Film Theory: What Everyone Got WRONG About Squid Game! (오징어 게임)
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Publicado 2021-10-21
It feels like EVERYONE is talking about Squid Game, the Korean action / drama about a deadly series of children's games. I've seen other channels take a swing at explaining the series and figuring out the best strategy to surviving until the end, but I felt like I needed to try and figure it out myself. There had to be a perfect winning strategy. Theorists, I think I've found out the ULTIMATE way to survive to win the Squid Game!
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Credits:
Writers: Matthew Patrick, Justin Kuiper. and Tom Robinson
Editors: Pedro Freitas and Alex "Sedge" Sedgwick
Assistant Editor: Caitie Turner (viridianrosette)
Sound Editor: Yosi Berman
Todos los comentarios (21)
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Poor MatPat never played "Explosive Glass Bridge" as a kid?! Who would have guessed it?
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"If the glass expert shared earlier, everyone could have survived." Except once the game-master realized what he was doing, they turned out the lights. Waiting until there were only a few panels left was actually the most sound strategy for his own survival.
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A small thing I loved in squid game, when all the glass shattered at the end of the 5th game, people actually got cut. So often in movies/shows glasses is treated as harmless and it was cool that it was shown that glass is actually pretty dangerous
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But when the detective was looking through the files of previous games, every single one only had one final winner. Something tells me the whole thing is rigged to ensure just one winner remains in the end, and also to give the contestants a harder time to better entertain the V.I.P.s.
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The Most annoying "Imaginary Rule" Is that nobody stepped on the edges of the glass tiles, or walked between the rods. Literally nobody had to die there.
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I love how when MatPat can't find a brand, he'll just sponsor the entire fricking product. EVERY brand that makes USB power-banks is sponsored by MatPat.
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You know what's interesting about the games? Half of the games had a guaranteed 50% survival rate while the other half had a potential 100% survival rate
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When you're complaining about the "unfairness" in the glass scene the oligarchs wanted to be entertained they're essentially stock holders and we all know companies like to keep their shareholders happy even if it costs a few people their jobs (lives)
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I think the concept of Squid games is that the Game masters pretend that it's fair, when it's not. It's all about entertaining the rich guys - which is why they turn off the lights on the glass bridge.
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During the Tempered Glass game, I'm still surprised nobody tried to walk on the beams holding the glass
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Sung-Woo was smart, but he was too focused on eliminating the people around him instead of using them as a buffer against the next challenges. Like you said, the more people around you to take the hits, the more likely you are to survive. He just wanted to get rid of the people around him since they were easier to manipulate (he had their trust).
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One thing I've always thought was annoying was how, with the glass panel game, they have to take their shoes off but nobody even thinks to take the shoes with them and try to even just throw them at the glass. The rule was the can't be wearing their shoes, but nothing was said about not being allowed to carry them with you.
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"Ignore Sangwoo" No, yeah, he's got a point
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I think the Marble games has a loophole: The game explicitly says "A player who manages to take all ten marbles from their partner wins". It never states that you have to have all 20 marbles. Nor that there is only one winner. You could just exchange the marbles at the beginning of the game, and both partners could win.
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BUT MATPAT, If the tempered glass guy revealed his knowledge earlier in the glass game the directors would have just taken away the light he needed, which would probably make everybody panic resulting in nobody making it across.
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About the pictures on the walls, they only got revealed as more and more people got eliminated and didn't show the order of the games while giving a vague description of them
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While it's extremely easy for us as theorist watching from the comfort of our homes without the fear of danger to theorise loopholes to try and beat the games, you have to remember that the people in the games are all tired, beat up, scared and emotional. This can be seen in the very first recruitment scene, when Gi Hun is so angry and being slapped that he can't think clearly and nearly gives up 100 000 just because he wants to get his revenge.
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Matt's strategy doesn't take into account one teeny weeny, crucial little detail, the tendency for people in a desperate situation (exactly the people the game targets) are prone to making irrational and gut-based intuitive calls about things, which are frequently wrong. This is also where the issue of instinctual attitudes of, "either me or them" becomes an issue and fucks over basically everyone.
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The show is without question a masterpiece but no I do not wish for a sequel. It is perfect to end like this, a sequel most likely will just ruin it.
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one thing I noticed while watching squid game: in the marble game, both players could have just given each other their bag and both of them would have their opponents 10 marbles. They never said you had to have all 20.
