If player 067, Kang Sae-byeok, is Squid Game’s tragic hero, the type poised to complete the sport as well as for most likely the most noble cause-liberating her brother in the orphanage, giving him a much better existence-simply to fall in the last moment, then player 212, Han Mi-Nyeo (performed spectacularly by Kim Joo-Ryoung) may be something from the show’s noble villain: we root on her limited to the finish, throughout a moment of sublime redemption.
Unlike Kang, Han’s backstory is nearly entirely unknown. Within the second episode, we learn during her plea towards the pads that they includes a newborn child who she hasn’t yet registered she states she still must name the infant. But this admission is dubious. Once the players go back to the sport after released, one remarks the way the mother (Han) has additionally return. He wonders sarcastically if she’d the opportunity to name the kid.
Han lies because the master manipulator one of the players. At occasions, it’s hard to know whether her strategies are calculated or desperate, and that’s why Han appears to become one of the most divisive figures around the series-Twitter either hates her or loves her.
She’s annoying. She’s a badass. She ruins the series. She helps make the series.
One factor is obvious, though: player 212, Han Mi-Nyeo, has got the most spectacular dying.
What’s the value of player 212?
Apart from shear survival, a lot of Han’s character motivation involves player 101, Jang Deok-su, the gangster. Both figures are portrayed as extreme egoists, playing the sport uncooperatively for survival and self gain. These figures are positioned against others like Seong Gi-hun (No. 0456) after which later Kang, who form groups and try to collaborate to ensure that multiple players can win.
Both of these approaches represent both conflicting ways of the games in addition to each character’s internal struggle. Through the finish, Kang begins playing cooperatively and Cho Sang-woo, No. 0218, begins playing selfishly-proper turns that also represent character changes.
Han’s redemptive moment is much more vindictive than non selfish, however it, nevertheless, embodies a personality change. Through the game, her anxiety about Jang was comparable to her anxiety about dying. When crossing the bridge behind Jang she decides to finally take him lower for good, killing each of them instead of letting Jang bully her and live. Her act exposes Jang’s cowardice and shows Han to possess been the greater principled player-even when her concepts are reduced to mere revenge. Based on her very own rules, a minimum of, she won. She overcome Jang. She overcome dying.
Her dying also reinforces the bigger moral argument from the series, the latent cruelty-and supreme failure-of egoism, the positioning that certain must act just for self gain. Every player who employs this tactic loses in Squid Game. Han and Jang would be the greatest advocates of this zero sum position. When both forces finally meet, the end result is irony: both of them die.
What goes on to player 212?
She’s probably dead. Although, we don’t see her hit the floor, we are able to think that she’s not coming back for future games.
Still, there’s always the possibility we have seen her later on seasons.
Squid Game is on road to become Netflix’s greatest worldwide hit ever-and among the top series ever, period. The fight-royale style thriller from Columbia has switched bloody entertainment into a real floating money box filling with real won. Hopefully, that success means future seasons and cash within the pockets from the creators who managed to get all happen.
MEN’S HEALTH
When the series procedes to future seasons, we might find out more about the deceased players seasons which occur previously-concentrating on the games of previous years-may reintroduce players we all know. This would probably be more Easter time-egg-y than narratively involved.
