my analysis of tarot in MeMe (and some other stuff) 🧵
(English is not my native language so please understand the language barrier, I did my best.)
The card that represents bokumkt is also the card on mikoto's shirt - The Hanged Man (upright). There is also a The Fool card, but I will leave it out for later.
Through this card, it is quite clear that bokumkt is a person who is very patient and takes a lot of pressure (including ignoring common sense, losing himself?) to achieve success. But at the same time, THM is also referred to as a person who looks at the world with an inverted mindset which means what mkt thinks is right for many people turns out to be wrong and vice versa.
In addition, THM's story is hanging up on the tree for 9 days and everyone knows mkt is 009 already. So I want to say that the meaning of these numbers seems to be relevant, as the number 9 means the forgiveness and success (what mkt wants?) But also the negative meaning is "self righteous". This is quite like Kotoko vibe but there is a difference. 9 shows the completion but not the end result like 10 as well as showing that mkt is not really sure about his right, THM is also be described as a person hangs in the middle of the other world and the other world. Furthermore in all numbers, only 9 (and 6, but i don't think Mahiru relate to this since theories is just theories) upside down is another number, i'm sure everyone understands =))
THM is also a card that can go endlessly into (inner/spiritual world) - this is like the key connecting reality with the inner self of mkt: this includes tarot cards (The Fool and THM) and mirror. These two symbols are two things that are present in both reality and the inner world of mkt (if you pay attention to the scene where he takes off his shirt you can see behind there is a the picture of The Fool), as well as these two also appear in the album cover (broken mirror and human skeleton in The Fool card). But this article I'm only talking about tarot so I should skip the mirror.
In the inner world, the THM card is in reverse, next to the TF card, from the beginning of the mv to the end. THM in reverse refers to him working too hard, exhausted in both physically and mentally, but mkt continues to ignore himself without stopping. Even the image of the upside down THM in the mv is like being hanged (i mean suicide, idk how to explain in en). However, the THM card on the mkt shirt shows patience, waiting under pressure. Familiar right? Exactly mkt's case. Go along with the reversed THM is the TF card. I'm pretty sure if the reverse THM is bokumkt, TF is oremkt. If THM upright go with TF, they will be very positive, both are heading for a new transformation, but here it is reverse THM so it is very... The biggest difference here is that TF moves and THM is not (who is the one who kills the victim, only milgram knows, theory is still theory). The obvious thing in common is that both TF and THM see the world in a free-spirited way and don't care what other people think (honestly, it means distorted). If talking about the relationship of these two cards, it will be very long, so just understands that the bokumkt mentality is already unstable and then oremkt arises, which is even more unstable when the TF card have a friend to start the journey with but in the mv that friend in the card was replaced with a human skeleton (actually mkt's tarot deck is also abnormal with the tones are too chaotic + knives, baseball bat, the character in the cards are also a mannequin/marionette probably because it is related to mkt's work)
After reading the above paragraph, many people will probably think that oremkt is evil, but nope, since the fool's nature is still too naive and inexperienced (here may be about the way he thinks about "rightous"). TF doesn't know what's ahead of it but its only goal is to "move forward" (mkt keep on living) and, "stepping forward" (killing) is what it needs/must do to fulfill its "goal". And like I said, he's too free and probaly doesn't care what others think of its "journey" - "its goal" - "its walk". In other words, it doesn't matter right or wrong.
And why do I think TF could be oremkt (or the one who committed the crime)? Because the entire TF card is fully exposed (revealing skeletons) when the mkt's inner world turns red (crime). Many people say that TF is implying that mkt himself feels innocent, this is also true because like i said both TF and THM think they are right.
What I like about milgram is that they don't stereotype mkt's d.i.d system (well, what i mean is both boku and ore is not good and not bad at the same time). Through this card (as well as the mv), mkt is fully aware that he (here can be ore or boku, idk) has committed some crime. But he still turned a blind eye (he even said maybe this was just a bad dream). Because he thought he couldn't change or control the situation anymore, so he decided to give up and accept the temporary benefit that the crime brought. After this since, we can saw that the inner world of the mkt switch from green to red was extremely ez and he didn't panic like before, proving that mkt didn't just commit a crime once (yeah, but I don't think he is a 'serial killer', he doesn't kill a lots like some theories) and he gradually got used to it. This card is simply signaling to me that he has committed a crime and he (probaly) accepted it, that's all.
