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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   3000 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for March 14, 2025

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I was primed to look, but it was the scripture references that first made me think something was up. At first, knowing nothing about the director (or Korean culture really) I ignorantly thought it was an esl type thing - the foreign director wants to reference Christianity somehow, saw a passage mentioning ghosts and went with it (sort of like how Osgood Perkins jammed T. Rex into longlegs). But it is referenced again later in the film by the girl in white and by that point in the film I had seen too much self-awareness to accept my original assumption about the use of scripture, I'd already started beating myself up for it. It was too on the nose, I just couldn't accept that this apparently clever film was now going to make the girl in white a christ figure by having her actually quote Jesus.

You've confused this - it's actually the Japanese man who references the intro quote, as he transforms into a devil and shows the deacon his stigmata.

Quality movie. I'm not sure what I think happened yet, but my first instinct is that all the three major players are evil, possibly competing to harvest the village's psychic energy via bloody murder or something like that.

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