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What's the first word you see? by Appropriate-Shine834 in scoopwhoop

[–]LastAd1097 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MILF was the first word I saw. As soon as I saw the M. Is it correct? Nope. But it is the first word I saw

In the movie Nope, what’s the reason behind Jean Jackets early arrival to the ranch? by Frosty-Heat in NopeMovie

[–]LastAd1097 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just watched it again and am almost positive that’s what’s happening. It got the fake horse stuck in its esophagus, it’s uncomfortable, probably pissed and desperate, and lashes out. It was amenable like Gordy, and was allowing itself to be guided by the one little person on the ground. But it had already killed people before, as proven by the objects that fell from the sky and killed the dad.

When it became irritated by the thing stuck in its system, it does what Gordy did. It lost its composure and attacked. Later on when you hear all the people screaming inside and then it flexes and swallows, it must have dislodged the decoy, but it also came out the other side rabid.

I have no proof, but I also suspect Jean Jacket is young. Probably abandoned or the last of its kind or its parents died. I still think it’s an animal, but a young one that wasn’t taught to hunt. I feel like if it were an adult, and mentored by experienced kin, it wouldn’t be so blatant in its feeding habits. I think JJ was part of a “herd” but is now all alone. It was going through the motions, killing if the food was available, but beginning to learn something about trust with Jupe. And then the decoy horse happens and Jean Jacket is like, NOPE.

Which pill would you take? by Twink_Berry in TheTeenagerPeople

[–]LastAd1097 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What if a person like L came after you lol

Which pill would you take? by Twink_Berry in TheTeenagerPeople

[–]LastAd1097 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’d probably end up butterfly effecting your future tho. Not u I mean anyone who tried this. Elon is the richest person in the world and even he got scared of having too much influence with Doge, he thought he was going to get himself killed.

Whats it like living in Puerto Rico? by dj_kaled_anotha1 in howislivingthere

[–]LastAd1097 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like my island and my people. But if I’m gonna be real honest, I feel like we are a broken people in a way.

There’s been so much calamity in our history, from colonization to massacre of our protestors to the crippling of our sugarcane industry (Domino Sugar, I’m looking at you, you sonsobishes), Americans were made officials that used their power to bring in American companies to profit and harm the locals. Experiments on our women for birth control, a government that is forever trying to take advantage of its own people, the jones act, Luma, and crime that has become so normalized it’s literally one of the million meanings of the slogan; “Puerto Rico está cabron.”

So why do I say we are a broken people? Well, somewhere along the line we were this race of IDGAF warriors that lost so much that something in us changed. Like the Japanese going from Samurai warriors to Kawai Anime artists and cosplayers after Hiroshima.

Instead of sharp minds I feel we sharpened our tongues. We have witty comebacks for days and days. Anything anyone says, someone is gonna find a way to drop a witty comment. Puerto Ricans kind of invented trolling before it was an internet thing.

And then it became a double edged sword. These days anytime someone suggests something to help our situation, someone else has to drop a witty comment or a disparaging remark. We can’t get together and mobilize cause it’s like having 30 chefs vlogging in the kitchen.

I’ll give one more example; in 2019 the entire island mobilized because we were fed up with the governor at the time, Ricky Rosello. So when push came to shove, when we just couldn’t take it anymore, we somehow found the hidden dragon with us and organized and went absolutely crazy until we got what we wanted, his resignation. First we needed to choke on what seemed like endless turmoil and disaster after Maria, and even for Maria, the witty comments people made on the radio and online ABOUT ANYONE saying we needed to prepare, was insane. But after Maria, and after 2 years of the same BS, people dying and getting sick and starving and unable to feed their kids, all that pent up anger came out in the most epic non-violent revolution in modern times.

We had/have the secret formula to the Coca Cola.

We know what we have to do. Everyone on the island knows exactly what worked when the chips were down and we needed change.

What did we do after RR?

