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The true story begins after the suicide
I was confused while watching at first, but everything made sense after seeing the last scene.
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The movie isn’t really about what happened or what led to Kyungmin’s death, but about how people reacted afterward. In the end, it’s implied that Younghee took her own life to make Kyungmin’s mother, the teacher, and the classmates understand what it feels like to be blamed for someone’s suicide and carry that guilt. This mirrors Kyungmin’s death, too, since no one realised how much she was struggling until she died and now the same thing is happening with younghee. It also becomes clear that the title was foreshadowing younghee’s death, since the story is told from her point of view. Overall, this movie was really well made. Going in, I didn’t expect it to have such a strong message it’s different from other Korean films about suicide I’ve seen
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The movie isn’t really about what happened or what led to Kyungmin’s death, but about how people reacted afterward. In the end, it’s implied that Younghee took her own life to make Kyungmin’s mother, the teacher, and the classmates understand what it feels like to be blamed for someone’s suicide and carry that guilt. This mirrors Kyungmin’s death, too, since no one realised how much she was struggling until she died and now the same thing is happening with younghee. It also becomes clear that the title was foreshadowing younghee’s death, since the story is told from her point of view. Overall, this movie was really well made. Going in, I didn’t expect it to have such a strong message it’s different from other Korean films about suicide I’ve seen
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