It’s been a while since I saw the movie…I don’t recall any awful decisions that they had made. I mean, sure, they would have made some better decisions but was there some glaringly awful decisions they made? I honestly don’t recall
I put in a better way that things are supposed be understood in a longer comment that I hope makes more sense. . . .it's more a story of the faith in the village and good vs evil. It's not frustrating when you know what the characters sand for.
@@stanclark8824 To show how easily we human beings can be influenced by external forces and lost of control. Humans are born to consume but not inherently evil. We grow up becoming evil, as a choice. But often the choice is easier to make when manipulated or influenced. The Japanese fox spirit protecting the village vs the demon was an interesting part of the story.
@GariusMarius ah, so that lady was possibly telling the truth, but it was too late and everyone left were already influenced by evil and never wanted to help the families at all. The...oooooh! I get it now. So the lady was really good, trying to save the man from danger knowing it was already too late.
@@stanclark8824 Yeah that was one interpretation that the female fox spirit was "good" in the sense that perhaps she either wanted to truly protect the villagers, or they provide her with offerings for her protection. Or perhaps the fox spirit simply did not allow other demons to trespass into her territory. She seems to have limited powers and most of the depravity was done by the people themselves. The demon Japanese guy gained power since the people were more influenced by him than the fox spirit. There are other interesting theories as well.
This is not the best explanation. . . .I will try to simplify it. The woman in white or who you call the "ghost" is actually more like an angel. The Japanese man is the Devil. The Shaman or rather the man we see doing the ritual is also more evil. When we see the Shaman change in the main character's home he is wearing the same exact loin cloth as the Japanese man. The Shaman gets violently ill and vomits blood profusely when he sees the woman in white/ghost/angel as she tells him to leave that place. She is trying to protect the village. We see the Shaman actually had the pictures of all of the people from the Japanese man's home that he claimed to have burned. The Devil even sends bugs hi he windshield of the Shaman when he attempts to leave the town. The shaman is always seen in or changes to dark clothing or hurts people and it shows us his true intentions. The Shaman is the one telling the main character to go home where he knows the child will end him and the entire family. . . . . . . - The Woman in white/ghost is watching the Devil to attempt to intervene and keep as much evil under wraps as possible. He is looking at her knowing that "good" is watching him and he was unable to get away with certain things. The woman in white attempts to save our main character by telling him not to go home and she likely tried to save the other characters the Devil had "touched" in some way as well. She actually tells the main character she has laid a trap at his home for the evil in the form of a plant that is hanging. We see it wither when the main character runs home and this is an element of not having faith in this movie. If we watch from the beginning we see that at other crime scenes she had also laid traps of plants hanging to catch the evil and attempted to stop the murders from happening, but those people lost faith as well. She also is the one who shows the main character she has any special powers when she moves super fast to grab him so he doesn't go home and he ignores her showing of her angelic powers and ignores faith in "good" where she laid a trap for evil and runs home and she is the only special character who is deeply upset by him leaving in which he and his entire family with not survive. She will wear the pink hair clip forever now like the other failures she carries with her. - The Devil is well.. . . . .the devil and when he shows his true form the priest is horrified and the Devil does shame him for being so naive like evil could not exist around him anywhere at any time. That's why he became a priest! The whole movie was to point out how the characters lacked faith including the priest and they also believed in some of the wrong people. What if the characters had believed the woman in white? - I hope this explains the movie better as we know that people will continue to have their faith tested and so far none have kept their faith and thus each family or couple had met their end. The town has lost it's way and they have lost their faith in good and they act only out of emotion and rage, exactly what the Devil wants.
@@LuizMisterio There is probably some sort of political message in the movie as well...what with the world war 2 invasion of Asia Pacific by the Japanese imperial army. Comfort women, depraved human experiments. The "Japanese" invader message and the resentment of the local Korean villagers in their peaceful way of life.
@@GariusMariusmaybe…but it really isn’t overdone like that. The dude is Japanese who happens to be bad. And, really, he isn’t even Japanese or human considering he is a demon.
