What happened to Kunjiayan?
Reading most of the film reviews is speculation. Is it really just a horror film that is scary for the sake of horror and has no foreshadowing?
Personally, I think it's not. A lot of foreshadowing in it actually hints at the direction of the whole mental hospital. Below I will explain your doubts based on these foreshadowings.
In fact, it was mentioned at the beginning that from the 1960s to the 1970s, it was rumored that this mental hospital was a place for secret torture of the state, and the foreshadowing of this film was actually a description of the veracity of this rumor.
1. The bald man who killed Sherlock and the chest chest
I hope you haven’t overlooked this detail. Sherlock met a bald man with white eyes before he died. We can clearly see that the bald man has a long opening on his chest, which corresponds to the strange chest cabinet before. We can easily I found out that this is really a live experiment, let me go! And it was an extremely cruel experiment on mental patients. This mental hospital is glamorous on the surface, but secretly it is doing terrible things, and innocent patients are tortured.
2. A laboratory with traces of fighting
The ceramic tiles and burnt marks in the laboratory, as well as the remaining medical records, show that some resistance incidents and data destruction incidents occurred before the final massacre of the mental hospital. The water stains on the ground (there is only residual water in the environment of the entire hospital, which should be a supernatural phenomenon) should also be traces left by the fire. It showed that someone tried to cover up the scandal of the mental hospital. The patients in the mental hospital had resisted at that time, but this resistance was also suppressed and persecuted.
3. The clues from all the photos
The highlight is coming, let us take a closer look at the photos of the dean's room and the story behind them. In order to restore the tragic story that happened at that time.
Award presentation: Let’s put aside the group photos. The first is the award presentation photo. We can see Park Jung-hee on the right and who is on the left. Most likely it is Kim Jae-kyu, Park Jung-hee’s right-hand man, military personnel, and the head of the Central Intelligence Department. Why did the award be given? Is he also present at the Outstanding Private Entrepreneur Award? It may indicate that there will be some subtle relationships between them.
Playing: The photos of playing games seem to be just a supplement to the supernatural phenomenon, and have nothing to do with the incident, but we want to look at a very interesting historical record.
“The Korean government’s active participation in sports began in 1970, but at that time it was limited to competitive sports and was indifferent to national life sports. This was inseparable from the needs of Korean military and political governance at that time. The Korean government aimed to improve students’ physical fitness and sports skills. A variety of competitive reward systems are adopted to call on young people to actively exercise their bodies and improve their competitive ability, so as to realize and complete the source of competitive players."
The inscription "A National of Reading" happened to be given to the mental hospital by Park Jeong-hee in 1970. Several photos reflect the background of South Korea at that time. Under the leadership of Park Zhengxi, South Korea surpassed North Korea in GDP for the first time in 1969. Under such an environment, the arms race will become an important part of the country that cannot be ignored. . South Korea under the dictatorship of Park Jeong-hee is likely to have some unimaginable terrible events.
4. National awards and the history of mental hospitals
This paragraph is actually explained with great emphasis at the beginning of the movie. Although it seems to be explaining the origin of the mental hospital, you will find that the history of the mental hospital actually reflects the history of Park Zhengxi’s life. He came to power in 1961 and was assassinated in 1979. , It just so happens that the time between the opening and closing of the mental hospital is 61-79 years.
At that time, the best mental hospital in the country was not the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Award, which was assessed by the private sector, but was awarded by the state. From the photos, we can see that the 11th Nationality Award was awarded in 1978. The purpose of the award for the Kunchiyan Mental Hospital was awarded by the state. Based on the series of clues above, we can also guess that the Kunchiyan Mental Hospital gave it to How much benefit does the country bring?
On the surface, it is a mental hospital, but in fact it has been controlled by the government and has become an important base for living experiments in South Korea. On October 26, 1979, it was the day when Jin Jae-gyu assassinated Park Jung-hee. Although we don’t know what happened between them, the living experiment base was also being destroyed and evacuated. As a result, patients in the mental hospital were massacred and the director hanged himself. suicide.
