BTS just dropped their new short film “Wings,” but the fan theories explaining the BigHit
Entertainment boy group's new video are already pouring in.
Most thought
BTS (Rap Monster, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook) had finally laid
their youth concept to rest with the latest installment in their “Hwa Yang
Yeon Hwa” (“The Most Beautiful Moment In Life”) series, “Young
Forever," and that they would be starting a new era. However, it
looks like the boys’ coming-of-age story might not be over yet.
1. Jungkook is dead, and “Wings” shows him in the afterlife.
The theory about BTS’ new short film “Wings” is that Jungkook
might be in the afterlife. In the beginning of the clip, hedreams of a car crash,
which might be how he died. In “I Need U,” the first installment of the “Most
Beautiful Moment in Life” series, it was implied that Jungkook was hit by
a car while crossing the street, though the actual incident was never shown.
It’s also possible that theboy in the painting and the
drawinghe finds on the
floor is Jungkook himself, with the red paint on the latter signifying blood.
The birds in the short film could also be crows or ravens, which are often
associated with death.
2. Suga committed suicide in “I Need U,”
and Jungkook is remembering his death.
the boy in the
photo Jungkook picks up from the floor and in the painting might be Suga, and
that the reason why the younger boy had been sobbing when he saw his image is
because he has yet to accept his best friend's death.
At the beginning of
the clip, Jungkook dreams of a burning piano, and the same image appears once
more in his eyes when he looks at the painting of the boy. In “I Need U” and
the “Prologue,” Jungkook and Suga appeared to have a close relationship, with
several scenes showing just the two of them together. However, in the final
scenes of “I Need U,” Suga doused the hotel room he had been staying at with
gasoline and burned it with him still inside, implying that he may have
committed suicide. In “Run,” Suga went on a rampage and appeared to be
self-destructive, and at one point, he even punched Jungkook. But the
timeline of the music video was never determined,so it’s possible this could
have happened before Suga burned down the hotel.
Other clues supporting this theory is that thepiano could be a reference to
Sugawho is the only
member of BTS known to play piano, and that a line from the rapper’s song
“Tomorrow” is featured in the clip, which says, “Because the dawn right
before the sun rises is the darkest.”
3. Jungkook was reincarnated and began to
remember his past life in "Wings."
This is somewhat
related to the first speculation, but in this case, Jungkook is not in the
afterlife and has been instead reincarnated. His dreams could be him
remembering how he and possibly even his friends died in his past life.
Thistheorycame from one fan who speculated that
the birds in “Wings” might be phoenixes, which commonly symbolize rebirth and
are also associated with flames. In the final scene of the short
film, Jungkook’s shadow showed a pair of big wings sprouting from his back,
which could be be alluding to him having been reborn and given
another chance to live out his youth after having died so young in his past
life.
4.
Jungkook either dreamed or imagined everything, and none of his friends were
real.
In
“Wings,” Rap Monster can be heard reciting a line from Hermann Hesse’s “Demian:
The Story of Emil Sinclair’s Youth,” saying, “The realms of day and night, two
different worlds coming from two opposite poles mingled during this time.”
In
Hesse’s coming-of-age story, Emil struggled to differentiate between two
worlds, illusion and reality, until he finally “awakens into a realization of
self.” Based on the line, fans speculated that Jungkook could have dreamed
everything, including all the events from “I Need U” to “Young Forever.”
He may have only imagined the other six members, since he was lonely and
had no one else in the world. Another theory is that he may have been in a coma
after a car crash, and while he was under, he dreamed up a life where he had
six close friends whom he spent all his time with like in “Run.”
One clue
that supports this theory is that in “Run,” there was a moment where Jungkook
had been sitting next to a couch with his friends in front of him. However, in
the next second, he was all alone.
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