 and 040, team up in marbles. 040 loses the game and is shot, but 303 is never to be seen again. He just disappears
Wait, I realized that most of the bad main characters first and last digits are the same. Check it out, 101, 212, 111, 303, and 040?????
No, I'm pretty sure he pushes one of his henchmen off in the 5th game. (He stops and when the guy tries to push him, Deok-Su pushes him off the ledge after which Mi-Nyeo kills Deok-Su
LOOOOOOL the dubs sound so hilarious. "I remember my name now, Il-Nam...", said Mr Burns
LMAOO
Maybe if you picked the red one you'll become the officers
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What's up kababayan!
No there are others who picked the red one but still are players
@@danokoji3567 it's probaly the last winners are allowed to be guards since a guard did not even hesitate to take off his mask to get killed and end his misery
The details in this show are incredible! Truly a piece of art, thanks for pointing them out
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@@ruslanchik3421 ya they don't...
When a player died, 100 million won is added into the prize money. When Gi-hun and Sang-woo are the only players left, the prize money is 4.54 billion won. But when Sang-woo died, the prize money is 4.56 billion. Does that mean Sang-woo is worth 200 mil won?
Maybe because Gi Hun also counts, but it's too little of a detail to build theories around as for now
Extra money for surviving xddd
maybe the wager he puts in he gets to keep
The last person wins his money, as well as others money. So since hes the last man standing, he wont the all the games and it shows the full amount.
he go his own 100million too,along with the other's
“I knew it” just like Thor said it when Cap lifted the hammer, I knew you’d give us a breakdown and a 0.25x.
Thanks and keep up the good work
"We don't see anyone choosing a red tile" first column three down as this is being said is a person chucking the red one.
5:56
How did this tile thing work anyway? I'm not familiar with it.
You are 100% correct. To also add, I am a righty and use my left hand/ear when picking up the phone or talking...
@@HamletM nice
@@JayDee-xj9lu watch the show again
I suspected from the start Ilnam was sus, first clue was his overconfidence in first game, second one was how he was able to stop the riot by literally standing out, third one was his "old-hand cameo" and finally the scene where he was supposedly killed, everyone got on-screen death while his was ambiguous
Ali did not get shown getting shot though
@joga felipe 7006 7006 you could see his body later on so no, he isn't alive
@joga felipe 7006 7006 litterally right in the start of episode 7 we see Ali’ body being loaded into the incinerators
@@lucassanchez5749 you can see ali body at the start of episode 7
As far as the guy in the surveillance room having not being caught, that wasn't even a problem for the storyline. Remember, the foreman didn't even care that a black market organ operation was taking place. What he did care about was the equality of each player having been stripped from them, giving favour to one player in particular with inside information.
The entire storyline wasn't leading up to a point of the organ trade being caught out, because in the end, the bodies would have still been incinerated to prevent them being found out. It was all about the inequality and cheating. It was about giving power to the antagonist faction going against the protagonists. Had they not given the doctor information about the games that entire sub-plot would have been irrelevant. I actually suspect this information leaking was suspected by the foreman even before they were found out. For this insider in the control room to have been relevant to this extent, he'd have had to have been the one providing insider info.
By the lack of action there, we can assume that this person was merely checking cameras and deleting evidence of the organ trade, but didn't have any further role than that, thus was irrelevant to the cheating arc.
Go to episode 6 pause at 2 minutes 18 seconds, is that not him?
Yeah, the square mask was part of the hanged lineup and there was only one square mask running surveillance in their operation.
Now read the 25 illuminati goals at 0.25 speed
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@@mcskellenton3172 I dont get it either.
While it doesn’t show how, if you go to the part where the soldiers are hanging off the room for selling organs, there was one square, which means that he did somehow get caught. Great review though!
They found the room where the harvesting took place. They just had to find out which Square guy was in charge of the cameras leading up to that area. Logically he was either in on it, or really incompetent. Either way, he was punished.
Hi Canadian thanks for doing this breakdown , this show has some amazing details and I know u already found most of them
that's your mom.
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Also the masks matter too. The circle guards are less respected and mostly there for guarding or cooking basically doing work. While the triangle ones are a little more respected and they have the authority to move the players from one room to another. The square players are the most respected and mostly manage how the games go and lead the other shape guards. The front man is the main because he doesn’t have a shape but many folds on his mask. The owl or il-nam is the leader because of his exquisite mask.
you idiot are wrong triangle is not more the triangle is the highest of the three guard types. its circle > cube /square > triangle > front man . and i dont think the front man masks shape had any matter it simply was special different and that way different from everyone else anyways xD as well he was completly different dressed superrior anyways.
