the meaning behind Squid Game's uniforms

[@ipig2379]

The art director killed it. She was really good. Without her, the impact of squid game would've decreased like 40% .

[@shanicek5188]

She did incredible honestly

[@ZEN11N]

agreed

[@aliiiiiiit]

I Stan her thoroughly

[@jessicaalalawi5613]

Yes!! I love that they’ve been including her in interviews!!!

[@WhitneyDahlin]

I also havent heard anyone talking about it but the most famous prisoner wearing a mask is the Man in the iron Mask. A staple of literature since the 1800s and based off of the true prisoner that lived in the 1700s (I believe maybe earlier). I don't know what if any connection that has to Squid Game but the true story is there was this prisoner in the 1700s who was forced to ALWAYS wear a mask. He has never been identified (not even the other prisoners or the guards knew who he was) even though it was supposedly a very luxurious mask and his prison cell was incredibly luxurious and he was allowed more comforts than anyone else no one ever found out his identity and he died in prison. Most historians believe he was a very high ranking aristocrat possibly a family member of the king. It's a very interesting real life mystery and I highly suggest doing your own research on it. I don't know I feel like there's a connection to be made here between The Man in the iron mask and squid game but it escapes me

[@corazones002]

“I would like to play a game for your hand in marriage, sir” had me dying!

[@RealizeTheRealLife]

me too :D

[@Smile-ni9nc]

I would watch that show

[@mfchc14]

Got me rolling with that one xD didn't expected her to say something like that haha

[@margarete5920]

the bachelor with gong yoo as the man? hm, i'll watch it for sure

[@eurekamreum5458]

He *FINE*

[@emilyfishie]

i actually liked that they revealed the old man as the mastermind of the game. to me, it represents the older generation setting up systems to exploit the younger generations for their own gain, ruining the next generation, & not having to care about it bc theyre gunna die soon anyway & not have to deal with any of the aftermath.

[@sisidaisy5256]

YES

[@dianamendoza8483]

If you liked squid game you might like Alice in borderland....i actually liked Alice in borderland better but they are both so good

[@benjackson7872]

Me too. I was actually surprised by the reveal and thought it was well done.

[@InvincibleAirman]

Agreed. Additionally, I disagree with many people's though that "the reveal was useless because we already knew that it was just some bored rich guy who just wanted to eat popcorn watching bored people kill eachother for fun", for two reasons: 1. There had been signs of the idea that it could be instead a rich person really thinking that this was a fair way to give a last chance of improvement for people who had nothing, neither material nor mental resources. This really could have been the main motivation for the mastermind behind the games, if the creator of the show had chosen to go that route. 2. I think the reveal scene was cinematographically well executed in that it drove the point visually, emotionally, concretically home, at least for me. Rich people using poor people as mere objects is a much used trope, but in this scene I think they came at it in a bit different angle than it's usually done, with less edge and more emotional depth. In the moments where the drunkard was dying out in the snow and the old billionair was dying up the tower in his hospital bed, while the main character Gi-Hun was watching the drunkard with his heart racing, waiting anxiously that someone would help him, the billionair didn't even SEE the man anymore. His eyes were glazed and he was completely out of touch with the surrounding world, because to his very last breath he was so wrapped up in his own experience, his feelings and whether HE enjoyed HIS life, that the drunkard in the street stopped representing a human being to him and was reduced to a mere object throuhg which the rich man was trying to reach a desired inner emotional state. Of course this was the theme throughout the series elsewhere and it was expressed by depicting the competitors as horses and whatnot, but I think it was in a "once removed" way; during those other scenes we understood it on a rational/mental level that these rich people didn't consider the poor people to be people at all, but in this reveal scene, when we got the raw emotional reaction of the old billionair and saw him disappear completely into his own solipsistic reality, for first time it hit me different and I actually really felt it, not just thought it.

[@smirglepapier531]

As good as the idea is/was it could have been executed away better. Everything else is pretty coherent and we'll set up but Il-Nam being the mastermind felt waaay out of the blue. As if the creator wanted to do one last final twist

[@novacompier7863]

I think the “fairness” of extra In tell for the players, has more to do with the VIPS betting on a player and it being unfair if one had an advantage; rather than players amongst each other being unfair

[@birdyposting]

omg i didn’t think about that!! smart

[@orangemarissa50]

That makes sense considering they didn't have enough food for everyone and then tried to say that everything was fair.

[@Isabelle-hv6ny]

@@orangemarissa50 They had.

[@sepiteria7797]

They literally set them up to kill each other to “pick off the weak” during the night That wasn’t for the players benefit, it was to make the big finale more entertaining with more interesting “characters” to bet on

[@Isabelle-hv6ny]

@@sepiteria7797 And I'm still pissed how the writers had to make up something to make the last woman (sry I didn't remember any of the names) weaker than the two mens. In my opinion that was very sexist and extremely forced just so can have the two former friends in a fight where I didn't even care about either of them Edit because I noticed I spelled woman wrong ^^

[@chosoistryinghisbest]

i think the fact that the show is so vibrant was a great choice. if this show were to take place in a western country, i think they would've just had a bland color theme and the entire show would be stuck in shades of grey and it would look dark and dirty. which would get the point across about how harsh the show is, but i think it's overdone to just use a dark lighting to show something bad is happening. and i think a big disadvantage to the whole dark lighting is the fact that in some scenes, it's just hard to see and everything could just blend in which isn't good. so the fact that the show is very vibrant was a great choice. because in every single scene, there is color, and not just on the characters. the backgrounds have so much color and patterns. it makes it feel all the more real, and gives the illusion that this place exists even if it's not shown on screen. and the guards being colorful make even more sense because while they look intimidating at first look, at the same time, they weren't scary enough for everyone to start screaming. they just look sketchy at most. but if they were dressed in all black, everyone would've really panicked first and scream to be taken out.

[@shush9687]

yesss i think the color palette of squid game is one of the reason why it stands out amongst other death game movies/shows. i never liked death game type of show bc the general plot is v basic but squid game managed to make it more than just another death game show

[@EnderOnette]

I completely agree! Daylight horror is always way more pleasing to watch and even more scary for me

[@sarasaeed6349]

also because the walls are white, the colours and lighting is so mf BRIGHT, it adds to the tense, unsettling atmosphere of the show; it also adds to the viewing experience, i binged it all in one night and one reason i couldn’t at all fall asleep or close my eyes when watching it for so long is simply because the lighting stayed quite bright throughout, in fact the only time i got a bit bored or was about to doze off was during the scenes where the police officer was infiltrating the underground spaces and the showing of the incineration area because it was really dark there !

