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what are you doing omen?
Actually, rewatching the ending of Iron Lung, I think I finally understand what happened.
The final shots we see of Simon show him being assimilated by the blood ocean. We hear Simon's screaming gradually distort into a roar, and there are fang-like teeth growing on the side of his face:
The blood is mutating him into another monstrous fish. This implies the voice speaking to Simon had once been human too, but had since become the monster we've seen throughout the film, having burst out of (not bitten into) the SM-8.
The voice says, "We can save everyone, within us!!" which makes sense if we recall the line from earlier in the film about the blood ("It's us"). It's stated that the blood is human blood, and may even be what remains of the humans that were taken in the Quiet Rapture. As people (like the woman from the SM-8, and like Simon now) are sent down into the blood ocean, are irradiated, and mutate, they are absorbed into a sort of hive-mind connection with the blood itself. (It's sort of an antithesis to the repeated refrain of "It's bigger than us"...no, it literally is us.) Simon and the ship are already part of it--an iron lung, built by what is found in blood (perhaps distilled from it) and refilled with oxygen as if the blood is a body using it to breathe.
Then we follow Simon under the surface of the blood and see the following shots (I've taken down the saturation for clarity). The tree pendant cracks and shoots out tendrils:
Simon resurfaces, and his eye (below) flashes and changes color, becoming more like the giant eye we've seen throughout the film. His mutation seems to be progressing.
It cuts to black and the voice says, "We live." Then it cuts to an exterior shot of an explosion, ripping through the monster, and dark shapes start to shoot out from the center of where the ship had been.
Some people have interpreted this as the completion of Simon's transformation, but it isn't. This isn't a fish or even a tentacled sea creature. It's a tree. The trunk is the upper portion, and the roots are the tendrils spreading out towards the screen.
Simon's choice to hold onto hope allowed what was intended for evil to be used for good. The piece he carried of the Last Tree touched the blood, and, as if to fulfill what Eden had said ("our bodies will become the soil"), used it to grow, destroying the monsters as it did. The blood can nourish something now ("we live"), as it is meant to, even if (just as with the data) we don't get to see what it becomes.
Simon is gone, but the Last Tree lives again. And thanks to him, maybe humanity can too.
iron lung is good because on one hand it's like "hey if there was an ocean of blood and we threw a guy down there would that be fucked up or what" but also it's about humanity and the want to survive and the need to survive and what is worth the cost of a life but it's also about the inhuman treatment of criminals and where we draw the line but it's also about simon saying "it's bigger than me" during his self sacrificial act for humanity it's also about "you deserve your freedom. i'm sorry i can't give you that." it's about oh my god i love cosmic horror it's about seeing such an incredibly beautiful and artistic and human and independent film prevail it's about everything and it's about what you are when you're left at the edge of nothing. so yeah the movie is ok
i’ve seen a lot of people talking about the pacing of iron lung, and i kinda think that people are overlooking that the pacing is the point.
movies right now are absolutely terrified of silence. every spare second is crammed with motion and noise and information. there’s always something new to look at, something new to process. look here. now here. don’t blink. don’t breathe. it’s constant stimulation. there’s no room left for a moment to land before the next one is already gone.
there’s good sci fi horror out there that do silence and restraint well. i can immediately think of under the skin, annihilation, and ex machina. sometimes the silence is the point. personally i think iron lung works in that lineage.
this isn’t a movie that will let you sit there and passively consume. this is a movie full of visual and audial clues waiting for you to unravel them. this is a movie that wants you to notice your breathing. to feel the silence press in until it’s oppressive.
isolation is the movie. it’s you alone with your thoughts, with time stretching and warping, with nothing to distract you from the constant dread creeping in. it’s not the monsters out there that you’re afraid of. not the constant drip, drip, drip of impending doom. but you, alone, in an endless sea of red.
can you count your breaths in the silence? can you hear your heart beating in your ears? can you live with yourself?
that’s iron lung to me.
i’ve seen a lot of people talking about the pacing of iron lung, and i kinda think that people are overlooking that the pacing is the point.
movies right now are absolutely terrified of silence. every spare second is crammed with motion and noise and information. there’s always something new to look at, something new to process. look here. now here. don’t blink. don’t breathe. it’s constant stimulation. there’s no room left for a moment to land before the next one is already gone.
there’s good sci fi horror out there that do silence and restraint well. i can immediately think of under the skin, annihilation, and ex machina. sometimes the silence is the point. personally i think iron lung works in that lineage.
this isn’t a movie that will let you sit there and passively consume. this is a movie full of visual and audial clues waiting for you to unravel them. this is a movie that wants you to notice your breathing. to feel the silence press in until it’s oppressive.
isolation is the movie. it’s you alone with your thoughts, with time stretching and warping, with nothing to distract you from the constant dread creeping in. it’s not the monsters out there that you’re afraid of. not the constant drip, drip, drip of impending doom. but you, alone, in an endless sea of red.
can you count your breaths in the silence? can you hear your heart beating in your ears? can you live with yourself?
that’s iron lung to me.