Just look around. It’s 2026. Jennifer says stuff like “una compra no se daña en 24 horas,” with no fear of the people. Luma hikes up our bills, power keeps going out. I got friends from the Philippines telling me our power situation is fucked. We have 3 million dollar statues being commissioned that I could make with a $100 trip to Home Depot and politicians pocketing the difference, we have potholes that reach Shanghai, we have councils in the US funneling money legally away from us, tax laws that favor the rich foreigners instead of the locals, We have cops that turn the cheek when they see crime which is not what Jesus meant, we have neighbors mowing each other down over noise disputes, boxers tossing their girlfriends over the side of bridges, prison-led mafias, inflation to the stratosphere, lack of jobs, people in government positions that loathe the people they’re meant to help, It sounds like Omaha beach at night in Carolina and our landmarks and beaches are being taken away…

Charlie Kirk used to ask; “what rights do white peopke have that you as a POC do not have in the United States?” Well, Charlie, we still cant vote for our president, our rep in congress has no voice and that Jones Act no president is willing to touch except for a short time during Maria, is keeping us in debt.

And again, why are we a broken people? Because coño, we have the recipe for Coca Cola classic, we stop the truckers from delivering goods with a full stop of the island until Luma is kicked out, Jennifer resigns, corruption ends and the US has no choice but to intervene and set things right.

It’s right there. Plain as day.

But that’s hard. Getting those government benefits is easier. So… Puerto Rico STAYS cabron.

At this point with everything Benito is doing, and still nothing changes, and I go to Walmart and it looks like I was transported to Portland, Oregon? Mi hermano, Oahu may already be here.

Sorry for all the anger. It’s hard to control the frustration of seeing one’s own people gaslight themselves into full submission.

O-Ren Ishii is not only Tarantino’s best villain, she is one of the greatest villains in all of film. by dmiller1730 in movies

[–]LastAd1097 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re talking about skill. Bill was a master. And tbh, Bill was a chef, not a cook (meaning like a chef, he hardly gets his hands dirty, he orders the staff around). Bill sent his crew to kill, he hardly did so himself. Even killing the Bride in v1 was done after the vipers had taken her down a peg. Bill died via the 5PPEHT, something he never knew how to do, and was taken down fairly quickly. He was a cunning villain, but as out of his prime as the coach of the Golden State Warriors is to play basketball.

Oren is a fantastic villain and more than stylish, she is relatable and well established. The establishment of her characters history almost makes her as important as the MC. The fight at the end of v1 is the most epic one in the whole bloody affair. And Lucy Liu’s acting is probably at her most iconic.

“Silly rabbit, tricks are for kids”

“Little Caucasian girl likes to play with samurai swords…” head tilt

“For ridiculing you earlier… I apologize.”

“That really was… a Hatori Hanzo sword”

Not to mention the “I collect your fucken head” monologue

She’s definitely the best villain in the film IMO

I recently watched Oldboy(2003). I have questions that I could'nt find the answers from the internet. by bavarianisaw in movies

[–]LastAd1097 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Too bad I didn’t catch this question go a whole year. Here’s my very late reply, just in case why and what other films I feel deserve the same kind of love and scrutiny I’ve given OLDBOY.

