The return of Hanako at the end of the movie is considered by many to be an ambiguous open ending: really come back or Jiunan's dream. But in terms of plot analysis, I think the ending is more inclined to Hanako's return to be a reality rather than a dream. In all the plots in the movie, it is not confirmed that the woman killed by Suishanman is Hanako: 1. When she first found the female owner of the restaurant, the female boss described Hanako and Suishanman as "the two are brothers and sisters, and the relationship is very good", and it was not certain that they were It's a lover relationship. 2. When he found the aquatic man, the aquatic man only said that he knew him, but he did not say that Hanako was his own woman. 3. After Jiunan found Hanako's place according to what the fisherman said, he specifically asked the man next door if he saw the man who was arguing with Hanako. The man next door said he didn't. The arrangement of the question itself meant that Jiunan didn't It is certain that Hanako's relationship must be a fish man, I think this is a foreshadowing that the deceased is not Hanako. 4. Jiunan hid in the room during the escape process. In the dream, the fisherman beat Hanako, but this was just a dream, and it was Jiunan's subconscious guess. This arrangement is to mislead the audience further into believing that Hanako and Suishanman are lovers. 5. During his escape, Jiu Nan saw TV news about the corpse dismemberment case. Later, he read the news that the murderer had been caught, and found that the murderer on TV was very similar to a fish man, and began to suspect that the deceased was Hanako. But the aquatic man on the TV said, "I used to live together, I gave her a job and gave her money." "I used to live together" should mean living together, but Hanako's room is very small, and it is more likely to live alone. It is large, and in all the items presented in the room, there is no obvious thing with a man. 6. In the news, it was explained that the aquatic man broke his own woman. Here we look back at the Hanako room in front. Although there is a slight blood stain in the room, this is the trace of a fight between Hanako and an unknown man, but it is definitely not. The corpse scene. Assuming that the person who quarreled with Hanako was Suishanman, then after the quarrel, Suishanman should have killed Hanako, and then shredded the body in another place. Let's take a look at the time line. The quarrel happened 1 hour before Jiunan found Hanako's room. When Jiunan found Suishanman, it should be that Suishanman left Hanako's room with the body shortly (no more than 1 hour), which means that the body was in the car. It is more likely to go up, but the aquatic man is driving a small convertible truck and has nowhere to hide his body. In addition, in the news, the aquatic man said, "I was drinking at that time, and I killed it when I was drunk." When Jiu Nan found the aquatic man, the aquatic man came down from the car leisurely whistling, and he didn't look like he was drunk at all. The sense of tension and panic after the killing, and the car is parked in the downtown area. All the signs are more inclined, the fight in Hanako's room and the corpse case are two different things. Of course, it is also possible that the aquatic male has a good psychological quality so he is not nervous, he has a good alcohol intake and is not intoxicated, and he has already hidden his body elsewhere, so he is calm in the downtown area beforehand, but the time is too urgent and too far-fetched, this possibility is very small. 7. After seeing the news, Jiunan called the police to ask if the deceased was Li Huazi, but failed, and then asked if the murderer was from Mokpo Fisheries. This shows that even Jiunan could not be sure that the murderer who worked for the fishery company on TV was the one he had seen. The aquatic man, although the murderer on TV does look very much like the aquatic man, but after all, there is a possibility that he is not the same person wearing a mask. 8. Jiunan entrusted a person to take a photo of Hanako to identify the corpse, but the man who recognized the corpse could not identify whether it was Hanako or not. The director kept quietly misleading the audience that Hanako was the deceased, but it was always ambiguous at the moment of some key evidence, such as the part of recognizing the corpse, the part of calling the police, the female boss describing the relationship between Hanako and the aquatic man, and the neighbors The man didn't see the arguing man. Why the director did that was to tell the audience that the deceased was not necessarily Hanako (I didn't say it was definitely not Hanako). 9. Finally Hanako got off the train. Many people think that this is Jiunan's dream, it is possible, it is an open ending arranged by the director, dream or reality, let the audience choose. But the reason why many people think it is a dream is that Jiu Nan's dream of his wife has appeared many times before, and that there is no one on the platform. A few days ago, I took the Z258 train from Chongqing to Shanghai. I stopped at Yingtan Station at 3:00 in the morning. I got out of the car and smoked. There were two or three people in the booth. I could easily choose an angle and I could take a picture of no one. platform. In the movie, Yanji is not a big city. If you arrive at the station at midnight, it is impossible that no one is there. (In another comment, a girl said "I am the only one who arrives at Yanji Railway Station in the middle of the night...") As for Jiunan's statement of repeated dreams, here is a detail. Jiunan recalled the scene of Hanako getting on the train before, Hanako was wearing a black and gray scarf, and at the end of the film when Hanako got off the train, she was wearing a thick all-black scarf. It's not the same one. If it was Jiunan's fantasy in the end, he deliberately changed Hanako's scarf in the hallucination. ...So even with the director's open ending, I think the possibility of Hanako's return is far greater than the possibility of Kunan's fantasy. (See the scarf comparison chart at the end) 10. There is an article about Huang Hai in Time.com, saying that the movie itself was adapted from a real event, and the wife in the real event, the prototype character of Hanako, is indeed not dead, and currently lives in Yanji. 11. Every time Jiunan had a dream about Hanako, the director used the shooting methods of missing frames, close-up shots, and large shaking, which caused a sense of non-reality. As for this scene on the platform at the end of the film, the shooting method is very plain and gentle, which is completely opposite to the shooting used in the previous dream. Of course, this evidence is not so solid, it is circumstantial evidence. 12. The last point is my own understanding of the film's plot structure. The plot of this movie has a characteristic, the protagonists are doing superfluous things. Jiunan’s employer is the bank section chief. He hired someone to kill Jin Chengxian because of his love affair with Jin Chengxian’s wife, but he did superfluous things. If he didn’t hire Jiunan, Jin Chengxian would also die. Worried and feared with all his heart, he did something that was not necessary. After Jin Chengxianhe died, Jin Yuantai chased and killed Jiunan, because he thought that Jiunan was the subordinate of his hired killer (Jin Chengxian's driver), and was afraid that Jiunan would be exposed after being caught. He didn't know that Jiunan and he had nothing at all He would not reveal himself if he was caught. He tried his best to cause Mian Zhenghe to die in the end, and Jin Yuantai also did something that was unnecessary. After Mian Zhenghe and Jin Taiyuan met, they were hired to hunt down Jiunan, which was superfluous. Mian Zhenghe was smarter. Halfway through the chase, he suddenly realized that there was no need to kill Jiunan, but it was too late. Finally, he fought with Jin Yuantai. Both are lost. Everyone has done superfluous things in the trick of fate, very absurd fate. So what about Kunan? If Hanako didn't return in reality, Jiunan would be a killer in order to find Hanako in order to repay the debt. But if Hanako's return is a reality, from the perspective of fate, Jiunan's going to South Korea is also an unnecessary thing, then Jiunan's fate is as absurd as the bank chief, Jin Taiyuan, Mian Zhenghe. The ring is also tied to the fate of other characters. So from this perspective, I think Hanako's return is not a dream, but a reality.
The director has been constantly inducing the audience to think that Hanako is dead, but he has never given the key plot to make it real. This is the director's intention, but the purpose is because the director wants to create an open ending. , or the director has been suggesting that the return of Hanako is reality, I am not sure, after all, all the details given in the movie are not enough to prove that it is the latter, but I personally prefer the latter, the reality.
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