@@Wolf-fighter circle is workers and lowest, triangle is soldiers and middle, square is chiefs, in the series they mention the rule not to speak to a superior unless you are told to, and the circles can’t talk to a triangle unless told so, just like triangle doesn’t talk to a square unless spoken to first or told so
@@Isaac-ye5ri then why did a square guy had to get a triangle dude to let the 2 (well originally it was 1 ) girl go to the toilet then she even asked the guard on the door to get his superrior (he was a square and if that was on top that would mean his only superrior would have been the front man) he could have let them go himself if he was the highest of the three i guess lol
@@Wolf-fighter i think that's a joke of "call your manager", karens usually say that
@@Isaac-ye5ri Triangles literally don’t talk to the square unless they are allowed to
I don't think the frontman cared about them selling organs, what he did not like was that they used a competitor who they might have brought in themselves to harvest the organs for them.. now if the guards were doing the harvesting themselves without using one of the competitor for it, then it would have been ok...remember the guards talked about raping a dead competitor (or almost dead) after she was eliminated, this game has been happening for a few years , surely the frontman was aware but it didn't matter as it did not compromise the rules of the game.
It wasn't "hidden kills" they just chose to not go back.
he even said keep an eye on them
@@katsumitard1900 he did but they never followed up nor mentioned those people again.
To keep the same amount of prize money, kills would be needed. Besides, it's dangerous to keep people who know about the game alive. So many allegations of the same thing are suspicious.
Did you watch the video? They did not come back but the prize for they deaths was added to the jackpot. They DID get killed for not returning.
@@SergioGMN it literally says it the show to not kill them but keep an eye on them
I think nearly everyone liked Ali more than the MC.
that's your mom.
He was more redeemable
def not he watched a guy bleed out then took his money
Nope
Who is mc?
1:16 Actually on phones like this having the receiver on the right is the left-handed way. That's because the more complex activity (dialing) is performed with the left hand, while the right hand simply holds the receiver. However, the receiver cord traditionally goes behind the phone, not in front of it, as the Front Man has it.
BTW, that phone is a Western Electric Model 2500 from the US (or one of several licensed clones). The receiver has become somewhat discolored, as the phone is likely at least 40 years old.
What's heartbreaking about Gi Hun and his mother's death is that, it's the most genuine time where Gi Hun was deeply in denial. He's always been overly optimistic of thing to the point he is in denial of what the reality is.
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@@ruslanchik3421 TO TELL THE TRUTH WE DONT GIVE A DAMN!
Cracking me up to see people typing the characters names. If i was in the game and one of the games were to match a character name to the face, i'd surely be dead.
No cap
For me they are: the protagonist, the one who went to the university, the old man, the girl, the other girl, the crazy woman, the thug and Ali
You missed one that gives away Il Nam - During the 4th Episode, he was on the top of the beds during the dorm killing spree. He was taken there to be safe, and only when he shouted, the manager decided to end the game.
Wait why was he playing if he was a VIP? Also I heard their were white VIP actors watching the games for fun, the f who watches people dying for fun? Why was he taken there, also why did he shout? The manager ended the game how wasn't he also supposed to play Il-nam because it was supposed to be a fair chance to every player right? Also, did they ever get caught did the police catch on to anything?
@@maryammoeen2452 He was already dying thus wanted to play. Considering the VIPs there are many other games in their areas. He was taken to the top of bunk bed to be kept safe from everybody else, how I don't know. Manager ended the game when he shouted as they will kill everyone.
@@SwagatPatasahani Oh okay thanks still kind of confused but maybe if I think about I'll get it!
I don’t have any way to prove this theory but I like to think he was up there counting how many players had died. You’d need an even number of players for tug of war. His shouting was giving the signal to the guards that they had the right number of players
@@Kwaj the lights did flash
Every important characters death was shown. I noticed that when Il-nam got shot, they didn't show the scene. That is where I started to have any suspicions towards him and his meaning in the game and thought, that maybe he wasn't killed. Then we got to see a peek of an elderly VIP, who didn't attend the VIP-party. It all kinda clicked at that point :D
I believe Ali's death also wasn't shown that episode.
@@Pacer-456 oh, did not notice that!
@@Mompare hold on so that could mean that was Il-nam? What about the guy at the end I hate the old guy if he had so much money he could have just donated it do you know why he made up this whole game? He didn't die either but he was shot in the marble game, he was left behind. I haven't watched the series I dont have Netflix but by watching clips on UA-cam that's what I saw.
@@maryammoeen2452 Do share your gmail, gonna provide you drive link
@@Pacer-456 it shows his body at the start of the next episode
I knew something was odd about Ilnam when i noticed that he's the only old player, and not to mention having player 001 as his number... Also how happy he was when playing red light green light made it super questionable for me that he has something to do with the game
nope il-nam is not the only one who's old player actually there's a lot of em.
He was probably happy because he knew when the music will stop or maybe that that they will not shoot him.
I wonder if he knew he'd survive each game. Wouldn't it be more fun thinking you'd need to win?
