The Netflix original series Squid Game has become one of the most popular Korean dramas. The excitement and plot twist stunned the viewers for sure.
Behind the world of materialism that the director constantly reminds us of through a piggy bank full of money, there are life lessons for viewers who should try to pick up when they’re binge-watching it.
Beware of people you trust
Remember when Cho Sang Woo and Ali Abdul played marbles. The players must determine their respective pairs. At first, they thought they would fight another couple. But it turns out that each player has to beat their partner. Whoever manages to get ten marbles of his partner, then is the winner.
Ali Abdul really believes and admires Sang Woo because he has a good idea in every game and once gave him money. While playing marbles, Ali Abdul almost won it. Still, Sang Woo cheated and convinced him that they could both win by procrastinating until the duration of the game was over.
Sang Woo asked Ali Abdul to bring a bag of marbles — which had apparently been exchanged for pebbles — to go around to see the other couple playing. When Ali Abdul left, Sang Woo who had taken Ali’s marbles and put them in his own marble bag immediately gave a bag containing 20 marbles to the committee. Be Sang Woo winning the game.
While Ali Abdul was still walking around the game arena carrying a bag of pebbles that he thought were his and Sang Woo’s marbles. When the game was over, how sad Ali Abdul was when he realized he had been deceived. He opened a bag of marbles that had been exchanged for pebbles. It was too late, Ali lost and was killed.
From these events, some people took the lesson of not believing too much in others. Because in reality, there are people who want to take advantage of us and show the world is not as good as we think.
Money cannot buy happiness
Player number 001, Oh Il Nam turned out to be the mastermind behind the deadly game. The reason he titles and participates in his own game is very simple. Oh Il Nam wants to be nostalgic with his childhood games. He wants to have fun with other players while entertaining his clients who are bored with their luxurious lives.
Oh Il Nam realizes that money cannot buy happiness. Even so, money is useful to achieve a prosperous life. It’s just that the way Oh Il Nam feels the excitement of the game in this movie is so late because it threatens his life.
The brain is more valuable than the muscle
Visually, the tug-of-war game must have been won by Gi Hun’s opposing team. But in this story, Gi Hun’s team wins because they use strategy, not strong origins. The Gi Hun team consists of three women, one elderly, and six men. Speaking physically, they will lose to the opposing team which is all men.
At the last moment of the arena, Oh Il Nam delivered a winning trick while playing mine pull. He applied that strategy since childhood and it made his team never lose when playing tug of war. Gi Hun’s team built a strong strategy and teamwork, so he managed to win it.
From here we can learn that the brain is more valuable than the muscle. With solid strategy and teamwork, you can win a fight like Gi Hun’s team.
Think out of the box
Gi Hun almost lost in a game of scraping a picture on a piece of candy. He has to think of a difficult pattern, the umbrella. Out of tension, Gi Hun’s sweat dripped and fell on the sugar. From there he realized that the sugar would melt if exposed to water.
Unfortunately, there is no water there. Gi Hun finally licked the pieces of sugar until the umbrella pattern came off. The method was followed by other participants. Thanks to his intelligence, Gi Hun managed to win this game.
What Gi Hun does teaches us to think in a completely different way aka out of the box. Instead of grinding the candy with a needle to get the pattern, Gi Hun chose to lick it. Basically, you never know what solutions can be done to get out of problems in this life if you haven’t tried.
Being the last is not always bad
In the game of running on a glass bridge, the filmmakers take turns choosing which glass tiles they will step on before reaching the finish line. If the player steps wrong, then the glass will break and the player will fall. From the beginning, Gi Hun hesitated whether to take the starting or ending number.
When the game started, he realized that he was lucky to get the last order. He simply followed the steps of the participant in front of him who had already chosen which glass will break and not.
From this game, getting the last sequence is not always bad. Because sometimes there are wonderful plans that have been prepared for you in the future.