SOLO DAY ANALYSIS TIMEEE!
Ok, so for everyone who's watched B1A4's Solo Day, I'm sure there are a few questions and places in the MV that were unclear, and I'm sure there are some of you who want further explanation.
Now, while I cannot claim to know the actual synopsis of the MV, and I'm sure there are other fantheories out there, here's my version of the story:
The MV starts out introducing all the characters: Sandeul, the pizza boy, Gongchan, the homeless kid, CNU, who's nerdy and obsessive, Baro, who's a "space geek" (but honestly he just looks like he's trying to fix something), and Jinyoung, who's a couch potato.
Now, these guys generally have nothing in common, except for one factor-none of them are really doing anything with their lives, and none of them are very happy. They're stagnant, performing basic, bland jobs, or wasting their times on useless things, or generally not going for something they want. However, as the MV progresses, Jinyoung begins to play his video game.
Enter alternate universe: he's driving along, with a purpose, and a happy expression. As he hits a powerup in the game, his 4 friends join him. They go on this adventure, supposedly to find aliens, and stop at a diner, where they order a bunch of food and have a lot of fun eating it. This cuts back and forth to them in real life: Sandeul delivers a pizza to a house, smiling brightly as if he's excited to be there. When the door opens, there's a man and a girl (presumably father and daughter) and the man quickly takes the pizza, throwing him an odd look. Sandeul is miffed, but as the man leaves, the girl waves at him kindly. Gongchan reads a newspaper article and walks without direction on the beach with his shopping cart that claims the aliens are coming. CNU seems to be going in to kiss a girl, but ends up fixing her plate settings. Baro tries to figure out his mess of wires, seeming to give up at the end. Jinyoung himself is still just playing the game. All of these things seem pretty useless, or unproductive, or end up failing.
Ok, now for the climax-the UFO appears in the sky, and Baro (strangely in English) screams "RUN!" after which the laws of physics are TOTALLY defied (but hey it's in a game, right?) and the boys escape almost certain death.
THIS is where the line between reality and game begins to fade, and you realize that it wasn't really an alternate game universe, but rather the next day-all of a sudden you see time moving backwards, rewinding to the previous day, except now, the boys are going forth and doing what they really want-Sandeul throws of his nerd glasses and gets the courage to go to a party, where he dances with the girl from before, Gongchan goes for a run on the beach with his dog, showing his happiness despite his situation, CNU finally goes in for the kiss, Baro goes back to the plan and figures out how the power system works, fixing his problems, and everybody lives a much more productive and happy day.
At the end, Jinyoung goes outside (for the first time in his life, it seems, seeing how damn pale he is) and pulls the cover of what is revealed as his convertible, which he seems impassioned to drive now. The irony, however, lives in the fact that had he not decided to go on this drive, the boys may have never gone on their search for aliens and then would have never gotten abducted-in this, the situation becomes and infinite loop, perpetrating itself over and over again.
As the song ends, the message becomes somewhat clear-live your life to it's maximum potential, because one day, we won't be here anymore. Whether due to an alien attack, disease, age, or accident, it will happen. And the boys show that, at the end of the MV, that they realize this, and thus, they change their ways. They try to find happiness, to attempt things that they were afraid to do before, and they're successful because they tried. The message in itself is highly cliche, but it is expressed in a glorious way.
So there it is. That's my version of Solo Day-hopefully that helped!
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