You get the feeling that the purple liquid is perhaps some sort of antidote for the blue vein illness. Aeon absentmindedly empties the contents (purple liquid) of a flask onto the floor and places a grenade into a flask. He is obviously ill and exhibits the tell tale blue veins on his face. She doesn’t, she brutally fires about a hundred rounds of ammunition into him.Īs she examines the contents of the case, she notices a Breen soldier approaching. She despatched the two fighting soldiers without much effort and in doing so makes you wonder which side she is on! If she’s a Monican, then surely she should have helped her comrade. Aeon is intrigued and wonders what the case contains. There are only two soldiers left and they are bashing the hell out of each other. It seems that there has been a battle between Monican and Breen soldiers over an attaché case. Īeon meanwhile, discovers two soldiers fighting. He bends down to pick it up and, as the lady soldier falls dead, he places the beetle into a small opening in his finger. He walks to the edge of the river of blood and notices a blue beetle like insect. A river of blood washes past him and we see his plaster, yes a plaster, floating past. The beautiful soldier with blue veins falls to the ground.Īs she falls we see Trevor standing on a small island. Both she and the other injured soldier seem to have a sort of skin infection. She then takes off her mask and we see her beautiful face cry at the calamity of her situation. She notices that one of her comrades is badly injured but alive and takes of his mask so that he might die in comfort. One such soldier is standing alone amid this death and destruction. Aeon paddles through, picking off stray Breen soldiers as she goes. Their blood covering the floor like a leak from a giant tomato-sauce tanker. As if to bring this point home more effectively, we are then subjected to views of dead Breens piled high all around. Then she runs down a corridor and, firing both guns, kills hundreds of Breen soldiers with each elegant sweep of her arms.Įven I was starting to get a little uncomfortable at the excessive and gratuitous violence given out by Aeon as she tore her way through the Breen military installation. As she went up, she fired at a multitude of guards below her, killing each one. As he died, he fell over the railings and acted as a counterbalance for Aeon to traverse the wall. She dodged the bullets and fired a sort of grappling hook attached to a rope into the chest of the guard. One particular far-fetched confrontation involved Aeon needing to climb a 50-foot wall to get to a small platform….She fired at it and immediately attracted a guard who started firing at her atop the platform. The battle sequences are so miraculous that you just can’t help wonder if they are intended to be comical. The turquoise soldier’s (male and female) drop like ninepins as Aeon rushes to her goal, the apartment of a Breen politician. She shoots from the hip and is far too accurate to be believable. She seems to dispatch death with every bullet fired. The show opens with a blood curdling battle between a few thousand Breen soldiers and our lovely Aeon Flux. This episode has everything, sex, violence, intrigue and a thought provoking script. Personally, I think it was the original MTV trailer and let me tell you – It’s the best ever. The longs were produced for MTV and the shorts were sort of trailers by Liquid Television. A highly imaginative animation series that is worth inclusion in anyones collection especially those seeking something a little off the beaten path.I’m not sure if this was meant to be a short or a long episode. This format was eventually abandoned and a more story like series followed, which might lead one to believe that the initial shorts might of been proof of concept or tests? These episodes are very similar in the same surreal atmosphere but with a little more story line and plot driven in to make them more durable. An interesting format that the heroine is killed off only to be reincarnated in the next short, almost like a video game in some contexts. Having first seen Aeon Flux as MTV shorts I was instantly captivated, breaking free from the constraints of the "standard" method of story telling, so much is left in the mysterious and unknown, with very imaginative and surreal atmosphere, in some cases one feels like they have just been dropped in the middle of a story with no real explanation of what is going on, its not needed it adds to effect.
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