Break the bloody end of Netflix 'wall to wall

In his 2023 feature film debut UnlockedKim Tae-Joon, the author and director, used a serial killer premise for cats and mouse to prevent our modern dependence on smartphones. In the new Netflix Psychological Thriller Wall to wall (known as 84 square metersIn Korean) the Korean filmmaker is using modern apartments. From the same cultural cloth as Squid game And parasitewhich are both clearly Korean stories and also so much wider in their relativity, Wall to wall is a modern parable about the dangers of the class goal.

When noh woo-sung (Tastefully yours'Kang Ha-Neul) uses every last capital in his life to buy an apartment in the notoriously competitive housing market from Seoul. He believes that it is the next step in his linear path to a successful, stable life. He is miserable three years later. Woo-sung mental and physical exhaustion, which hardly stays in front of his mortgage, is tightened by the blow he hears through his residential walls.

When Woo's neighbors are convinced that it is Woo-Sung that makes the noises, he swears to prove his innocence by finding the real culprit, which is discovered to a turn. Let us break down the deeper meaning behind it Wall to wallPlot and end.

Korea, “Republic of the apartments”

Loud neighbors are not a special Korean problem, but it is an important problem in a country in which 75% live in Co-residential buildings with concrete mixed walls of less than 30 cm wide and do not fully wal down the everyday noises. According to an article 2024 from Korea Joongang Daily, the number of annual noise complaints rose between 8,795 in 2012 to 36,435 in 2023 from 8,795 to 36,435. The sound qualification test.

Korea began building apartments after devastating the Korean War in the 1960s and as part of the fast industrialization process, which would take place in the coming decades.

“An apartment was not an attractive alternative to people in many countries. In Korea, the then government pushed the residential models for the middle class as a symbol of modernization”, Jung Heon-Mok, anthropology professor at the Academy of the Academy of Korean Studies, said the Korea Herald. The popularity of the apartments fueled. “

Today, a fifth of Korean households has 91% of the country's private country, with the lower 50% of households having less than 1%. Most people who own property are considered a “poor house poor”, the term for people whose income mainly applies to housing costs, and does not allow themselves for other types of assets or discretionary expenses. The Woo-Sung manager uses the descriptor to describe our protagonist early Wall to wall. It is an important problem in Korea, in which real estate made 79% of the average assets of households who own their houses in 2024.

Who is behind the interior party noise in Wall to wall?

Who does the inter-apartment noise in Wall to wall? The immediate guilty behind the unrest in the Woo-Sung residential building is Yeong Jin-Ho (SEO Hyeon-Woo), an annoyed freelance journalist who lives in the apartment. Now she lives with her husband in the luxurious Penthouse apartment of the building.

When WOO-sung comes to Eun-Hwa for the first time with the problem of inter-apartment sound, she convinces him to fall him by bribing it with a money envelope and calling a false feeling of classes in solidarity. Eun-Hwa is motivated to keep the noise complaints calm because it secretly buys most of the complex apartments. It has insider information that the GTX commuter rail will come to the neighborhood, which would increase real estate values.

In the meantime, Jin-Ho has moved to the building to bring Eun-Hwa only to down. His plan? To put together a video exposé that reveals your corruption. Jin-Ho arms the entire complex so that he can observe, film and control every unit. He begins to interview the inhabitants of the complex and throws Woo-Sung, the owner and resident of Apartment 1401, as a central antagonist in his history and regarded him as “the epitome of pain that was suffering from today”. Jin-Ho does not matter whether the details of the exposé are true as long as the end result is Eun-Hwa's downfall.

First, Jin-Ho Frames have for the apartment noises by planting a “revenge spokesman between the floors” into his apartment. He pays the tenants who lived in 1301, the apartment below in Woo-Sung, to pretend as if her neighbor had attacked her. Since Woo-Sung is held by the police, he misses the window to achieve a “pump-and-dump” prrypto system that would pay off its debts. Woo-sung sold his apartment to release cash for the program, and now he has nothing.

WOO-sung plans to die from suicide, but Jin-Ho stops him and claims that he wants to help him. “We wasted a lot of time when we fight each other when it was some other idiots,” says Jin-Ho, and reveals that Eun-Hwa was the buyer who used Woo-Sung desperate housing sales.

How are you Wall to wall End?

WOO-sung believes that he had finally found a friend in Jin-Ho. However, when he realizes that the mobile phone that leads the revenge speaker planted in his apartment is connected to Jin-Hos Wi-Fi, it becomes suspicious. He finds Jin-Hos Wand with information about everyone living in the complex and sees the entire video film material collected by him. While he was hiding in Jin-Ho's apartment, Woo-Sung is also witness how he kills his neighbors from the apartment in 1301. When Jin-Ho Woo-Sung catches, he plans to kill Woo-Sung and determine the murder of him. However, WOO-sung convinces Jin-Ho to have a more active role in the revenge scheme.

Together the two men go to Eun-Hwas Penthouse apartment and dragged the body of Apartment 1301 with them. Jin-Ho is desperate to find the main register that proves the corruption of the former prosecutor, and Woo-Sung is only desperate. In the bloody conflict that breaks out, Jin-Ho Eun-Hwa's husband kills a kitchen knife. Eun-Hwa tries to convince Woo-Sung to end Jin-Ho. “I will take care of everything, so trust myself,” she says Woo-Sung.

Before WoO-sung can, Jin-Ho apparently dies. Now that she no longer needs it, Eun-Hwa turns on Woo-Sung and tells him how she really feels: “You undecided piece of SH-T, so people live in beautiful parts of the city. This place raves about scum.” She points to the dirty ledger in a nearby stack of magazines and lifts a golf club to kill Woo-Sung.

But Jin-Ho rises from his apparently fake death. He chokes Eun-Hwa to death while Woo-Sung sees and decides not to help Eun-Hwa.

When Jin-Ho bleed out, he says Woo-Sung that he should take the main book. Even if he dies, he wants Eun-Hwa to be held accountable. “Stop telling me what to do, you Motherf-Pkers,” says Woo-Sung to Jin-Ho. He puts the main register and the papers who prove that he has signed his apartment in the oven and turns the gas to the line that Jin-Ho has already cut.

WOO-sung hops from the apartment complex when the penthouse explodes and takes all evidence of Eun-Hwa and Jin hoes crimes with it. WOO-sung falls to the ground and imagines that the entire building crumbles in fiery destruction.

What does the end of Wall to wall mean?

As a Woo sung, he is in the hospital and his mother is by his side. She brings him to the landscape, to the aging village by the sea namhae. The rural community offers WOO-sung a place to rest and the room. His mother may not have much, but she has a home that is particularly not an apartment complex. Red peppers dry in the sun on their roof and it is calm.