Waddup ARMYsss!! Here i have compilations of theories/explanations about the BTS' storyline that you all have been cracking your heads off about.
I dont know if this whole theory is true or not but it seems like it is.
Also this theory is quite conf...
The shorten version of the MV ends with all the boys sound asleep. We're now officiallyin a dream sequence (though like in Inception, dream and reality are hard to set appart).
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INU, short ver. (ending scene)
The boys are by the seashore, facing the ocean. Once again, they are depicted as being in between 2 worlds: on the firm ground but against the wide, deep and unpredictable sea, still in youth but with adulthood on the horizon (the background). Symbolically speaking, dreaming of the sea connects the conscious and unconscious mind: the seashore is a meeting point between land and water, with the ocean being therefore a metaphor for the conscious and unconscious mind coming together.
The state of mind of JungKook's, who's feeling trapped in his child state and wants to grow up, is emphasised here when he steps up onto the shoreline, at the very edge between land and water (this exact same scene with JungKook will be reenacted by the pool, in the Prologue). It is also a mirroring scene of his wanderings at the very beginning of the MV, when we see him on a bridge (in between 2 worlds).
The boys suddenly appear behind him, running fast past JungKook (he's the youngest) with the ocean in the background: they're all running towards adulthood together.
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INU, original ver.
Flashing now to a crying V, in total despair over what he has done. His hood is off, as this is the grieving boy in denial who is crying. In his bathtub, Jimin is also in serious emotional turmoil, breaking down in tears: he can't stand the truth that youth has come to an end.
Those scenes work in contrast to the seashore sequence, which really is only a rehash of what's to come. But the cycle of pain the boys feel over the death of youth cannot and will not be broken until Jin finally accepts he is now an adult (the Run MV will later clarify that he has to let go of youth without necessarily letting go of the emotions of his youth, which prevented him from wanting to grow up all along).
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INU, original ver.
Back to the seashore, V appears to be wondering beside scaffolding structures. Jin then glares at him with a thoughtful, anticipating look: he knows something is bound to happen. This is foreshadowing what will happen in I NEED U, and it's the first reenactment of the Prologue scenes. There, V will appear a little more ready to do what has to be done, as we see him first on the verge of the diving plateforme at the pool site; in the last scene by the sea, he will eventually jump for good from the pontoon into the wide ocean (into adulthood).
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INU, original ver. (seashore, poonton & bird motif)
In the final scene for I NEED U, all the boys stand facing the ocean, joyful, watching birds fly (a symbol of youth, as babies were first born as birds in the world of Neverland, hence why they can fly). Jin is laughing uproariously, watching them. The very last shot is about the wide open ocean. Time is running up for youth!
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