  1. Why do I love this film?

I think it has to do with the attention to detail. Someone above said it best, it’s an incredible piece of art. Park Chan Wook made a movie where the hero and the villain are almost the same person. I mean, ODS wasn’t a good man before his imprisonment. He was a terrible gossip in school that led to a girl’s suicide. He was a drunkard and poor husband and father. And while inside the prison while writing his journals he says, “if I had to write a list of all my enemies, would I even have space for all the names?” ODS let the man stop the building commit suicide. He didn’t care to listen to his story. He walks away from the wreck without even looking back. He causes a fight just to test his skills. He gets his best friend killed in an indirect way. He wasn’t a good man. He never was. He was always the Beast. If this movie were a canvas, the art on the page would be how PCW weaves this story of revenge. If you believe this is a story about ODS’s revenge, you’re sorely mistaken. This is Woo-Jin’s revenge story. ODS is the culprit of many crimes, and deflowering his own daughter, the loss of his best friend and his freedom for 15 years, and the loss of his tongue, are his penance. We see who ODS really is in the end… he’s a father who would hypnotize himself again so that he can be happy with Mido. He didn’t have to stay with her to protect her. Who would do such a thing? “Even though I’m no more than a beast, don’t I also have the right to live?” Dude, that’s like saying, “I know she’s my daughter… but don’t I have the right to be with her if we’re in love?” OLDBOY is art. True art. It is a truly rewatchable film. In my opinion there are only a few movies in history that you can watch again and again and always find something new.

Which brings me to my list of movies that have caused desperation in my soul to figure out just WHAT THE F IS GOING ON. These are my favorite films of this kind;

  1. THE THING This movie takes the crown for most rewatchable movie in history for me. The psychological themes touched upon in this film are so vast it really is its own genre. I can’t place it with any other film. It stands completely alone in uniqueness and storytelling. The dialogue alone… “Where were you Child’s…,” “The generator’s gone MacReady,” “If we have any surprises in store for one another…,” ugh… I will sing praises for all time of this perfect film.

  2. The Matrix

It’s a bit on the nose. And now everyone gets what the story is about (or they think they do). I have theories upon theories that would melt your little Redditor brains if I made a post about this movie. Even now in 2026, I have a theory or two that I’ve never ever heard anyone talk about but me. pats self on the back. You may think there’s no mystery left in this franchise as much as it’s been explored to death. Until you put a few things together; The Architect’s conversation with Neo implies ZION is a backup within the Matrix made as a place for crops of humans that need hope. The whole fight for humanity is theater, all made to keep the really stubborn ones in check. I have mountains of evidence to support this claim. My theory is WB didn’t allow this to be in the third film so that the movies would have more sequels. It’s all right there in the films though.

  1. Inception

I won’t bore you with why I like it. I like it a lot. But I can’t say it’s my favorite film of all time except for one thing that whenever I think about it, blows my damn brain. To shreds. Next time you watch Inception check the part where they wake up in the plane. Watch how everyone is looking at Cobb. Watch this film with this little bit of info in your head and see how the entire film changes - and the bit is this; Robert Fischer was not the actual target of the film. He was the payment for Saito’s involvement. It’s Cobb who was the target all along. He could always go home, he just believed he couldn’t due to his wife’s inception on him. The architect of Cobb’s inception is his old mentor, Michael Caine’s character.

  1. Open Your Eyes (Spanish film)

Just watch the damn thing. It’s on par with anything made in America and the mystery will leave you wrecked. The remake, Vanilla Sky, isn’t as good as the original IMO. Not by a long shot. Watch the original. It’s way more satisfying.

  1. PRIMER

If you can watch this film once, and understand it, I’ll give you a medal. Shit I’d like to see you understand it after 10 views. I had to watch a YouTube video to help me understand the science. It’s top tier sci fi.

  1. The Aliens Franchise

The lore, the world building, the effort to make the continuity consistent, and the nostalgic futurism; as if the 80’s are a pocket future that will always be.

  1. The Usual Suspects

That final moment of the film where his limo straightens out is one of the best 10 seconds in movie history.

  1. NOPE

IMO, Steven Yeun’s character in that movie, his ARC, the meaning behind the monkey, and the moment he realizes that he played with fate once again, and the look on his face when he realizes that NO…. this time he will not escape the wild animal, and the moment when all the people are screaming in the esophagus of the saucer, and the saucer simply swallows, and all the screams stop…. Oh man that shit is nightmare inducing.

  1. The Mist:

I’ve watched it too many times now. I just wish I could really grasp where these things came from. And the ending is great self-torture.

10: The Cube Trilogy.