Why is everyone saying he's the only old one. If you rewatch the series, there's actually quite a few. For example the lady with grey hair and glasses on the glass bridge. She's quite old
I used to think he was a previous player or something
I love how Gi-Hun was a good character but wasn't the best father
He was doing his best man.
@@Gunplabro Yea lol
was he doing his best? or did get her a gun lighter so he could "hold onto it til shes old enough" when a stuffed animal was right there and easy to get. he could have even asked that kid for a free one for his daughter.
@@occludedzeitgeist Yep he really was trying but you know he kinda has a gambling addiction (or he borrows alot of money) too which is why he doesnt have enough money to prove to his wife that he's responsible to take his daughter custody
@shadowshinobi06 thats still no excuse though. without his addiction he would of recovered by now.
“14 hidden kills”
No, 14 people just didn’t want to come back
Also, the name of the finale episode “One Lucky Day” is the same name of a story where a man, who has not seen money for ten days because of bad luck, comes home to find his wife dead on the floor (paralleling Gi Hun finding his mother on the floor)
3:30
This actually blew my mind. I never realized the foreshadowing. That's actually very cool.
I also dont think the Policeman is dead. He basically "died" offscreen so I think he'll play a important part in season 2
he was shot in the shoulder and then fell off a cliff likely in the water. imo he couldve survived
@Zain Tahir he was having a bulletproof vest - he is not bleeding
@@hackersky no he doesnt have a bulletproof vest
writer has even said this
so then ali is alive, policeman is alive
There is the reason why Il-nam makes the bet with Gi-Hun before dead. Because he wants to see Gi-Hun ends up betting on a human having trouble (maybe even freeze to dead).
Edit Gi-Han to Gi-Hun
Gi-Hun. NOT FUCKING GI HAN
@Jester the front man probably went through something similar after he won. The money never brought him happiness.
@@liquidoblivion2144 dude go easy on us we're not all flipping Korean.
There's also the fact that when Ill Nam seemingly got executed in Ep. 6 we only hear the gunshot, not him actually getting shot onscreen, nor is there a sound of his body hitting the floor. Little hint towards him being involved behind the scenes of the game.
what about the detective? he was shot on his shoulder rather than on chest i think he will be alive in season 2
@@ai00h00 yep
I was crying too hard to notice
during the killing spree scene, the old dude commanded the front man to end the killing spree by shouting that he was scared. might be a hidden detail
The only problem I have with this is this was a planned event and assuming the games are all the same from year to year this would have happened in the past too, so did they just not stop it in the past?
@@humphreybogart2094 I think it was a strategy to thin the herd
@@humphreybogart2094 why wouldn't they stop in the past
They also stopped intentionally at 80 in order to have even teams for tug o war
@@humphreybogart2094 I dont think the games were the same, as the VIPs said they was curious about the 5th game
5:55 "we dont see anyone choosing a red tile"
guy in socks and sandals: *throws red tile*
I was look for this. A couple people do actually pick red. And it doesnt make sense to show you the guards game if they are killed as soon as someone else sees their face.
Almost watching the whole series in 0.25 speed
The title should actually be:
"I watched a whole series for 2 weeks"
I watched it in 3 days
I watched it in 2 days
I watched it in 1 day
I didnt watch it
What is watch!
Its funny how when Il-Nam is first man when Gi-Hun is always last
I mean he made it inRed Light, Green Light in the last second, same in Dalgona, he was the last one to join the games and he was last in the glass bridge challenge
I was waiting for this cuz I knew he’d do this!
that's your mom.
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YOOOO I HAVE A THEORY!! You remember when Il Nam asks for the glass of water and drinks it right? I always thought that it was strange that he died exactly at midnight (or 11 pm I don’t remember), the exact time in which their little hobo game was supposed to end. What if Il Nam put something in the water to make him die at that exact time? I don’t know the reason, maybe he wanted to take a weight off of his shoulders and tell someone about the origins of the games before dying (???) but it could be a possibility right?? (English is not my first language I apologise for any mistake)
Never apologise for any language other than your mother tongue. you are able to communicate that's enough. not whole world speaks English. so chill.
I think there's 7 games in this show. Because on the last part when Gi-hun went to il-nam on the 7th floor, there's only 7th floor in the elevator. And then when il-nam said if someone help the homeless guy by midnight he wins if no one help the guy he loses with a timer of 25 mins on the clock. I think that's the 7th game of the show
Wow, nice observation. I never thought about it that way
And also when all were fighting with each other , ilnam climbed at a height to be safe so he knew it all along that masked men will try to do something to create a fight . Also when he said to stop the fighting, they immediately turned on the lights and stopped it. Clearly shows they were following his orders.
the 7th game, gi hun won and he gets to be the owner of squid game lmao
They actually caught the manager that erased the surveillance footages and killed him with the doctor and two soldiers (triangle masks). They were hung with the circle guy that the police killed somewhere in the staircases.
