This scene is the perfect introduction to how the games are a matter of life and death. The slow build up, the sudden reveal that the dude was really shot, and the ensuing chaos make this the perfect introduction to these games.
so glad that lee jung-jae received an emmy nomination for his role in squid game, he was BRILLIANT! so were the other cast members. this episode alone was such a great start to how the rest of squid games is like.
What really annoyed me about this show was the woman who gave the instructions on the PA system basically instructed people to their deaths. She is worse than a concentration camp guard, hopefully she is tracked down in season too and justice is served, her wretched family too.
My one complaint in this was that he didn't thank him enough afterwards. After Ali did that- something that risked his own life to save a strangers in that kind of game- Gi Hun should have nigh on worshipped him the rest of the series.
I love how they kept the Korean culture on mind for some of the Korean games and the way they depicted each of the children's games played in such a survival genre.
@@johnweak6788 As a k-drama fan who has watched countless k-dramas for over 3 years, I can say that most of them are westernised in the sense they show how they're influenced by the European and American culture. Squid Game is an exception.
yeah...!absolutely...! This game I used to play in the playground when I was young was combined with this fierce survival game, so it felt new. (According to the original rule, if you move, you have to hold hands with the tagger and someone comes and rescues you...) a..also sorry for bad English..
Let's be real, we all know that Gi-Hun would survive this game even before the game started because as always he's the main character and the main character always survives at the end
@@clurosencrans3871 yea. people also have to keep in mind that if squid game was a thing and one person were to win, why would the show be be about the people who died? it would ofc be about the person who won.... so the "mc"
The players who died are all native Koreans who know the song. Meanwhile Ali is a foreigner who probably doesn't know the song or the game. But he not only survives, he also saves another player!
This is the scene that gets everyone hooked. The doll makes it weird and dreamlike, and the shootings are brutally shocking. I think the blond man dies first because his only strategy is to run very fast towards the finish line, but he runs in such a silly way, like a silly loping dog running for a ball, so when he suddenly has to stop, he has already thrown himself off balance.
It’s perfectly natural for people to panic in times of danger, but you’d think most of the people who ran would’ve at least been able to grasp the fact that they were essentially in a “You move, you die” scenario. After all, the other half of the players realized that easily enough.
Fight, flight, or freeze (the human panic response) is very hard to control. Most likely, those who froze where people whose natural fear response is to freeze. When we are afraid, activity in the frontal lobe (the part of the brain responsible for logical thinking) decreases and the activity in the amygdala (fear center) increases. This means that people in danger are often unable to act logically.
You know I never really noticed that untill you said it. Couldn't have said it better myself. My first thought when they started running away was. "Omg what are you doing stand still! Like where the hell would you even escape to anyways?".
I found the crowd reaction to be pretty realistic, actually. I think the panicked instincts would tell you you have a better chance escaping than winning the game, and nobody could have predicted hidden lazer accurate ai guns
I love how they played up the blonde and the other guy as they were going to be the mainstay comical sidekick characters only to immediately murder both of them. This is a good subversion unlike literally anything from GOT post-season 4 or TLJ as a whole.
Chilling illustration of what happens when wealth disparity reaches ridiculous levels - the absurdly wealthy have the power to play God with the lives of their fellow men and women. And they do.
I was astonished by the shootings in ep 1 it was a huge twist. Elimination from the game means death so the one person that'll be winning in the end will be the only surviver. These elements are what made it interesting. Can't wait for season 2!!
Ceux qui disent que la série est surcotée n'ont rien compris. Une vraie critique de la société, des inégalités, de l'appât du gain (et j'en passe). Cette première scène avec la poupée et la chanson, toutes deux si effrayantes et dérangeantes, est magistrale et restera dans l'histoire du cinéma !
I wonder if the popularity of the show will have a marked impact on a decrease in the playing of red light green light at preschools and kindergartens.
I honestly don't know why people feel the need to edit the scene and add more dramatic music. The scene is perfect as it is. There is no dramatic music because nobody (including the viewer) really knows what the stakes are exactly in the games just yet. But also when people start dying the music doesn't change or anything because those have always been the stakes and nothing has changed everybody has just now been clued into what those stakes are. It's great and I don't see why people have the need to edit it when the scene is fantastic istelf.
That's why I just ended up going to Netflix and pulling the episode back up to watch. I couldn't find any versions of this on RU-vid that weren't too edited. The original has the best feel!
Imagine a different version of Squid Game which worked like this: when a player gets eliminated, he or she has a choice to lose a hand, a foot, or an eye. And those who cannot decide are killed off, anyway.
This scene is even more terrfying. The way they start running and bang the door, so many innocent lives lost so fast and so brutally and unfairly. I don't understand why the squid game makers just want to kill people and I don't understand why they decided to come back even tho the games were so evil and disgusting. It annoys me so much how evil the gamemakers were.
The old man is the best player in this game since the trick to walk slowly with a long stretch of your feet to both cover the long distance and stop anytime
Just finished the series after putting it off until now. I was kinda worried that it was just a show that celebrates hyper-violence. Out of interest, are there many people who realise and take away a deeper meaning from this show (themes like camaraderie, sacrifice, morality and self belief) or does everyone just get off watching the characters die gruesome
It is a very disturbing show, indeed. However there's clearly an undertone message of how people's lives do matter in spite of the carnage. I interpret the show as an allegory to capitalism and it's an exaggeration of how people act in their everyday lives. It's just so that normally we're not in a life-or-death situation like in the movie, but if we were, don't think that most of us wouldn't do the things shown in the series.
The show is themed around capitalism and the dehumanisation of the poor. It’s actually a great allegory for how capitalism claims to allow for upward mobility but instead is rigged in favour of the privileged (equality v equity) and how instead of punching upward, the working class are manipulated into fighting amongst themselves for scraps. The violence is portrayed as horrifying and when the winner of the games emerges, it’s not celebrated. Great show, you should definitely watch it.
@@kaywho6477 There are more refined way of making such a commentary on capitalism. Let's be honest, the hyper-violence is there to ensure a large viewership for the show.
I just watched the game parts and they were one of the disturbing things I watched. I think it is mostly because of the shocking effect of putting the innocent and evil together in child games and this creates an extremely unsafe area where you lose your trust even in child games' innocence and start to question their sincerity since then. You die not in a fight or not in a war but in an innocent child game with colourful candies, baby dolls and marbles. That's too much to handle.
I actually think the American dubbed version of the game “red light, green light” was spookier than the Korean version of this game. The dubbers did a great job with the doll’s cherubic voice.
I'm very late to the party but I just binged this show in 2 days. Best weekend so far. What a masterpiece. When it comes to korean shows you can never be disappointed. The good new is I won't have to wait too long for season 2.
Honestly out of all the squid games I believe this would be the easiest one for me to survive, because I would definitely be screwed in the glass competition.
@@danilocesarverissimo2895 you can always lick the cookie, but it depends on the shape that you get, obviously if you get the umbrella shape you're more than likely going to be screwed.
Depends on my state of mind by the fifth game. It i was still thinking clearly, i might have figured something out. They definitely played by the letter of the law when it came to the rules of each game and I'm good at figuring out ways around that.
Well, that was the big argument back in the dormitory wasn't it? That nobody told them. When they all came back it was made clear they knew what the stakes were
