I started listening and watching Melia’s MV from “Devil,” ”Experience Tour,” “1/3 Forest,” ” Bloody Girl,” “A Song That Doesn't Exist” and to “Requiem.”
Then I noticed that “Requiem,” ”Experience Tour,” ” Bloody Girl” and “Devil” share the same underling theme in common. In this sense, each of these songs can be considered as a part of one musical suite.
Requiem is the song dedicated to the suicides: the victims of rape.
Then those victims, after going to heaven, participate in Experience Tour to visit hell where all their rapists are thrown into. There they try to make those rapists realize that the desperate sufferings they experienced were more than the suffering those rapists are experiencing in hell.
On the other hand, among the victims of rape, instead of committing suicide, there are some who try to live their lives more positively by trying to forget their past horrible experiences, as depicted in Bloody Girl. However mental damages they suffered are so severe that shatter any kind of attempts to live their lives positively.
Then in "Devil", somehow, one of them finally finds a boyfriend with whom she can feel at least momentary happiness. For her, that boyfriend was only raison d'être and moral support for her. However, that boyfriend had traumatic experience in his childhood.
His mother committed suicide when he was 4 years old due to DV by his father to her. Since then he has been blaming himself for not being able to protect his mother. Besides, he has been often annoyed by nightmare where he tries to kill his father who drove his mother to suicide.
Because of such his own nagging self-blame for not being able to protect his mother and because of constant bullying by others from his childhood for not living with his parent, his self-esteem was very low and he could not feel the value of his existence.
Therefore, for him also, the existence of the heroine of this movie was one of a few hopes for living.
Then one day, one of his friends (a girl) asked him to help her. She was mentally unstable. He tried his best to help her because he was feeling very regretful for not being able to help his own mother, so at least he wanted help his friend. He tried to encourage her, but only encouragement was not good enough for her. She requested him to become her permanent boyfriend for her mental support. However he was already in love with the heroine of this movie and loved her so much that he had no other choice but to decline her request. As a result, that girl got upset so much, lost all her hope for life and committed suicide.
Then, bad rumors started spreading on the internet that she killed herself because of that boy. It was totally misunderstanding, yet, that rumor spread wider and wider, and massive bashing started toward him criticizing him very badly.
That boy was already feeling very guilty for not being able to help her even before the spread of rumor. Again, because of such self-blame and lerentless bashing from whole society, slowly he was cornered. He was enduring all these just for the sake of be-loved heroine of this movie.
However, one day when he was sleeping with her, he saw a bad dream again and in the dream he was choking his father but in reality he was mistakenly choking her.
He was horrified for the fact that he almost killed his most be-loved girlfriend. Then he totally lost his confidence to protect her and support her. He was afraid that he may also end up becoming like his own father. As he was already cornered, this terrible incident gave him the decisive impact to kill himself. He committed suicide in the bathroom of hotel.
However, the heroine of the movie could not accept the death of her be-love boyfriend and didn’t want admit the fact that she lost her most important moral support after surviving from her rape incident.
She lost her sanity and took drug as it was offered to her by a bad guy. She kept on taking drug to avoid facing the reality where her be-loved boyfriend is no more alive.
Then finally she also die because of over doze of drug and drinking of alcohol together.
The song and its Movie “Devil” try to depict that the real devils are not only the rapists or criminals but are the ordinary people who casually bully others and criticize others without knowing the actual facts and spread the baseless rumors just out of curiosity. Such a little bit of malice or incogitant comment of each and every person gather together and start behaving like bashing monster through internet and it drives innocent and weak people into the condition of hell and ultimately force them to kill themselves.
Thus, the series of Melia’s songs and movie can be considered as a very strong problem presentation to our modern society where every day so many people kill themselves and some of them are doing so because of exactly such unreasonable reasons mentioned above.
又、日本語では表現されていないニュアンスが英語だけで明示されているのも面白いと思いました。「あなたを疑った」がdoubted your humanityになっているのは、単なる自分に対する思いを疑ったとかいう恋愛上のことではなく、彼の人間性に自分も疑いを持ったという世間一般から彼に向けられた「悪魔のような男」というレッテルに自分まで影響を受けそうになったという赤裸々な気持ちの表れであり、それはむしろ、日本語の歌詞よりも英語の歌詞に良く表現されているのは非常に面白いと思いました。