With a second left, Gi-hun succeeds and breaks down in tears. A successful 212 drops her lighter for 101, but everyone else follows Gi-hun’s example and starts frantically licking their honeycomb. As he nervously sweats on the honeycomb, he gets an idea to melt it from the back, thinning the outline so he can more easily remove the umbrella. Sang-woo and 067, both triangles, are able to pass with no issue. After the high tension of the first game, this seems a little reiterative, but the little advantages some players have - 212’s lighter, for instance - gives it a slightly different vibe. The staff keeps a watchful eye on everyone, and anyone who fails is promptly executed. Sang-woo had some prior knowledge of this, so went for the triangle for ease Gi-hun, who has the hardest shape, realizes he’s probably screwed. The cases contain a circular piece of sugar honeycomb printed with one of the four symbols, and each player must cut out their shape with a needle without it breaking or cracking. Let the games begin.Įach of the players is given a circular case. Gi-hun becomes the man with the umbrella, and 001 takes the star. He advises their “team” spread themselves out among the symbols, just in case. Sang-woo, who overheard 067 talking about the sugar, has some brief flashbacks to childhood, trying to determine what the game is going to be.
Four symbols - circle, triangle, star, and umbrella - adorn the walls, and the players are to organize themselves under each one. The room has been done up as a giant playground. And there’s definitely a sweet theme to “The Man with the Umbrella”, which becomes more readily apparent once the latest game is revealed. In the vents, 067 spies the staff melting something down in large pots - it smells like sugar. Most of them are just employees, probably almost as scared as the players. It also gives us a new angle on the staff, who don’t seem to be the perfectly organized and unified front that they first appeared as. With several players having their own agendas, and Jun-ho having infiltrated the game’s staffers, there are many more dynamics at play here than there were in the premiere episode. But it makes everything much more compelling. But 101 has plenty of influence given his underworld connections, and whether you’re inspiring loyalty through fear or charisma, it’s more or less the same thing. 067 seems on her own side, using the knife to unscrew the vents in the bathroom where 212 is enjoying a cheeky smoke. Gi-hun, Sang-woo, and 199 decide to form their own little squad, along with 001, who is so absurdly charming I’m going to be devastated when he inevitably dies. And who participates in all this? You’ll find out here.But shenanigans are afoot! Some players, including the pickpocket, have some hidden advantages - she’s passed a switchblade during the processing phase. If you manage to get through all six rounds, though, you can walk away from the insane scenario with a prize sum of 45.6 billion Won, which is roughly 38 million dollars. However, the stakes are as high as they can be: if you don't make it past each round, you die. Every round is inspired by a popular children’s game, and relatively simple to play. As they’ll take any opportunity to make some money and turn their lives around, they decide to accept an invitation to participate in a deadly competition. The story follows a group of over 450 people who are deep in debt. In case you've been away from the internet for the past couple of weeks, it's the only show social media wants to talk about. Initially introduced as a pickpocket, Number 067 joins the game to help her family, and over time, we discover that she's actually a North Korean defector who needs the cash to reunite her family. Well, if Korean Netflix series Squid Game is any indication, we’re starting to make some effort to obey the director.
Last year, when he won the Academy Award for Parasite, filmmaker Bong Joon Ho urged everyone to overcome the one-inch barrier of the subtitles in order to enjoy new and amazing stories.
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