So it seems that the director left an open ending for the audience, but in fact it is just a cruel blank.
At the end, the son gave the acupuncture box to his mother. This is a very perfect design detail-the mother is a sound person, but the memory is constantly torturing her, in order to continue to survive, she is eager to forget, including wanting to poison her son and kill the elderly; the son is a mentally retarded child, he longs for a complete memory , So he desperately tried to remember, but he couldn't predict whether these memories were good. This huge contradiction has been entangled repeatedly. What sustains this family at the bottom of Korean society is the omnipotent maternal love, but the chain of memory will slowly destroy it.
Putting a needle into the acupuncture point in the thigh will forget the unpleasant memory, and the mother chose it last. This is not so much a magical escape method as it is a beautiful fairy tale. That moment reminded me of the end of "Old Boy".
Two dance sections with quite surreal colors echo each other end to end, and the backlit silhouette shot at the end of the film sways like a dream. Make a bold guess-this may be the man’s madness and soul out of his body in an extreme state, and the memory of life at that moment may be as white as paper or soft as yarn.
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