Squid Game’s Seong GI-Hun (№456) Is Not the Good Guy
No amount of guilt-ridden brooding or floppy hair is going to change that
Many many spoilers ahead!
Like many millions of people, I have been watching Hwang Dong-hyuk’s Squid Game, a South Korean survival drama. The show follows debt-ridden players who have to play six children’s games for a cash prize of 45.6 billion won (around £28m).
As with all things in this life, there is a catch — elimination results in your death. The games begin with 456 players, and by the end of the first episode, only 201 remain (with the other 255 “eliminated” via sniper fire).
The series though great is not perfect. For example, during the antepenultimate episode, one of the VIPs — a large, older white man — takes a liking to one of his waiters. In a private room, the wealthy patron towers naked over the waiter, with his face covered in a gold mask shaped like a boar. In slow, haggard, bated breaths he offers to change his life, under the guarantee he can satisfy him in under 5 minutes. Unbeknownst to him, the simple waiter he is about to rape is a police officer who snuck into the island to look for his brother.
