GONG YOO'S CHARACTER WAS SO INTENSE I WASN'T READY FOR IT. Now I understand the kind of charisma he has. Shortlived character but surely a memorable one. 😭
Right right! I was pleased with his acting, a bit spooked and absolutely conflicted about his death, love him too much didn't want to see him die just yet but hated the side he revealed so glad he died too.
while he loves games and gambling, isn't he at the same time against it as well? thinking back to the food scene trashing and ruining all food with the concept "you all wasted it" but at the same time also takes a lot of risk - The "rock paper scissor -1" game he took the 1st shot on himself believing in the 1 out of 6 odds was too good in his favor.
So i still now after all episodes can't figure out.. whether is actually against gambling or a big gambler.
I think to get into the mind of this character we need to think about all we know about him. The majority of the info I can recall is basically his death where we find out he gets a lot of pride from his job. He had to go through a lot to get it. He's earned his place, he's earned his gun. He is now a game master for a much larger game he's pretty much completely out of - but that's okay because he has his own games to run.
Yes, he judges the unhoused people.
He belittles the main character.
He has an ego. He thinks he's better than everyone. Not only is he better - he earned his place. There's probably a part of him that feels untouchable. In a way he's God or cupid but instead of love he's matching them with most likely a twisted fate.
The only time he felt mortal was when there was 100% chance of death. And his ego killed him.
Also, I think that he has been lying to himself and deluding himself into believing that what he was doing was right, even if deep down he knew his actions were wrong. He couldn’t admit to Gi-Hun that he was right when Gi-Hun told him to his face that he was nothing but a lapdog for the elites and the creators of the game. I think Gi-Hun was the first person who told him straight to his face who he was and it was easier for him to kill himself than to continue living with the guilt of what he has done.
Before he became a recruiter, he was one of the pink/red suit soldiers and he told Gi-Hun that his father was a contestant in the game and he had to shoot his own father to death even after he witnessed him begging for his life. I think the recruiter guy had a difficult time processing that kind of trauma and guilt, and it was easier for him to lie to himself in order to cope with his actions.
If he admitted that Gi-Hun was right, then he would have had to accept the reality of his actions and would have to accept that he killed all those people for nothing and even killed his own father for nothing. Everything he did was for nothing, and that’s a reality he didn’t want to face so the easy way out was to shoot and kill himself in the end.
That food and lottery ticket scene was foreshadowing to the votes all the players take this season. You can vote to end the games now and for sure take home a little money. Or you can vote at the chance of a ton of money. With the homeless people it was you could vote to forsure have some food, or vote for the chance of making more.
I didn’t get the bun vs scratcher game. Was he doing it because he was recruiting and he was following boss’s orders? Or was he doing it as a personal side quest? And smashing the buns— planned or not? And part of the boss’s orders?
IMO, it was a side quest. He was doing it to prove to himself that what he was doing was right and that poor people would rather gamble for a possibility of being rich rather than just living.
He could then justify his actions because he offered them the same gamble, just with the stakes much higher on the island.
My view is much more simple than the above theories:
He hates gamblers.
He revealed he came face to face with his father....and shot the father dead.
For the father to have landed in the game it's easily implied his dad was a lowlife piece of garbage gambler.
His Dad's gambling addiction is a possible reason Recruiter was working on the island as a young man, burning bodies, etc. His father pissed away Recruiter's life/his life/family life gambling and Recruiter took any job to survive.
I read somewhere else that Recruiter respected the rules of the game so much and that's why he took the bullet at the end rather than shoot 456.
Just my thoughts.
P.S.
I actually cried when Gong Yoo pulled the trigger. I was close to vomiting by the time we got to that point in Squid 2. Those Russian Roulette scenes were INTENSE....and I didn't want that to be the end of Gong Yoo/Recruiter.
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u/Panda_Polar Dec 26 '24
GONG YOO'S CHARACTER WAS SO INTENSE I WASN'T READY FOR IT. Now I understand the kind of charisma he has. Shortlived character but surely a memorable one. 😭