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i have more to write on this, but it is also auto-biographical. the fact is it was thanks to sleuthing over the Sonny Boy settei materials (https://github.com/sonnyboysettei/official), ultimately making the connection to Pale Fire, which led me to look for the Japanese version of Pale Fire, which explains so much about Sonny Boy. especially the concept of "rendaku" (muddied voice, or mediated "rendered (renda) reality") where, interestingly, waxwing is "renjaku", which led me to the solipsist Jungian interpretation of Mizuho's Grandma Nozomi with dementia (see the Go-Old glasses image of Nozomi) cradling her most treasured images of herself, as Aunt Maud it has to do with Thrice of Evangelion, of Hideaki Anno and staff saying "Goodbye, All of Evangelion", and Shingo Natsume directing the music video for the song that says "DON'T SAY GOODBYE" Thrice, except at the end where the line was repeated another time. this is rather mindblowing to me personally. and i also found freaky references to my published works, even my "name" on the Sonny Boy credits, that while i rationally establish as pure "Stand Alone Complex" coincidence (unrelated individuals that never interacted with each other ending up the same due to syncing with the "Culture Industry"/consuming the same media) i'll notify you if you're interested/also a fan of Sonny Boy/Pale Fire. it makes sense, because Sonny Boy is also the "masc" version of Revolutionary Girl Utena, who borrowed many images from Pale Fire, especially of a bird crashing into the reflected sky of a windowpane, and you can see this as a main motif in Sonny Boy of birds. i'm not sure if i'm the first to make the connection with Pale Fire, but it is something that i arrived on my own, as someone who has a personal history with Pale Fire (quoting "smudge of ashen fluff" in my ... juvenile last words some time ago) and as someone who was influenced by Evangelion to the same apocalyptic degree as Shingo Natsume. one can say it was Sonny Boy is an arrant thief whose Pale Fire he stole from the sun of Utena, who stole from Pale Fire. but Sonny Boy has 4-fold (well imagine a a picture folded in half, twice, which divides the picture into quadrants) the cinematic grammar complexity of Kubrick's 2001, which i held viewings and discussions with students and faculty who wrote a book about it. |