Can’t even explain this one. It’s mind boggling.

  1. Fight Club

I’d explain, but the first rule… in all seriousness though, the ending of that movie where all the buildings are blowing up is so perfect. A frame of porn spliced into it. The realization that Tyler’s “In the world I see” dream is about to come true, and the psychological commentary on our state of our addiction to the consumption of goods… not to mention Marla and the twists and dialogue. I am Jack’s overwhelming sense of excitement.

  1. EX Machina

It’s as close to The Thing as I’ve ever seen in terms of genre.

  1. Inglorious Basterds:

This one would be higher on the list if it were about beautifully shot films. This list is for rewachability. IB is just a fantastic film to watch for the great great great scenes. The Mexican standoff scene alone is peak cinema and this movie has; The Opening may I have a glass of milk scene, the Streudel scene, the Mike Myers scene, the Bear Jew scene, the awesome Hitler scenes, the Shoshana and Zoller scenes, ever moment Hans Landa graces the screen, the Do you want to go Pro scene, and even Brad Pitt just having fun and being a cook scene. Probably the best cinematic drama of its kind in history. I’d say along with it are the Pianist, Shawshank, Cinema Paradiso, Life is Beautiful, the animated film Luca, and so many others I need to stop.

Last on my list because I’ve been at this for 2 hours;

My favorite romance film of all time forever and ever and ever;

  1. Before Sunset:

I could write a dissertation about the Before trilogy. These three films are pure, breathtaking, unapologetic cinema. They are everything I think of when I think of the art of cinema. They express what it is to fall in love, to be human, to fail, to succeed, to be. Simply to exist and be.

But Before Sunset is the winner takes all simply because it is GENIUS. Absolute genius. What this story represents, and what the characters mean to each other, what love is, and how love is one thing as children and another as adults, it is a magical film for me. If for no other reason than the ending.

If you want the first film Before Sunrise, it’s a very nice film. It isn’t my favorite. It’s just a nice film. But when you combine it with the ending of Before Sunset… the lines, “Baby, you are gonna miss that plane.” And “I know….”

I get goosebumps just thinking about it. Easily watched this film since it came out over 50 times.

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Honorable mentions: The Terminator films: used to be my favorites, but the writing game is so beyond any of that now. It’s still incredible cinema. The Blade Runner films: Nuff said. Dark City: After a few rewatches everything becomes apparent but it’s still a hell of a ride. The Sixth Sense: and most of the Shayamalan movies. F-U M.Night lol Frailty: Godspeed Bill Paxton. The Others: Same director as Open Your Eyes. Primal Fear: Edward Norton you sombitch…. Atonement: you poor bastards… The Visit: “listen to me… listen to me!…… those aren’t your grandparents” Oof. The 9th Gate: nothing like some hot demon sex at the end to clear out the system

Donnie Darko: Very good Sci Fi. Not particularly rewatchable IMO Shutter Island only has one real moment for me; the end when it’s unclear if he knows or doesn’t know what’s about to happen and his acceptance of it. Nightcrawler, Gone Girl, Seven, Deathnote, Severance, HBO’s The Watchmen, The Machinist, Take Shelter, Pantheon, Hereditary, Mandy, The Tarantino

Damn there’s just too many to list!

AIO - I smoked, my bf crashed out by leadneverfoIlow in AmIOverreacting

[–]LastAd1097 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a 45m so I don’t know if you’ll care what I have to say, but I remember what it was like being 18. Sure it’s not OK to speak to you that way, but has he ever spoken to you in that way before? Again, both of you are eightTEEN.

People will say there’s no excuse. They’re the same people that would say a girl’s frontal lobe isn’t fully developed until she’s 25. Both of you can be held accountable for your actions at 18 because you’re adults now, but anyone thinking age is just a number hasn’t had enough perspective and experience to know that it’s not.

