So Real

just got shot 99 times

When you suddenly remember that Ali had a wife and baby, and nobody ever told Gi-hun about them. Sang-woo was the only person who knew about Ali’s family, and he didn’t say anything, so they never got any help.

The Russian's roulette scene was INSANELY GOOD. Gong-Yoo's acting was just CHEF'S KISS.

Ps: Sorry if this looks like shit. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Reference the scene

Gong Yoo the man that you are

i'm making another tragic sang-woo post because this poor man is slaughtered by the fandom senselessly

i don't see many people discuss this, so i wanted to hop on here and give my own personal thoughts.

flash forward to episode 7! for some context, player 069 begs the other players to leave the games. sang-woo stands up against 069 and yells at him for considering giving up after everything that's already happened.

i will provide the words from the transcript here.

"so what if we stop now? you think your wife will stop being dead if we all go now? and she'll forgive you for letting her get murdered?

if you can't keep going, then why are you alive right now? you should have been the one who died in there instead.

[points to the piggy bank.] see that? that's the price of being in here. and your wife and the others paid it with their lives.

and you wanna go and leave? you wanna start from the beginning again? you ready to do all that, huh? starting over again from nothing with that guilt."

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from a surface level, this looks like an asshole move. which, to be fair, it sure as hell wasn't coming from a place of love.

from my perspective, however, this entire conversation feels like:

A) a projection of sang-woo's guilt

B) him internally trying to justify his own actions (aka killing ali) to himself

i honestly feel like this conversation is a mix of both. sang-woo obviously feels guilty for killing ali - his horrid thousand-yard stare and flinch as the gunshot goes off, as well as other subtle reactions after are very telling of that. i feel that might be the moment when he internally realizes he's too far gone. but he's trying so hard to justify and push that guilt down.

most importantly, i feel like a part of him isn't just talking to 069 and the other players.. but himself as well. trying to scold the part of himself that feels horribly guilty. the first part of the monologue especially.

anybody who says sang-woo doesn't feel guilt for his actions is very much wrong. but he's so desperate and focused on survival that he tries his hardest to abolish that guilt and justify the things he did. i don't think it ever works.

sang-woo my beloved

*about to be executed* "Sang-woo's last act of love was killing himself so Gi-hun wouldn't have to do it-"

SQUID GAME "O X"

i hope that in 2025 u get to take more walks, read more books, connect with more people whom u love and who love u, achieve ur goals (even if ur goals are having no goals and just living in the moment), exercise fun hobbies, move from a place of self-direction, and weave together a beguiling assortment of beautiful little moments. remember that no feeling lasts forever. love u