The Billage of perception

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## Summary

### Bi11lie chapter one

The story begins as a girl telling the story of Billlie and 11 to her younger brother.

They walk through the woods and find an abandoned house that once belonged to Billlie Love. They sit inside, and as the girl begins to tell the story, the perspective shifts to the members.

It is the eleventh day, an ordinary day, until the members receive a purple message on their phones. The message warns that "on 11/11, today, the sad and strange story will be repeated again. Near you... Darkness will take your B." Suhyeon narrates that a "dark, loveless person" is coming to take one of the children of the village away.

The members spend the length of the eleventh day in groups, knowing that if they stay together, they'd be safe. The bell in the village rings eleven times, and the day passes.

### Bi11lie chapter two

As the next day arrives, the girls realize one girl was left alone - Billlie Love. They run to her house, but it's too late. Billlie Love has already disappeared. They stand in the purple rain, looking at Billlie's abandoned belongings, knowing there is nothing they can do.

The adults of the village discuss Billlie's disappearance. Apparently, Billlie had insisted that she would be safe and her friends would protect her, but no one ever came to her home. When the girls are questioned about Billlie Love, they all say they know nothing. As the narrator girl says, "They all became liars. To Billlie, and to the world. Pitiful. Spending each day in sadness, despair, and self-criticism, they are waiting for Billlie."

The girl explains that there is an attic in Billlie Love's house, and inside, the girls are waiting. They sit in the attic, sun streaming in the windows and white feathers floating through the air.

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1/4The girl's brother insists that there is no attic in the house where they sit, but the girl says that when you are desperate, you can make things that don't exist, exist. If you "close your eyes, wake up your senses, and open your mind", you can go up the attic stairs and see "the world of the eleven". This introduces the concept of the B-side world, a land of dreams and unconscious thought.

### RING X RING M/V

The girls go up the attic stairs in Billlie's house, but instead of the attic, there are strange narrow hallways that expand on the house. This is a new part of the B-side world - while the attic was created out of desperate sadness for Billlie and the need for comfort, these hallways were born of a desperate desire to find Billlie, and they carve their way forward through the B-side world. As the lyrics say, "You wait/Right here/I'll go/Save you".

In the hallways the girls find scratched wallpaper and scattered papers, signs of Billlie being taken, and enter a colourful spiral staircase room. They find the door at the top, and they go through it, into a new unknown world.

### the end of the world and the awakening

The girls all arrive outside a gate, having received the same invitation: "In the 11th summer, your world will close after the bell rings 11 times." Siyoon narrates, talking about "a vow made a long time ago" that they forgot. "Eleven summers" have passed since they forgot Billlie, and the world of their happy memories is about to end.

Suhyeon finds the key to the gate around her neck and they walk into the yard of their childhood school, remembering their younger selves with Billlie Love. Billlie wears a novemBer mask throughout the film, concealing her face. The girls reminisce about their time with her - she gives each girl a gift or provides them comfort, and each member speaks on the sweet memories they have with her. Repeated throughout is imagery that Billlie was left out, however - a photograph where she stands away from the members; a game where she falls down and they continue to play without noticing; and a music class where no one paid attention to her conducting; culminating in her being taken.

The girls find the novemBer mask abandoned in the grass, and as they pick it up, the school cracks and crumbles. It's the end of the world of memories and with this comes their own awakening, that they need to move forward, towards finding Billlie.

As they leave, every member stands in front of a mirror wearing a novemBer mask. Each girl takes off the mask and reveals their B name, their *own* version of Billlie - Sheon is Bubble, Haram is Beads, Sua is Bishop, Suhyeon is Birdcage, Haruna is Balloon, Tsuki is Blossom, and Siyoon is Beast.

Siyoon, however, refuses to take off the mask. She stops and looks back at the crumbled school. She can't let go of it all, and she continues to wear the mask.

### 'RING ma Bell (what a wonderful world)' M/V

As the school continues to crumble, the members enter the B-side to try to find traces of Billlie. The perspective changes between members as they search and evade The Thing, a shapeshifting creature with X and O eyes. Each time they're about to be caught, they press a button or flick a switch and the perspective is transported to the next member. After running through the school, Tsuki finds a guitar with a pick that says BRAVERY. She realizes that they need to stop running and they need to be BRAVE, and as she strums the guitar, The Thing evaporates and she is transported to a rooftop above the clouds with the other members. NovemBer, their spiritual connection to Billlie, waits for them there, and they follow them forward toward Billlie.

### 'enchanted night ~ 白夜' : a prequel film of Billage of perception

The girls are living their normal lives. Suhyeon narrates about how someone has "left", presumably Billlie, and she clings on to her memories. She muses that these memories are becoming distorted, and indistinguishable from stories and dreams. The film ends with the police investigating the empty house the girls inhabit, looking for traces of Billlie Love. The girls huddle by the window and look out at the flashing lights, frightened.

### EUNOIA M/V

Sheon is a new student at a school that the rest of Billlie attends. When she is introduced, glau appears and triggers a flashback of the seven members sitting in a pile of feathers, mirroring the attic from the bi11lie films. The members minus Sheon are shown riding a bus together, and when Siyoon recieves a message from "Billlie" asking to hang out later that night, she ignores it. Haram sees a B-side version of herself, trying to swat away glau. Sheon falls asleep in class and Siyoon wakes her, glau looking in through the classroom window.

Haruna and Tsuki walk home with the members before sneaking off to a store. Haruna recieves a phone call from "Billlie" which she can't reject, and the two go through the store's door, into the house from the enchanted night prequel film.

Haruna and Tsuki venture through the memory, and see the members of Billlie lined up in front of a window, looking out at a police car. They try to hide, but suddenly make eye contact with the other versions of themselves - their doppelgangers.

## References

1. ↑ Billlie | Bi11lie chapter one | the Billage of perception : chapter one
2. ↑ Billlie | Bi11lie chapter two | the Billage of perception : chapter one
3. ↑ Billlie | 'RING X RING' M/V
4. ↑ Billlie | the end of the world and the awakening | the Billage of perception: chapter two
5. ↑ Billlie | 'RING ma Bell (what a wonderful world)' M/V