Post by @Yza@plush.city

2026-04-24 21:36 UTC

@lety@doesstuff.social the film is pretty clear that jinu and rumi are not inherently evil and neither is beyond salvation. the golden honmoon is also never created, so the demons are unlikely to be forever imprisoned. i think the movie doesn't investigate the demon society or their issues much beyond jinu, because that's not what the film wishes to focus on. i agree this leads to some negative implications, but i don't agree that lack of focus means the morals are bad exactly

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@Yza@plush.city 2026-04-24 21:39

@lety@doesstuff.social Rumi was raised to hate the demon side of her and to want to purge it, but she found she could accept and embrace it through actually talking with a demon. she gets to yell at her aunt for being wrong to hate her demon side i also don't know to what degree the heroes have a sacred mandate and to what extent the source of their magic is meant to be inherently good, especially since rumi's aunt leaves the film in a pretty bad light

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@lety@doesstuff.social 2026-04-24 21:51

@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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