[@sunshell]

totally agree. and american shows tend to do that with reboots of “girly” shows as well, such as winx. i guess they think vibrant colors are too childish and feminine for a story thats mean to be dark. love that squid game goes against that

[@yay-cat]

Yeah its the same idea with Midsommar. Super happy and festive pallet

[@minabina1146]

An aspect of the Oh Il-Nam's character that makes his reveal as the creator more significant is his age and the "elder" role he takes with his eventual team. It's kind of hard to describe, but "jeong/정" is the principal of familial connection which dictates mutual respect and goodwill within society. Because of 정, Gi-hun treats the old man as a father figure and pities his place in society because even in his advanced age and illness, society has seemingly left him behind. Gi-hun has very obviously failed to provide his mother with any of the support or respect she deserves, and I think the guilt he feels as a son is a large motivator for his relationship with Oh Il-Nam. That's why the reveal scene between Oh Il-Nam and Gi-Hun is like the final slap in the face and the final twist in the game. Gi-hun was betrayed by the very thread of humanity that connects him to society and that is why he desperately wants to know why Il-Nam did what he did. Oh Il-Nam is more than a rich bored dude, he is a patriarch and therefore his abuse of his community is that much more gut-wrenching. There are major themes of 정 throughout the story (the front man and the police officer, Ali and Sang-Woo, as well as each character's origin story) and so it seems fitting that the root of all evil in the game, and what brings things full circle, is ultimately capitalism's exploitation of 정.

[@myouniverse0613]

You are so right.

[@maferramon387]

I love how your outfits always fit the theme of the video, really makes watching way more enjoyable

[@joe6185]

If you don't watch Jenny Nicholson, she does the same thing But she's more movie reviews lol

[@Libruhh]

She has such good taste too!

[@maferramon387]

Campbell Urrutia Right?

[@paulogaspar8295]

unfortunately her eyebrows don't fit with anything.

[@ikeepscreamingbutgodwontan3132]

@@paulogaspar8295 I think it's just a matter of opinion... Because in my opinion, they're just perfect

[@pembeturuncubeyaz6986]

I also felt like the guards having masks was a way to discourage them from recognizing or getting to know each other, which could cause them to divert their attention from their duties and even become friends/form unions in order to get out of the situation.

[@angietoonz6605]

well, we saw a few of them unite together anyways with the organ system.

[@angelamorales7757]

@@angietoonz6605 yeah but that was profit driven. Money will unite anyone no matter the situation lol

[@yonicorn1641]

yeah i felt the same, liek it was a way to remind them that they are just tools and can be easily replaced

[@pembeturuncubeyaz6986]

@@angietoonz6605 yea but maybe that would happen even more if not subtly prevented. They killed them all off in the end anyways so :')

[@CompanionCait]

Very much about dehumanizing yes.

[@honeybellebuzlucay5867]

I think the animal masks of the VIPs might be (almost) ironic statement trying to tell us that while VIPs see the players as horses, actually they are the ones that are animals preying the vulnerable. Meanwhile we always see the players' faces meaning they are in fact more human than the VIPs even tough they are set to fight like animals in a very inhuman place.

[@bananasplit3925]

Woah this is great analysis!

[@gooby4872]

I love this analysis! It would also make sense in terms of the simple, feature-lacking masks of the guards. As viewers, we aren't privy to their circumstances and motivations (in contrast to the players and VIPs) as to why they've become guards, so their masks don't reflect any inference of judgement or morality for their actions just as we the viewers can't judge their actions with complete certainty.

[@honeybellebuzlucay5867]

@@gooby4872 ohh yesss

[@honeybellebuzlucay5867]

@@bananasplit3925 thank you!

[@lkntgkltrndfl]

also, whats with rich people having these golden animal masks, i saw this in Churails too

[@pterocardio]

My only reaction to this video is a response to your question: "How did they manage to keep it a secret even though every year hundreds of people go missing?" I think this question misses a critical point of the show/the games. The contestants are impoverished and marginalized specifically because no one will look for them even if they go missing because they are not valued much in a capitalist society. It's part of the show's critique towards the way capitalism values/devalues humans.

[@mariaah3073]

RIGHT? Both parts involved - the extremely marginalized and the uber rich - are the reason the games still happen. The victims are unimportant enough that no one looks for them, the people who finance the games are important enough to make no one look too deep into the system in place.

[@pterocardio]

@@mariaah3073 yes for sure! it really serves to highlight that in a capitalist society, it's impossible to put checks and balances on the ruling class. xiran jay zhao did a great video on this where they mentiomed in the video that it wouldve been nice if they had shown the cop submitting their evidence and it being ignored because law enforcement is for sure already in on this and actively enabling it because the police force really mostly exists to protect those who own the capital.

[@Cherry-li6nk]

Yea agree and also they owe s lot of debt so ppl will assume that they got killed for it or something

[@pterocardio]

@@Cherry-li6nk yep especially with how loan sharks in korea are notorious for taking ppl’s organs when they cant pay up

[@angervana]

Came to say this! Well said

[@dianabeloved]

The bright colors and use of kids games definitely made it all the more upsetting. As if to show these peoples' lives are just toys to these rich backers. It was especially unsettling seeing the background of the arena for the dalgona cookie challenge- the walls covered with chidlike drawings of clouds that reminded me of Nickelodeon's Rugrats. (Those drawings also felt like subluminal messaging to get players to chose the umbrella).

[@emiliasanchez973]

omg i never thought about it like this, the subliminal messages! changes what i think about that now, too!

[@Peregrina]

The bright colors and settings also remind me of Tv show games which gives a false sense of safety until the first round start and people loose.

[@floatingtophats9454]

The art director also mentioned that the masks having a slight line down the center which allows it "fold" made the mask resemble that of an ant, making all the guards appear as ants in a colony.

[@SailorMorgy28]

What upset me the most about Sae-byeok’s ending was that the front man continually enforced this idea of fairness and following the rules, yet that isn’t necessarily true. When they come back from red light green light, one of the guards explains that “as long as you follow the rules you’ll be able to get out alive”. However, even after completing all the games, Sae-byeok was killed because of the game designer’s themselves. She successfully completed round 5, but the shard of glass that was launched from the designer is the reason she died. So no, the fairness and rule following was just a false way to manipulate the players into feeling more comfortable.

[@angietoonz6605]

i honestly think that one was a freak accident. I think they made it a bit too late and didnt step far away enough from the ledge, which is why Sangwoo is less injured. But who knows, maybe it was intentionally, but theres no way they could know she'd get such a huge shard of glass in her side. I wonder if she told them, what they'd do (probably nothing).

