#fables are v interesting to me bc theyre built in with a framing device AND theyre rhetorical devices as well!

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Saw you mention Vuja De and I highly recommend the behind the scenes on the choreo and recording. So far there's been one episode and I thought it was really interesting!

Don't wanna "spoil" too much but I loved the cut from the dance practice to Yunho in the studio going "so how about we lower the tempo and take the song a whole step down?"

Btw the choreo for Vuja De was done by Vinh Nguyen and eztwins, two slovenian guys. (That kinda cracks me up because they also did work for a Helene Fischer, German Schlager singer, Tour which a friend of mine also worked on). They've done choreographies for sm acts before though I don't know which exactly.

Also wanted to ask you about your opinion on Nexus. I really enjoyed it but the ending didn't 100% work for me. The "it was all a dream" or rather "film withing film" ending was a weird angle imo as I didn't feel it fit with the rest of it and took away some impact but might have missed things or interpreted them differently so I'm really interested to hear your thoughts on it!

i think what probably caught you up about the ending of nexus is that that particular trope gets very maligned and/or used badly by people that don't understand the point of it. 'it was all a dream'/film within a film tropes are framing devices, where the intention of them (specifically at the end of a piece) is to break your immersion in the story up to that point in order to draw your attention to a larger point about the story itself. a recent example off the top of my head would be the ending of reborn rich, where the 'it was all a coma dream' purposefully draws attention to the fact that the story has convinced you that travelling back in time was a totally plausible possibility in what was established in the first episode as a serious, and most importantly, naturalistic political/financial drama. time travel is not a trope that would typically appear here, but the story works to convince you that it is, and so when the metaphorical rug is pulled out from under you, that's the point. you fall on your ass and take stock of just exactly what happened and how you got there. a lot of poor writers will use 'but it was all a dreammmm' in order to get out of actually writing consequences or thinking beyond their story, but a good and proper use of a framing device is meant to draw attention to the fact that it is a story and what that means. another good example is the wonder, which is a netflix film from last year directed by sebastian lelio, which very heavily nails on framing devices and their function, and subsequently how stories are integral to how humans understand and communicate with each other.

one of the central themes in nexus is power and autonomy. noah desires to escape the repetition of his real life, escaping to a place where he has full control to do and be anything he wants. sarah desires beyond her supposed capacities as an ai, searching for a way to escape her digital confines. the plot itself is very simple: noah becomes too reliant on sarah for escape, sarah sees him as her escape, and she kills him for it. the story very clearly has a moral - escapism bad - and because of that particular moral's presence in a lot of science fiction, i'm inclined to say that nexus is meant to be structured as a fable, with yunho as the modern aesop warning you of the dangers of escapism from inside escapist media. it's a nice succinct delivery of message that is sharpened specifically because of the framing device.