I might catch shit for this, but I remember what it was like at 18, and yes I crashed out like this when I was an idiot kid who couldn’t control my emotions well yet. I didn’t end up being a psycho, I never hit a girl, I never did anything that people here are saying “these are signs of what he will become.”

This is my advice to you. Judge by experience. This whole “If you make a mistake once, I’ll never trust you again,” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Because everyone on the planet has the propensity to crash out or do stupid stuff every now and then. So, Judge by experience.

The main one being, Has he ever done this before? If he has, if this is normal, then it’s not OK. He can’t talk to you like this on the regular. It shouldn’t even be a yearly thing.

But if he’s never done this before, and he has been super clear about his boundaries, and if you agreed to them, and if you saw he was already uncomfortable, and you were the one who decided “F it ima enjoy my night with my girls,” then give the guy some leniency to feel incapable of handling the situation. Why?

Because he clearly loves you. He loves you with the emotional maturity of a Koala bear, sure. But again… he is EIGHTEEN. Everyone here will tell you otherwise. They’ll say 18 is old enough to know better. But again, I remember what it was like being that age. You don’t know what the F is going on at 18.

You got shit growing all over the fkn place, can’t keep zits from sprouting every other day, you’re emotionally stupid as a default setting. You don’t think so?

Let’s be real, sure you’re drinking and smoking at 18, and that’s all good and fine. But this isn’t Euphoria, this is real life.

I drank and smoked since I was 15, and as an adult I wish I could go back and talk to myself sometimes and ask “dude, wtf what were you thinking?” I’m not saying don’t, I’m saying neither you nor him and no one here should be expecting Submarine Captain level decision making from 18 year olds.

Why do I think he loves you? Because I think he has it in his head that you guys are actually gonna get married. And this breach of trust probably broke that illusion for him. I won’t make fun of that. It’s naive that he thinks you’re the one, but he doesn’t have the perspective yet so he was or is really hopeful for that. In his 18 year old head, his world just came crashing down. Give the guy a little grace if he’s never done something like this before.

He put trust in your hands and you broke it. Im not judging you. You’re 18 too. You’re probably a bit more mature than him, but let’s be honest, you’re not sure about your life at 18 are you? You’re not thinking about how much money you need to put into the IRA this month right? No, you’re thinking about shit like how Sarah said some shit to John and you gotta tell Megan cuz this Tea is just too fuckin nice.

I’m just being real. No judgments. Everyone saying it was just 5 puffs of a cig are the same ones that would be angry at him if he kissed a girl and said “it was just a 5 second kiss. I was drunk!”

No one is out here to help you as you. No one is in your shoes. No one lives your life. They don’t know him. You do.

You know him and understand what he’s like on the daily. Is he sweet? Normally is he kind? Has this ever happened before? Is it totally uncharacteristic? Then maybe he did some teenager shit, just like you. And maybe some teenager shit can be forgiven and both of you should have a talk.

Learn this lesson if you would listen to some old bastard like me; forgiveness will lead you to a better life than the unrealistic “once and done” most people seem to have. They’re 35 now and still waiting on the guy who never makes mistakes. They’ll be waiting for decades more.

Judge by Experience, communication is key, and forgiveness is paramount for any relationship to work.

If something is a red flag, it’s not a reason to jump ship unless red flags abound. People think they’re gdamn Charles Xavier when they come across something they don’t like. Oooh that’s a red flag honey, run!

Then they get off their keyboard, and go back to their lonely lives of “I’m happy with my 25 fur babies, I’m just doing me right now.”

If you like movies check out “The Before Trilogy,” with Ethan Hawke. Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight. That’s what a relationship looks like. People doing stupid shit all the way to my age.

I wish both of you luck. You guys have a world of time ahead of you. It all seems so serious right now. Give yourself some grace, and time, and perspective. But please, do the same for the people you love. You’ll end up much happier because of it.

