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Lee Jung-jae Thinks ‘Squid Game’ Critics Should Watch It Again - The New York Times

Lee Jung-jae Thinks ‘Squid Game’ Critics Should Watch It Again - The New York Times

Lee Jung-jae Thinks ‘Squid Game’ Critics Should Watch It Again - The New York Times
Oct 18, 2021 2 mins, 4 secs

“Squid Game,” Netflix’s candy-colored Korean series about a tournament of childhood games played to the death, elicits strong reactions: People are fascinated or repelled.

(In another measure of its cultural penetration, it inspired a bizarre “Saturday Night Live” parody over the weekend.) But the worldwide “Squid Game” mania has had little effect on the show’s star, Lee Jung-jae, who says he has been enjoying it all, but that “nothing much” is really different in his life.

In the show’s final moments, he realizes he wants to do something to stop this terrible game, funded by wealthy people who bet on the outcomes.

Lee talked about “Squid Game” in a phone conversation from South Korea, aided by a translator?

I watched a lot of YouTube reaction videos, videos of the viewers themselves watching “Squid Game” in real time.

I also have hopes for other Korean content to come, because “Squid Game” has done such a good job in raising awareness of Korean TV series and films, which I hope will now find a wider audience?

That’s because Korean people believe that their friends are very valuable and important.

And I think what “Squid Game” has done is to tie in this theme of altruism to the story line of the survival game.

For those viewers who found the series a little less interesting, I would like to recommend that they watch it again, because “Squid Game” is not really a show about survival games?

I think we pose questions to ourselves as we watch the show: Have I been forgetting anything that I should never lose sight of, as a human being.

I think if they rewatch the series, the audience will be able to notice more of these subtle elements.

I’m sure that Netflix has done a great job in making the subtitles in a way that helps the global audience more easily understand the series.

I don’t think the small details really matter that much, and I don’t think it would really change the main theme or the story line.

I think in that case, changing the words in the subtitles to help an audience understand the story better is fine.

I don’t think subtle nuances really change the fundamental way that the series is communicated, so I’m not really concerned about those slight differences.

So if Gi-hun were offered the opportunity to replace him and run the game, do you think he would take it?

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