Hypenating

 One of the first things that stood out to me about Intro: The Invitation ,  was how much it felt like the “Toyland” from The Adventures of Pinocchio,  by Carlo Collodi in 1883, reimagined as “Pleasure Island” in the Disney retelling of the story in 1940.  In both the original story and the remake, this “Toyland” or “Pleasure Island” is portrayed as a place where the boys are encouraged to do anything and everything they want to do. In the Disney remake, as soon as the doors are opened and the audience experiences this place for the first time we hear the boys being told to “Eat all you can! Be a glutton! Stuff yourselves!” and the scene of a carnival unfolds before our eyes.  Disney’s Pinocchio , 1940 However after the boys are occupied inside the walls, the doors and shut are locked, sealing them in.  Disney’s Pinocchio,  1940 And we discover that the true purpose behind this place is to catch the boys and turn them into donkeys to then be sold into ...

  The imagery connections between ENHYPEN’s intro for their new album, Border: CARNIVAL, Intro: The Invitation   and Outro: Cross the Line  that closed out ENHYPEN’s first mini-album, Border: Day One, are very apparent, as this new intro appears as a seamless continuation of the previous video. Though less obvious, there are also imagery connections between Intro: The Invitation , and Intro: Walk the Line .  Take a look at some of them with me! Horses Walk the Line The Invitation Fireworks   Walk the Line Walk the line The Invitation The Invitation  UFO’s ? Walk the Line  The Invitation  White dots with black centers floating around Walk the Line Walk the Line The Invitation A Red/Pink Moon Walk the Line  The Invitation  Fire Walk the Line Walk the Line The Invitation  The Invitation  Ok. That is enough for now, though there are definitely more.  I look forward to even more connections in future content!  Who els...

The Matrix I-Land Into the I-Land  performance  -In summary, when I see the red and blue imagery present in these music videos it feels like an echo of the Matrix story and themes to me. Though somewhat of their own choosing (Sunoo drinking the blue juice), The boys become trapped in a world that is not of their own making. Their actions are not of their choosing. They are told what to do, what to think, and who to be, and they must comply. Painter suits to represent that they are blank canvases, maintaining awkward poses with cameras and coaches eyes (telescope) always trained on them to catch every detail. And for them it is conditioned into normality. -To me, this Matrix, this Fake life, sounds a lot like what I would think life as a trainee would be like. What I-land would be like.They then choose to realize that this world they live in is not real. That they are not really living. (Eating the red gummy bears, Heeseung taking the pill) And they are then given parallel f...

Red vs Blue and other musings. -In “Let Me In”, After Sunoo drinks the blue drink, the previously inactive cube turns red and draws all of the boys to it. We then zoom into the cube and see the boys in white painter suits (possibly representing blank canvases?) in space posing and on display with the telescope fixed in them as though They themselves are the stars. This could represent the Matrix.  After we see Jake eating red gummy bear that are floating around him as he holds the package in his hand, a black and white flashing cube appears over the blue starry backdrop. As Jungwon turns, walks, and eventually flies towards this cube, we see it’s position change from being in front of a blue starry backdrop, to on the border between blue and red, to eventually being completely over a red backdrop by the time Jungwon reaches it. During these scenes we see Sunoo waving happily and the other members looking on in curiosity with a bright blue backdrop behind them.  -Jungwon i...