This is how I saw it

The mystery began in the very first scenes of the first episode when an unknown man struggles up a snow covered mountain he falls and can’t get back up. He lays there for a long time holding an incense stick. A shadow moves over him, but we cannot see who is standing there. Not to the very last scenes of the last episode do we find the answer.
In the first reality/time line it is 12/15/2012 and Park Sun Woo is dying of cancer and his brother has been dead almost a year.
In episode 20 we watch as the young Sun Woo grows up in a different reality altered by the future Sun Woo. We watch as he again meets Min Young, who’s childhood had also been affected by the future Sun Woo. I have to tell you when she is telling him about her trauma, that she fell in love with him at first sight, but that he is going to ruin her life so he has to promise to stay away from him, the look on his face was priceless and when he starts to lecture her and she cries for him to stop because he is just too sexy, he was so shocked, amazed and speechless I LMAO.
Five years go past and we are again in December 2012, a little before the first episode started and although many aspects of the young Sun Woo’s life has changed, his brother is still discontent. This time it’s not 2011 when his brother leaves for Nepal but 2012 and you can see that the cycle may repeat itself.
The story is starting to come full circle. Sun Woo kisses Min Young for the first time in the 5 years he has known her then he teases her that she will have to wait a year before he kisses her again. Which upsets her and she starts bemoaning that she should have listened to “him”. That’s when she tells Sun Woo that someone that looked just like him was the person who gave her the warning and when.
Sun Woo now knows that his future-self died and he is furious at Min Young for not listening to the warning because he wants to know what she is going to do when he dies.
1993 last diary entry and message from 2013 Sun Woo - I will understand my brother on day. I will also trust that I will always make the right decision. - “You don’t need to find out how I lived, because every decision you make will make me.” In 20 years when you look into the mirror you will see me again."
He buys a plane ticket to Nepal as well as the type of watch his future-self used during his time travel.
12/4/2012 “my first message to myself. I don’t know if it’s fortunate or unfortunate that your will didn’t work. Joo Min Young loved me regardless. I can no longer live without, not caring about the future. Perhaps this is what happened. Because you left a strong impression on Min Young when she was young she fell in love with me at the first sight. I could have become a reporter because of the connection you made for me in the past. If that’s true, then I can save you. I can prevent Min Young from being unhappy because of me. But that’s not true. What would you have done right now? I would keep it simple right now. I will just believe what I want to believe. And I will just love the girl that I love.
The screen goes black and you think it’s all over, well it’s not – we are back to the beginning. Park Jung Woo is laying in the snow the incense stick in his hand, when a shadow moves over him, it is Park Sun Woo who reaches down to help his brother out of the snow.
This drama has kept us in suspense all the way through and the writers have been considerate enough to end it still in suspense.
Sun Woo has saved his brother – If he destroys the incense stick will it save his future self or will he use the incense stick to prevent his father’s death on 12/31/1992, and eliminate the guilt that drives Jung Woo along with any desire for anything like the incense sticks?
As we did through the whole drama – Guess we’ll just have to guess at what happened next!
I loved it! Bravo! For me NINE is a 10.

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