[Lammy]

I wish I could but literally can't explain it because it's something I came to know via symbology and not via words, so I don't have the words to try and pass it on to others :(

Have you ever seen Interstella 5555? It's a documentary actually.

[zeven7]

I cannot parse this response

[glenngillen]

Me either. Maybe it's referring to something like this: https://www.instagram.com/talkingnummbers9/p/ChAWR1utPOB/

[Lammy]

No not like that, like as a general term for the Media Industry™ as arbiters for what ideas you're allowed to see and hear, like 555 fake area code in movies, like in The Heretic Anthem, etc.

[kennyadam]

I haven't, but it looks interesting so I'm grabbing a copy now :) Thank5555

[Lammy]

Enjoy! Make sure it's a rip of the 2014 Blu-ray. I saw it in theaters in December and the “4K” remaster was totally butchered by running it through a sloppy AI-upscaling filter. Upscaling can be done well, but this is some of the worst I've seen in a while with outlines of objects & people shifting and wobbling from frame to frame even within a single scene. It was worth seeing for the theater-sound experience but looked awful lol

And please keep in mind that when I say it's a documentary I mean that in an allegorical sense, not that I believe there is literally a mirrored world of blue humans which we could travel to if only we had the technology. I see it as a depiction of an alternate way of being that Humanity could know if left to our natural predisposition toward Love and Oneness.

I see it as disclosure from Daft Punk about what happened to them after Discovery got so huge. It depicts the media industry as one tentacle of an inhuman system of control which lives forever by finding talented people whose work might lead others toward Oneness, pumping and dumping them, owning their work, and moving on to the next fad while the artists burn out to their coping method of choice (many depictions I won't spoil).

Scenes toward the end (sorry if vague — no spoilers!) do a great job depicting the actual “big bad” as an idea, a concept which only appears to take human form in rich and privileged people due to those people's own trauma but is actually something that's passed down to them. Some people would use the term “archon” but I tend not to because there are too many competing definitions. You'll notice how Crescendolls in their home “world” have no record label, no manager, no grueling tour schedule, no snooty award shows, no record stores — they just are, and it's a big party, and everyone is too busy having a good time and loving each other to notice the intruders who come to take ownership of them.