bts adding this is VERY important. merry go round emphasizes that while you may feel you are moving forward in life (growing up, achieving success) you are still anchored to the same heavy anxieties. the horse vertical movement mimics life’s temporary highs and lows but the horizontal trajectory never actually leaves the circle. growing up does not mean being free from anxiety and pressure. this is bts telling us that you are NOT alone when it comes to that kind of struggle.
“my bed is my coffin” & it’s him standing on coffin bc of military insomnia & members waiting in separate rooms (separated by enlistment) only to finally come back together at end under big dipper waiting for him so they’re whole again as 7 & that’s all it takes to be healed 😭
merry go round is about their military enlistment and the video of them being in separate rooms and all seven of them reuniting at the end with the members waiting for joon to come inside so they are finally complete and has healed
In movies & theater design, black liquid or ‘goo’ sometimes serves as a powerful visual metaphor for repressed trauma.
here, it follows Seokjin out of the military quarters before he reaches the boys on the other side:
it can represent hidden personal anxieties, fear or guilt that eventually erupts and consumes a character that he may have felt before returning.
It was gone when he reached the boys.