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Video Analysis On Run

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The third video, Run, includes more symbolism. However, it is mostly focused on the relationships that the characters had with each other and their interactions together. Basically, the group can be paired off into Rap Monster and V, Suga and Jungkook, and J-Hope and Jimin. Jin does not have a partner in this. He is further differentiated from the group in this way, and in the video he still has his recording motif, as well as looking into the camera. The video starts with V falling backwards into dark water. The water acts as a mirror in this case, showing him fall from one side of the mirror into the other. There are shots of him struggling underwater throughout the video as well. After that, Rap Monster is featured visiting the train tracks where the group was seen together. In this video, his would be considered the present time. When he opens the door to one of the train cars, he starts a flashback to times when the group was having fun. While the entire video is meant to be before the members die, these are further flashbacks to when even V has not died, and they are all having fun together. Some of these moments of fun directly mirror the activities that the …show more content…

One explanation of the basic plotline is that first, V kills a man. He is at a loss as to how to handle this, and ends up killing himself. After that, unable to cope with his not being there, the rest of the members also commit suicide in various ways, except for Jin. Although the specific order is not abundantly clear, one can infer that at least Suga dies before Jungkook. Jin, however, is the only one left alive by the end of this, forced to watch each of his friends disappear without being able to do anything about it. These hypotheses can be deduced from the symbolism present in the form of cameras of recordings, butterflies, and mirrors, among

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