WARNING: "SPOILERS" spoilers below
Oh okay, but the flashlight thing seems like a long shot, but we also never see any shots of the son using a flashlight to communicate, I don't think. So how did you reach that conclusion, unless they did show that?
Haven't seen it in a few months so I could be misremembering it. It does seem like a long shot, which is why you can interpret it as being a moment of wishful thinking on the son's part (kind of like Brian Cox's final monologue in 25th Hour, for example). The logical flaw with the plan is that Ki-taek probably wouldn't be able to leave the basement for long enough to see such a long Morse code message, but really they never confirm if Ki-taek gets the message so it's up to interpretation as to whether or not he does get it.
Another question I have is, why was Ki-Taek going to kill Mr. Park over the fact that Mr. Park did not like the way the guy in the basement smelt, or how poor people smell? Killing him over how he doesn't like the way such people smell, would be the dumbest thing Ki-Taek could do, so why did he choose to kill him over such an issue like that?
The last straw, I guess.
Also where does Ki-Taek keep getting his food from if he is hiding in the basement?
Wouldn't he eventually have to send out for groceries or go shopping, once all the food runs out?
As I recall, new owners who are unaware of the house's history move in and he just steals food from them while they're asleep. Before that, I think there's canned stuff down there from the basement guy.
Another thing is, if the guy who decides to start a murder spree, is hiding because he is being hunted by lonesharks, wouldn't going on a murder spree in front of several witnesses, eventually alert the lonesharks as to where he is though?
He's spent years confined in a basement and goes insane to the point where he thinks of Mr. Park as a god who he praises by sending Morse code through the house lights. Needless to say, I wasn't surprised to see him lose it (especially since his wife had died by then as well, which may well have been the thing to trigger him into a violent rage).
As for the ending being shocking, I guess I just felt it was kind of a cop out ending.
As if the producers said, hey people don't want to watch a drama without it bein ga thriller, we need an ending with violence, stabbity stab stab, that's what people want for an ending...
Or maybe I shouldn't be looking at it, as a cop out?
But that violence only really happens in the last 20 minutes of a 2-hour movie and is the naturally extreme conclusion of the constantly-escalating character drama that has unfolded before then. It's kind of like how Taxi Driver only truly gets violent during its ending but that violence is merited by the way that the story and characters are developed.
Oh okay, but the flashlight thing seems like a long shot, but we also never see any shots of the son using a flashlight to communicate, I don't think. So how did you reach that conclusion, unless they did show that?
Haven't seen it in a few months so I could be misremembering it. It does seem like a long shot, which is why you can interpret it as being a moment of wishful thinking on the son's part (kind of like Brian Cox's final monologue in 25th Hour, for example). The logical flaw with the plan is that Ki-taek probably wouldn't be able to leave the basement for long enough to see such a long Morse code message, but really they never confirm if Ki-taek gets the message so it's up to interpretation as to whether or not he does get it.
Another question I have is, why was Ki-Taek going to kill Mr. Park over the fact that Mr. Park did not like the way the guy in the basement smelt, or how poor people smell? Killing him over how he doesn't like the way such people smell, would be the dumbest thing Ki-Taek could do, so why did he choose to kill him over such an issue like that?
The last straw, I guess.
Also where does Ki-Taek keep getting his food from if he is hiding in the basement?
Wouldn't he eventually have to send out for groceries or go shopping, once all the food runs out?
As I recall, new owners who are unaware of the house's history move in and he just steals food from them while they're asleep. Before that, I think there's canned stuff down there from the basement guy.
Another thing is, if the guy who decides to start a murder spree, is hiding because he is being hunted by lonesharks, wouldn't going on a murder spree in front of several witnesses, eventually alert the lonesharks as to where he is though?
He's spent years confined in a basement and goes insane to the point where he thinks of Mr. Park as a god who he praises by sending Morse code through the house lights. Needless to say, I wasn't surprised to see him lose it (especially since his wife had died by then as well, which may well have been the thing to trigger him into a violent rage).
As for the ending being shocking, I guess I just felt it was kind of a cop out ending.
As if the producers said, hey people don't want to watch a drama without it bein ga thriller, we need an ending with violence, stabbity stab stab, that's what people want for an ending...
Or maybe I shouldn't be looking at it, as a cop out?
But that violence only really happens in the last 20 minutes of a 2-hour movie and is the naturally extreme conclusion of the constantly-escalating character drama that has unfolded before then. It's kind of like how Taxi Driver only truly gets violent during its ending but that violence is merited by the way that the story and characters are developed.