… Why Epiphany is the answer to the BTS MV Story. It might be the only answer Bighit give us, so I hope this helps you to understand it.
Before writing this Epiphany explanation
post I explained it to my no 1 and I had to share her reaction…
This might’ve been slightly big-headed
of me (I’m sure plenty of others understand it too).
I wish I worked for Bighit! On with the theory.
In a nutshell: What happens in the Epiphany MV is not a
moment in time, it’s the symbolic summary of every moment in time for
Jin, since the beginning of the story, showing when he decided to change the timeline and where he ends up.
Keep
in mind this word ‘symbolic’.
What happens in this MV is not literal, it’s a way to show you a summary of
what happened without showing you Jin’s entire life (because they have other stuff to do than film a million MV’s). It’s the answer to the BTS MV story.
So we start with this scene and two Jin’s (actually the same Jin at different points in time):
Sink Jin leaves the room looking perfectly normal (and wwhandsome), this
symbolises the original unedited timeline. As in their youth, before it
all goes wrong in I Need U. Then there’s sofa Jin (also looking
wwhandsome) he is watching an old TV which represents him accessing his memories. More on the significance of sofa Jin and the TV later.
The lyrics read ’I wanted to live my life for you’, meaning he
wanted to live because of his members. This is because in his life at
that point in time with his controlling father they were all he had.
Then the camera pans onto the flowers on the table…
In past MV’s we have always seen six flowers, six petals. These are shown to represent the lives of the other members to Jin. Normally there are six. Here… there are only five. Watch the MV closely to identify the five stalks as it was tough to point out on image. I tried…
There are only five because we are seeing the point where one of the members dies because of their issues in I Need U. The debate will probably continue on forever about who
died, if anyone. I personally think it was Jungkook or Taehyung.
Sofa Jin
looks upset, but he hasn’t broken down yet because at this point he believes he can use his ability to go back, change the timeline
and save his friends. This is represented when he opens
the diary (aka a record of his time) to decide where to go back to, to change the timeline.
Unfortunately as the camera
pans out we are given Window Jin and he’s here to break your tiny lil
army hearts with his acting skills.
Window Jin represents Jin who has left the house, tried to save one
member from tragedy and lost another (or the same member again) in a
new tragedy.
Some more lyrics; ’but as I keep doing that I can’t bear
the storm inside my heart‘. This is because he keeps trying to save them and
failing and it’s breaking him apart inside to watch his friends meet
tragedy again and again.
Then as he picks out his jacket for this ‘today’ it switches for the first time into colour image. This is how we know it’s no longer trying to symbolize the past, because black and white image is associated with old/past/age. We’re seeing his more recent part of the story/journey.
Colour Jin leaves the apartment again and the camera fades out which
brings us to the end of that ‘Jin cycling through timelines montage
summary’ thing. Crap it’s hard to put this stuff into words at times. We see Colour
Jin walking through a mess of all our Tear’s, still looking wwhandsome, but he’s weary and tired of
watching his loved ones suffer repeatedly.
And we’re now in the present (Love Yourself) era. Welcome…
…to the part of this MV that represents the Highlight Reels.
He wipes the rain from his face. The rain represents Tears in their MV’s (think of Jimin above or Jungkook in Begin). Then the the tears are undone…
…they reverse up into the air and away. This is the MV showing us Jin’s final attempt to undo the timeline, prevent the tragedy in the highlight reels and change their fate. This is symbolic of the moment right after the girl is hit by the Smeraldo truck, right when they are all back in their tragic moments.
Side note, here’s an image for those of you have read my *ying yang theory*, watch the rain on this part of the MV …could it be?:
Then as damp Jin walks back into the room the most awesome lyric comes up:
‘I want to love them in this world’.
It’s awesome because it basically confirms all of my time travel/multiverse theories (for me anyway). It’s Jin saying I don’t want to keep going through this, I don’t want to keep changing the time line, creating parallel universes and watching them suffer. I want to be with them, I want to love them and I want to do it now not in a future/world that I can’t seem to reach.
I grew a flower that can’t be bloomed in a dream that can’t come true
(Fake Love).
Then, as he dries off those Tear’s he realises that he can’t save them and he shouldn’t keep putting their lives before his own because he suffers his own tragedy in the process. Instead he should love himself and stop the cycle.
So we go from the part of this MV that represents Fake Love and Tear:
To present day… Love yourself: Answer:
He closes the curtains (which represent him looking at the lives of the ones he loves, hence the seven windows above) on this present timeline. Closing them is symbolic of his choice to stop fighting to save the others at the expense of his own health and happiness.
The latest Jin/Answer notes are along this same line of thought too. In the notes he finds his father’s journal and discovers he too had these ‘abilities’. As he read the journal he found that it didn’t end well for his father trying to change things so he decides he won’t suffer the same fate.
‘Perhaps now I will finally be able to take a step forward in finding the map to my soul’ – Jin’s Answer notes.
As the MV comes to an end, the scenes change back to black and white, he picks up the diary and exits the room. This is to represent Jin making the choice to return to the past, right back to the very beginning where it all began.
He will travel back, one final time. Only this time, he will live life for himself, he won’t put the others before him because he knows the Answer is to Love Yourself.
But wait, that’s not all… remember I mentioned Jin watching the TV set to see his memories?
Well we got one more scene and it’s the memory that he just travelled back to as he steps out of the room for the final time, which is none other than, this one:
The day at the sea, at the end of the Run MV. See how it switches from black and white to colour? That’s because that moment is now Jin’s present.
Also, did you notice the glitches? They happen because he watched the memories back on the old TV set
(remember I said watching the old TV was symbolic of him recalling his memories) It glitches like an old vhs tape playing on a TV. That’s because Jin used his video diary of that moment to go back to. This is what all the glitches were about. We were seeing the story from Jin’s perspective.
In a weird kinda way he has gone back to his youth, so maybe they really will be ‘Young Forever’.
This ending to the Answer Intro MV combined with the ‘Retro’ hint bighit already gave about the next single/album may have just given us a few clues as to what to expect. Quick definition of the word retro:
So perhaps if Jin did leave the room and travel back to where it all began (HYYH era) then the next MV may feature some imitation of their past music/videos in some way? Just like Euphoria did when he went back last time.
There’s another side to this story with the mask, the girls and the Fake Love story which the chorus of Epiphany taps into a lot. However, I wanted to focus on this TV/Camcorder/Diary/Time travel side of the Story for this post as it was already quite long.
Two predictions I made which came true in this MV (I was wrong on a couple):
The big epiphany and answer is that they must love themselves. This will
be shown in the MV’s and in the subject matter of the songs. – I don’t really need to show why this one came true.
It will be lighter in
general than Fake Love. With a ‘reality’ element too it (I don’t know
exactly how to explain this one but I will be able to pick it out when
it happens lol). – So the reality element I can now put into words; basically they used this little apartment, showed him checking himself in the mirror, living there in a day to day manner but with this massive magical time travel element too it. Also, the reality element is embedded in this MV because he had to come back down to Earth at some point and realise that messing with the time travel and playing god was not realistically ever going to work out. In real life, there is no magic answer to tragedy… that’s reality. You just have love yourself enough to carry on.
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