Is it supposed to mean something? Presumably not the airport code for Knoxville, Iowa, which is the only thing I can find.
After watching the movie, I'm not much the wiser, despite reading a couple of reviews and an interview with the writer/director.
All I can gather is that the letters are meant to be pictured vertically, and somehow represent a connection between stick figures of a male and a female.
No offense, but did you really watch the movie, or just have it on in the background? It was explained about 30 mins in that OXV is the pattern Zach see's on the blackboard when Theo is explaining how the low and high frequencies repel each other.
shareNo offense, but did you really watch the movie, or just have it on in the background? It was explained about 30 mins in that OXV is the pattern Zach see's on the blackboard when Theo is explaining how the low and high frequencies repel each other.
That doesn't make it "mean" anything. Ironically, that's the problem of the whole movie: a lot of shallow meaningless meandering spun as depth.
It's more than that...Theo has written somewhere in his notes OVX before Zach comes over that day. The drawing he made is just another step in controlling Zach.
shareOXV shows up at 21 min, when Zak meets with Marie at the train shop. It appears on his cell phone cover as he sets it down on the table before sitting.
shareI was looking for an answer to that same question and after reading all these comments, I'm no closer to understanding what it means/represents !
shareI'm going to guess that its an easter egg for the occultically literate. Because this is not really a film that is going to have profound meaning for the everyday materialist.
XV is 15 in roman numerals. O is the fifteenth letter of the alphabet.
In numerology - "Number 15 contains an interesting mixture due to the independence of number 1, the freedom-loving, changeable and receptive quality of the number 5, mixed with the harmony-seeking energies of the number 6."
In tarot, the number 15 is represented by the devil card. Where we are offered a choice between out base conciousness, our desires which enslave us, and our higher conciousness.
Both of these fit perfectly with the themes of the movie, and also specific quotes in the movie such as the talk about irony and desire.
In short OXV, the manual, is an allusion which is repeated in the dialogue and plot of the film, showing that while everything is fixed, we are still offered two possibilities (not choices), 1) to be slave to events and interacts, by being bound by our desires, to be 'passive' or 'reactive' or 2) to be 'active', to be a 'creator' (although in both cases one is a product of ones environment, in the later, more of the equation lies internally.
That's probably however, not what anyone wants to hear on the topic.
This explanation was really interesting, thank you!
shareNo worries. I think the movie makes a lot more sense through an occultic lens, or at least as a spiritual metaphor. In that way, the movie has layers that you understand better if you have a prior understanding.
I think the real central point, is this notion of no free-will, but a form of greater agency within that - whether it be frequencies, precognitive equations, the transcendence of music, or the words.
First off, you need to understand what in cinema a "McGuffin" is. It's a plot device made famous by Afred Hitchcock, which explains for the purposes of the film WHY the characters happen to be where they are when the on-screen story begins. This film's "McGuffin" is the (utterly spurious) technology of "Frequencies" - which measure whether an individual is going to be INHERENTLY lucky and sucessful. If you have a HIGH frequency, and you buy a lottery ticket... then it's going to win the prize, with not just real lotteries, but also metaphorical ones.
Back in the day, in the UK, at the age of eleven, children took an exam called the "Eleven Plus", and how well you did in that exam (which was basically an IQ test) determined which of three categories of state school you'd attend thereafter: a "technical college" (which produced future factory workers) a "secondary modern" school (which produced low-level office and clerical workers) and "Grammar Schools" from which students moved on to university. The kids with the highest IQs generally tended to do better socially, become richer... (Sound familiar?!)
The film centres around the idea that it's possible to MEASURE something that doesn't really exist: "Frequency". And from that beginning, ripple out questions about "what would life be like if Frequencies DID exist?" If only people with high frequencies ever won the national lottery.... why would any one else ever buy a ticket? In the world depicted by the film, there really IS a problem with "free will" vs. "Predestiny / fate". In the film, Isaac ("Zack") is depicting on a whiteboard how people with different frequencies supposedly interact - and OXV is merely the product of ") \ and >" being broadcast from one side, and "( / and <" from the other. Combine the two, and you get"() >< \/" (which happens to coincidentally resemble the letters "O", "X" and "V".
You should have ended this very informative post with
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Haha, thanks, this helped a lot. I was a little lost for a while there.
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OXV is an anagram for vox, which means voice, that's how the frequencies are controlled / manipulated in the film
shareOn a deeper level, if you rearrange the letters you get VOX which means voice in Latin. This movie tackles an allegorical theme of control structures, specifically how words are used to control people (the masses) that are talked about in the movie. How are spells invoked... though our spelling of words to create energy patterns in thought and sound.
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