LOVE DEATH AND ROBOTS THE WITNESS ART SERIES

More likely, the vulnerability of the outcasts of society is what The Witness is exploring. Whether Love, Death, + Robots implies sex work always leads to violence is unknown, but I certainly hope that blunt metaphor is not being applied here. We are fated to relive certain events, and those outcomes can’t be overcome, just altered slightly. The Witness seems to make big assertions that inevitability can’t be avoided. They are a cosmic pair of fatalistic victims who can only be the horrible half of a terrible whole. If they will ever break the cycle is unclear, but there appears to be no end to it. Like The Boat or Triangle, the road to Heaven or Hell flows through an unforgiving wasteland of pain and brutality. The nearly empty streets lead me to believe they are both dead and forced to live out this eventuality forever like a hellish Purgatory. Neither appears to recognize the other, so it is unlikely they were familiar in life. Why these two are locked in this loop is the real question. The two appear to be locked in a never-ending cycle of violence and death. She has become the killer, and he is the victim. She then looks across the street to the apartment that was hers at the beginning of The Witness and sees the man watching her in shock. The man pursues, and the two struggle, with the woman eventually shooting and killing the man. After trying several doors, she finds the same apartment she looked into before unlocked and runs inside. She runs with the man still chasing her into the apartment building she saw the man in earlier. Finally, the woman grabs her boss’s gun and runs nearly naked back out into the mostly deserted streets. She dances for him before realizing how close he is to her. The woman hopes to lose him at her work, but he follows her inside the sex club. He acts confused and says he wants to talk, but the woman is terrified. Panicking, the woman runs out of her apartment and through the streets of a neon-hued futuristic Asian city with the man chasing her. The man also sees her and looks surprised as he looks back inside the room. She sees a man splattered with blood and holding a gun. Courtesy of NetflixĪ young woman looks out of her window at an apartment complex across the street when she hears a struggle. Part of what makes this episode so unnerving is the unbelievable animation which jiggles and bounces in all the right ways leaving you freaked out and confused as the bizarre tale unfolds. The overtly sexual short mixes the fear of running for your life after witnessing a murder with the distinctly disturbing unsettlingness of The Uncanny Valley. The Witness from Season 1 is a prime example.

LOVE DEATH AND ROBOTS THE WITNESS ART SERIES

The animated science fiction/horror series is beautiful and deceptively smart. Unlike anything else out there, it is a real departure for Netflix, which has not always shown a commitment to more experiential things. Netflix’s Love, Death, + Robots loves to push boundaries.

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