2026-04-24 21:51 UTC
@Yza@plush.city But they do investigate the demon society. Rumi spends a solid chunk of screen time interrogating every demon she comes across on whether they're being forced into attacking humans by Gwi-Ma.
She displays empathy and is rewarded with all demons being unambiguously evil, and her friends growing angry at her for showing this weakness.
But it is this very empathy that she wants, that Celine never showed her. She searches for the good in demons because she sees good in herself and in Jinu. If they are demons who are capable of good, surely others are too.
Except no, they are somehow it. As the song that horrified her goes, demons really are all the same, they truly have no feelings and don't deserve to live.
The same song that triggered panic attacks in her for its blind hatred and condemnation of half of her identity is then used as the closing song of the movie.
Not the version she rewrote to be more empathetic, but the original version that made her run away in fear from those she thought would unconditionally love her.
These are in zero ways my opinion, and are instead purely objective statements about the movie. If we disagree on the above, then we disagree on the movie we watched in a way that cannot be resolved.
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@Yza@plush.city 2026-04-24 22:16
@lety@doesstuff.social again, the demons rumi interrogated were all soldiers of gwi-ma. it's entirely plausible that they're only the ones who volunteered to go invade the human world because they were the bad ones. up until this movie jinu seemingly never assisted gwi-ma, so i think a reasonable inference is that we're mostly just seeing the worst of them part of the reason rumi couldn't sing golden is because it was a lie. her uncertainty about if the demons she's fighting are evil reflects her uncertainty