Pretty sure a lot of people already posted ideas regarding this video, but here are some as well in another version. First off, Spring day is a story centered around friendship. The lyrics talk about friends missing each other and being unable to meet. When you're far away from your friends, everything around you seems cold.
"It's all winter here even in August" (1:07)
The train has similar corridors to the ones from the ferry. Also, the luggages from the background in RapMonster's part (0:48) are a refference to the ones of the victims.
Another clue is that during 0:48-0:49, while RM says "I miss you", the sea washing the shore is being shown.
Next, he talks about being able to see his friend only in photos. He keeps thinking about the past and goes back in time (one reason why Jhope is looking strangely at him) at 1:13.
Suga's rap at 2:46 goes like "Yes, I hate that you left me, but I never stopped thinking about you. Not even for a day", another clear reference at the tragedy. He also states that he prefers to erase the memory of his friend because it is less painful that way.
Jungkook is on a train alone. But somehow goes wandering in the past. In the MV there are two types of trains:
The one in which RM was shown at first (green light, specific for the sea and symbolizes the past);
And the one in which Jungkook is at the beginning (the present).
Now JK remembers the past, and goes through the doors RM went at first. We can see his past self who is finally able to meet his friends from before the incident when exiting the washing machines room (3:39).
The mountain of clothes can be representative for memories or for the actual clothes of the victims who drowned. There was also held and exhibition in Paris with a pile of clothes which displaied Christian Boltanski's installation Personnes for Monumenta 2010 at the Grand Palais.
"You walk, you look, you search for evidence among the mildewed raincoats and threadbare denim. Here is a corduroy jacket, almost new, and a faded gabardine; there is a baby's knitted cardigan. They were young, they were old, they were not ready to die, poor departed souls who leave nothing behind but shucked garments. Mown down, laid out in groups, they have all met a terrible end."
-gif is not mine- the theories have been made up by my dear sister and I only arranged them in here (•ө•) teamwork makes the dream work✿
Also, there’s no guarantee any of these theories about the Sewol incident have anything to do with the music video.. it’s just a speculation, keep that in mind.
Like in the "RUN" MV, there are leapings through time. RapMonster recalls a moment from the past, probably his birthday, when he was partying with his friends. (1:22)
Other themes present here and in "Run" and "I need u" as well are depression and suicide.
A time leap from Jin's part occurs at 1:34. Somehow even in this memory his friends are leaving him behind and he is contemplaiting the scene.
From 2:00 to 2:08 Jungkook is recalling the past as well, followed by Taehyung from 2:09 to 2:11. After another memory of Jungkook, Jimin is the next to do so at 2:23.
2:37 - Suga is sitting on a mountain of clothes in the dark, unwilling to recall the past as it is easier for him to forget his friends than to put the blame on them for being unable to meet.
Even Jhope mimics liberation when opening his arms as if flying on the top of the train.
At 3:29 Jungkook enters a compartment of a train. A different one than the one he was in the beginning. Actually it is the compartment in which RapMonster starterd recalling the past. Which means that in the present JK is riding the train but the compartment which has a specific green colour is a metaphor for the past. Both Jk and RP are taking a "ride" down memory lane where all the friends are together again.
In the end, all the friends present in the memories I have mentioned above, meet again, in the train which seems represantative for the present and arrive in a cold wilderness where the sun began to shine. And here we have the transition from winter to spring.
-the shoes-
But again, there are also Jimin's shoes (which are not technically his because he already wears a pair and the ones he throws over the tree branches are the ones picked up from the sea) hanged in the tree towards the end of the MV. In some legends shoes tied together and hanging from tree branches signify that someone has died, while in others they signal someone leaving the neighborhood onto bigger and better things. In the movie "Big Fish", a character throws the shoes of another over a telephone wire, to dangle out of reach. Whitout one's shoes, one can no longer walk and might as well settle down.
-ofc there are more members barefoot but just to get the idea-
So what do the shoes have to do with "Spring Day"? Well, in connection with "I need U" and "RUN" they are quite suggestive for death. Jimin drowned in the bathtub ang we get to see him in "Spring Day" most of the time by the sea.
V attempted suicide by drowing and now he is contemplaiting suicide again.
Jungkook got hit by a car and now he is riding a train. The winter might be some sort of moment of transition from death to afterlife, but only metaphorically speaking.
*Maybe V actually killed himself even in this MV, but as he can't die a second time, he remained stuck in the same place (the railway).*
So, after having recalled the past life (RM and JK running through many doors and especially wandering through the same rooms) and after commiting suicide, they get to meet eachother again.
-gifs are not mine-
the theories have been made up by my dear sister and I only arranged them in here (•ө•) teamwork makes the dream work✿
Quotes from the book “Demian” and similarities which relate to scenes from this short film:
-syndrome-
“Next morning, when my mother came rushing up shouting that it was late and why was I still in bed, I looked sick. When she asked me whether anything was wrong, I vomited. This seemed to be something gained. I loved being slightly sick, being allowed to lie in bed all morning, drinking camomile tea, listening to my mother tidy up the other rooms or Lina deal with the butcher in the hallway. Mornings off from school seemed enchanted, like a fairy tale; the sun playing in the room was not the same sun shut out of school when the green shades were lowered. Yet even this gave me no pleasure today; there was something false about it. If only I could die!”
