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koganbotComplicated Korean Video Friday resumes today with Ga-In's "Irreversible."
I find the video profound, though the message — what the man's trying to convey to Ga-In — would be a platitude if reduced to a sentence or a maxim. In fact, the guy in the video tried to tell her, but she didn't take in the lesson 'til she'd lived through the consequences of not learning it. The narrative structure makes us travel through it before we learn what's going on, and even then we have to ponder further, or need to get in long YouTube discussions where we try to puzzle it out. So we're coming to realizations rather than being told. Which is why this feels profound.
[YouTube killed this Eng Sub version, unfortunately, See below]
Which isn't to say that the message isn't also: Ga-In looks fetching when heartbroken; Ga-In looks potentially wanton when sucking a lollipop.
In any event, please watch the video before reading the comments, since the comments will contain SPOILERS. Click CC if you're not seeing the English subtitles. (Not that there's any dialogue for a while.) EDIT: YouTube killed this. Here's the vid without Eng Sub:
I find the video profound, though the message — what the man's trying to convey to Ga-In — would be a platitude if reduced to a sentence or a maxim. In fact, the guy in the video tried to tell her, but she didn't take in the lesson 'til she'd lived through the consequences of not learning it. The narrative structure makes us travel through it before we learn what's going on, and even then we have to ponder further, or need to get in long YouTube discussions where we try to puzzle it out. So we're coming to realizations rather than being told. Which is why this feels profound.
[YouTube killed this Eng Sub version, unfortunately, See below]
Which isn't to say that the message isn't also: Ga-In looks fetching when heartbroken; Ga-In looks potentially wanton when sucking a lollipop.
In any event, please watch the video before reading the comments, since the comments will contain SPOILERS. Click CC if you're not seeing the English subtitles. (Not that there's any dialogue for a while.) EDIT: YouTube killed this. Here's the vid without Eng Sub:
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A suitcase video, but not a conventional one
Date: 2011-12-02 09:31 pm (UTC)He's a criminal, a gangster of some sort, presumably successful, organized crime. He thinks she'll be better off with him out of her life, probably.
The Australian woman: does she own the store? Is she a madam? A pimp? Is Ga-In an employee? A subservient thief? A prostitute? Anyhow, Ga-In is cowed and dependent.
The man rescues Ga-In, injuring or killing the Australian woman in doing so. Gets back the pendant the woman had ripped from Ga-In's neck.
Ga-In transfers her dependence to him, wants to be utterly devoted.
After she jumps, sees the pendant in his hand, she realizes he was trying to act on her behalf. The flashback is her working her way to this conclusion.
Little of this is shown and none of it is stated, except for one cryptic line near the end.
I didn't figure this story out on my own. Read the YouTube comments, where people speculated.
Ga-In running, dropping the suitcase, the moolah, just running, chasing, moving. Then at the end, Ga-In sitting, remembering.
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Date: 2011-12-04 04:59 pm (UTC)Hwang Sooah is the director of Irreversible and she's done most of Nega Network's videos, and Kim Eana seems to write songs for most of them (and both work with IU all the time, by some connection), so I guess they concoct these stories together.
I guess that means we should be checking the theories against the lyrics, but the lyrics aren't very specific so how they were so intrinsically linked to the story presented in the video... only the women behind it know.