Warning: SPOILERS alee for Squid Game.

Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk explains why Gi-hun didn't get on the plane in the finale. In improver to creating the series, Hwang serves equally the author and director of the Due south Korean survival series. It follows a group of characters that are securely in deb  every bit they are enticed by a mysterious system into playing mortiferous variations on children's games for a considerable greenbacks prize.Squid Gamestars Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo, Wi Ha-joon, Jung Ho-yeon, O Yeong-su, Heo Sung-tae, Anupam Tripathi, and Kim Joo-ryoung, aslope a number of actors from the South Korean scene.

Since premiering on Netflix in September,Squid Gamehas go Netflix's nigh popular prove. With that popularity, a number of questions accept popped up well-nigh the thriller and its potential futurity. In the finale, after winning the game and having a chance to start fresh in America, Gi-hun (Lee) decides to stay back in Seoul with the goal of exposing the mysterious system behind the titular competition.

In an interview with THR, Hwang spoke about the origins ofSquid Game, the potential for season 2, and the show's real-life inspirations. In particular, every bit information technology related to the thriller's ambiguous conclusion and the question of why Gi-hun didn't go on the plane in the finale, the creator said that the decision isn't necessarily well-nigh the graphic symbol going dorsum to go revenge. Every bit expressed by Hwang, the closing scene could represent Gi-hun'southward desire to confront the system rather than go back to being one member of a competitive society. Hwang'south full quote is included beneath.

It's truthful that season ane ended in an open-ended way, simply I actually thought that this could exist good closure for the whole story likewise. season one ends with Gi-hun turning back and non getting on the plane to u.s.. And that was, in fact, my mode of communicating the message that you should not exist dragged along by the competitive flow of social club, but that you should get-go thinking nearly who has created the whole system — and whether at that place is some potential for you to turn back and face it. And so it'southward non necessarily Gi-hun turning back to go revenge. It could actually be interpreted as him making a very on the spot middle contact with what is truly going on in the bigger moving-picture show. So I thought that might exist a good simple, but ambiguous, fashion to end the story for Gi-hun.

The last moments ofSquid Game are set by several scenes in "One Lucky Day." Information technology's most evident during his final confrontation with Il-nam (The Old Human). In that infirmary room, every bit the ii make a bet to encounter if kindness and humanity outweigh more selfish and villainous instincts, Gi-hun is drastic to prove The Erstwhile Man wrong. He'due south drastic, in other words, to testify something to one of the architects of such a roughshod and fatal competition. And though he might have gotten on his flying to the U.S., Gi-hun'southward perspective shifts when he sees The Recruiter again. It's a harsh reminder that the games volition continue and that others will endure and dice for no other reason than the fact they struggle financially.

Information technology is, in a sense, an optimistic ending. While at that place have been some complaints from viewers that Squid Game would be better every bit a standalone serial, and without a finale that leaves the door open up for season 2, it would have been bleak if Gi-hun got on the aeroplane. By the fourth dimension he wins, the character is a shell of his former self. He's quiet, dejected, and aimless. Refusing to return to order is hopeful in its own fashion.

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Source: THR

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