I like how Mark & his team were able to work in the frog (it’s called “frog” in the game files) from the ending of the game into the movie, by having it’s blank white eye rush past Simon in the nightmare sequence.
I love how they were able to expand on and explain oddities in the game such as “why does the SM-13 -a cheap burner sub- have a valuable computer system in it?” To download the blackbox data from the SM-8!
“How can the camera take pictures if light can’t pass through blood?” It uses X-Rays instead!
“Wouldn’t that mean it slowly irradiates Simon every time it’s used?” Yes!
“Wait, doesn’t that also mean that it would only show the bones of a creature, and not the whole thing; meaning you can’t tell if it’s alive or dead?” Also yes!
This movie‘s attention to detail is insane. 10/10.
Something something the oxygen meter going up and Simon somehow having enough air for days longer then he should and how the sub essentially becomes a part of Simon and how blood carries oxygen and what is the purpose of a real Iron lung anyways and iron is what carries oxygen in human blood after all and the blood trying to make him one with the ship because it was already breathing for him and the eldritch forces genuinely can't understand why he's still fighting to maintain his autonomy and sense of self in the face of something so much bigger than him, when it would just be so much easier and less painful to allow himself to be subsumed
Something about the indomitable human spirit in the face of something that's so incomprehensible that it can make metal breathe for you
lmaos in omen the sagebean peacekeeper
in all honesty though my take on omen in the au, before i post anything is him trying to learn to be himself again.
it's a little different from how i'll portray KAY/O in this au. KAY/O is learning what it means to be human, not necessarily how to find himself.
omen is, by all definitions, a blank slate upon waking up in this au. he knows how to be human he knows how to act human, his skills and everything, muscle memory. the reason he fixates so much on finding his past is because he sees all the agents around him who are so assured in their identities, or at least know what direction they are going. he doesn't have that. all he got was killer and attempted murderer, which at first he thinks is a good thing, but the more time he spends with the protocol, the less he thinks about basing his identity on just killing.
i mean, good on riot for making him softer but can we have like reasons why the scary shadow assassin got domesticated like a cat.
anyways, omen wakes up. he doesn't know anything about himself or what he was doing. all he knows that there was pain, and then something pulled him back from the void, a helping hand.
and the more he learns about his old self while spending time with the Protocol, the more he's like, 'my old self is not right'. essentially, he grows up with the Protocol, with iso revealing more things to him about his old self.
omen basically has to decide: does he want to go back to that life, to being a killer like that, ruthless and not asking questions with the threat of being disposed or does he want to stay here with people who saved him despite what he has done?
he is a killer, both sides ask that of him. but which one is better? one unfeeling, guiltless, relentless monster... or a soldier allowed to have friends, to have fun, to be... something else other than a soldier? to love, even? because love was addicting, water to a man in a desert, and once he has a taste of it, he wonders if he ever felt it before, and how strong or horrible of a man he must have been to turn it down if he did.
eventually sabine does ask him if he wants to know his name, years later.
he says no. he says he likes who he is now. he's not his past anymore. he's omen. even then, he'll forever feel bad for attempting to kill sabine. because this woman, in the end, had ultimately given lingying the chance to bring him back. and despite everything, even him knowing all of this, his past, sabine keeping everything from him, she still considers him an old friend, still keeps him around, even if it's under the bullshit reasoning of 'keeping him close to anticipate betrayal'.
lies.
he likes that he's a killer, yet the protocol taught him how to be gentle. he likes that he can hurt and help all at the same time. he likes that he's a monster and he's a man all at once. there is a balance he walks, a thin needle he threads. he sees both at once and yet not.
and he sees now that this balance must be used to protect the people who have given him a second chance. so he will. he owes them that, at the very least.
OMAGAD these are the same Kinger and Queenie headcanons, only PART 2!!! Part 1 is here
HE'S ALIVEEEEE
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this guy is getting wilder and wilder with every update and i'm here for it. come on, show us your teeth!!
i really enjoy the direction in which he is developing. growing tension and rising stakes in their battles don't force him to change, but reveal a side of him that we've only glimpsed before, a side he kept hidden, not wanting to lose his composure and self-control, traits he's definitely proud of. with every fight, every kill and every loss he allows his grief and anger to take over him, and, surprisingly, it benefits him, turning him into a braver, more steadfast, more reliable soldier, a fierce and formidable opponent. it seems that he works much better when he is driven by emotions, especially negative ones, hm?
Do you think Nora still remembers your face?