[@yonicorn1641]

i mean, i feel about Sae-byeok's death the same way i feel about the midnight riots. Like the front man was all about fairness and all but then he made the players go against each other at night by feeding them less like a human experiment and then blame it as an accident

[@sarasaeed6349]

that genuinely pissed me off because she had the best chance of winning out of all three tbh

[@CompanionCait]

Her death was also kind of a waste compared to the others.

[@danyf.1442]

@@yonicorn1641 exactly! And leaving the knives for the last three of them to kill each other!

[@sweetprincess787]

maybe its because I have another cultural background, but the participants' uniforms didn't strike me as prison uniform, but instead as sports school uniform, playing off this illusion of dressing like children going to the same school and playing in the same playground, but also it makes total sense they are also more like prison uniforms because of how they got dressed in public

[@Superman5o5]

She said in the video that they’re based off school sports uniforms. Perhaps you misheard

[@Superman5o5]

7:35

[@Sperkelderg]

They remind me of chinese school uniforms!

[@LegendarySparantus]

@@Superman5o5 I saw another video saying that their tracksuits are a reference to the cliché clothing the unemployed people wear in their ugly neighbourhood. What do you think, y'all who come across my comment ?

[@JasminMiettunen]

@@Superman5o5 she mentioned that, but she did talk about them a lot more in the context of prison uniforms

[@rachellotze734]

I also think it’s interesting how the final three all changed into tuxedos before the last challenge. So they change from their somewhat child-like/comfortable/practical activewear into the formal, elite, and stereotypically masculine attire of adults. They’ve made it to the final game, so they have made it nearly to the top of the capitalistic hierarchy, in a sense. (The top being wealthy men.) Then they have to play the last game in clothing that is not suited for “games”, but these outfits make the players look more mature and business-like, and they give a much more serious tone to the challenge.

[@aayuktaraut8424]

oooooh nice take

[@Neliel97]

I think that the art direction is what sold the story. The contrast between bright colours and fun, playful sets and the dreariness of the situation is what makes it so unsettling. It creates parallels between children's games and a brutal fight for survival, not only in the game, but in the inescapable hellscape that is our modern capitalist society. Of course, it's fiction, but what makes it hurt is the fact that there are actual people who would participate in such a game because it is better that their current reality. I reaaaally enjoyed the show, and I hope there's a second season where Gihun and the sexy policeman, who is obviously still alive since they didn't show us his dead boy, will parter up and dismantle the games, and discover the origins of it as well. I agree that the last episode is a bit lackluster compared with the emotional trauma that episode 6 and 7 were, but I get it; it bothers me that people criticise Gihun so much at the end, he was always shown to be a passive morally gray person, and he just got a buttload of trauma, connecting with people who died in front of his eyes, seeing his childhood friend kill himself, and just to get home to his dead mother, who died alone, and having barely a chance to reconnect with his daughter. I think that the fact that he didn't get on the plane makes a lot of sense, we are expected to believe he is a good person underneath it all, so how could he find out there would be another round of the game, where another 455 people would die, and not do anything? This also makes way to make a comparison between the frontman and Gihun, both won, and returned to the game, maybe the frontman's intention was also to stop the games, why did he change his mind? How will Gihun react in that situation? Will he end up like the frontman, and become a new frontman? There's lots of potential for at least a second season.

[@jellybean1528]

If it werent for the art direction I wouldnt have gave it a chance

[@jessicaa4436]

I love this answer !!! I would love to see those themes explored in the next series. And literally I don’t know why people expected Gihun to instantly recover from squid game and the guilt of losing both his mother and childhood friend to become a ‘good dad’ by getting on the plane. The way they set it up too it would be almost impossible for Gihun to leave South Korea when he had literally just had direct confirmation that another round was about to take place. Especially as he had just witnessed Gong Yoo recruiting another victim - this in particular could have been a huge trigger as he was essentially re-experiencing the beginning of all the trauma he had just been through

[@milku7996]

mina serving looks nd facts once again! she never disappoints! always delivers!

[@yvesvixxen]

Always! Thin brow queen!

[@chrstrbl]

the chuu pfp ate

[@adaharvey2000]

chuu 😯

[@hp8087]

In Asia, most schools wear uniform, whether private or public. So, as an Asian kid, I associated wearing uniforms as part of my childhood.

[@shanicek5188]

Me too. In Australia we're all required to wear uniforms in most states, with the exception of some schools in our capital state

[@lostdream8274]

I really wish they had left out the 'plot twist' of the old man being the mastermind behind the games. Like you said, it adds nothing new to the plot. We already knew someone rich and bored had thought up the Squid Game. In my opinion the last scene should have been where Gihun finds his dead mom and lies down next to her. That would have been a perfect ending, because at that moment we are reminded that despite winning the game he has lost literally everything else in his life - they even did that cinematic zoom + fade out at that scene. Everything after that was probably put in to keep their chance of doing a second season since they have something to go off from then. When they do a second season (which, let's be real, is super likely) I hope they focus more on the guards and the front man. I really want to know how they ended up being part of the game. Especially the front man, since he is a winner of a past game and should know about the horrors of these games.

[@emmavaccova8695]

Completely agree with you!

[@pluvio900]

i hadn't thought about an alternative ending but i like yours

[@larissamota1718]

I thought maybe the inclusion of this reveal was to show that there was some manipulation leading to the protagonist's win, because the old man had some intel on the games. Anyone who befriended him would have a bit of a leg up, as seen by his role in the tug of war game and by his choice to "die" not long after. During the scene in the hospital, he makes a bet with the protagonist about whether someone would help the person out in the snow. It felt to me like he was trying to look for the good in people, right as he's about to die. Maybe as a way to prove to himself that people were inherently bad, so he wasn't to blame for the sins he had committed?

[@sophie7780]

i agree that i want to know more about the front man's story, but i understood him being a previous winner as commentary about the one who "wins" under capitalism subsequently turning around and oppressing the class he came from in order to maintain the status quo

[@Hannahgs]

I like the idea that Gi-hun is given the opportunity to face the creator of the games. And in that scene he is given the chance to have his faith restored in humanity, after the old man tries his best to get Gi-hun to believe the worst in people like he does, they see the drunk man get saved from freezing to death outside. I think the front man kind of represents the opposite of Gi-hun. Gi-hun comes out of the games utterly destroyed, no faith in anything, his life ruined, refusing to even spend his money. He sees the game for the horror that it is. While the front man did the opposite, he won, he saw himself as the victor and the genuine deserved of his newfound riches, he probably saw a lot more of himself in the people that run the game than in his fellow competitors. He leaves feeling like he can now inflict that same torture on others. Like a metaphor for how when people “make it” in real life by exploiting their peers and continuing to do so to continue to be rich. For the rest of the mystery surrounding the game, I’m genuinely satisfied with the explanation that the wealthy elite can and do just get away with horrific stuff all the time. And poor and marginalized people go missing every day without anyone hearing or caring about it.