It can be analyzed from the time when the captain died and the female ghost came out of the bathroom. After learning of the death of Park Zhengxi, the director also became crazy, disheveled and wore patient clothes. He committed suicide with a sickly obsession.
This pit was dug out by me abruptly.
What role does the dean play in the mental hospital?
Regarding this, I made a wrong judgment before and felt that the dean is a positive role, but in fact it is not. I overlooked a few very important points. The first is that the date of the National Award in the photo is 1978. Then this is the case. The vicious incident should have been staged since Park Jeong-hee came to power, and the dean was obviously the one who helped the government to operate the incident secretly. The second is that there are two very subtle details in the historical data that have to be frightening.
1. A man with a doll. Look carefully, this handsome young man is a bald man! What he holds in his hand is the doll, let me go! This is especially true before the transformation, the skull must have undergone brain transformation and experiments, which caused him to become what he was after!
2. The technique of playing table tennis. As a table tennis enthusiast, your eldest sister's posture is not as good as that of the patient behind? Obviously, this elder sister does not like to play table tennis as much as in the picture. From this point, it can be seen that the dean is a person who is good at showcasing, and he is very supportive of national policies, and is more dependent on the rule of Park Zhengxi.
ps: A friend told me that the thumb on the racket is a pen-hold grip. I checked it later. The pen-hold grip should be the thumb and index finger on one side of the board, the director’s thumb on the board, and four fingers. On the other side. I may not know much about table tennis, but the dean’s snapshot is relatively problematic, which gives people a strange feeling.
We can see that since Park Zhengxi came to power, the Kunjiam Mental Hospital began to carry out inhumane management of mental patients and political prisoners for the government. This can also be seen in the introduction sentence at the beginning of the movie.
It also made "contributions" to the education of political prisoners, spies, and criminals.
Why would a mental hospital educate political prisoners? Under the circumstances at the time, could Park Jeong-hee's attitude towards political prisoners be civilized? Obviously, they are all experimental subjects one by one in the mental hospital. In the group photo, among the patients sitting in a row with the dean, the person on the right of the dean has completely different looks and emotions from the others. He may represent a group of political prisoners.
Some netizens discovered that there were metal objects on the man’s hands, and he was probably wearing handcuffs. This statement is more reasonable and emphasizes the identity of a political prisoner.
We can imagine that in a hospital under the government background, the dean serves as the government’s puppet, so that patients and political prisoners detained there are persecuted and tortured every day. The last day of resistance should have been planned by political prisoners. There was no way for the mentally ill to organize a resistance. After the resistance failed, in order to cover up the facts, the dean transferred everyone to room 402 and was massacred. The dean knew Park Zhengxi. News of the assassination and death also hanged himself in the office.
Before, I said that the dean had been protecting 402 from being disturbed. If someone wanted to open the door, she would hit him with a ping-pong ball (laughs). After reorganizing, it’s not that I don’t want to be disturbed, but I’ve been covering it up. The door of 402 can’t be opened in any way. This is the dean’s obsession to death. Anyone who wants to know what happened to 402, All must be obliterated, and the darkness set by Park Zhengxi cannot be discovered by others.
(Update) The director is Park Geun-hye?
(Important update on May 7) Some netizens said before, does 503 mean anything? Not to mention that there are really many articles. I didn’t find this. Thanks to the netizens "Harry" and "Hawaii Maji River" for their new discoveries. 503 is the number of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s prison uniform, and Park Geun-hye is the daughter of Park Jung-hee. The director used 503 as the film. At the end, it also reflects that the Korean rule under the Park Jeong-hee family has truly come to an end. Park Jeong-hee’s dictatorship and Park Geun-hye’s bribery and dereliction of duty are actually indelible disasters and tragedies for the Korean people.
It’s not that I’ve over-interpreted it. You can still see that the film satirizes the historical relics left behind by Park Jung-hee to a certain extent, satirizing Park Geun-hye as a respectable historical accomplice. Such a movie’s core is indeed very interesting, and the director uses it. "Convenience of position", expressing one's own political discourse, regardless of the quality of the film, this idea is still pretty cool.
