![]() Our regular crew starts to win, Sang-woo and Ali first, and winners are told to leave the arena. When a mistake happens and the first person is shot, everyone has to find a way to focus, to save their life as people drop dead all around them. The game is hard because the wafer breaks easily Seong is especially struggling with the intricate shape of the umbrella. ![]() They begin, hunched over the floor, the red suits roaming with guns. They must cut their shape out with a needle in ten minutes. The game is "Sugar Honeycombs," confirming what Kang likely saw was the red suits making these. The editing is tight, increasing suspense, as each player takes their tin and opens it. The players' new mindset is, "if I mess up, I die." Seong chooses the umbrella because his mother chastised him for losing one when he was young. They pick a shape, either a circle, triangle, star, or umbrella. The red suits enter the arena first, a playground with a multicolored fence and a blue, cloudy sky. Most of them are still eating when the announcer says the second game will begin shortly. Sang-woo picks apart his pastry, finding a small piece of paper that says "honeycomb." Something insidious is revealed about the order and depth of the games here - the red suits are tagging a certain player's food with reference to the next game, feeding the players the possibility of their death. Kang tells Han that she smelled sugar watching the red suits in the kitchen. Sang-woo notices that Kang is not eating her morning pastry. ![]() This lesson is about companionship and the power of the mind, the successes and fallacies of individual thought, and how individual thought becomes collective for positive or negative ends. The umbrella man resumen series#It’s an obvious take that Squid Game is a critique of capitalism, this being an extension of its extreme, nightmarish possibilities, but the series is also teaching us something more mundane, less sardonic. ![]() “Deserted island, abductions, surveillance, and masks,” he types into his phone. In his jail type bed at night, Jun-ho/29 is taking notes about what’s happening. The suing reference is excellent because it’s the first time a player relates their situation to post-game consequence: revenge. Han says this is sexual harassment, screaming that “once I get out of here, I’m going to sue you, bastard.” Consent has been weaponized against the players since the beginning, with their screwed-either-way release form, how the crew undresses them after they have gassed them, and now, how Triangle Man bursts open a bathroom stall with two women. ![]()
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