I cannot stand it that they put "dog killing" as an included part of the Asian film contents. It's so heart agonizing, even more fuked up that this part is common in Asian films (korea, china, japan etc), not just this one
I agree with you that the director could of have done away with that scene altogether. But depending on your perspective, it was either too cruel or it was necessary to convey how most of the people in the village were either influenced by or possessed by evil spirits/the devil, or were just plain bad people (or at least indifferent about harming someone else's pet.) At the same time, the possessed Japanese man unleashed the guard dog on the Korean man destroying his altar, and we didn't get to see what had transpired inside the hut, other than the dog attacking the man and sad whimpering noises by the dog from likely being attacked with the pickaxe. At the end of the day, the man was just defending himself from a guard dog charging at him. I am making a lot of conclusions and calling them country bumpkins in the past, but I am not sure how I would of have handled the situation if I was attacked by a dog. What would you of had done? On your second point about dogs being harmed in Asian films...that is a generalization isn't it? How often are dogs harmed in Asian films. Are you just being a bit political here if I may ask? The juxtaposition is that there are plenty of Asian films where pets and dogs are loved and no harm ever comes to them. I like to believe there are far more films about loving pets than harming pets. I suppose if we were to be strict on our bias, then even one scene of harming a pet within a movie is one too many? Finally. Other cultures view us slaughtering and eating pigs and cows as "fuked up" as well, but we still do it. In fact, we've conditioned to eat them and is a part of our film culture all the same. Out of sight out of mind kind of situation. Most people, Asians included, do not attack or eat dogs.
@GariusMarius "too many" movies -- no, but noticeable number.. in the self defense, there are ways where you can move to locations to keep yourself safe while avoiding dog bites, even if a mentally sick dog attacks (because I have never seen sane beasts attack without reason), you can definitely solve without killing. Lions or massive wild beasts might be too much to handle, even then they can be taken down by capture, human capacity is far high above. The fact I mention why they represent it in the films is a negative thing. It makes people think that this is a normal and necessary phenomenon, and there are real life cases where people torture and harm animals. There was no anti-campaign messages or significant efforts from the producers as much as they do hte opposite. They indeed influence people with their productions in so many ways they dont even know. Why even put the image of killing to solve problems, thats the last resort if you have no way to save. There are fighter dogs dogs for securities which are rare breeds. Excluding them all the other dogs are non lethal, killing mosquitoes with cannons, too much.
@recarunu868 I understand your perspective. At the same time, it's a horror movie about demons, devils, and mountain fox spirits. The scene was to showcase the brutality of the people that live in that village and the progression of depravity for all the villagers. I have no place to tell you that human lives are more important than a dog if such an animal were to attack, for whatever reason. But I would say that I wouldn't casually let a dog just bite me should that happen. I live in the USA and we tend to focus on animal rights, while also having a juxtaposition of allowing over 8 million and many more unaccounted for dogs and cats be euthanized at animal shelters. We don't really take care of animals as much as we claim that we do either, we just don't happen to show the humanity side of animal abuse in movies. I mean, someone is going to harm animals with or without having watched this movie. The depraved people that live amongst us are the way that they are long before any "Asian movies". Plenty of attacks on animals exist in non Asian movies as well, which was why I had wondered why your focus was mentioning only Asian films.
You know that not every culture has same sentimental you have for animals. For example in my country dogs stay outside the main house where they are locked in their little dog house until night where they are let out. Dogs are strictly used for security and don't usually form any bond with owners. Cats are also used for security and also stay out. And we don't have animal shelters so when there are a lot of animals (mostly dogs & cats) roaming around they are put down to avoid possible spread of rabbies. Most people don't do pets. You have dogs they are definitely not as pets but rather for security and they don't mingle with their masters and definitely not part of the family. And we really care less when they are old and die we just buy another one.
One of those blasted films where everyone made all the wrong choices.
It’s been a while since I saw the movie…I don’t recall any awful decisions that they had made. I mean, sure, they would have made some better decisions but was there some glaringly awful decisions they made? I honestly don’t recall
THE WAILING is the title of this movie.....very well worth watching💯👏
I think that this is a very good movie
The day looks crazy siting outside
The whole storyline is so frustrating
From the recap or the actual story itself?