Many people say that [Kunjiam] is a horrible movie because he is not a Korean. This is a movie made for Koreans. The rise and fall of the Kunjiam Mental Hospital is also the history of the rise and fall of the Park Zhengxi regime. . Behind the light of pursuing development, there is a dark side that is unknown, and only the generation of Korea can deeply understand this dark side. For unknown reasons, we might give a point to this movie, and the core of this movie is not only the horror of appearance, but also the tragedy governed by the times. The film satirizes the pain caused by Park Jeong-hee and Park Geun-hye’s family to South Korea, and expresses the director’s personal political language in a horror film.
PS: There are some small foreshadowings that may have been discovered by you, so I will just tell you about it.
1. School uniform girl ghost
The female ghost in school uniform is another of the three girls who tried to courage 30 years ago. She was still in a coma, and her soul was locked in 402.
2. The captain's "horror cruise ship"
The last thing the captain saw when he drove the small plane was strangled to death. The captain saw himself out of the window in 402 when he was in the small plane. According to this routine, the captain would die over and over again.
3. Host the little brother and his wheelchair racing
In the end, the host of the lunch, heard the roar of the racing engine before he died, and then the wheelchair rushed into the 402 like F1, because the cause of their live broadcast was also because someone else made money by filming the live racing broadcast. This also makes the whole play echo the beginning and the end. (Tucao, can ghosts invade thinking? So powerful?)
Pause slowly, and you will see that when the wheelchair is galloping, several ghosts are watching the game through the window on the door.
4. Useless holy water
When the curtain finally ended, it started to rain, or it was a shower, the water was sprinkled on the holy water, and the holy water was completely useless, so let the shower spray. I personally think that this is the ghosts who have completed the cleaning of the invaders, flushing and cleaning the battlefield. What holy water tricks have absolutely no meaning for the souls that live here. After removing the traces, they will wait for the next wave of ignorant people.
Some people say that the water is boiling and there are too many ghosts. If you look closely, there is actually something like a shower flushing the water. Because the picture is short, it is difficult to find the traces of the water sprinkling around the holy water.
5. Easter eggs on the live screen (updated)
A friend left a message and asked me why the number of people on the live broadcast jumped from 502 to 503, and how the female ghost on the webpage moved. This is just a trick, it won’t affect the viewing, but let me explain a little bit, who stays in an empty live broadcast room most of the night, the souls of the hospital are still there, and one more person is not the host. Brother.
Excluding three tourists who are chatting, it implies that there are more than 500 souls in the mental hospital. I don’t know how the three little brothers who are chatting know that there are 500 ghosts accompanying them. , The live broadcast ended, and the dean also withdrew. The dean has always acted as an observer in the hospital, and the director used a web page to once again interpret the ecosystem of the mental hospital.
Looking at the overall situation, the web page has been constantly being tampered with. It should be the dean and the patient who are fighting for control of the network. From the conversations of the tourists, it can be determined that the live broadcast is indeed broadcast on the Internet. The dean's original intention was not to want them to enter the hospital, so some measures were used as a warning in the base camp, and the patients were not to be outdone to stop the dean. At 1 hour and 05, we can see that the data has become garbled, but we can still see that the number of live broadcasts is about 330,000. When the captain recovers, it has become 700,000. The first time the base camp went blank, the captain's computer had been changed, otherwise there would be no video footage of other than 6 people. This is a hacker war between the dean and the patient!
The patient hopes that after the live broadcast is completed, a wave of heads can be collected. The live broadcast is on fire, and there are more heads coming to explore. I am so happy! The dean tried his best to prevent the completion of the live broadcast. When the captain had to complete the live broadcast, the dean made a decisive decision. Come! I will kill you if you come! In fact, as long as the captain gave up greed, he could escape death, because greed entered the cycle set by the dean.
But I have to admire the patient's (director)'s mind, 300,000 is too far away from 1 million, it is very likely that the captain will give up, give 900,000, and the captain may also suspect that 900,000 and 1 million are almost the same. Pack up and go back. I will add 700,000 to you, which is still some distance away from 1 million. Shinobu can earn one-third more, and it immediately hooks up the small flames of the captain's desire.