True.
There was no scene of police killing a circle guy (worker) in staircases.
Also, when ilnam gets 'shot'we never hear his body drop to the ground unlike anyone else
Because the guard doesn't shoot him actually the guard shoot the ground and if you wanna know why it's because ilnam is the host of Squid Game or Squid Goreng 😂 and going to meet the VIP
@@simplybrxwnies85 Please read the commenter's comment again and try to understand it, im pretty sure they know.
@@simplybrxwnies85 lol the word 'game' and 'goreng' are too far to be a joke even tho many people like fry squid
@@Zschepard I already read them
@@Zschepard are you ok? Ok ok duhan duhan clap clap uh meet me in the classroom ok? Ok? Ok?
9:59 the reason is because the front man didnt care, what he did care about was spoiling the games, he said it when they got caught.
Im fairly certain the ones who didn’t return weren’t killed, maybe some of them though. Frontman wanted to keep an eye on them if any of then tried to expose the games, those former players were most likely killed. But I imagine not all of them.
They actually became workers
@@miltplayz8223 how do you know
@@scarab9515 it was in a youtube vid and had a very straightforward explanation
came here to say this - if you didn't want to come back you didn't have to
Yes, true. Or in case, if they wanted to join the game again in the future. Anyone involved in the game will always be monitored, even Gi-Hun who won the game is still being watched.
Those 14 players who didn't return made the best decision of their lives.
@The Great Pretender you have other ways of earning money, not just gambling.
8:02 this wasn't that much of a coincidence. he just happened to be the last player and had 455 die before him
Nobody said it was coincidence its was planned
Fun fact: The salesman and Gi-hun meet for the first time in subway train station. It's probably a nod to Gong Yoo's film "Train to Busan" ;)
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Also if I remember correctly, the salesmans actor played a horrible dad in Train to Busan, which is a bit ironic because Gi-Hun is some sort of horrible father as well
Ohhhh nice nod
@@ruslanchik3421 to tell the truth no one would watch videos if you self promote...
Those 14 “kills” were not kills, they were players who decided not to return to the games
Edit: Thanks for the likes! It’s now my most liked comment! *that I know of 🤗*
you have 14 likes from the persons who didnt returned duh
Agreed. It seems excessively petty and cruel to kill them for not returning, especially as the old man more than once emphasized the choice factor to justify putting the players in danger who voluntarily decided to return.
Those who never returned became workers
@@atkim122 if i remember correctly the rule is if the majority choses to play you have to play.Since majority returned now by those rules you must participate right?And the other rule is if you refuse to participate you will be eliminated hence ez kill.
@@theabominator2152 Yea
One thing I learned in this series is that no matter how kind and humble you are you'll always find something or someone who will break you since they will take advantage of you. That applies to Ali and Sang Woo
I found your theories great. However, the one about the missing players makes no sense. The reason for this is that players 1 and 456 didn't die. The prize money would be 45.4, not six. They probably just added 100 won for the players that survived as well. Meaning that the players that quit could have gotten killed, but they also just as easily could have survived.
Except Frontman literally got one of his squares to follow the 17 that didn't return. They were most likely killed not for the money, but to hide evidence of the kidnappings and the games. If Gi-Hun was the only survivor, people would label him crazy and dismiss the idea of the games. However, if Frontman decided to let them live, even the crooked police would be force to investigate a dozen or more of the same eyewitness accounts.
Actually, Il-Nam did die. He died in the marbles game. About the remaining 100.000.000 won, maybe it was always in the game. Perhaps regardless of how many people leave or come back to the game, the prize would always be 45.6 billion won. Also, maybe, if the players had chose to end the game, I don't believe that the collected money was given to the families of the dead players. I think that part was made up to make the people stay. Also, if you look at the files the detcctive rummages through, you can see that every game from the few preceding years has a winner, meaning that they weren't terminated. I believe that list goes on for decades.
001 got ELIMINATED, meaning that there would be more prize money added which means it'd be 45.5, the prize money also includes the 100M gi hun won at the start from the salesman, making it 45.6, besides, 001 would've died anyways, he said he had a brain tumor.
In addition to what I said, if the other 14-17 players did get killed and there was originally 45.4B won, then the prize money would be WAY more than 45.6B, because 100M is added every time a player gets eliminated.
I think we can all agree that Episode 6 is one of the most saddest episode in K-drama history
Its the episode full of betrayal
One thing most people seems don't understand: Why Sang-Woo have to kill Sae-byeok while she is almost dying anyway ?
It's because he was afraid she and Gi-Hun may both vote for stopping the game before the last game.
He said the reason why to Gi-hun in their last game
Yea we know that he literally said it
I love how He refers to the doll as "big-ass creepy doll" lmao.