-illness-
"Many nights in my dreams I elaborated on these tortures and lay drenched in a nightmare's sweat. For a while I actually became sick. I vomited frequently and came down with frequent chills, yet at night I would burn and sweat."
"My condition at that time was a kind of madness. Amid the ordered peace of our house I lived shyly, in agony, like a ghost; I took no part in the life of the others, rarely forgot myself for an hour at a time. To my father, who was often irritated and asked me what was the matter, I was completely cold."
-chocolate-
"My mother sensed that something was wrong and was very considerate, but this only tortured me the more since I could not respond by confiding in her. One night, after I had gone to bed, she brought me a piece of chocolate. It reminded me of former years when, if I had been a good boy, I would receive such rewards before I fell asleep. Now she stood there and offered me the piece of chocolate. The sight was so painful that I could only shake my head. She asked me what was wrong and stroked my hair. All I could answer was: "No, no! I don't want anything. " She placed the chocolate on my night table and left."
-agressivity-
“That's what I looked like, a piece of excrement, a filthy swine, drunk and filthy, loathsome and callow, a vile beast brought low by hideous appetites. That's what I looked like, I, who came out of such pure gardens where everything was cleanliness, radiance, and tenderness, I, who had loved the music of Bach and
beautiful poetry. With nausea and outrage I could still hear my life, drunk and unruly, sputtering out of me in idiotic laughter, in jerks and fits. There I was. In spite of everything, I almost reveled in my agonies. I had been blind and insensible and my heart had been silent for so long, had cowered impoverished in a corner, that even this self-accusation, this dread, all these horrible feelings were welcome.”
“There are numerous ways in which God can make us lonely and lead us back to ourselves. This was the way He dealt with me at that time. It was like a bad dream. I can see myself: crawling along in my odious and unclean way, across filth and slime, across broken beer glasses and through cynically wasted nights, a spellbound dreamer, restless and racked. There are dreams in which on your way to the princess you become stuck in quagmires, in back alleys
full of foul odors and refuse. That was how it was with me.”
-dream-
“The dream, the most important and enduringly significant of my life, went something like this: I was returning to my father's house--above the entrance
glowed the heraldic bird, yellow on a blue background; in the house itself my mother was coming toward me--but as I entered and wanted to embrace her, it was not she but a form I had never set eyes on before, tall and strong, resembling Max Demian and the picture I had painted; yet different, for despite its strength it was completely feminine. This form drew me to itself and enveloped me in a deep, tremulous embrace. I felt a mixture of ecstasy and horror--the embrace was at once an act of divine worship and a crime. Too many associations with my mother and friend commingled with this figure embracing me. Its embrace violated all sense of reverence, yet it was bliss. Sometimes I awoke from this dream with a feeling of profound ecstasy, at
others in mortal fear and with a racked conscience as though I had committed some terrible crime.”
"It was difficult, " I said as though I were asleep, "it was hard until the dream came. " She nodded and pierced me with a glance. "Yes, you must find your dream, then the way becomes easy. But there is no dream that lasts forever, each dream is followed by another, and one should not cling to any particular
one."
"I do not know, " I said, "how long my dream is supposed to last. I wish it could be forever. My fate has received me under the picture of the bird like a lover
and like a beloved. I belong to my fate and to no one else."
-EVA
"How glad I am, " I said and kissed her hands. "I believe I have been on my way my whole life --and now I have come home."
-gifs are not mine-
the quotes have been selected by my dear sister and I only arranged them in here (•ө•) teamwork makes the dream work✿
Quotes from the book “Demian” and similarities which relate to scenes from this short film:
-apple-
"In a garden near the mill, I said, together with a friend, I had stolen a whole sackful of apples one night, and by no means ordinary apples, but apples of the very best sort. It was the fear of the moment that made me seek refuge in this story--inventing and telling stories came naturally to me."
-everything takes place at night during the short films, except for Jimin and J-Hope-
"The realms of day and night, two different worlds coming from two opposite poles, mingled during this time.”
-bathtub-
"Once she brought the doctor, who examined me and prescribed cold baths in the morning. My condition at that time was a kind of madness. Amid the ordered peace of our house I lived shyly, in agony, like a ghost; I took no part in the life of the others, rarely forgot myself for an hour at a time."
-bed-
"I had just felt the urge pulling mightily within me: now I was in a long hall, bedded down on the floor. I felt I had reached the destination which had summoned me. I turned my head: close to my mattress lay another; someone on it bent forward and looked at me. He had the sign on his forehead. It was Max Demian."
-hand over mouth-
"I would tell him everything, would accept his verdict and his punishment, and would make him into my confessor and savior. It would only be a penance, the kind I had often done, a bitterly difficult hour, a ruefully difficult request for forgiveness. How sweet and tempting that sounded! But it was no use. I knew I wouldn't do it. I knew I now had a secret, a sin which I would have to expiate alone."
-the smirk-
"A strange new feeling overcame me at this point, a feeling that stung pleasurably: I felt superior to my father! Momentarily I felt a certain loathing for his ignorance. His upbraiding me for muddy boots seemed pitiful."
-gifs are not mine-
the quotes have been selected by my dear sister and I only arranged them in here (•ө•) teamwork makes the dream work✿
