"In-ho and Gi-hun are the only ones who can truly understand each other, because they are both winners of the games-"
NO.
In-ho and Gi-hun are both winners of the games, but one of them kept getting more and more blood on his hands and telling himself it was, "worth it," because he had a noble goal and he couldn't "give up" (on killing everyone else to save the one person he cared most about saving), while one of them realized he didn't want to stain his hands with any more blood, that "giving up" was really choosing not to kill any more people just to save himself, only to wind up the winner on top of a pile of corpses anyway, and meanwhile both of them had already lost the person they went into the games to save in the first place before they ever got out with all that money-
And one of them gave in to hopelessness and decided they would add to the cruelty in the world because if they couldn't have what they'd wanted most then neither could anyone else who played those games, while one of them kept looking for hope and reasons to believe in other people-
And they've took such different paths because they are such different people, and now they are so far diverged in who they are that they cannot imagine someone else being a "winner" of these games and yet winding up so far away from where their own path has led them-
And so now they're both winners of the games but one survives on hope and one survives on cruel indifference, and so now they're the two people in the world least able to understand the other and neither of them can figure out how that happened-
And that's what nuance and complexity of human experience means.
