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Babylon (2014) | 01.03

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The OA / René Magritte

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Starting to hear rumblings about The OA Season 3 again.

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Whenever I listen to Florence + the Machine, I always find parallels between her lyrics and two pieces of media: The OA and Lawrence of Arabia. And I think it’s because the underlying theme of all three is loneliness. Loneliness, and freedom, trying and failing to transcend the chains you had no choice to be born with. Whether it’s their body, womanhood, nationality, or sexuality, or capitalism or imperialism, or some combination, OA, Lawrence, and Florence encounter 1) the realization that these systems are a brutal, seemingly impenetrable, historical cycle. OA jumps from one dimension only to become a different kind of prisoner in another; Lawrence goes back into the desert over and over just to further lose himself and those around him AND perpetuates the centuries-long imperialist agenda he was trying to outwit; Florence repeats the same self-destructive habits because she doesn’t know anything else, anything better—“I’ve always been more comfortable in chaos,” “I don’t love you, I just love the bomb.” Then there’s 2) the realization that they are outsiders. They do not fall in line with these systems’ norms, but they also can’t escape the systems—so what place is there in the world for them? In response, they try to become something otherworldly: an angel, a god, a monster. But they still fall back down to the purgatory of Earth. I think that’s why all three of these works have affected me so much, because they reach out to the part of me that yearns to be a pure, free, utter human; that yearns for true connection between other humans. But that is only possible in a world devoid of systems.