And the towns people are the hounds. HEAR ME OUT: Jinwoo cheated death through killing Guwon. This boulder he is metaphorically pushing up the hill is the revolution he started against “death” aka Guwon. He cheated him through seduction and, after using the townspeople (aka the hounds) to rally behind him, had a moment of clarity after they succeeded. He was almost at his peak but was pushed back down, not by Guwon, but by The Hounds. If we follow the myth of Sisyphus it very clearly follows Jinwoo as Sisyphus: He violated the sacred rules of hospitality by killing travelers and enraged Zeus. Zeus ordered Death to chain Sisyphus but he tricked Death into chains instead, which temporarily stopped anyone on Earth from dying. This could either be setting up Jinwoo as Sisyphus OR Jinwoo as the cruel ruler of the Town with Guwon being the savior of the people instead in their FIRST meeting, before they started to loop
And the towns people are the hounds. HEAR ME OUT: Jinwoo cheated death through killing Guwon. This boulder he is metaphorically pushing up the hill is the revolution he started against “death” aka Guwon. He cheated him through seduction and, after using the townspeople (aka the hounds) to rally behind him, had a moment of clarity after they succeeded. He was almost at his peak but was pushed back down, not by Guwon, but by The Hounds.
If we follow the myth of Sisyphus it very clearly follows Jinwoo as Sisyphus: He violated the sacred rules of hospitality by killing travelers and enraged Zeus. Zeus ordered Death to chain Sisyphus but he tricked Death into chains instead, which temporarily stopped anyone on Earth from dying.
This could either be setting up Jinwoo as Sisyphus OR Jinwoo as the cruel ruler of the Town with Guwon being the savior of the people instead in their FIRST meeting, before they started to loop