[Omnirizon]

People criticized Aeon Flux by saying that it was just pure nonsense put together in a way that looked smart. Peter Chung himself said "a little ambiguity goes a long way..." However he also commented that using ambiguity effectively takes skill and hard work. I for one believe he wrote his shorts with more deliberation than most can understand. Take Gravity (the second short) for instance. Aeon is chasing down someone, we don't know who, when she falls out of an airplane. Falling towards her doom, she uses a grapple gun, shoots it's _LINE_ and hits a _BRIDGE_. While doing this, she notices something happening on the ground. she pulls out her binoculars and starts watching as she is falling. Now, instead of saving her life by swinging under the bridge, she is paying too much attention to whatever is happening on the ground. Eventually, she falls, hangs herself off the bridge on her own line while watching this stuff.

She was hung by the LINE off the BRIDGE, in every sense of the word. The writer had built a plot bridge, a way for Aeon to save herself, and a plot-line, something interesting happening for Aeon to follow. However she got so caught up in the plot line that she got hung on it.

Some people say that's pure nonsense, and that if I am seeing anything there, it is my imagination. I completely disagree, the writer had a deliberate message. That particular short had a little more obvious message than most of them, but I think they all have deliberation behind their poststructural, postmodern, mazes of images and rhetoric.

EDIT: hmm, I think my Aspergers is showing tonight, I'm a little too interested in and insist on talking about one subject, and it has to do with language and philosophy; classic symptoms. Sorry bout all that.