Aeon Flux "utopia or deuteranopia?" Epsidoe Analysis part 2


As the bomb clicks into place we zoom outwards to see its position on the wall, this is important for us to know later on at the end of the episode. We then cut back to the conclusion of the conversation between Trevor Goodchild and the Journalist as she attacks him and he maneuvers his way away from the attack and shots her with a ball of a pen? Its a weird way to defend yourself but then again Peter Chang did mention that he didnt enjoy doing the uber violent scenes so this is a pretty creative way to show the conflict between the two resolving. 


The conflict revolves as Trevor grabs the camera by the hand to talk to the people of his city directly stating that his surveillance state will be a utopia. We notice also that the camera angle during the fight is at a dutch angle and this angle rights itself as Trevor concludes his speech and the crowd cheers him on. Aeon disappears into a sewer drain and we see a transition take place as we see security installing surveillance everywhere and were immediately shown that not even Trevor Goodchild is immune as cameras watch him walking through the hallway. 

As we transition we get a shot of the man we saw in the previous crowd scene get named, his name is Gildamere. He confronts trevor about Clavius and Trevor plays it down, we see another scene here where the dialogue and the action on screen are actually about two different things. Trevor is obviously hiding something and drops his coat, as Gildamere picks it up he makes sure to put his foot over the letter that has fallen out of it and conceals it in his shirt sleeve making sure that the camera watching him sees him drop his glove first. 


We then cut to Trevor going to his bed and laying down after putting on what looks like some sort of overalls on, as soon as he lays down he hits a button above his bed which turns his camera off and we see him go into a secret room underneath his bed and a dummy takes his spot.  What happens next is so weirdly bizarre that I dont know what to think of it. We find that in this room Trevor is keeping Clavius in almost some sort of altered state that can only be accessed by the overalls we saw Trevor put on and we see trevor use his key to open Clavius's chest and crawl inside. 


Once inside we see a secret room where a dress sits on a manikin and a bed waits for both him and Aeon to have "A place of their own". We then cut back to the guard room where Aeon is disguised as a guard looking at camera footage when gildamere walks up behind her and touches her shoulder and looks in on the footage of trevor. Hes taken aback because the footage shows him sleeping, and we see him think back to clavius and the overalls he had on and then we see him notice that trevor is also wearing them and there is a flash on insight that hits gildamere right as Aeon kicks him in the face knocking him out of the room.

Continued in Part 3...








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