I put in a better way that things are supposed be understood in a longer comment that I hope makes more sense. . . .it's more a story of the faith in the village and good vs evil. It's not frustrating when you know what the characters sand for.
This was a good movie worth the watch it wasn’t horrible
So...everyone, but the families were evil. Got it.
@@stanclark8824 To show how easily we human beings can be influenced by external forces and lost of control. Humans are born to consume but not inherently evil. We grow up becoming evil, as a choice. But often the choice is easier to make when manipulated or influenced. The Japanese fox spirit protecting the village vs the demon was an interesting part of the story.
@GariusMarius ah, so that lady was possibly telling the truth, but it was too late and everyone left were already influenced by evil and never wanted to help the families at all. The...oooooh! I get it now. So the lady was really good, trying to save the man from danger knowing it was already too late.
@@stanclark8824 Yeah that was one interpretation that the female fox spirit was "good" in the sense that perhaps she either wanted to truly protect the villagers, or they provide her with offerings for her protection. Or perhaps the fox spirit simply did not allow other demons to trespass into her territory. She seems to have limited powers and most of the depravity was done by the people themselves. The demon Japanese guy gained power since the people were more influenced by him than the fox spirit. There are other interesting theories as well.
These Korean or Asian movies r seriously scary
This is not the best explanation. . . .I will try to simplify it. The woman in white or who you call the "ghost" is actually more like an angel. The Japanese man is the Devil. The Shaman or rather the man we see doing the ritual is also more evil.
When we see the Shaman change in the main character's home he is wearing the same exact loin cloth as the Japanese man. The Shaman gets violently ill and vomits blood profusely when he sees the woman in white/ghost/angel as she tells him to leave that place. She is trying to protect the village. We see the Shaman actually had the pictures of all of the people from the Japanese man's home that he claimed to have burned. The Devil even sends bugs hi he windshield of the Shaman when he attempts to leave the town. The shaman is always seen in or changes to dark clothing or hurts people and it shows us his true intentions. The Shaman is the one telling the main character to go home where he knows the child will end him and the entire family. . . . . . .
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The Woman in white/ghost is watching the Devil to attempt to intervene and keep as much evil under wraps as possible. He is looking at her knowing that "good" is watching him and he was unable to get away with certain things. The woman in white attempts to save our main character by telling him not to go home and she likely tried to save the other characters the Devil had "touched" in some way as well. She actually tells the main character she has laid a trap at his home for the evil in the form of a plant that is hanging. We see it wither when the main character runs home and this is an element of not having faith in this movie. If we watch from the beginning we see that at other crime scenes she had also laid traps of plants hanging to catch the evil and attempted to stop the murders from happening, but those people lost faith as well. She also is the one who shows the main character she has any special powers when she moves super fast to grab him so he doesn't go home and he ignores her showing of her angelic powers and ignores faith in "good" where she laid a trap for evil and runs home and she is the only special character who is deeply upset by him leaving in which he and his entire family with not survive. She will wear the pink hair clip forever now like the other failures she carries with her.
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The Devil is well.. . . . .the devil and when he shows his true form the priest is horrified and the Devil does shame him for being so naive like evil could not exist around him anywhere at any time. That's why he became a priest! The whole movie was to point out how the characters lacked faith including the priest and they also believed in some of the wrong people. What if the characters had believed the woman in white?
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I hope this explains the movie better as we know that people will continue to have their faith tested and so far none have kept their faith and thus each family or couple had met their end. The town has lost it's way and they have lost their faith in good and they act only out of emotion and rage, exactly what the Devil wants.
Very interesting, thanks for the explanation
Movie name?
The Wailing
part 2 the father survived then will take revenge to the demon.
Looks scary
Japanese demon man, good video. thanks
@@LuizMisterio There is probably some sort of political message in the movie as well...what with the world war 2 invasion of Asia Pacific by the Japanese imperial army. Comfort women, depraved human experiments. The "Japanese" invader message and the resentment of the local Korean villagers in their peaceful way of life.