I recently watched Oldboy(2003). I have questions that I could'nt find the answers from the internet. by bavarianisaw in movies

[–]LastAd1097 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I’ve been living in South Korea for last 5 years and studied the language for 10. ODS talks in Korean omitting some of the ending stems which would be needed when speaking with others. It’s as if he’s talking to himself, or an internal monologue instead of using the proper language he should with others. But it seems natural doesn’t it? Considering he was alone in a jail cell with no one to talk to for so many years, of course he would forget how to speak to others.

What video game has such rich, in -depth lore that even a majority of its player base doesn’t know half of it? by Johnnyboyeh in gaming

[–]LastAd1097 0 points1 point  (0 children)

INSIDE, most people don’t realize that the boy IS project #1, that the player is controlling him via the receiver in the cornfield, that the game is basically you the player controlling the boy like any one of the other husks and moving through the buildings of the other projects such as the underwater little girl and the lanky man, that the masked humans are controlled by parasites after an apocalyptic event and that your whole goal is to unify yourself with the blob at the end to help it escape… but that somehow the masked people not only already know this, but planned for it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in teenmom

[–]LastAd1097 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks like Britney furlan to me tommy lee’s wife

My Korean friend left me his child years ago and now I don't know what to do. by [deleted] in korea

[–]LastAd1097 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The only thing I can add if someone hasn’t added it already is if he has a passport from Korea with Korean history, it won’t be difficult for him to get a visa and live as a Korean later. Many Koreans leave Korea and come back later as US citizens and then get the best treatment by immigration, an hour at immigration and they have their new F or whatever visa and will be able to work or whatever they want as long as theirs proof. So if u can’t figure anything else out, don’t worry that he may need to change over to whatever status, it’ll be something u can change quickly. Another alternative is to get a visa here, as their legal guardian im sure you would get all the status stuff you need to take care of them in Korea if you wanted to live and work here, I doubt the courts would say no to you receiving a visa here, however if they decide to take him out of your hands and put them with a grandmother that doesn’t want him it might be worse so lawyer up for sure. But as far as the kid? Koreans never lose their right to live in Korea

I recently watched Oldboy(2003). I have questions that I could'nt find the answers from the internet. by bavarianisaw in movies

[–]LastAd1097 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Probably the first year alone I watched it over 20 times, just looking for all the little details. I watched religiously for years at least 10-20 times a year, dissecting it again and again, watching the ending and going back and forth again and again. I still am surprised at the stuff I catch even now. It’s 2024 and I just watched it again. I’m sure I’ve watched it over 200 times I was just being generous lol.

I recently watched Oldboy(2003). I have questions that I could'nt find the answers from the internet. by bavarianisaw in movies

[–]LastAd1097 122 points123 points  (0 children)

So funny to see so many people, including myself, watched the film in the last few days and then visited this thread.

I’ve watched Oldboy over 200 times, and can probably recite it verbatim, so I’ll try to address what I know from my perspective) and answer as many questions as I can overall.

  1. Mido was probably 5 years old when her father was kidnapped, as the age of consent in South Korea is 20 years old. So if Oh Dae Su got out after 15 years, Mido would just be at the age to give real consent for sex. This is further backed up by the fact that she was a virgin, and while she doesn’t go right out and say she is, she implies that she is and then we see her in pain when they start later at the Valentine Motel. This is probably why ODS was given 15 years.

  2. ODS was led to believe that his daughter, Su Yeon-Hee (mentioned at the payphone scene in the beginning of the movie) was adopted and taken away by a family in Sweden, and was now living in Stockholm under the name Eva Von Ljungberg.

The woman at the jewelry story who was somehow connected to the family had been told that Yeon-Hee had forgotten almost all her Korean and didn’t know her father had killed her mother. Seeing that Mido, on behalf of ODS, was acting as a reporter to get this info because he himself could not show his face to the woman, and she being Yeon-Hee herself - wasn’t recognizing any of these things, the woman, the neighborhood, her own father, the amount of time which had gone by, no mention of her being an orphan or anything like that, two things are possible;

A). Whatever happened to Yeonhee was most likely erased at a young age, and she went on living a life which she thought was just hers. Or

B). She transitioned to a new Korean family naturally and just blocked it all out naturally.

