Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
In Bong Joon-Ho’s MOTHER, the mother character is dancing to forget her terrible memories and the guilt using an acupuncture needle to a specific "meridian point" that erases memory, and the dance itself is an attempt to surrender to oblivion. The dance also represents a "numbing" or "crazy" state, the only way for her to cope with her life having completely unravelling.
In Bong Joon-Ho’s MOTHER, the mother character is dancing to forget her terrible memories and the guilt using an acupuncture needle to a specific "meridian point" that erases memory, and the dance itself is an attempt to surrender to oblivion. The dance also represents a "numbing" or "crazy" state, the only way for her to cope with her life having completely unravelling.
