There are 455 other players, all simultaneously waking up in towers of plain bunk beds. When he wakes up, he’s wearing a tracksuit labelled “456”.
#SQUIDMAN SYNOPSIS PASSWORD#
“Red Light, Green Light” turns out to be the password to join in, which involves boarding a people carrier along with the other passengers, all of whom, including Gi-hun, are gassed into unconsciousness for the trip. So, inevitably, Gi-hun calls the number on the business card that the salesman gave him and agrees to participate. In order for her to stay, he has to prove he can support her financially. He’s happy to have made 100,000 won, but it’s barely enough to make a dent in what he owes, and when he returns home, his mother tells him that Ga-yeong will be moving to the U.S. Since the salesman seems to know everything about him, including his employment history and his current debts, Gi-hun is compelled by the idea. A hundred grand better off, he’s much more susceptible to the idea that there are other big-money games he can get involved in. Before long, he looks like a Batman villain. Gi-hun doesn’t have 100,000 won to gamble, so every time he loses, which is every round, he pays the toll in a slap across the face. And we have to understand he’s desperate so we understand why he’d agree to play a high-stakes game of ddakji with a random man at the train station. This is all so we understand Gi-hun is desperate. Ga-yeong’s mother and step-father are well-off and well-adjusted, and Gi-hun is neither, but he obviously means well. She’s careful not to upset Gi-hun when he’s forced to take her for a cheap junk food meal and pretends to be happy about the cigarette lighter in the shape of a gun that Gi-hun gives her as a gift - he won it out of a claw machine with the help of some random kid in an arcade. Gi-hun’s daughter, Ga-yeong, is adorable at least. He even signs in his blood to make it all official. Just like that, he has one month to cough up his debts or the cost will be recouped in the form of his vital organs. But almost immediately after promising her all kinds of treats he loses his newfound wealth while being chased by some goons he already owes money to. He spends the morning of his daughter’s birthday in the bookies just to fund her special day. He sponges off his mother and blows what little money he does have gambling on horses. “Red Light, Green Light” makes it clear early that Gi-hun is a degenerate.
0 kommentar(er)
