Gun's Arc as a Ghost Story : My Predictions Based on PTJ's Loose Adaptation of "Whispering Corridors" (1998)
Last year, I posted that the sequences with Gun living in an abandoned high school and Daniel's encounter with him was loosely based on the famous Korean horror film Whispering Corridors (1998).
With the current bloodbath that Gun had caused during the latest few episodes, I've become more sure that Gun is indeed the ghost of this story, not just because of the film and his notorious nickname (Shiro Oni: White Ghost), but also because of his overall role.
These are the important points from the film (SPOILER ALERT)
The ghost was born out of the abuse and injustice suffered by many students in the school, including herself.
As a result, the ghost wanted to get revenge for what the students had each suffered at the hands of dictatorial adults, especially teachers.
The ghost's terrors only ended after the collective resentment was resolved by the main characters, and her backstory was told, including who the guilty adults were.
Here are my predictions on Gun's arc based on those points
Gun's ghostly origin story was the product of both Japan's and Korea's underworld and its very punitive, harsh culture. He probably suffered because of the actions of adults around him.
The adults around Gun (his father or other parental figures) probably made him shoulder a grim responsibility regarding life and death since he was a kid even before juvie and before he met Charles as an (impressionable?) teen.
Gun's ghostly arc will only end (whether in his death or in a state similar to death) after the mystery of his background is revealed. And it will be revealed, for sure, including which adults were guilty for it, other than those we already knew of (Charles, the Kojima brothers, maybe Gun's father, and other people).
Daniel and/or other main characters would be there when the backstory is revealed.
