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Attention: This article tells of the end of the “Squid Game” in the third “Squid Game” relay
The “Highlander” thinking “There can only be one” does not apply to the third season of “Squid Game”. Nine players take part in the last challenge. You have to manage three sections. One player has to die per tower section. So six participants can end up winners and bind the prize money.
In the very last section of the “Squid Game” game Now Gi-Hun reaches the final tower together with the baby and myung-gi. There is a decisive confrontation: Myung-Gi asks Gi-Hun to leave the child to him. But Gi-Hun refuses. He suspects that Myung-Gi is ready to sacrifice his own child to survive. A fight burns in the course of which Myung-Gi falls into the depths and dies. But since neither of the two had previously pressed the start button of the final round, Myung-Gi’s death is not considered an official victim. Gi-Hun is now facing a choice: killing the baby and lives on-or sacrifice yourself to save the child’s life.
To the surprise of the VIP viewers, Gi-Hun opens for suicide. While the VIPs are waiting for the expected cruelty in the background, Gi-Hun raises the baby, with an indomitable look in her direction-although he cannot see them directly-and deliberately turns their back on them.
What he says now is not aimed at her. It is a message to all of us. He kisses the baby, puts it gently on the floor and says: “We are not horses. We are humans. We humans are …” Then players 456 – the identification figure of the viewer – jumps into death.
What does “we humans are …”?
The question is why Gi-Hun leaves this sentence unfinished before it falls off the tower. The empty space could be a placeholder for how different we are. How different our thoughts, feelings and motivations. There is no answer to what we are. Or who we are. The “Squid Game” players showed it: hate, fear, anger, grief, horror. All of this is reflected in us. Only one thing is clear: the “squid game” is an inhumane game. Whose operator take advantage of the existential fear of people for their murderous game.
A commitment to humanity
With this last act, Gi-Hun sends a clear signal. He refuses to log in the game, violence, dehumanization. He believes in the value of every single life. Even a helpless newborn. Instead of giving up the pressure and rules of the VIP elite, he deliberately decides against her rules of the game-and pays with his life.
The jump is also a signal to his adversary, the front man. Over the past seasons, he has repeatedly tried to convince Gi-Hun that people were no longer saved. In a scene of episode 4, he asks him: “Player 456, do you still believe in the good in humans?” Gi-Hun has now given him the answer.