It’s barbaric and raw and, for a moment, it seems like Gi-hun may succumb to the kind of desperate brutality that has claimed so many in this game.Īfter an ugly fight, Gi-hun manages to beat Sang-woo to the ground and make his way to the circle drawn in the sand that, should he step inside, would mean his victory and Sang-woo’s death. It’s about winning the squid game or making it so your opponent can’t win the squid game… or anything else. This is especially true for the final round, in which Gi-hun and Sang-woo are allowed to use force to beat the other person-even to their death. By pitting these two against one another in Squid Game’s final contest, and making it very clear who the more humane human is, the series is calling into question the metrics by which we measure status and worth in our world.Īs Squid Game progresses, the competition becomes increasingly encouraging of inter-contestant violence. More than that, Sang-woo has been deemed a success by society (well, up until that embezzlement part) and Gi-Hun, a failure. It’s especially fitting (and depressing) that the final two contestants are Gi-hun and Cho Sang-woo, as the two grew up in the same town and used to play squid game together as kids. In a callback to the series’ opening scene, which shows kids playing the titular “squid game” as Gi-hun explains the rules, the final two contestants must face off in the children’s game. While the meat of Squid Game‘s conclusion comes outside of the game, the final round-Round Six, the series’ original title-is effective. Let’s break down what happens in the Squid Game ending… Who Wins Squid Game? Like the show’s beginning, much of Squid Game‘s final hour is set outside the world of the arena-this time, a year following the events of the bulk of the show. It does this in large part by recognizing that the series’ success hinges not so much on who wins the game, but on how they win it and what it all means. This SQUID GAME article contains MAJOR spoilers.įor a series with a relatively well-worn premise, Netflix’s Squid Game sure does manage to pack a lot of surprises into its conclusion.
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