[@hueningkaj]

The colors for the uniforms are also exact opposites on the color wheel, showing us class division through the guards & players as well!

[@casssia11]

“Because the guard is Sexy! Sorry. Young” LMAO 🤣 I screamed

[@sun-es6de]

personally i believe theres no need for second season- we learned what we had to learn. no matter what they do its not gonna change the nature of the game nor the narrative of how capitalism pries on the poor. sure, there are some things that could be nice to know but that would take away the mystery surrounding rhe whole game.

[@_iyakin]

the irony of sorts here too is that the demand for season 2 itself is a result of capitalism; capitalists wil produce produce produce-- environment, quality, and implications be damned, as long as they can get people to fill their pockets.

[@cassie4923]

It's also super common for k-dramas to wrap up the story in one season. It makes sense that the writer didn't think of a second season while writing the story for the 1st one

[@willowmarie218]

Yeah I honestly left the show hoping there wouldn't be a second season. I feel like a second season will end up diminishing the impact of the first, but who knows...

[@cassie4923]

@@willowmarie218 If you want a good k-drama that ended in one season on a good note and was a good show all together, I'd recommend Vincenzo! It's one of my favs and I'm glad it won't be having a second season :)

[@snakes7303]

@@_iyakin Right? I think its so strange how so many people are making so much money off of this show,,selling costumes, clothes, etc…um?? Like I dont get why this isnt adding up to them

[@m___2454]

Mina is literally famous on Twitter now and I couldn't be happier about it.

[@xHarmonious]

?? Do you have a link?

[@snakes7303]

Is she? Niiice

[@joshuavallente7057]

This was unexpected but I’m here for it. This is what I love about your channel. Before viewing your videos, what I dismiss as just costumes gets a deeper meaning in my eyes when reviewed by you.

[@ellaferrier]

I didn’t love the ending of Squid Game but I do appreciate the commitment to the back story of each character and purposes of the clothing and placement of colours, symbols, etc.

[@scorpioj3]

@Erwin Lii It isn't the same plot but it still centers around money, gambling, having to big tasks (playing games, adventures), and violence.

[@NoeBIchez]

To me it felt like it was added for the shock value :/

[@mariasotomayor4454]

for me, gi hun dying his hair red at the end was also him finally able to act out that childlike desire of wanting your hair a cool color. i think of it as like “ive been poor and struggled with small amounts of money at a time, but now that i have so much, where do i even start?” and so when he finally goes to get his hair cut, he realizes he can literally get whatever he wants so he dyes his hair bright red, not only to show his inner rage, but to also have that really cool anime protagonist look that he’s prob wanted since he was a kid. idk just a thought

[@Hannahgs]

I personally really liked the ending. I think the old man scene was 1. A way to give our protagonist a chance to come face to face with his tormentor and 2. While the old man tried to get Gi Hun to stoop to his level in believing humans are generally bad people and not worth protecting or saving, when the drunk guy was helped by a stranger on the street outside, Gi-hun gets this newfound faith in humanity, like the old man isn’t right he isn’t winning, there is good in the world. And I like an ambiguous ending, I don’t like endings that feel the need to explain every detail, like it’d be cool to learn where the workers came from and how they kept it secret but I’m satisfied with the explanation that the wealthy elite can and do just constantly get away with things. And they poor people going missing or ending up dead happens all the time without many people even knowing or the police doing to much to solve them. I like that we learn the game is still going, and Gi-hun is not satisfied with simply ignoring it and living a lavish life. He decides he wants to do something about it, we just don’t get to see how that plays out.

[@elizabethchang3119]

About the tracksuits, it's probably unintentional, but Korea has (or had) sort of a stereotype against them since usually only lower class people have to wear them. The kdrama Secret Garden references that idea a lot.

[@zerimaraicirtap322]

Oh! is this in Japan too? I watched an anime where the main character wears a tracksuit and they make it this big deal like a bad thing. The character is supposed to be a poor god so it makes sense now (Noragami)

[@TheTechnicolorWeasel]

I actually really like that Frontman was revealed to be a prior winner of the game. I think that it speaks to how even people hurt by capitalism can enact that oppression on others. Even someone who grew up being exploited can eventually come to exploit others, believing that it's the right thing to do, it's how things have to be, or that EVERYONE has to go through that exploitation. And on a less institutional level, it demonstrates people's capacity to hurt others, even when they themselves have been hurt. Sometimes, they hurt others BECAUSE they've been hurt. I'm more used to seeing this "Final Girl" --> Slasher villain pipeline in horror, and it was neat to see a sort-of version of it here.

[@romee5989]

The way I gasped when she revealed herself to be a galeness shipper...

[@user-gw5kq1hi5g]

fr i had to play it back to make sure i heard right

[@bananasplit3925]

Ikr I was like ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

[@casper7319]

The betrayal 🥺

[@serendiclipses6851]

no one is perfect not even the queen 😩

[@jennam2836]

literally i was like ??? gale the war criminal??

[@lianunez415]

your fit is so good omg squid game but make it fashion.......

[@cowgirltheworld]

I was about to comment this omg this fandom is so in sync

[@lilalais]

I believe that the discovery of Oh Il-nam being a stupid rich person it's important to Seong Gi-hun realize that it's not his fault that everyone died, because in the end he really is full of guilt. It's important to see that the harmless old man actually was a traitor and even worse, he was someone with power to help, but choose to play with people, so Seong Gi-hun get off his sadness and get mad, decide to take action. If the guy just got home to his mother, without his kid and with lots of money the message would be that we should just accept that life is awful. Also I felt like that scene where they bet in the drunk man freezing to death has meaning because the rich man just judge people, "till when you will trust people? they are shit like me" and the player don't see that he could be the one to go down and help the man. For me that encounter starts his wakening, he gets out and go help the brother and mother of his deceased companions and then, when he sees that the damn game It's still on he gets so mad and angry that he start to think that HE have to do something or that shit will stay the same.

