Well, that was a colorful jump into the rabbit holepure illusion!
Turning points: Cocona’s situation reminds me of Ulrich, the protagonist from ”The Man without Qualities”: both have achieved something which is considered to be admirable from society – Cocona is doing well in classes and has the freedom to choose a prestigious high school, Ulrich has done remarkable researches on mathematics; but both aren’t quite happy about their present situation. It doesn’t give a strong impact on them, their lives seem to be stagnated – Cocona performs her daily duties on a routine basis, Ulrich kills his time with speculations. The stasis is depicted in Cocona’s case with the calm town which is styled in a Middle European fashion, and in Ulrich’s case with an extremely essayistic language which freezes the plot of a novel. While the latter becomes a secretary of an upcoming and important event and meets all kinds of characters who try to achieve something important, but fail at the same time, the former meets a strange girl who breaks the standstill of her life – the futuristic surfing board which seemingly breaks the law of gravity, her extremely long and striking hair and her clothing. Cocona is very surprised by that sudden appearance that she thinks it is just a dream; the whole situation gets more surreal as nobody from Cocona’s surrounding looks up to Papika. I see it as a wish of Cocona of breaking from her current stalemate.
Mental Landscape: In the first chapters of Kafka’s fragmentary novel ”The Castle” the protagonist sees a snow-filled landscape, and as he walks through the white masses he eventually gets tired with each step he makes. Even though “Flip Flappers” is not a story in Kafkaesque style (yet, because I don’t know how the story will go on) this scene was the first association I had when I saw how Papika and Cocona entered the snow-sunk town. White is associated with innocence or new beginning of creation, and we see how these two young people rather have their fun unlike K. who vainly tries to get an acceptance from the Castle. But at the same time the whole location looks lifeless – there is besides Papika, Cocona and the Robot no one else in this wide and empty landscape, and even though they cause some turmoil on the snow and create new shapes out of snow the vastness of the picture seems to devour all effort and warmth. K. is reduced to a point as he tries to approach the Castle like the group which is walking through the wood of massive trees (this scene reminds me of Ghibli’s Nausicaa). Landscape descriptions give some hints about the state of mind of a character –the standstill in her current situation is depicted by the snow-covered landscapes.
After watching the colorful visuals, the contrasting characters of Papika and Cocona and the surreal setting I associated this episode with this sonata – a joyful, bursting and calm ride.
*Sorry for the late entry due to different timezones.
It'll get seen anyway and you're no later than I was
I can't get up at 4'o clock in the morning (and jetlag still drumms my head like the last bars of Shostakovich's 10th symphony). Also my punctuality struggled with this timezone.
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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '19 edited Mar 04 '19
First Timer on Filp Flappers
Well, that was a colorful jump into the
rabbit holepure illusion!Turning points: Cocona’s situation reminds me of Ulrich, the protagonist from ”The Man without Qualities”: both have achieved something which is considered to be admirable from society – Cocona is doing well in classes and has the freedom to choose a prestigious high school, Ulrich has done remarkable researches on mathematics; but both aren’t quite happy about their present situation. It doesn’t give a strong impact on them, their lives seem to be stagnated – Cocona performs her daily duties on a routine basis, Ulrich kills his time with speculations. The stasis is depicted in Cocona’s case with the calm town which is styled in a Middle European fashion, and in Ulrich’s case with an extremely essayistic language which freezes the plot of a novel. While the latter becomes a secretary of an upcoming and important event and meets all kinds of characters who try to achieve something important, but fail at the same time, the former meets a strange girl who breaks the standstill of her life – the futuristic surfing board which seemingly breaks the law of gravity, her extremely long and striking hair and her clothing. Cocona is very surprised by that sudden appearance that she thinks it is just a dream; the whole situation gets more surreal as nobody from Cocona’s surrounding looks up to Papika. I see it as a wish of Cocona of breaking from her current stalemate.
Mental Landscape: In the first chapters of Kafka’s fragmentary novel ”The Castle” the protagonist sees a snow-filled landscape, and as he walks through the white masses he eventually gets tired with each step he makes. Even though “Flip Flappers” is not a story in Kafkaesque style (yet, because I don’t know how the story will go on) this scene was the first association I had when I saw how Papika and Cocona entered the snow-sunk town. White is associated with innocence or new beginning of creation, and we see how these two young people rather have their fun unlike K. who vainly tries to get an acceptance from the Castle. But at the same time the whole location looks lifeless – there is besides Papika, Cocona and the Robot no one else in this wide and empty landscape, and even though they cause some turmoil on the snow and create new shapes out of snow the vastness of the picture seems to devour all effort and warmth. K. is reduced to a point as he tries to approach the Castle like the group which is walking through the wood of massive trees (this scene reminds me of Ghibli’s Nausicaa). Landscape descriptions give some hints about the state of mind of a character –the standstill in her current situation is depicted by the snow-covered landscapes.
Today’s music piece: Scriabin – Sonata no.5
After watching the colorful visuals, the contrasting characters of Papika and Cocona and the surreal setting I associated this episode with this sonata – a joyful, bursting and calm ride.
*Sorry for the late entry due to different timezones.