The Ending Of Squid Game Explained

Explaining the ending of Netflix's Squid Game, while also giving predictions, summary, explaining the red hair, and the meaning behind some major scenes.

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This video was made by Bryce Edward Brown

[samhunt]

The ending is good and direct idk why people think it is bad to me it felt like something that would eventually happen, Gi-hun's entire convo with old man in hospital proves he values human compassion over anything.

[straw-hat-sympathizer]

I think that people misread the last scene between the Old Man and Gi-hun. I think the Old Man genuinely liked Gi-hun and orchestrated their final meeting in order to help Gi-hun move on with his life.

After the Games ended, the Old Man knew that Gi-hun had not touched his prize money and was basically wasting his life away. So the Old Man set up one final meeting with Gi-hun. The whole thing with the guy freezing out on the street and the person returning to help him was set up by the Old Man (just like he set up the Games). They were all working for him. (Didn't anyone find it rather convenient that there would be someone freezing outside who was perfectly in view of the Old Man's window and that somebody would return to help him just seconds before the Old Man's bet with Gi-hun ended?).

The whole thing was carefully arranged by the Old Man in order to restore Gi-hun's faith in humanity and allow him to move on with his life after the Games had left him a broken man. So in the end, the Old Man was a true Gganbu. He could have kept his existence a secret, but he decided to expose his identity to Gi-hun in order to help 'save' him. It was his final gift to Gi-hun to restore his belief in humanity after the Games had destroyed it.

[jamesbubbastewartjr]

Maybe Gi-Hun assumed with the death of Oh Il-Nam, the games would not continue. Then, seeing tall handsome man in the subway recruiting for the games makes him realize he needs to put a stop to them. They just dramatized it to happen right before he boards the plane.

[petra_uhrakova]

I think the cop is still alive, since they shoot him in his shoulder and there’s gonna be another Squid game, but the main character who won will be involved as one of the staff/working with the boss.

[CZsWorld]

4:25 looks like Hogwarts went out of business and got bought by Dunkin' Donuts.

[tuz]

I feel like there was another very significant aspect to the death bed scene. Il-nam asks Gi-hun to play a betting game on whether or not anyone will help the drunk man outside in the snow. This was essentially betting on that man's life and despite what Gi-hun is saying about the immorality of squid game, he did the exact same thing by betting on another man's life. The man could have died (and honestly by the looks of it, I'm not convinced he survived). Gi-hun did not bother helping though just for the sake of the game.

I'm not great with interpreting stuff but I feel like this is not being talked about enough.

[rustinpierce]

This relates to me I had a great childhood and felt alive . When I got older I started worrying about money I lost my sense of enjoying live .

[benzontan]

I don’t understand Korean but I had to watch it in Korean audio with English subtitles to feel the emotions of the characters. I realized this when Gi Hun’s (456) mom was very upset and told him that his daughter will forget to speak Korean and that he’ll never see her again.

[jeeneeuz]

This show strongly reminded me of the Stanford prison experiment, I saw a theory that taking the blue square makes you a player, and taking a red square makes you a guard. Both people come from similar situations but act differently based on the roles they are assigned.

[davidlin]

One thing most people seems don't understand: Why Sang-Woo have to kill Sae-byeok while she is almost dying anyway ?
It's because he was afraid she and Gi-Hun may both vote for stopping the game before the last game.

[vasilikonstan]

This was the type of analysis I was looking for! Lots of others are just rehashing the same thing over and over again.

[huntresskira]

I'm late too, I just finished it now. Your upload is PERFECT TIMING! So thank you. Btw, didn't expect to actually cry in 2 specific scenes on the last two episodes..

[Brahim]

Then it's definitely season 2, we'll learn what happened after the protagonist decided to cancel his flight. Love it

[Mekanacbf]

I've watched it once by myself, am half way through again with my fiancee & I've watched every video about it 🤣

[abhishekhegdest]

Gi -Hun broke an oath on his mother's life and his mother died at the end.

[ZebraCatfish]

Other movies that tie in or have overlapping themes I can think of that remind me of Squid Game is “Circle” (2015), “Cube” (1997), “The Platform” (2019), “The Purge” (2013), “Escape Room” (2019), “Saw” (2003), “Snowpicer” (2013) and apparently the tv series of the same name that I have not yet seen.

I’m sure there are plenty more movies of similar nature that reflect a breakdown in society with morals and ethics being either stretched, tested, or even broken on some level.

It’s interesting to see what mankind will resort to if placed in certain predicaments. Films like these test the viewers own moral compass in a “what if” scenario. Great viewing. Look forward to the second installment of Squid Game.

[sopranophantomista]

Okay, so after binging Squid Game over the past couple of nights, and I really like the ambiguous ending of Gi-han turning around and going back. We don't know if he's going to play in the games again, or if he's going back to stop them. Either way, he looks determined. Depending on which side you're on, it can be either one. I think it can speak on the nature of how hard addiction is to break. Even when you're at your lowest point (in this case, Gi-han winning the games, coming home broken and beaten, finding his mom dead, etc), and you never want to be back there again, all it takes is a chance of having a second shot that can trigger that want again. Recovery is hard, relapsing is even harder. That doesn't mean that all the work you did up until you relapse means nothing, though.

Would Gi-han ever want to participate in the games again? We don't have a concrete confirmation, but how he treated himself afterwards would indicate that he's tried so hard to get back to 'normal', not even thinking about the money and making his quality of life better. It's only when you see him lock eyes with the agent from episode 1 do you see a fire blaze in him again. Because he's been there. He knows. In his heart, he knows that it's never going to end well, a winner's life is bittersweet at most. To quote the MCU: "What did it cost?" "Everything."

If there is a season 2 in the works, I'd be excited to see where they take the personal story of the characters still left alive and how they elevate them. But, if there's not, if this is the only season, the story is complete on it's own, and that's good enough.

[PatrickNC]

NEW THEORY: Why are people so sure that Il-Nam is actually dead? He seemed to have died at exactly 12am which seems a bit too fitting. But here's the main clue which nobody has noticed yet: on the patient monitor, if you look at the top right of the screen it says "SENSOR OFF" and "LEAD OFF". Either the cables may have never been connected to Il-Nam or that he removed it while Gi-Hun  'won' the game as he was looking away. Have a look yourself. After all, his original 'death' was staged by Gi-Hun and all of us looking away. There is a precedence of foreshadowing already with how each player died according to an incident in their real life. Why can't this principle of foreshadowing apply again? That is, he staged his death twice. Why are we so confident we are not being fooled again if practically all of us missed it the first time? Il-Nam may have staged it for both Gi-Hun and the Frontman who arrives after Gi-Hun and closes his eyes. But perhaps Il-Nam played them both and staged it because that would mean in the next season both of them will clash but both of them think Il-Nam is dead which means they feel they can assert control over the game. Only for Il-Nam to reassert himself later in the series and declare that he was okay the whole time and that there is a greater game going on involving the two of them.

[ToviaOgun]

The ending was quite self explanation but just wanted to hear what others have to say

[katelynm.]

I knew that was the cop's brother before he took off his mask! Definitely think that plot point isn't over