I'm not reading all of that vro
You don't need to read it. :)
It's just my personal opinion on a random webtoon that I've read
I want to read it but it's Soo long like an entire Novel (╥﹏╥)
Understandable ദദ( ᵔ ᴗ ᵔ )
Oh, um… I think…
So, first, the black room in their house is not THE Black Room. The “black room” is just a place where all the negativities are gathered - helplessness, weakness, anger, sadness, fear, and especially malice. It could be anywhere but for them, it was the room with the black door right across Yeon Woo’s parents’ bedroom. It was where they, as weak children who could not fight back against their abusers could only… um… I guess, “simmer” in their own negativities because they had no other outlet. That room, of course, isn’t the only “black room” and those mirrors aren’t the only “black mirrors”. For all we know, it might be only their supernatural powers that manifest through mirrors and others’ “malice” are through something else.
That brings me to the second point. Joon saying everyone has their own black mirror does not go on to mean the two of them are the only ones who can control them. This fictional world is so large and, like the real world, pretty unfair. Of course, there could only be other people who were able to manifest and control their malice, otherwise it wouldn’t make much sense.
Third, when Joon said Hyun Ju would have made a different choice, he probably meant that, if it was Hyun Ju in his situation, where he had already manifested his malice when he was a child and was able to somehow escape that, if it was Hyun Ju that night when he made the absolute choice of falling completely to the dark side, he thinks Hyun Ju might not have chosen to succumb as he did. Because he thinks Hyun Ju is a good and strong person. Joon believes that everyone, including good people like Hyun Ju, have black mirrors, but only weak ones like him and Yeon Woo will be swallowed up completely. Because strong people don’t need to rely on their black mirrors and can suppress the evil in them well enough.
Fourth, Yeon Woo’s parents didn’t manifest their malice in the mirror world because they could completely release it in the real world, because they were adults who were evil and malicious and who had someone they could pick on and vent their malice on. That’s what made them different from Yeon Woo and Joon. The adults in their lives all had the strength to be able to vent their malice in the real world, abusing their kid, having an affair, cheating a child out of their inheritance, or like Joon’s friends, degrading others. Yeon Woo and Joon, when they were kids, could only helplessly accept the malice of the world and without being able to vent, could only keep it inside them. I guess, they were just unfortunate to be at the right time and place - when they weak, helpless children inside a small, closed place where they could do nothing but wish for salvation to anything that listened. Then it just grew and grew from there.
You think this novel is edgy and sending out a hopeless message? I think this is like a dream come true for some. People like Joon and Yeon Woo, they have nothing behind them to lean on, always having to walk on eggshells and stay in line, so more often than not, they attract unwarranted and undeserved malice, almost as if malicious people have them in their radar and they become someone else’s punching bag. They could only wish for something and someone to do something they could not for them, to “avenge” them and make all the bad things and bad people disappear. This is the real black mirror: that thought inside your head, whispering in your own voice, wishing for other people’s misfortune, because your waking brain tells you, you can’t do it because you have to be “good”.
Joon and Yeon Woo, they had no one so they could only be each other’s someone. Their malice isn’t strong enough to manifest by themselves, but when they’re together and nothing else matters, it’s a different story. I think that’s how they became one. Like how you wouldn’t do something bad on your own but you can do it as long as someone else does it with you. You think it’s not you, it’s their bad influence, while all along the other person is thinking the same.
U-uhh... That's an ENTIRE book in there ಡ ʖ ಡ
holy shit, this just completely changed my whole perspective on the story. are you a writer by any chance?
I don't know why, but I feel disappointed somehow. I think a more appropriate ending would've been better. It feels like nihilism for the sake of nihilism and It feels hopeless.
Also it's not realistic, It feels like it's trying to appear edgy. People die and there's no reaction from the outside world. MC and ML continue to live happily while committing mass murder by saying there will only be more rumors while leaving the house. They think no one will file a missing person report or report them even though ML used to live in that same house and MC knows the people that died? What gives them that confidence?
The story implies that no good people survives and the only happy people in this world are happy because they stole the happiness from others, which is not true for many people in this world! They're just making things up to make it appear hopeless!
The fact that many innocent people died for no reason also...(the cinema guy, the phone carrying stranger). Was that also because of MC and ML's malice? If that's so then they're not so weak and good, instead they're evil and psychopaths. Taejun (the mc) says that If it was (hyun-ju), his friend maybe she wouldn't be swallowed by her own self because she's not as weak as them and that made me think...that a lot of the explanations were skipped in this webtoon.
If black mirror is the inner self of people then why should hyun-ju's self be filled with malice? It could be that only MC and ML's black mirror are filled with malice because that's their true inner self!
Anyway It feels like a bad ending in a visual novel game.
It has all the traits of a bad ending - skipped explanation, doomed world/surroundings, acceptance of the unknown(bad outcome).
Also why did the mirror choose them? Why is their malice considered the strongest? Because they're special?
It says at the end that every people has their own black mirror...even if that's true then why can only they control the world with it, even killing people? It they wanted to give that explanation then their parents could've been chosen because of their malice too!
There could be more than two people who can control the black mirror because of that explanation but still only two of them can control the black mirror...and the story ends with them saying everyone has their own black mirror blahblah. Another thing that I don't understand is why are both MC and ML considered essentially the same being that are whole because of each other? Their body morph as one near the end...Are they even themselves? They don't look like human for sure, it's more probable for them to be the mirror version (fake) version of themselves. Also why did MC forget ML when he was a kid if they're so special to each other? Him forgetting ML just because he wanted to be liked by others doesn't make much sense. After he forgot ML, he even stopped listening to the whispers and seeing his own mirror self. That also doesn't make any sense. A person can't just forget such a huge part of his own life that easily...another thing I need to ask is why is the black mirror only in their black room? If every people can have their own black mirror then it could be in every home? The first case was seen in 18th century and that was not in the black room right? So why did ML always try to make MC go to the black room after he turned into an adult?
Anyway while it started good and scary, I ended up feeling unsatisfied with the ending...