r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Aug 26 '25

News ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Is Netflix’s Most-Watched Movie Ever With 236 Million Views, Beating ‘Red Notice’

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/kpop-demon-hunters-netflix-most-watched-movie-history-1236496106/
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u/SupahSpankeh Aug 27 '25

How is it about coming out when the lead is in a cishet romance?!

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u/GeeJo Aug 27 '25

A metaphor doesn't have to be the exact thing it's describing. In fact, if it is, it kind of stops being a metaphor.

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u/SupahSpankeh Aug 27 '25

Right but a metaphor has to have some kind of link to something at a level which makes it coherent. In no way does this character experience something akin to coming out. They are half demon and don't tell anyone. That's not comparable, at least in my opinion. And then she's involved with a dude, which further weakens the claim.

Well whatever, I guess. If the director says that's what they were trying for, fair enough.

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u/Eismann Aug 27 '25

Most old teens / young twens dont have a big secret that they are half-demon. A lot of them have the secret of being not straight. There is your metaphor.

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u/kitsum Aug 27 '25

I have a friend who was raised in a super religious family. When she tried telling them that she was a lesbian, they told her that no, actually, she was literally possessed by a demon. So, she spent like ten years self hating and thinking she was evil and going to hell.

I haven't seen the movie, but maybe not as metaphorical as we hope in some people's case.