[@Anemone_Productions]

This is a very good point that the reveal of il-nam isn't for us the audience, it's for gi-hun and his character, very interesting

[@ekw635]

Hard agree

[@noorabdullah4189]

I agree! I felt that scene was incredibly impactful. At the end when both Gi-Hun and Il-Nam are watching the homeless man from the window, they bet on whether anyone will help him before midnight. While Il-Nam is a horrible person who created the games, and Gi Hun is a victim of those games, in that moment both are sitting on piles of their wealth and betting on whether humans are inherently good or evil. It eerily mirrors the scenes where the elite are watching the games from behind a screen, placing bets on who would win while overintellectualizing human nature. Even though Gi-Hun is a victim, him and Il-nam both have the capacity to help in that moment--even just pick up a phone to call for help--putting Gi-Hun in the same moral responsibility as Il-Nam In the second last game, after Il-Nam's "death", you can see that Gi Hun is wearing his jacket, 001. I feel like that was both a sign of Gi-Hun's deep guilt as well as maybe an intentional detail to foreshadow that if Gi-Hun doesn't do anything with his newfound wealth, he becomes like the old man, that even people hurt by capitalism can reenact that hurt onto others, and that is why after that last scene he decides to change that.

[@lilalais]

@@noorabdullah4189 Woow! Yes! Make so much sense. I loved that you picked up that detail of the jacket, it is another reminder that the art direction and the clothing can add meaning in the narative!

[@snowlily3]

Never thought I would find out I may be color blind from Mina in a squid game costume analysis but here we are. I’ve watched the series twice now and never realized the guards wore hot pink, thought it was red all this time 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@noia888]

I thought they were more cherry red than pink, but that may have to do with my screen resolution

[@kylo295]

i thought so too!

[@marinadeburgos8666]

Maybe it was because everyone saw the promotional material and correlated with the Money Heist uniforms. Also, almost everytime we see the guards they are either in a white/pastel room with no shadows, or in a dark room with barely any light so it's pretty likely to confuse It with blood red

[@ry5551]

i watched the entire show 3 times through and always see it more red than pink.

[@SmolBeefPatty]

Lmao saaaame.

[@ipig2379]

Okay but why are discussions about squid game so fun though? i still enjoy hearing people's opinion lmao maybe it's just me. its more than a lot of weeks but the show is still fresh in my mind. The characters are so fun to dissect.

[@mineldenizkalntas1072]

I actually liked the ending, because we see our protagonist become one of “them”. He doesn’t help the guy, when he obviously could but rather, he bets on it. I think it was a really subtle, yet good scene.

[@daisy_twee]

I don't know if you already know this but I believe the polygons on the masks are actually reminiscent of the shapes used in the actual squid game. And the costume designer also stated that the masks had a ridge to make them foldable, which in turn made them look like ant heads. It seemed to work out to give even a better sense of mindless factory workers. Thanks for the great analysis! I love that pink jacket.

[@Thehouseoffail]

Why does everyone love Gale so much? The guy openly advocated for committing horrific war crimes. He also and no qualms about killing kids. I always shipped Katniss/Therapy.

[@jellybean1528]

Ikr?! Same

[@olgal8971]

no im with you. i hate gale both book and movie. movie gale was bearable bcs of liam hemsworth but regardless - still hate gale with a passion.

[@AgustDsword]

I agree with you. I ship katniss/peeta/therapy tho

[@olgal8971]

@@AgustDsword oh yeah. yes to katniss/peeta/therapy #everlark4eva

[@Thehouseoffail]

@@AgustDsword Honestly? At no point in any of the book is Kaniss healthy enough to be in a relationship. Not even in the epilogue. I have PTSD myself. Not the buzzword kind. The medically diagnosed I can't function without medication kind. And because of this, I recognize Kaniss' thought process. She does NOT actually love Peta. She fears lose of stability. And for her, Peta represents stability in face of the worst moments of her life. And she is justifying her desire to have that stability with what she understands from outside sources. I.E. her thought process basically amounts to: Everyone in the books says I should be in love with Peta. I feel calmer when he js around and feeling like I'm losing stability without him. Theirfore..... she must love him right? That's what this feeling must be? Why she feels so desperately that she must have Peta in her life and panics at the thought of him gone? But it's not love. At least not romantic love. It's trauma induced dependence. Peta could have been a blanket or a dog. With the same thought process of "I'm ok if I can keep and protect this one thing. This is my area of control. If this object/pet/person is OK and I have them......then everything will be fine." And she would have had the same thought process when those objects went missing. Because the only thing she feels in those moments are that her safety and mental health are in jeopardy. Heck, I once had a mental breakdown over breaking a pair of headphones. Also, when someone I thought I was in love with moved. Turns out I'm gay, and the feeling I was experiencing was dependence and friendship, not love. But both of those thing were the same emotion and I recognize that now. It was all just a coping mechanism.

[@dariakapranova3492]

“sorry Emily in Paris” im dying

[@marinadeburgos8666]

Sorry, not sorry

[@nicoles2159]

I like the Stanford Prison Experiment parallels. Regular people harming regular people when given the right role / uniform.

[@anelaostojic2530]

south korean dramas and tv shows are known for having enigmatic endings that leave many loose knots and questions and they almost never have a second season, which is why the director’s response to all the inquiries about season 2 is not unexpected

[@NatLintuJC]

What really stood out for me was the lion guy taking Jun-Ho to his room. He acted all cocky and powerful, making demands and doing whatever he wished because he was safe behind his mask. When he was stripped from that anonymity, he was scared and submissive. Shows how anonymity gives people the false courage to do and say whatever they want. Nowdays that mask is the internet with anonymous profiles.

[@frankie9772]

People tend not to see why Sang Woo was such an amazing character. He portrays the choice to let go of one’s humanity in order to survive, while Ghi Hun is a character who still tries to keep that humanity even in a life and death situation such as this one. People give sang woo a lot of hate when really, he had to either choose to become evil or die. It’s not such an easy choice. By scheming and backstabbing he stayed on top of the game.

[@javipaz410]

YESS I also noticed that the amount of angles in the masks was in direct corelation with their rank but i thought i was reaching lmaoo thank you for bringing it up!

[@imani0nline]

I love how everyone and I mean everyone was a part of the system and they have a uniform to correspond to their role even the VIPs wear the golden masks, it dehumanizes everyone… kinda like capitalism 👀

[@rachiboo14]

@Sofie Dina S I know right? Yeah capitalism is so bad that we’re all sitting on our phones being able to watch squid game. People who praise socialism have never lived in a socialist/communist country

[@addyb.7096]

@Sofie Dina S That comment didn’t even say anything about socialism, not liking capitalism and pointing out it’s problems doesn’t mean someone’s a socialist/communist or doesn’t point out problems within those systems too. But the show is a criticism of capitalism, the creator of the show said it himself.

[@addyb.7096]

@@rachiboo14 Okay and capitalism still has a lot of problems. There’s people who live in capitalist countries who hate it and those who like it. Same with their being people in socialist and “communist” countries who like and are socialists and communists and there being people that hate it. No one has to like either plus that comment didn’t even say anything about any other system. But the show is a criticism of capitalism, the creator of the show said it himself.