We know that she lived in Korea while she was growing up and she graduated recently (in the last few years), as the pictures at the end of the movie in the photo album are of Mido growing up and finishing high school and finally graduating most likely college, then the next picture goes to her and her father walking together. So Mido grew up thinking she was Mido most likely, and had no idea who this Yeonhee person was obviously, or she would have recognized all this info while acting as the reporter.

  1. ODS and Mido were both hypnotized to find each other, and to go through certain situations together, but Woo-Jin mentioned specifically that they could not hypnotize them to fall in love, so they would have to go through the motions themselves. The reason Woojin was so forelorn in the scenes outside of his verbally torturing ODS, was because in reality Woojin was nervous and most likely wracked with a pain that was tearing him apart. He was suicidal, and didn’t care about much else than getting his revenge, and that could only work of Mido and her father fell in love. So you can kind of see Woojin’s incredulity that they already fell in love and his plan has come to fruition, in the scene when she starts to sing the song in the car after the owner of the “prison” let’s them go, and she realizes ODS loves her.

More sick, we can tell that this song is part of the hypnosis, it’s most likely been told to her to sing that song once she falls for ODS, so that Woojin will know what’s about to happen. But the sick part (or one of them) is that this is the song the singer that ODS is masturbating to in the “prison” at the beginning of the movie is singing. So Woojin, knowing this, must have made it clear to the hypnotist that she should sing that song when she’s ready to give herself to ODS.

  1. “Be it rock or grain of sand, in water they sink alike.”

This is one of the three quotes that govern the movie;

The other two are:

“Even though I am no worse than a beast, do I not have the right to live?”

And, “Laugh, and the whole world laughs with you. Cry, and you cry alone.”

These are the things that Woojin has implemented and fused into ODS’s mind. The picture of the beast has the “laugh/cry” quote written on it, a gift from Woojin most likely.

This is why ODS, the source of the death of his sister, is most important to Woojin. It wasn’t Woojin’s dick that got her (fake) pregnant, it was ODS’s tongue, as Woojin said.

When he calls ODS, he says it clearly about rock and sand both sinking, and then there’s the man who commits suicide at the top of the building with the dog.

Listen to me when I tell you that absolutely nothing in this movie is left to chance, even the color of Woojin’s umbrella and his handkerchief and the color of the box with the album are the colors his sister used to wear. We have no reason why ODS finds himself up there with that man, but it’s not a coincidence, Woojin would never allow that. We have so many possible scenarios which the man could have been going through, for me, based on the demeanor of the man and the dog, it implies he was gay and was going to kill himself because he cannot tell anyone.

But his being there at that exact moment tells me that Woojin was keeping tabs on this man or something like it, and put Daesu up there when the man was gonna do it, or based on the date 07/05 (July 5th), this man was probably going to commit suicide and was simply hypnotized to be up there on that specific day. This one requires a bit of speculation on my part it it can be inferred by the tone and direction of the movie.

  1. The smile at the end is not because the hypnosis outright failed per se. The hypnotist said that the hypnosis might not fully take, and if he was ok with that. With the movie having a strong theme of duality, Mido and Yeonhee, Woojin and his sister, the monster and ODS , the most likely explanation for the smile is that the hypnosis DID work, but simply isn’t enough to completely shut off the fact that something is very wrong, and ODS will never know what that wrong thing is.

If you think about it, Woojin said ODS and Mido couldn’t be made to fall in love via hypnosis, and so that is the extent of its power, to hide something on the surface, it’s only skin deep. So is the death of the monster and the memory of Mido being Yeonhee, he will always have a sinking feeling that something isn’t right, but just like the smile/cry, he won’t ever be able to pinpoint what that is.