H’s Korea photo dump features 4 Korean movies. Is H talking to us through movie stills?
Peep the progression from anger, to sorrow, to joy. The last movie is the Handmaiden, which centers around a queer love story where the two female characters fall in love.
OKOKOKOK LET'S START OFF BY ANALYZING THE THINGS HE SHARED APART FROM THE MOVIE SCENES
The caption! "KOREAAA! DOWN! BADDDDD!!!!" I knowww it could literally be about how much he loves Korea... but down bad? Describes how he is with someone he's with right this second, no?😇
Slide 3! (courtesy of @hudcondown) "The movie is Mother (2009), a vengeance thriller by the amazing Bong Joon Ho (director of Parasite) about a mom finding a killer to clear her disabled son’s name. Referring to mama bear Sunny who’ll take on the world to protect her baby boy?"
Slide 8! "This line is a famous quote from the movie Oldboy spoken by a man on a roof before he jumps, and later echoed by the main character Oh Dae-su. It explores deep themes of guilt, punishment, and human worth after a terrible wrong." I'll say this might be a reference to him wondering about whether or not he "has a right to live" his life the way he wants to and not shaped by middle-aged Canadian ladies. It's agony... and he's on the verge of breaking off.
Slide 12! "That heartbreakingly beautiful line comes from Celine Song's critically acclaimed 2023 romantic drama movie, Past Lives. This moment captures the film's core exploration of In-Yun (fate or providential connection). Instead of harboring resentment, Hae Sung realizes that the very ambition and drive that made him fall in love with Nora as a child are the exact traits that required her to leave Korea to pursue her dreams. It represents a mature, painful, yet beautiful act of radical acceptance and closure." A goodbye to an old romance you say, huh? Interesting!!!
Slide 16! "This image features South Korean actor Lee Byung-hun in the final scene of the 2010 revenge thriller I Saw the Devil. The ending serves as a literal interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche’s warning: "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster." Soo-hyun "won" his game of torment, but his toxic pursuit of revenge changed nothing. His pregnant fiancée is still dead, her family is destroyed, and he stooped to using an innocent child and elderly parents as executioners. He enters the abyss, realizing he has utterly hollowed out his own soul." So... don't fight fire with fire. Know that if you fight monsters who did evil deeds to you, you become as bad as them? INTERESTING!!!!!
Slide 19! A video of what looks like The Joker behind a frosted glass window. Who played The Joker once in 2023 again?🤔🤔🤔
Slide 20! "That quote is a famous line from the romantic thriller film The Handmaiden, directed by Park Chan-wook. It captures the deep, sudden, and life-changing bond between the two main characters, Sook-hee and Lady Hideko.The line captures the profound emotional and romantic awakening shared between the main characters, Sookee and Hideko, reflecting on a depth of connection they previously only encountered in fiction." A queer romance, huh? VERY INTERESTING!!!!!!!!!!
The song! "Time alone, away from home, 'cause I can do, bad on my own / Lookin' for more than just another bone / Will I be happy now I'm grown / It seems we have a problem with jealously 'cause you interruptin' while / I'm on the phone I got some bidness to handle so baby understand / Can't spend my whole life up under you, I'm a grown man / Could you respect me if I wasn't driven / ... / So tell me am I wrong? / For tryin' to communicate through a song"
The karaoke story! He's one of the girls singing BYE BYE BYE by the NSYNC with these lyrics: "I loved you endlessly / When you weren't there for me / So now it's time to leave and make it alone / I know that I can't take no more / It ain't no lie / I want to see you out that door / Baby, bye, bye, bye (bye, bye) / Don't wanna be a fool for you" SUPER FUCKING INTERESTING HUH??????????
Like I'm truly too overwhelmed to do any more but LET'S OPEN UP THE DISCUSSION!!!