[@bharbarawyrstwaemasyn8741]

@Sofie Dina S imagine being so privileged calling someone a spoiled brat, yet not bothering to engage anything like an adult, unironically. Literally uneducated boomer energy here.

[@nanacomunista]

@@rachiboo14 while millions of people are dieing in extreme poverty capitalism is amazing wow 🥰/s (btw a communist country has never existed)

[@Tareebit]

Mina. I don’t think you get enough credit for how much research and thought goes into these but as someone who recently discovered your channel, bravo.

[@theashleydlc]

I know right! She’s so good!! I love how she makes her videos in like essay format it’s very descriptive and not like this blab u see in KZbin nowadays.

[@aleborrego5062]

The only way that the hunger games should have ended is with Katniss being single and having a farm

[@chickencake5134]

and helping out at an orphanage on the weekends

[@jakobhuntington2720]

the masks could also be an homage to the Rothschild Surrealist Ball of 1972, where Marie-Hélène de Rothschild wore a very opulent deer mask which was studded with tears of genuine diamond, and which looked very similar to the deer mask in squid game, not to mention the multitude of other bizzare masks.

[@i3hlalantap]

yup, even the lady screaming in the red light, green light game references to the scream by edvard munch, the stairs they walk on references to relativity by m.c. escher and the table saebyok, Sangwoo and giwan eat on references to dinner party by judy Chicago.

[@marinadeburgos8666]

Maybe it's because I saw a cult's video yesterday, but I thought both the green pijamas and the red uniforms were meant to de-humanize both groups (because they lose their individualism), although with different intentions. The players are simple animals playing deathly games (from the perspective of the VIPs) so their deaths are less impactful, and the guards are terminators to the players because they never show their faces and hold guns.

[@dovelyy]

3:04 yeah that was my biggest question from the game. why was the front man picked to be like the old man's successor/stand in? wasn't he just in that little dorm a few weeks ago? why of all people, did the old man choose a previous winner to take over while he's gone.

[@dianabeloved]

It's implied that the winners are monitored after the games and perhaps even their family members. Maybe he knew from surveillance that his brother had become a cop and wanted to have more control over him? Or maybe...he's the only winner still alive.

[@samkelly4132]

I think that in-ho being the front man was a nice contrast to gi-hun In-ho won and, assumedly, didn’t share the money with his friends or family, possibly pretending to live in the hostel to keep up the pretence and the money to himself. Whereas Gi-hun gave the money to Sangwoo and Cheol and getting to see his daughter In-Ho returned to the games, possibly by his own request, to run the games and keep them going. Gi-hun returned to put them to an end. I think that the point was to contrast the two types of winners, or two types of people (generous and selfish) I don’t think it needed to be him, but having only 2 winners with completely different outlooks on the games works well

[@atree9284]

@@samkelly4132 i think there are no two types of winners. Ih-ho, I think, went through the same as Gi-hun. He won, but he felt guilty for it, so he didn’t enjoy it, he just took enough to live.

[@trilobite-knight7746]

Actually he won in 2015 so the show implies that he's been doing it for like 5 years

[@ninazenik6203]

@@trilobite-knight7746 that can't be bc he's only been missing a couple days or a week max from his dorm. i don't think he was involved with the games while staying in that dorm. also, the first game we saw was the first time the old man joined. he only appointed inho then.

[@kanejgf]

one thing I noticed is that the games being ones most of us played as kids is reminiscent of a lot of horror media. the bright colours and patterns and the simplicity of the games are there for the same reason horror movies have innocent children possessed by demons, smiley colourful dolls turn murderous, or a balloon offering clown commonly associated with children's birthdays end up being a fucked up lovecraftian entity. it's the unsettling feeling of the corruption of innocence.

[@Harpsibored]

I was a teacher in Japan for a few years, and the players' uniforms looked EXACTLY like the school uniforms of my elementary school students. They all wore identical tracksuits, but all day for class (not just for gym like the creator mentioned). I dunno if the same is true for Korea, but the second I saw their uniforms I thought they were meant to look like young children.

[@LucileHR]

I've been loving your videos lately! Really enjoy the mix of pop culture analysis and fashion!

[@oilylondon]

omg yess

[@nina5drioli]

I really wasn’t expecting for a video about squid game on you’re Chanel but loved to see this

[@am.ivanova]

while i was watching it, i thought about green and red being opposites, and how the players' tracksuits, being green, allow for the starkest contrast when they die and red blood spills from their bodies. likewise, the guards' pink-reddish uniforms almost disguise the color of blood, which can somehow visually 'minimize' the guilt associated with their participation.

[@veryfirstgrandpa2157]

i was so upset abt the twist at the end like mannn i cried for you 😭 i had been only a bit suspicious of him before because they didnt actually show his death and he looked too happy during red light green light despite ppl being murdered left and right. overall, i liked the show but something about the last ep was disappointing. not the fact that gihun didn't immediately take action to be with his daughter again because it's realistic he'd be depressed for so long. i think the message behind the games was very incoherent. like you said, it was entertainment for the rich, even admittingly for ilnam, but the whole point he was trying to make about no one caring for humanity anymore??? and the whole "morality" of fairness within the games? dont know what that was about. the end left me curious, but honestly not enough to demand a s2. i wish they gave more closure to s1 but.... i guess. if s2 happens, it happens. i just hope it doesnt disappoint. on another note, super interesting video. especially the parts about the shape faces being some kind of prisoners as well, the possible meaning of the vips' masks, and gihuns hair representing yang :)

[@kat3ph0bic61]

How did you make a comment 21 hours ago

[@veryfirstgrandpa2157]

@@kat3ph0bic61 patrons have early access :)

[@dovelyy]

i got sus vibes from the old man when he happened to bump into gihun outside that convenience shop

[@WBlueberryW]

same!! they totally lost any coherent or interesting message and the plot twists were so unrewarding and obvious (in the case of the cop and his brother.) if gi hun believes that humanity is still good, why would he entertain another game with il nam and play with someone's life, i thought he'd be sick of playing his games and would just help the drunk guy himself... also the fact that he was supposed to help sae byeoks' family and then literally left her brother in the orphanage for a whole ass year, that whole time he didn't know if she was dead, alive or ever coming back (and no indication he would help their mother either) i get being traumatized and not wanting to see your daughter immediately after, but seeing him turn around at the plane after a year of not seeing her to presumably go back into the game is so infuriating to watch LMAO i havent seen any squid game slander so i needed to yell for a minute there

[@ipig2379]

because even though gi-hun feels like the least bad person in the game he is still flawed. he was bad father and he was addicted to gambling. of course he would play again to stop the game from the inside. the "fairness" of the game is actually portrayed pretty good which is there isnt. it actually mirrors the reality that in achieving a good life you have to work hard and you will get good results and gain some money and become rich. But that's not the truth. In reality, it's your talent, your hardwork, your efforts and skills are not enough in reaching a good life. Luck is one of the greatest factors in becoming successful. Just like how gi-hun won the game in almost just pure luck. the glass bridge? luck. Not just luck but connections. He met Il-nam early on and even befriends him.

