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Alright, I've been waiting since September for RUN MV to come out and since I didn't talk about I NEED U, I think is perfect to connect them in one post (well, they are connected)
First of all, why The Most Beautiful Moment In Life? I found this post that explains the meaning really well,but in short, it represents Chinese idiom which literally translates to "the years like flower" or the years people blossom, explore and find themselves (which is youth).
With I Need U, released April 29th, BTS started their two-part series where they talked about youth, its both dark and bright moments. There are so many theories online about what the story line is and what is the connection between not only those three videos above, but many others. I personally don't like to theorize a lot, I leave that to people who are good at that, I just like to enjoy music and acting and reading others' theories, but I do like connecting things in my head.
So basically, in I NEED U we see every member struggling with their lives:
- Suga setting himself on fire
- Rap Monster being disrespected at gas station (his job) and throwing lollipop/cigarette on the money
- J-Hope overdosing on pills and collapsing
- Jungkook getting into fight/getting beaten up and getting hit by car
- V having to deal with (I guess) his violent dad that drinks too much and beats his mother and eventually killing him
- Jimin drowning
- and then we have Jin who... lies on bed with white petals and in closed room? (It's quite obvious that Jin is different than others)
They all have their worries, but when they're together they completely forget about them and are enjoying themselves.
The 12-minute-long Prologue starts with bloody-handed V tying to clean himself and calling someone of other members, possibly Jin. Then all of them show up and have fun. Captions show up, such as "You can smile as long as we're together" and "You need to survive". Moreover, we see V climbing up something a looking down the, what I assume is, empty pool.
Then, all of them go near sea, driving along the coast again having fun and then stopping at gas station. It's here when Rap Monster takes picture of Jin and Suga (it'll be important later). And then they're again back to the shore sleeping in a car and greeting the dawn. And then V climbs up that construction or whatever and jumps in water, pressumably wanting to kill himself and that's the end of video. However, the current original version of the Prologue is missing its last part which BigHit deleted and we still don't know why. It showed Jin in his empty car at the shore taking out the picture of him and Suga that Rap Monster took. But picture shows only Jin and there's no sign of Suga on it.
A lot of people put out theories that all of them are dead besides Jin who is still imagining them and trying to live in memories they had together. And the Prologue too was matching to that theory. However, the music video for RUN came out and changed opinions of many.
RUN, released November 30th, starts with V falling in water, showing the continuation from Prologue and throughout whole video we see shots of him underwater, probably fighting with his desires and instinct. We see Rap Monster as well, taking soda, putting ice in it and then drowning his lollipop in it (definitely symbolism) and walking up to the wagon and opening the door. Video transitions to the house where members are having a party and then transfers to just them having fun in general. Now we specifically see the pairings that were set in both I NEED U and Prologue, Rap Monster and V are paint-spraying, drawing graffiti and then running from police. Moreover, we see Jin stocking cards which are later crushed by V (there's definitely symbolism as the last track from the album is called House of Cards). And of course there's a whole lot of running scenes, but I wasn't expecting anything less of music video called "Run".
Moreover, we see J-Hope waking up in hospital-like bed with Jimin besides him (another pairing) and they start the pillow fight which continues to the party.
And then we have the third pairing, Jungkook and Suga and this is probably my favourite part of the video. Suga, in some kind of frenzy, is breaking things and Jungkook tries to stop him, so they start to fight. I personally love the nonchalant laugh of Suga as Jungkook tries to stop him and Jungkook's facial expressions which clearly show his "Please, don't do it! Stop!" emotion. Then there's a bit more of running and having party and then comes my second favourite scene of music video hahahah I just love camera work when Jungkook sits on the pickup truck and then shows cars behind him. And yet again, they're having fun by being crazy and vandalising.
The scene where Jimin goes into bathroom and whole squad waits him there is definitely related to his part I NEED U where he's shown drowning in bathtub.
The ending part shows Jungkook in front of a vehicle (just like in I NEED U) but this time it seems that vehicle stopped as Jungkook is smiling towards camera.
Eventually, V emerges from water and when you thought it's end since there's credit roll, the very end shows picture without Jin that is being burned by Jimin (I NEED U ended quite similarly).
Now, there are a bunch of theries. Most popular ones are probably those of tumblr user taetaetown
I've been following her theories (as I said I don't really like to theorize myself).She had a theory connected to Peter Pan theory, which seems very feasible. In short, all of them except Jin are enjoying their youth, doing crazy thing (representing lost boys) while Jin realizes he started growing up and his "most beautiful moment of life" is near it's end. That's quite possible since Jin IS the oldest member, just few days ago turned 23 years internationally.
Anyways, them being dead or not, I completely loved the acting in all of this. From V's murder scene, over Jimin's drowning to Jungkook x Suga scene, they've done it so well (considering they're not actors, though Jin is studying acting) I was on verge of crying. And of course, they paricipated in creation of all of the song on both mini-albums and that makes it so much better knowing it comes from their thoughts and heart. Their company, Big Hit, definitely put a lot of effort in planning whole concept to deliver something different and rarely seen in K-pop to ARMYs (BTS' fans).
Phew, that was a lot of text, if you read it all, thank you very much and here's a cookie for you
Wait, wrong "Kookie" hahah
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