God. Cant Stop Watching Just How Much Korn's Hands Are Shaking When He Kneels Besides Tonkla And Keeps

god. cant stop watching just how much Korn's hands are shaking when he kneels besides Tonkla and keeps going back and forth between applying pressure on the wound and holding him and back and forth its useless but he still should try but its useless. and the fact its all silent except for the music? chefs kiss. im chewing glass fr

“no right or wrong answer”

Something I love about 4 minutes and just analyzing media in general is the discourse. I just want to say that I know Sammon clarified the ending for us and how she wrote it to be interpreted in one way—however she also says repeatedly how there’s no right or wrong answer. She even encourages viewers to share their theories since she loves reading them.

If I think that the ending was ambiguous who is someone else to tell me that I’m wrong? And vice versa, if someone believes the ending to be clear cut I have no right to say that they’re wrong. That’s the beauty of the story, and I hope that people can be more considerate to each other if maybe their views don’t align.

This is a story set in a fictional world, where characters can alter time and space with their decisions. Not all media is subjective but in this case, I feel that this story is granted some level of subjectivity.

At the end of the day, we as the audience are free to interact and interpret the story in our own way!!

He still has the bandaid on his neck, this really all came crashing down so quickly!

Bas Asavapatr as Korn Sriwatsombat 4 MINUTES (2024)

a ship where i see what people see but it is simply not very interesting to me personally it’s like

i have a love/hate relationship with Fasai. i hate her a lot. but the little bit of vulnerability we saw in ep 8 shows that she's probably as fucked over as Korn. we can see that they're a lot alike.

But I also think trying to trap a gay man into a marraige he doesn't want, coercing him into sex, knowing he loves someone else, is on the Character Patheticness Scale and not the ~girlboss~ scale or whatever.

I'm going to go against what seems to be a common sentiment in the tag and say that I think that Tyme and Great live in the end, and also that I think that the story is much more poignant and beautiful for this fact. Stories don't always have to end in tragedy to be meaningful.

It's actually kind of making me laugh a little because I think that the scene at the end was intended to state quite clearly to the audience that they lived, but instead people are taking it to mean otherwise - but that's where art subjectivity comes in. Just because an author intends one thing, doesn't mean that's how the audience is going to take it. (And this is twice now that Sammon has had people questioning her ending, and ironically enough I wonder if this ending was intended to be clearer than DFF and still failed...)

Contrasting to DFF's ending, I think the messaging that they survived is quite clear. The characters are not questioning at the end, there's no moment of ambiguity (like there was with Inception, for example). There was no lingering shot of a location like there was with DFF.

Plotwise, i also think that the two storylines were set up as a deliberate contrast to each other. Korn, Win and Tonkla were there not only to fill out the story and explain what had happened to Tyme and Great, but they were also there to show the reality of not getting that precious second chance, not being able to reconsider or change decisions.

It's also laid starkly clear in the moment where Korn is dying, where we get a glimpse of his 4 Minutes - an alternate timeline where he would have chosen to leave with Tonkla way back at the start, rather than following along the path that doomed them both.

But the watch - blood-spattered - moves on and then unlike with Great & Tyme where we see them still alive and happy, we instead see Tonkla and Korn lying together in death, making their fates painfully obvious.

It's a tragedy - and a deliberate one. The two stories augment each other, because their ending is all the more painful for the happy ending that Tyme & Great tentatively get, and Tyme and Great's ending is all the more beautiful when we realize what a miracle it is.

4 Minutes is a story about getting the chance to reconsider your behaviour and your decisions, getting the chance to reconsider your motivations and actions - and then getting the chance to follow through on everything you learned. I saw someone say that they would have preferred that Korn and Tonkla lived, but for me that would have missed the mark if Tyme and Great had died simply because of the fact that Korn & Tonkla hadn't gone through that process of reconsidering who they were and what they had done. (I would have been fine with all of them living but I also think the story is richer this way).

So those are my thoughts, based solely on canon interpretation.