BTS "PROLOGUE" TRAILER EXPLAINED

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BTS "PROLOGUE" TRAILER EXPLAINED // THE BUTTERFLY THEME

INTO THE VOID

In the first sequence, V is shown in shadowy lights, in some kind of twilight for he is transitioning into his butterfly self after having just killed his father in I NEED U: he is now entering the "void" that is adulthood, as depicted in the later Run MV (and symbolised by darkness throughout the HYYH cycle).

Right now he is in a state of shock andconfusion and calls one of his hyungs, which will turn out to be RapMonster (as seen in the Japanese version of the Run MV). Rap Monster his indeedthe mature side of Jin (Jinbeing the soul, the main entity and the boys being its variouscomponents) and the one V (the rebellious side of Jin) would naturally call insuch time of crisis (they are an official pairing for the HHYHTrilogy). This is the moment when, in Run, V falls backwards into the water andenters the realm of dreams 

 This is the moment when, in Run, V falls backwards into the water andenters the realm of dreams 

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Prologue, Run Japanese ver. & Run (darkness/void motif)

BACK TO NEVERLAND

The next scene at the pool site is actually a retake of what happened in I NEED U, of what will happen at the end of the Prologue and what will again happen in Run: the boys will be trapped in a vicious cycle for as long as they won't accept that the death of youth is not the end of themselves. When each single one of them will be ready to let go of youth, then only will they be able to put an end to the cycle: it's a process Jin, as the main entity, has to unconsciously go through to reconcile is old and new self (everything and everyone in the dream sequences are ultimately controlled by Jin's psyche).

Here, V goes back to "Neverland" to escape the reality of what he has done. He lets himself fall backwards onto a mattress on the floor, a reference to his fall backwards into the realm of dreams and fantasy at the beginning of Run.

 He lets himself fall backwards onto a mattress on the floor, a reference to his fall backwards into the realm of dreams and fantasy at the beginning of Run

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Prologue (falling into the realm of dreams)

He then looks at a polaroid of his father and crumbles the picture into his hand, a reminder of what he's just done in I NEED U (and will have to do again, since he's trapped in a loop): here, he symbolically kills the father once more (or for the first time — time doesn't really exist in the HYYH cycle). He is lying down on an empty, abandoned pool, prefiguring the wide ocean (adulthood) he'll have to dive into at some point. But for now he is safe, as there's no water in the pool.

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