Excuse me while I overanalyse the visual storytelling in this scene because it makes Olivia’s character even more heartbreaking.
What I didn’t pick on on my first watch was the balloons. Balloons are associated with joy and celebration. With birthdays. Park Planet was a birthday present for Olivia. Olivia isn’t a little girl anymore, she’s a frail, bedridden old woman, but she’s surrounded by remnants of her childhood.
The bedroom floor is dirty. Pills are scattered over the floor. Cracked bowls spilling sugary, colourful cereal over the floor. Children’s cereal. Is cereal her comfort food? Considering her condition, all that sugar can’t be doing any good for Olivia’s health.
Look that how the robots are positioned: knights standing guard over the princess.
“A princess locked away by complicated machines that run on blood and fear” indeed.
