Later we learn how Seong Gi-hun’s life took a turn for the worse when, following layoffs at his car factory, he witnessed his colleague killed at a worker’s strike. In a wonderfully expressive depiction by Lee Jung-jae, his emotions-writ-large moves us effortlessly from the heart-wrenching guilt of seeing his long-suffering mother head wearily to work to the slapstick humour of raiding the cookie jar for her credit card before hitting the racetrack. Our protagonist Seong Gi-hun is a part-time chauffeur, full-time gambling addict. The fact the money is won via childlike games (red light, green light tug of war) has a touch of Lord of the Flies about it: oh how quickly “civilised” people devolve into savagery.īut what is not captured in the trailer is how bighearted the show is, how joyfully funny and compassionate it is to its characters. Like a dumb dare question on TikTok, it revels in showing us through a gleeful splatterfest exactly what sick, depraved things an ordinary person might do for a life-changing amount of cash. On one level, Squid Game is your classic Faustian bargain.
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