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Meaning of the billboard?

posted 8 years ago by austelwx
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I recently saw this movie with a friend. His version had pretty shoddy subtitles though, and it didn't translate the text on the billboard next to the police station. Obviously the text is something relevant though, since Sakurai gives it a long, weary look in one scene, and of course the movie ends with a closeup on it.

What was the billboard about, and what's its relevance to the story?
Thanks in advance to anyone who wouldn't mind helping me out on this!

[–] vilafire (607) 2 years ago

Good question.

Also, at the very end the man in the trance walks over to the billboard. It looks to me that in the woman’s eye is a silhouette of a hanged man. Foreshadowing that the entranced man is about to hang himself?

By the way, I’m shocked at how empty this board is.