So a guy offers an interesting take on the movie. Is he right? No idea as the truth can (probably) be extracted from stuff only available in Korean (like interviews with the director). Sadly, the online translators are pretty bad at Korean-English so this stuff remains beyond our reach, some fragments are translated to gibberish, basically.

It's not even about every single detail but just the big picture: mainly, who really was evil and who was good. The mainstream interpretation is that the Woman in White was good, and the Japanese Stranger was evil, and the shaman was probably evil too -- but the guy I mention thinks it's the other way around, and makes a convincing case.

So if you have the time to read a couple of links and tell us the outcome, that'd be sweet.

The guy's take: https://www.reddit.com/r/horror/comments/69vp0j/the_wailing_2016_comprehensive_analysis_and/

But I don't think you need to read it all and dig deep into the hypothesis. The important part are the links I put down later in this thread of comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/horror/comments/69vp0j/the_wailing_2016_comprehensive_analysis_and/dlhx122/