First of all, to talk about this spread, I am very sorry that I cannot read the whole thing. The reason is because this celtic cross spread has 4 cards lying around 2 overlapping cards in the middle, these 4 cards will change position depending on how the reader places these 4 cards, so if not the reader himself, I can't read these 4 cards. This spread confused me even more when the 2 Ace of Cups and The Wheel Of Fortune (reversed) changed positions after 2 blinks, so I'd like to skip these 4 cards, when I have time, I will learn more about it later. And this spread looks complicated, but for real it doesn't really dig into the character's inner world and it's already t2 so it's pretty predictable.
And of course, ignoring these 4 cards, it will be extremely lacking in information when these 4 cards talk about the situation and life of the questioner. But roughly speaking, I can see the friction between him and his co-workers (victims) has reached its climax, and mkt is in the position of the victim (or has such a mentality). This contradiction has not only arisen, but it can be seen that it has happened for a long time, but mkt has ignored this problem and it was only on the day of the crime that it really surfaced. That's why mkt fell into a state like the hanged man (upside down) as I said above.
But I saw in this spread that he is not only contradicting his co-workers but also with himself, I don't know how to explain it but it's like mkt is very skeptical about himself (maybe about his own actions right or wrong). But then mkt really traded everything for that favorable job (like how the hanged man hung on a tree for nine days to gain knowledge) so in the end he still chose to follow that path. Cross celtic has 10 cards, in this spread the 10th card (result card) is the devil card but in this picture we can't see it, so you have to look closely at the mv, you will see in 1 click there is a devil card. And the devil in this mv, I already analyzed above (bro really sell his soul for the devil).
In the mv there are two cross celtic spreads like this, one is this - when mkt's inner world is normal, all cards are shown in full, while the other spread - when mkt's inner world becomes red of evil, so there are only two cards are obvious in their positions (that two cards in the middle). In the first spread, the card that shows the questioner's status (the one below) is the reversed THM, and in the second, the card that shows the questioner's status is TF, my thoughts about these two cards are also above.
ok 👻 So looks like mkt really wants to reveal truth, so in the first spread he showed all the cards clearly to show the viewers how miserable he is, but unfortunately i think if he gave the morse code, maybe it's easier to solve. And after t2, the d.i.d of mkt is more obvious, but the theory The Fool is oremkt and THM is bokumkt, it's still just a theory. (this is all part 1, i wrote part 2 a few months later about the 2nd spread)
(I'm sorry, the image was in vietnamese but it is just i named the cards)
I can't sleep, so let's figure this out, I will relieve some stress tomorrow and find out more details later 😊 (unfortunately that tomorrow never come, i'm sorry but there would be no deltail version of this 2nd speard)
⚠️The position with the order of the cards is only relative because I only watched the mv and figured it out so I don't know the accuracy, moreover, I'm just an amateur for more than a decade without touching tarot so, depends all on my luck =))
For those who are wondering what order the cards are in, I take them in the order they appear in the mv, but like I said before, this spread is up to the order of the reader:
7. King of Cups (reversed)
8. Five strokes (reversed)
If the first spread was about bkmkt, then I'm sure this spread is about oremkt. Ugh I don't know but I feel like the two spreads have very different meanings (sorry but idk how to translate "ngụ ý" which is Vietnamese into English, But what I want to mention is the message the reader wants to reach us through these spreads). If the first spread is the way mkt cries ugly about how distress he is to get yrs, then this spread is very umm, i think it's from oremkt's personal perspective. In general, I actually solved this one late, so in t2 it also has a lot of things already appearing here.
Basically, like I said last time about oremkt being The Fool, this spread shows that quite clearly. It is quite extravagant and its perception of right and wrong is 0, just zero. The only thing he cares about is that mkt agreed and tolerated what he did 🗿 this guy is very saviour complex, so true to the song t2 trailer. He thinks he's the one needed for mkt to be successful, the one who will change his life and he will do anything to achieve it 😊 well and he seems to be satisfied, and yes, be proud. And still, the reason for letting it do that is still stress with the ambition of mkt's work forever (it is too common right? I feel like i don't need to talk about it anymore)
And in the end, oremkt is like a new door for a mkt's life, from deadlock and stress to dead end ️=)) (well but I'm still not sure which is ore and which is boku in this mv so it's up to you, let's see who the murderer is, but first of all i think they're both worst🗿). Anyway, before The Death is The Hanged Man card that I say represents that bokumkt so in my understanding, it is from the stress, ambition, and pressure of The Hanged Man that it led to The Death and gave birth to The Fool - a completely new mkt to solve the problem.
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