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I tried to do something about the text, I really did but I just don't know alight motion well enough 😭😭 oh well
sova and his receeding hairline
You know how OE!Sova's flashback was kind of an odd one out in the cinematic?? Breach and Yoru are both shown to be motivated to help people, strangers even. But Sova's flashback seems to center his motivation on a personally traumatic event and ostensibly revenge.
Considering that most of Sova's lines (or at least AE!Sova's) includes showing appreciation of his teammates (at least the ones he likes lmao) and how that flashback showed the area littered with bodies, perhaps this moment was further traumatic because it involved OE!Sova losing his team right before losing his eye. Furthermore, this is in relation to how Sova looks back at the row of his injured teammates in the present, and how he agrees to support Viper usurping Brimstone.
More interesting to me was how AE!Sova was shown smiling as he wiped the blood off the knife. Even if Omen's line about him states Sova has a lot of rage inside him, it still seems strange to me that AE!Sova would have taken so much joy in this. After all, his lines to his counterpart includes things like "Sova, I spared you when we first met. I can't let you go again" and "Беги (run), Sova". Even his kill lines ("it was you or me" or something like that and "a fine death") seems to connote a degree of respect; a respect that I feel like isn't really reflected in, you know, sadistically cutting out your mirror's eye.
Either AE!Sova is good at hiding that side of himself and is just pretending that they parted more honorably (or as honorably as cutting out an eye and killing Sova's team goes), or the presentation of the flashback is biased and this is how OE!Sova interpreted it (like how a lot of the images in the cinematic were representative of Viper's state of mind, if that makes sense). On the other hand, it does seem undeniable that AE!Sova did intentionally carve out OE!Sova's eye. Considering that AE!Sova already has an eyepatch then, I feel like it could be implied that AE!Sova lost his eye to OE!Sova and is taking revenge. But that would also mean that Sova had hunted down his counterpart with the intention of getting revenge, and that somewhat also undermines the apparent respect/mercy he shows towards OE!Sova. Unless the intention was to try and intimidate OE!Sova away, by traumatizing him?
I feel like it's more like a mix of both reasons, like it was for both revenge and to scare off OE!Sova, like killing two birds with one stone. Then again, maybe it's hypocrisy. Or it's just a moment Sova let go of his morals to indulge in anger. After all, Chamber does say that Sova had broken the rules/his principles before. It may not be this time with OE!Sova, but it does imply that Sova's integrity isn't perfectly firm, if that makes sense.
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omega earth sova just fully blinded alpha earth sova, and in this essay i will-
Okay so uh @tuljuns' post right here about the balkan saying made me go, wait a second. did OE sova just double-blind AE sova? and so here we go, right. first & foremost let us establish which eye is on which side.
as we can see, when we're actually looking at correctly-colored art and models of sova [i.e. ignore his current in-game icon + model because riot for some bizarre reason TO THIS DAY has not fixed him having two blue eyes in it), his radianite eye is consistently on HIS right side. (in these pictures it looks like the left, but i'm talking about from his pov; his right eye is his radianite eye.)
now, here is the thing i cannot believe i didn't realize until seeing @tuljuns' post:
AND YOU MAY SAY TO ME: OPHELIA, ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT? ARE YOU SERIOUSLY IMPLYING ALPHA EARTH SOVA HAS NOW BEEN BLINDED IN HIS OTHER EYE TOO?
TO THAT I WOULD SAY, OOH BROTHER, I WANTED TO BE SO CERTAIN OF THIS STATEMENT THAT I WENT FRAME BY FUCKING FRAME IN THE CINEMATIC.
the light is behind his nose because what? BECAUSE THE ARROW IS GOING INTO HIS LEFT EYE.
and perhaps most damning of all is that a few frames after, the last frame before it cuts to brimstone getting out of his seat, we see this:
the glow of OE sova's arrow is NOT in AE sova's right eye, which we've established already is, in fact, his radianite eye. it is in his left eye, the eye that is not radianite. therefore: OE sova really did just double it (blindness) and pass it onto the next sova.
edit: i also want to note i saw some confusion from people about why AE sova didn't have the scarring over his eye during the dinner scene, and to that i will say - honestly i'm not sure why it isn't there in that frontal shot of him, however if you look closely in the frame by frame of the side shot, you actually CAN see it in his eyebrow? so i think for some reason it didn't get rendered in the frontal shot. but it IS there in the side shot, you can see it clearest in the first two pictures before the arrow fully makes contact with his (LEFT!!! NON-RADIANITE!!!) eye!
edit 2: sorry i fixed a mistake in the first picture from the side shot lmao, labeled it leftt side when it's his right side... as noted in the tags i have dyscalculia (learning disorder) & i mix up left/right real bad. but it is fixed :D
THIS MAKES SO MUCH SENSEEEE BUT IS THIS ALSO IMPLYING THAT ALPHA SOVA WILL COME BACK TO TAKE THE OMEGA SOVA'S LEFT EYE AS WELL NO
man, wrath really blinds him