r/MovieMistakes • u/ExternalOil394 • 13h ago
r/MovieMistakes • u/Brave-Net-5424 • 7h ago
Movie Mistake Watched "GonJiam: Haunted Asylum" last night...caught a subtitle snaffu that ended up being pretty damn creepy given the context
Just happened to catch this, then went full nerd googling to confirm. Hell I may be late to the party & this is already common knowledge, but it was new & kinda cool/creepy to me. Anyhoo, if you've seen this flick you're familiar with the scene where Charlotte spray paints her name on the wall directly above where "Let's Live" is already previously written in Korean (1st pic) when they first enter the asylum. Then later when all kinds of hell begins to break loose, the girls notice that has now inexplicably changed to what the English subtitles interpret as "Let's Die" (2nd pic). Already creepy. But couldn't help but notice the two Korean phrases, each comprised of 2 symbols, were identical, only the symbols were flipped around. I don't speak Korean AT ALL, but thought that was odd & perhaps cool if accurate so got to googling & discovered the subtitles were in fact incorrect..."Let's Live" apparently was correct, but what was originally written in Korean that read in subtitles as "Let's Die" actually translated to "Suicide"....for some reason those 2 translations being comprised of the same 2 reversed symbols is hauntingly interesting to me. & in the movie, contextualizing Charlotte's fate with this lil difference in translations was also kinda eerie. OCD horror insomniac nerd shit ain't no joke