[@ajjax777]

I love this video and your analysis but I will point out that you may be missing the biggest reason why it’s so scary and why none of those detailed questions get answered. It doesn’t matter. It’s scary because it could be happening right now and you wouldn’t know it. Thousands of people die every year and so many go uncounted for, this is that what if scenario. What if they all ended up here? Worrying about how it started or who started wasn’t the focus or the biggest punch of the show (although it was a twist) because it really doesn’t matter. It’s the fact that the game has continued without any real tampering to the point of it being stopped for decades. Like a lot of other institutions we know of…

[@trippyinsomniac3667]

I’ve never been interested in fashion analysis until I stumbled upon your channel, your videos are always so entertaining and gives me something else to think about some of my favorite shows.

[@gab2386]

Thinking about uniforms is so interesting to me bc I remember HATING my school uniform when I was a kid bc all I wanted was to wear my pretty clothes. I realize now it was a way of expressing myself. Then I grew up and my uniform became more comforting, everyone was the same. Even what parts of our bodies we showed was the same. Also, when you’re a teen and you’re super insecure, not having to express yourself is a comfort. And to this day, in college, I like having a type of “uniform” (like maybe a school sweatshirt or t shirt). Not only does it save my clothes but it makes me feel more connected to my peers. It feels like now that I’m grown up, I’ve finally reached a balance on how to express myself but still be part of a group.

[@MB-ic3ou]

“Sang-woo, everyone’s least favourite character…” Cant relate to that when episode 2, smoking in a suit Sang-woo fully exits lmao

[@trilobite-knight7746]

Lmaooo yup

[@jadenia]

sooo true bestie

[@LegendarySparantus]

Sangwoo is too cold for me to really appreciate him but I love watching him because he's so handsome and has such a cool way to move, pose, stand, glance and move his eyes, head and mouth lol

[@brunettepilled]

LMFAO YES

[@alyssapinon9670]

And episode 6 when he ripped up his shirt 😍 . still upset at why he ripped his shirt but my god Park Hae Soo is so gorgeous that it brought out my inner pick me girl. I went from “sangwoo is the worst” to “you know what’s a bit of betrayal among friends” 🤡

[@quittenfee42]

I really appreciate your videos. I'm 58 and like to look at life and society from different viewpoints. The way you analyse all those different films is really refreshing. Thank you.

[@inelien]

Gosh, I'm so happy I randomly stumbled upon your account a month or so ago. You are SUCH a gem, and I love your takes on style (and your own style ofc. duh) from different movies, shows etc to commentaries/video essays. Keep doing you honey

[@SliverOfSilverStars]

Woah! The hierarchy represented by the shapes on the pink guys is pretty intuitive. But I did not connect that the increasing angles extends to the frontman and the VIP with their more intricate masks. And Il Nam's mask being the most angular and sharp as the creator. Very cool detail!

[@jozieash5016]

Someone’s also debunked the red & blue tile games because some of the players chose the red in the screen when they showed all players playing the game

[@midnightat3am]

To be honest I never felt like the distortion of the childhood innocence behind these games was for tension, it added to it, but it reminded me of the underlying corrupt, sadistic nature of us as people. All the nursery rhymes we had have such creepy undertones

[@arai2237]

another great video mina !! but i don’t think **all** of the VIPS were american. if i remember correctly, one of them spoke chinese? bc the games were hosted in korea that year bc there are other locations around the world.

[@j7055]

your outfit is like if squid game had an Effie Trinket

[@jas7dd206]

Hugely underrated comment ^^^

[@miiasaurous]

Proud to be a little squid 🦑

[@sg-qi7np]

omg hey bestie

[@kat_the_mouse]

I actually really liked the ending, and I didn't know there was going to be a season two. i kinda like it better as a limited run thing, to be honest, and I feel like knowing more about how the game works would be worse for the story. kinda like how the monster is always less scary once you see it, you know what I mean?

[@ostentatiaoclock]

i don’t have a solid source for this so take this with a grain of salt: but i think it was confirmed that the choice of red/blue paper was a reference to a japanese* ghost story that asks to choose a color, with the catch being that no matter what color you choose you still die *edit: not up to date on my asian ghost stories~ someone pointed out that i said korean instead of japanese

[@vampyrslayer1770]

that's a Japanese story

[@ostentatiaoclock]

@@vampyrslayer1770 noted! ty for pointing that out, i was just vaguely quoting smth i heard once

[@jurisora6553]

The sudden picture of Nu'est at 10:58 tho... I'm definitely not expecting them to appear in a Squid Game video essay...

[@jo4210]

When I watched the first episode I said “old guys gonna be a bad guy, watch.” And I’m sad to say I was kinda right lol

[@nnn326]

Mina: most of us have fond memories of these games that remind us of simpler times me: those games made me super anxious but I had to play the social game

[@agurbenur3716]

I really disliked the ending because him going back to see his child would have been a perfect character development arc

[@princesssparrow4530]

Honestly the 'Old Man Twist' didn't bother me THAT much, the REAL thing that bothered me about the ending was that Seong Gi-Hun is STILL being a bad dad. Like come on dude you can't even go for a little visit before ya gonna take down the system? Just gonna weasel out of seeing and taking care of her? Again?

[@eshna2012]

It was meaningful to have the Ilnam reveal, because yes, although we knew it was a rich and bored person, we see them as we see the VIPs - as exaggerated monsters. We came to understand Ilnam, so we see that that their is complexity in the rich too. Also, he was in charge of the Korean Squid Games, but remember they implied that there are other versions of this outside Korea, so Ilnam is not the sole creator/controller of this concept. I really enjoyed your analysis on the costume, fashion and colours - Thanks 👍💖👑

[@boyfriendshouse]

i always love your commentary videos, brings me peace and comfort to learn about fashion and how history is always linked to it. great job mina!

