Warning: This text incorporates spoilers for Squid Recreation season 3.Squid Recreation Entrance Man actor Lee Byung-hun continues to supply perception into his character’s complicated psychology, together with why he seemingly gives Lee Jung-jae’s Gi-hun assist the night time earlier than the ultimate sport. In Squid Recreation season 3’s ending, Gi-hun finds himself in a extra determined state of affairs than ever when he’s the only protector of Jun-hee’s (Jo Yu-ri) new child child in opposition to the remaining gamers.
On account of spending time posing as a participant in Squid Recreation season 2, the Entrance Man got here to see Gi-hun as one thing of a pal. In season 3, he lastly reveals who he’s to Gi-hun and supplies him with a knife, so Gi-hun might kill the remainder of the gamers of their sleep if he wished to.
Throughout an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Lee Byung-hun stated that In-ho did this as a result of he “wanted Gi-hun to live, because Gi-hun is someone he feels differently about compared to the other players.” The Entrance Man additionally would have felt a “sense of victory” in proving that Gi-hun was identical to him. Take a look at his full feedback under:
I am glad you requested, as a result of that uncertainty is precisely what I wished viewers to really feel after they watched that scene. I performed that scene considering there are each side to him. I consider the Entrance Man wished Gi-hun to dwell, as a result of Gi-hun is somebody he feels in a different way about in comparison with the opposite gamers, due to the time they spent collectively contained in the Recreation. So if Gi-hun had killed everybody simply because the Entrance Man did, the Entrance Man would have felt a way of victory, as a result of he would have been confirmed proper in his core perception. He might say, “See? You’ve ended up just like me.”
However, if Gi-hun does not undergo with it — which is what occurs — the Entrance Man will really feel a way of defeat. He would additionally really feel a type of self-reproach, and even envy, in seeing Gi-hun shield his values in exactly the way in which that he didn’t do. Nonetheless, I feel deep inside him, a part of him was virtually rooting for Gi-hun. The deepest a part of him wished to see Gi-hun not give in and proceed to carry onto hope for the world and for humanity. So I performed that scene considering that he was feeling all of these items, however within the deepest sense, the latter.
This Provide Was The End result Of Gi-hun & The Entrance Man’s Battle
Because the flashbacks in Squid Recreation season 3 present, In-ho was as soon as supplied this identical alternative by Il-nam (Oh Yeong-su), the creator of the video games. And In-ho went via with it, killing off the competitors the night time earlier than the ultimate spherical, being named the winner, and ultimately turning into the Entrance Man.
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All through the sequence, the Entrance Man and Gi-hun are at conflict with one another over the character of humanity itself; whether or not people will extra typically battle to guard or kill one another in an atmosphere of restricted sources and slim possibilities of survival. For each of them, it grew to become a really private sport of needing to show the opposite one fallacious.
The previous theories that Gi-hun would change into the brand new Entrance Man are maybe what In-ho was aiming for, as he desperately sought the validation of having the ability to corrupt Gi-hun, proving that his selections are the one end result. From some moments all through season 2, he does see how Gi-hun can act ruthlessly to guard his personal and serve his thought of the better good.
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Nonetheless, Gi-hun finally chooses to not get rid of the competitors so simply, preserving his humanity, and this has a big impact on the Entrance Man, as his actor confirms. He’s indignant that he has misplaced this spherical, but in addition devastated, as this exhibits him that there was one other method that he wasn’t robust sufficient to decide on years earlier.
Our Take On The Entrance Man’s Causes For Serving to Gi-hun
This Was The Good Last Alternate Between The Two Of Them
I want we had gotten to see extra between the Entrance Man and Gi-hun after the latter realized the reality in Squid Recreation season 3; nevertheless, this alternate is precisely what wanted to occur in the long run. In-ho offers Gi-hun the prospect to make the selection that turned him into the Entrance Man — the second we had all been ready for — and Gi-hun chooses to not, finalizing the sequence’ core theme.
Supply: The Hollywood Reporter
Squid Recreation
8/10
Launch Date
2021 – 2025
Community
Netflix
Showrunner
Hwang Dong-hyuk
Lee Jung-jae
Seong Gi-hun / ‘No. 456’
Wi Ha-jun
Detective Hwang Jun-ho
