The sad meaning behind all the horse symbolism you missed in Squid Game

There are so many references to horses

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Squid Game is full of hidden messages you didn’t spot while watching the Netflix show, including loads of references to horses.

At the start of season one, Gi-hun is betting on horses, then the guy who is helping him find The Recruiter wears a horse mask at the Halloween party.

We see horses again in the Mingle game as they appear in the middle of the carousel, and there’s a sad meaning behind all this symbolism.

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When Gi-hun is kidnapped and chucked into the limousine, the Front Man tells him the people in the game “are no more than horses on a racetrack”.

In season one, he also said: “You bet on horses. It’s the same here, but we bet on humans. You’re our horses.”

So, right from the start of Squid Game, horse racing is used as an analogy for the people in the games.

Horses are trained and pushed to their limits solely for the entertainment and profit of people, and that’s exactly how the players are being treated.

Once the animals are old, weak, injured or lose their competitive edge, they are killed without a second thought, just like the players who aren’t able to complete the games.

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“Listen carefully. I’m not a horse. I’m a person. That’s why I wanna know who you people are… and how you can commit such atrocities against people,” Gi-hun replies.

Except, he is just a horse inside a racetrack to the Front Man and the VIPs and he can’t change it, because that’s the opinion they have of the lower economic classes.