My reading was that the raped girl was his bio mom. The raped girl married the guy without a leg. They raised a kid until he was kidnapped. The kid was the product of the rape.
The "bad" dad and his group kidnapped the kid. He probably didn't know for sure if it was his kid or not but he was further punishing the guy without a leg and the guy without a leg was rich so they were seeking a ransom. More on that below.
The kid is the "bad" dad's kid though.
The chained woman was a family friend or nanny that was raised in the orphanage originally. She came along with the package when "bad" dad kidnapped the kid.
If bio mom was the chained woman, the dead mom would not have cared so much to hear about Hwayi from "bad" dad before he killed her. They wouldn't have kept his room a shrine to Hwayi. And they wouldn't feel compelled to stay in the apartment awaiting Hwayi's return in the face of such adversity since, if the chained woman was the bio mom and the man without a leg was not the bio dad, they would have only been missing a kid they adopted, raised for a couple years then lost. Not that that wouldn't leave someone with feelings but that probably wouldn't have been illustrated that way in the movie.
Also, I gathered that the man without a leg was sexually abusing the "bad" dad in the orphanage which is why we see him with a knife in bed when he's seeing the monster. He is being sarcastic when "bad" dad says that the man without a leg must have been a saint. The man without a leg told "bad" dad to pray in order to place guilt back onto "bad" dad when he was victimizing him - a common practice of abusers.
"Bad" dad figured out that praying was not going to help him and that it was a tactic being used against him so "Bad" dad eventually stared the monster in the face and took revenge at the man without a leg by raping his girlfriend and pitchforking his now missing leg.
"Bad" dad may have kidnapped Hwayi to prevent him from being victimized by the man without a leg too.
Because "bad" dad was pretty psychologically screwed up, he raised Hwayi in such a manner as to traumatize Hwayi which gave Hwayi a monster too. Essentially, "bad" dad had passed his monster onto Hwayi. Not by sexually abusing him but by mentally and physically abusing him.
"Bad" dad correlated his own "getting dirty" with his escape from the monster which is why he was self-reinforced in his desire to have Hwayi "get dirty". "Bad" dad's actual salvation from the monster came because he had confronted his abuser not because he "got dirty".
Hwayi's escape from the monster comes to him the same way after confronting "bad" dad.
I could have some of this or all of this wrong but that was my take on it. They certainly left a lot of it to our imagination because of the lack of clarity.
Tell me what you think.
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2 years ago
The kid who prayed was a kid who was physically weaker than the young bad dad. So how exactly is he preying on him? And why would he marry a girl that was raped by the guy who cut off his leg and later forgave regardless.
I agree that all 3 are too old to be in their 30s but I figured they just made them all look older as characters given the difficult life they had. Ie, they chose older actors for younger roles. I watched another film of a guy who died at 26 yet was played by a 56yr old.
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