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Moon-gwang suffered a concussion after being kicked downstairs of the

basement by Chung-sook and died soon after.

The Kims, except Chung-sook, then escaped the house as soon as they had the

chance and came back to their original house which is the semi-basement,

discovering that it is flooded due to the heavy rain. The next day, the Park

family sets the day for the youngest son of their family, Da-song, as his birthday

party. While the others are busy at the party, Ki-woo tries to check on Moon-

gwang and his husband in the basement while bringing the Scholar’s stone

given to him as a gift by his friend’s family. Moon-gwang’s husband catches Ki-

woo and smashes the stone to his head, leaving him bleeding and knocked out.

Moon-gwang’s husband then goes out to the party with a knife and stabs Ki-

jung, Ki-woo’s sister. The party then turned into mayhem as the Kims try to

fight off Moon-gwang’s husband and stop Ki-jung’s bleeding, while the Park

family hurries and asks for the car keys from Ki-taek as they need to bring Da-

song to a hospital since he passed out after witnessing the incident. Ki-taek

then stabs Mr. Park, the head/father of the Park family after being disgusted by

the foul smell coming from Moon-gwang’s husband. Ki-jung dies and Ki-taek

hides in the basement, and Ki-woo, after waking up from his coma, lives back

in their semi-basement house with his mother, Chung-sook, and lives just like

how they lived before.

The movie directed by well-known director Bong Joon-ho garnered many

awards especially for its well-written story, acting, and cinematography, and

the key moment of where an application of mathematics was shown in the

movie was the use of morse code. Morse code is a method used in

telecommunication but also used to convey a message as a code through a

sequence of signals by light or sound. It also has two signal durations to

represent a dot or dashes that corresponds to a certain letter.

The first scene where Morse

code was used in the movie was

when Geun Se (Moon-gwang’s

husband)

wanted to send a message to Mr.

Park by turning on and off the

lights on the stairway and said

that Da-song must’ve understood

the message since he is a scout.

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