This is the thread where we figure out the plot to Ga-In's IRREVERSIBLE
Complicated 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.
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.
Click to viewWhich 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: