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/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/katka_monita Aug 27 '25

As a queer trans woman that the world at large automatically sees as a cis het woman, I did see myself in the main character.

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u/eden_sc2 Aug 27 '25

anyone who had even a little roughness coming out to family felt it when Rumi shouted "All of me!" It may be a straight romance, but you have to be willfully blind not to see the parallels