6.402 pool and how the patient died (modified)
The pool on the ceiling of 402 is the pool in the bathroom. The dean can observe the activities of the patient through the pool, but the two cannot meet each other. It is probably the barrier between the dean and the patient. There is no space for the two kinds of ghosts. . The specific logic will be explained in detail in the final summary.
How did the patient die? Maybe it was burned to death? Could it be a chemical weapon? There is no substantive evidence, and there are many signs of fire in the building. This may be a pit that the director has not dealt with, but there is no practical value in the death. As long as you know that the dean killed all the patients at 402, it is actually OK.
7. Why did Sherlock go out and come back again (update)
A friend asked what was going on with Sherlock and Ji Hyun and many film critics actually explained it. Let me say it again, it might be over-explaining (laughs).
The role of Sherlock and the two is actually to strengthen the horror atmosphere of contemplation and fear. The most terrifying thing is not the ghost itself, but the safest place has become the most dangerous place. After watching the horror movie, the bed is the safest for you. Where, when strange things appear in the bed, that is the most desperate.
In the movie, we already know that there are problems with the mental hospital and the base camp, so the safest place is actually the outside space, which may not be affected by ghosts. However, Sherlock and his entourage showed us the despair in the safe area. In fact, when they walked out of the hospital, they had actually entered the world of the hospital set up by the patients. From the equipment scattered on the ground, it can be seen that they did not really walk out of the hospital. Rather, 402 was introduced into the inner world step by step.
ps: Let’s over-interpret. The bald man fell in love with Sherlock, let other ghosts act as a wingman, and got on Zhixian’s body. It may be that Zhixian’s willpower is relatively strong. They kept turning around, and after being caught by a ghost before, Ji Hyun nearly collapsed, and he easily took the body of Ji Hyun. Leave Sherlock for the bald man to enjoy. (This pure brain supplement, don’t care)
Finally, summarize the ghost ecosystem of the Kunchiyan Mental Hospital
The water reflects from the side that the area where the dean and the patients are located is not the same area. The patient's 402 is the inner world, and the inner world 402 can be changed at will. The way the previous team members enter 402 is also different. Some fainted, some crossed, and some drove into a "car", but the door of 402 never opened as believable. And the team members did not actually die, the dragged away, the captured, and the possessed did not face up to say that they were dead. There may be crazy or unconscious the next day.
The dean is in the world of 402, she died in the bathroom, and the authority to open 402 should be in the hands of the dean. Compared with the patient, the dean’s handling methods were cruel and rude. Only the captain opened the door and walked into 402. What he saw was an ordinary large room. The dean opened the door and cut off the captain himself. The captain steadily died in front of the camera.
The ecosystem of the mental hospital is probably that the dean generally does not take action, but tries to prevent people from entering 402. Patient 402 hopes to get more people from cliques and find ways to get these people to 402 in other ways. The dean could see the inner world through the water tank in the bathroom. He was very unhappy when he saw the patient recruiting newcomers into the group. He kept going to the base camp to warn the captain, but the captain refused to listen, so he went out and killed the captain himself. He also added an infinite reincarnation bug to the captain, making him dead.
The dean’s ability must be of the boss level, and the patient is a team battle. The patient is not bad-hearted, just want to get more friends to enrich the collective life. The dean is a central idea: "If I tell you not to go to 402, then don't go. If you have to return to the enemy, I will kill you myself."
I feel a bit over-interpreting the relationship between the dean and the patient, but I think this interpretation is more reasonable for the whole movie.
Finished with flowers, thank you for your testimony and optimization.
Many friends say that some of the content is far-fetched, over-interpreted, and I don’t know how much too much, because my original intention for this film review is because there is almost no objective and reliable analysis in the film review of [Kun Chi Rock], so I try to use my own strength. Increase everyone's viewing experience.
My interpretation is based on the forensic conjectures based on the content of the film. The latter part does have a tendency to over-interpret. I feel that many people should be wondering, why is there falling water? What does the last holy water feature express? Are these things meaningless? I just want to use what I can to make everyone feel more about watching movies, not to add drama to the director.
I hope you will not be so disturbed when watching certain movies. It is a hobby that I try my best. Thank you all for your generous criticism and testimony
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