Aeon Flux S2E02 - Mirror (1992).eng Subtitles

00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:07,The idea behind
this episode was...

00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:09,I wanted to tell...

00:00:10,040 --> 00:00:13,I wanted to see if I could tell
a story for four minutes...

00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:15,with just one character in it.

00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:19,And, basically, apart from that
little silhouette there...

00:00:19,280 --> 00:00:21,and the shot of Trevor
at the very end...

00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:24,Aeon is the only character
in this episode.

00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:30,And I was interested in seeing how
you could develop a conflict...

00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:33,when there isn't actually
another person on-screen.

00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:36,In this instance...

00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:38,Her battle is against
time in this one.

00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:41,Yes, but it's also
against herself...

00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:43,because...

00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:48,she's conflicted, in
the sense that...

00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:50,She keeps making mistakes.

00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:54,There is her
long-term mission...

00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:57,but then, there is the
immediate moment.

00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:00,And her interest in the one...

00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:02,is in conflict with the other.

00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:06,And so, what we have is a
series of digressions...

00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:08,all of which...

00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,ultimately sabotage her
ability to function.

00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:24,So it's very much an attempt
to get more into her head...

00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:26,and into her
psychology, because...

00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:36,Well, the things she does in this are
actually very, kind of, mundane.

00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:38,She puts a...

00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,Musically, I tried to incorporate
elements of, kind of, glitching sounds...

00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:44,static, and...

00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:46,process-tuned
short-wave radio...

00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,to try to play up the,
sort of, sense of...

00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,things not quite going right,
things that are glitchy and broken.

00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:57,Less on the ethnic elements...

00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,as much on the electronic and
glitchy sorts of things.

00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:06,Actually, here we do see
just a tiny glimpse...

00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,of Trevor's legs,
and then we're out.

00:02:08,920 --> 00:02:11,So, we do get a sense
that there is...

00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:13,There may be somebody...

00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:15,else...

00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:16,lurking.

00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,Although, the conflict
really isn't between them...

00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:20,as I said.

00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:25,So, yeah, it's just...

00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:26,It's a comedy of errors.

00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:28,Further and further digression.

00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:34,I guess my hope was
that we would...

00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:41,start to feel like she's digging
herself into a deeper and deeper hole.

00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:46,And growing frustrated with...

00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:51,But that's one way of increasing
the stakes in the outcome...

00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,and getting you to continue
watching to the end...

00:02:54,360 --> 00:02:57,is that the deeper and
deeper she gets...

00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:00,or the further and further away she
gets from what she's trying to do...

00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:04,it's like she's g***t farther and
farther to go to get back on track.

00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:11,And this is something that will
never, ever happen again...

00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:12,which is Trevor kills Aeon.

00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:14,I almost killed my wife.

00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:16,She was trying to do the, kind of,
gurgling noises with her throat.

00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:20,She was just about
drowning, doing the...

00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,And she eventually forgave me.

00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:26,But, at this point when we
were doing the shorts...

00:03:27,640 --> 00:03:31,I hadn't really established
this love-hate relationship...

00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:32,between Aeon and Trevor...

00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:35,which became the defining
relationship in the series.

00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,Trevor, at this point,
was still, sort of...

00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:40,her...

00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,Sort of like a
Blofeld character...

00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,her eternal nemesis.

00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:49,And...

00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:50,once again...

00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:52,she expires.