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The death penalty in Florida is carried out by an executioner who is a private citizen and is paid $150 per execution. State law allows for his or her identity to remain anonymous. They also have a second, backup executioner available. – WTF Fun Facts

tuesday

free (2015)

with haemi and pantomiming, we see jongsoo often masturbating to the idea of haemi, right outside the window of her apartment and sometimes in her bed. towards the end of the movie, we see a now presumed dead haemi getting jongsoo off in his imagination. jongsoo becomes so obsessed with haemi, even more so after her disappearance, that he forgets she is not there. there are a lot of things we dispute the existence of in the movie. boil, the well. their ambiguous nature allows us to fall into the exact same trap that jongsoo falls into. we forget that those items are not there because we so badly want to believe that they do exist. we have no reason to believe that they don’t. even jongsoo refuses to believe that the well doesn’t exist. 

little hunger and great hunger is a bit more complicated to understand. great hunger is explained as the hunger for the meaning of life. i understood little hunger as a baseline concept, it’s what meets the eye. we’re supposed to assume that ben killed haemi because he’s rich, and condescending, and he has haemi’s watch. the entire time we watch ben with a close eye because thats what the movie tells us to do. we have little hunger. someone with great hunger will notice jongsoo’s slow burning descent into madness. towards the end of the movie, one may feel that after jongsoo murdered ben, he satisfied his great hunger. jongsoo sat in front of the seoul tower, madness and all, and formulated the idea that ben was not what meets the eye. 

disappearing into the sunset is less of a metaphor and more of a foreshadowing. the last time we ever see haemi, she is dancing, topless, freer than ever, in front of a sunset. she disappears along with the sunset, and the rest is what follows. 

the unknown calls that jongsoo receives is uncertain and unexplained. however, at one point, someone answers and it happens to be his mother who was absent for a large part of the movie as well as in his life. the empty calls can be viewed as a metaphor for her absence, or perhaps something that requires deeper introspection. the many calls he gets from life, but with no avail, they are never fulfilled. he can’t even get the girl he desires as he loses it to money, to the class difference that he just can’t close, well, not without murder. 

and of course, the greenhouse burnings. haemi, abandoned by her family, friends, is the greenhouse who burned. is the greenhouse close to jongsoo. is the greenhouse he forgot to visit.