I forget the name but it's the one set in the city under the jungle. I don't get this episode at all. Aeon blacks out and restarts at the same place over and over, there is a vial of something, a strange kid, and it ends with Aeon as a soccer mom. WTF?!?!
Can someone shed some light on this episode?
Evening chap. go read this one book called The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
that has something to do with it, basically "voices" in your head making you do things without being truly conscious or aware, a reference the guy who wrote the book said schizophrenia was one of the means or connections to that, or like people who built pyramids perhaps or something like that or mayans who designed all that strange art. i could be off a bit tho, honestly i like to see aeon flux in my own perspective and narrative, try it out.. instead of going with their ideas, which makes things simplier once you get some evaluation from the real source.
i might have gotten the episodes mixed up tho, but i thought this was it - its caleld chronophasia i think thats it then
Late, but as I recently saw "Chronophasia" (it's my favourite Aeon Flux episode so far!), I thought I'd add my interpretation. Note: this is only my idea of what happened, and if you want to fill me in on it, please do.
WARNING: serious spoilers for "Chronophasia" below.
The black-haired kid in the tunnel is some sort of supernatural being who has the power to manipulate people's minds. The mutant baby and the lab have nothing to do with Aeon's experiences, they're completely incidental (except insofar as she came to the jungle to retrieve the baby). The boy wanted company, so he caused her to fall into the lab, then repeatedly frustrated her escape attempts by trapping her in various illusions.
The final illusion (Aeon driving him to the field) was the fulfilment of his wish to "have" Aeon: he wanted a mother, and thus created a mental universe for them both where she had that role.
That episode ("Chronophasia") really pissed me off because, unlike the other episodes which have a clear solution to the visual puzzle, this one has no answer. I watched it 3 times thinking I could key in on some subtle clues, recurring images, symbolism, but found none. In frustration I turned on the commentary to get the answer, and guess what... They admit it's the one episode that has no specific meaning. Peter Chung even apologizes, saying people have been waiting all these years for the answer but he can't offer anything.
According to him, the original idea was that Aeon keeps waking up from a recurring nightmare covered in blood. Each time she witnesses someone getting killed but not knowing who the killer is. By process of elimination, at the end she realizes the killer is the only person left alive: herself. It was a way of confronting her guilt and the consequences of her violence. That would've been a kickass episode, but as usual MTV censored it (too much blood, so instead of blood she awakens in a pool of meaningless grey goo) and told them to make the story more linear (no more recurring nightmare), and after being tossed to a different writer altogether, the result is the pointless acid trip that we all saw.
Yes there is still a degree of continuity and a bit of a plot to hold it together, but it's pretty devoid of the deeper themes, philosophy and mathematical precision we've come to expect in the other episodes. All the writer could offer as an explanation is "it's about making choices and nothing is real so don't take anything literally." Peter Chung basically grunted and talked about the animation. I think it's clear that his original concept was completely demolished.
Have you ever seen Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086491/
One of the segments is a re-imagining of an episode from the original series, 'It's A Good Life,' where a little boy has god-like powers and reality morphs to his whim. I think Chronophasia is based somewhat off of that idea, with the exception that the boy is the result of a Bregnan lab experiment, where he becomes the being with god-like powers.
In both the 'Zone movie and in Chronophasia, what the boy ultimately needs is a mother, someone to set boundaries for him and take care of him. This is what Aeon becomes, suggesting the possibility that the reality we all live in - the world where moms take their kids to play sports - was generated by this boy.
I hope that you're not trying to understand this episode in terms of how it fits with the others, as though the Aeon Flux series told some sort of unified, coherent, somehow linear story. It doesn't.
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no. I remember watching it when I was really young like 10 or so, it *beep* me up
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