[@dearcomrqde]

“Sang-woo, everyone’s LEAST favorite” me, an average sang-woo apologist:😀😕😖

[@mariaah3073]

people hating Sang-woo more than the people BEHIND the games is complete bullshit

[@mimigreenberg5606]

i NEED mina to make a podcast with episodes like these but longer than 20 minutes pls i could listen to them for hours

[@tiger-lily3014]

I love how you’re just like “okay?????” finding out the old man is the creator of the game lmfaaaoooooo

[@nihilism1652]

Ngl when you said you're team galeniss I almost unsubscribed :') great video as always!! And Ali makes me so happy, he's the best representation we've had in forever, I think. He's probably one of the very few decent representations, and the only one I've come across :') You used a picture of NUEST!! Love it. Also the part with gihuns confrontation with ilnam in the finale definitely was a bit.....dragged out But the interesting thing about it is the very fact that it's anticlimactic. As viewers we already knew it but when there was the potential of a reveal we looked forward to there being more. Of course they left all the real details out for the next season but the whole reinforcement of the fact that it was created I of boredom just cements just how far civilization has fallen. It's cool that out of all countries it's SKR that created this show, because as you probably already know thanks to watching kdramas (same here), despite the romanticizing of economic struggles of girls who get with chaebols, there's also a very real critique on how unfair the entire system is there, even through fantasy kdramas like hotel del Luna and mystic/mysterious pop-up bar

[@sapphia4612]

I also thought the same thing that the participants or prisoners outfit was green and the guards dress was red which constrats to each other and it just made it simple but alluring

[@danielsimmich1858]

What I find interesting is that the hierarchy goes Circle < Triangle < Square but there’s a couple of instances in which symbolically that hierarchy is disrupted. In the logo for the show it’s the circle which is placed above the other shapes, and in the squid game, it’s the circle that’s the most important part. Additionally, you can think of the circle as having one side, less than the three of the triangle and the four of the square, but you can also think if the circle as having an infinite number of sides, thus putting it above the other shapes. Idk if any of that will amount to anything, but it’s interesting to think about at the very least. So,etching something class consciousness maybe?

[@eyeslockedhandslocked1039]

Chae Kyungsun deserves all the praise for doing the amazing art design in squid game, the set design was so beautiful and creative and fit really well with the "faux innocence" of the games

[@FlyToTheRain]

the only video on squid game in the past month that i just refuse to scroll right on past! keep it going queen.

[@MaraHefner]

sangwoo is actually my fav character so i cried a bit when you called him everybody's least favorite 🥲

[@saint_mau]

the show was so visually pleasing (the colors etc), i’m sure it added to the experience a lot

[@nikanna75]

I love this lip color it compliments your beauty!

[@chelseashurmantine8153]

I finally watched the show. I was working through covid and everyone watching the show about dying while I was going into peoples houses as an exterminator to kill things and possibly catch covid or spread covid was so irritating to me. I was getting worked to the bone until I finally got fed up with my 13 hour days 6 days a week and I quit my job, moved across the country to be close to family, only to have my house robbed, car stolen, totaled by the cops, and then save up to move back. Sigh. I’m finally chilled down enough to watch something so twisted and I have been soooo excited to rewatch your take on the show

[@teraphIl1000]

Wait, the tracksuits are green?! I see them as blue.

[@heatherduke8230]

me too

[@jade_ehx600]

they’re like teal to me

[@teraphIl1000]

@@jade_ehx600 Exactly!

[@KassandraQuiseng]

They’re in between blue and green, but swing more green. So it’s teal green rather than teal blue.

[@teraphIl1000]

@@KassandraQuiseng They look more blue to me, but i get what you're saying.

[@WhitneyDahlin]

I'm an in home geriatric nurse and I just cried my eyes out when I thought 001 died during the marble game. It also hurt my heart when he urinated on himself and just sit tore my heart out. I was really happy he was alive in the end. It was just so heart wrenching for me. I have such a heart for the elderly.

[@alyssapinon9670]

I feel you there. Squid game/oh Il nam totally used that soft spot to their advantage. Went from crying over the old man to being pissed at him. But on another note I have nothing but love for people who are in your line of work and genuinely care for their clients.

[@WhitneyDahlin]

@@alyssapinon9670 yes they definitely used the emotions for the old man against us! I was just stunned he was the one who started the games! And thank you! I truly do love everyone of my patients. I know I'm not supposed to but I do get really attached. Because in my line of work I'm not in a hospital or a doctor's office I go into a patient's home and I'll usually only have one or two patients at a time and I'll stay with the patients for a year or sometimes more. So I definitely get very close to them. It's a great line of work I definitely really enjoy it. I've learned so much from them

[@CompanionCait]

I am dead at that Ali crushes his boss's hand editing. 🤣

[@marikkelaszlo3355]

What I love most about squid game is like you said, it's aesthetic. I feel like it's pretty rare for a "kill to survive" type of movie to use bright, sugary colors that belong to a kids' daycare for its set. Watching the TV show, I felt like I was watching what Roblox games would be like (the bright colors and the fact that a lot of Roblox obbies are similar to the glass stage in the show) if it was implemented in real life and players actually wound up dying. 😊

[@Lalaoceanne]

justice for ji-yeong and my man ali!! 😭

[@kg395]

Her death scene KILLED me. I had to go take a walk

[@belle-ashton2167]

I suggest the Kdrama Mr. Sunshine on Netflix with the Front Man too. It’s a masterpiece, and such a relevant and powerful one. No joke. The costumes are absolutely magnificent.

[@motherdreamy.3489]

I also think the animal masks are an interesting addition bc it really begs the question, would animals really be this cruel in nature? Maybe true evil is a trait only humans can possess.

[@VanNessy97]

Dolphins and orcas are almost as cruel as humans. Dolphins are even racist, committing hate crimes on porpoises and even other dolphins if those dolphins have spots.

[@_primalpilatesprincess]

The hair is always so fabulous with Mina! This is my favorite look this far

[@ashleynichole8687]

It blows my mind that people still think Katniss should’ve ended up with the mastermind behind the idea that killed her sister. Her sister, the entire reason any of it happened in the first place. Maybe she shouldn’t have ended up with Gale OR Peeta, but NEVER Gale!

[@cassie4923]

I personally ship every character out of Hungergames with therapy

[@cat-sd5cr]

True

[@uhohmykokoro1616]

👍👍

[@ayde92829]

The utilization of childhood games, for me, insinuated the effects of Socialization Theory, especially through the conception of Bourdieu: who theorized that we"re continuously groomed to behave and uphold certain things within society through Societal institutions and 'Habitus'. In his work, he spends much time conceptualizing the social function of Schools and Sports in learning and consolidating hierarchies and their associated cultural, symbolic, and economic capitals.

[@aleesiauh]

The hand in marriage bit LOL but SAME

[@eloramusicaofficial]

I loved how the turning point in the show (when they decide to work together) it’s signified by them learning each other’s real names instead of just referring to each other by their numbers! Great video as always Mina :)