What did you guys think of the wings tour trailer it was quite creepy which seemed to be a theme of the era?
PT 1:
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Jungkook on the swing
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Not gonna lie I'm tempted to pass this off of as just aesthetic design choices but I'm gonna go off on a limb and say that everything means something.
Swings often symbolise children/childhood and harmony (youth) or indecisiveness and instability. It really depends on the context. And an empty swing and a swing with chains are bad omens. Both are present here. But the swing isn't completely empty though, fire replaces Jungkook.
If you read my interpretation on the
The Fall of the Rebel Angels painting you would know that the narrative here is about a war between good and evil, right and wrong and having to choose which side you're on. He's swinging between both options. The fire can give a hint as to what he chose.
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Jin's reflection
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"The realms of day and night, two different worlds coming from two opposite poles, mingled during this time"
We often see Jin looking at his reflection through to a world that is blacked out. They look the same but at a closer glance it isn't exactly a mirror image, something that we saw in the BS&T mv where the reflections of the flowers weren't mirror images but in fact two different species.
At first his expressions look as though he's calm but as he goes to merge with the image he's straining/suffering. Resistance against the "other realm". In BS&T, his face was beginning to crack but here we see that the damage has spread a lot further
Like the works of art, he too is falling apart. The inner struggle is too much and as a result of constant hesitation and resistance he froze and shattered.
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V regrows his wings
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In my
Even more Demian and BS&Ts connections blog I mentioned that V losing his wings could be symbolism for the death of his innocence (the fall of icarus) where he kills his father in the hyyh trilogy. But here we see him getting them back. Could it mean absolution from his crimes? (Stigma) Redemption? Or is it that in the place of his lost innocence/childhood he gained something new, something that you can only gain when you become an adult. A/N please read the lyrics for Stigma, it's a beautiful song and provides the emotion for this narrative.