@GariusMarius Thanks for the information! 💯🙏
@@GariusMariusmaybe…but it really isn’t overdone like that. The dude is Japanese who happens to be bad. And, really, he isn’t even Japanese or human considering he is a demon.
I cannot stand it that they put "dog killing" as an included part of the Asian film contents. It's so heart agonizing, even more fuked up that this part is common in Asian films (korea, china, japan etc), not just this one
I agree with you that the director could of have done away with that scene altogether. But depending on your perspective, it was either too cruel or it was necessary to convey how most of the people in the village were either influenced by or possessed by evil spirits/the devil, or were just plain bad people (or at least indifferent about harming someone else's pet.) At the same time, the possessed Japanese man unleashed the guard dog on the Korean man destroying his altar, and we didn't get to see what had transpired inside the hut, other than the dog attacking the man and sad whimpering noises by the dog from likely being attacked with the pickaxe. At the end of the day, the man was just defending himself from a guard dog charging at him. I am making a lot of conclusions and calling them country bumpkins in the past, but I am not sure how I would of have handled the situation if I was attacked by a dog. What would you of had done? On your second point about dogs being harmed in Asian films...that is a generalization isn't it? How often are dogs harmed in Asian films. Are you just being a bit political here if I may ask? The juxtaposition is that there are plenty of Asian films where pets and dogs are loved and no harm ever comes to them. I like to believe there are far more films about loving pets than harming pets. I suppose if we were to be strict on our bias, then even one scene of harming a pet within a movie is one too many? Finally. Other cultures view us slaughtering and eating pigs and cows as "fuked up" as well, but we still do it. In fact, we've conditioned to eat them and is a part of our film culture all the same. Out of sight out of mind kind of situation. Most people, Asians included, do not attack or eat dogs.
@GariusMarius "too many" movies -- no, but noticeable number..
in the self defense, there are ways where you can move to locations to keep yourself safe while avoiding dog bites, even if a mentally sick dog attacks (because I have never seen sane beasts attack without reason), you can definitely solve without killing. Lions or massive wild beasts might be too much to handle, even then they can be taken down by capture, human capacity is far high above.
The fact I mention why they represent it in the films is a negative thing. It makes people think that this is a normal and necessary phenomenon, and there are real life cases where people torture and harm animals. There was no anti-campaign messages or significant efforts from the producers as much as they do hte opposite. They indeed influence people with their productions in so many ways they dont even know. Why even put the image of killing to solve problems, thats the last resort if you have no way to save. There are fighter dogs dogs for securities which are rare breeds. Excluding them all the other dogs are non lethal, killing mosquitoes with cannons, too much.
@recarunu868 I understand your perspective. At the same time, it's a horror movie about demons, devils, and mountain fox spirits. The scene was to showcase the brutality of the people that live in that village and the progression of depravity for all the villagers. I have no place to tell you that human lives are more important than a dog if such an animal were to attack, for whatever reason. But I would say that I wouldn't casually let a dog just bite me should that happen. I live in the USA and we tend to focus on animal rights, while also having a juxtaposition of allowing over 8 million and many more unaccounted for dogs and cats be euthanized at animal shelters. We don't really take care of animals as much as we claim that we do either, we just don't happen to show the humanity side of animal abuse in movies. I mean, someone is going to harm animals with or without having watched this movie. The depraved people that live amongst us are the way that they are long before any "Asian movies". Plenty of attacks on animals exist in non Asian movies as well, which was why I had wondered why your focus was mentioning only Asian films.
This is a Korean film so I'm shocked the kid survived.
You know that not every culture has same sentimental you have for animals. For example in my country dogs stay outside the main house where they are locked in their little dog house until night where they are let out. Dogs are strictly used for security and don't usually form any bond with owners. Cats are also used for security and also stay out. And we don't have animal shelters so when there are a lot of animals (mostly dogs & cats) roaming around they are put down to avoid possible spread of rabbies. Most people don't do pets. You have dogs they are definitely not as pets but rather for security and they don't mingle with their masters and definitely not part of the family. And we really care less when they are old and die we just buy another one.