why did kang flip out?


after he reads the main guys diary, he flips out in an emotional rage and wrecks the place. why? he wasnt connected to the diary or anything, why did he get so emotional and angry?

i don't read books, they ruin the movie for me

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perhaps cos it meant that their experiments were a failure

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Well having seen the conclusion of the movie it kind of changed my theory. As I was watching the movie for the first time I thought that perhaps he felt guilty about tricking him into feeding that drink (benzene??) to his mother. I came to this belief because the diary had lots of emotional memories relating to his mother and perhaps he had some guilt?

However, after watching the movie I am beginning to think he did that because he realized that he wasted all his time on experimenting with humans. At the end of the movie he blows up earth and says "they're hopeless". I think he really learned from the time locked down there and reading the diary that perhaps humans aren't suitable for experiments. Just my thoughts, hope I helped.

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yeh thanks for your ideas, i wish it was explained more clearly in the film though.

i don't read books, they ruin the movie for me

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I think as you're watching the first time you're supposed to think it's because he's so disturbed by all the crazy stuff Byong-goo did, and maybe that's close to the right answer: he saw that humans were irrevocably violent and disturbed, and no matter how much they experimented, they were going to remain that way.

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