‘The girl who lives there used to be a charming,
lovely girl, but she’s lost faith in herself…
She’s a monster! Infectious human waste!‘
Fight club | 1999, David Fincher
“After placing Laika in the container and before closing the hatch, we kissed her nose and wished her bon voyage, knowing that she would not survive the flight.”
Rest in peace space pupper.
a good girl a best girl a girl who deserved better.
In the climax of A-ha’s iconic 1985 video for their song Take On Me, the hero of the comic the young woman is sucked into tries to break out of his comics’ frames. At the same time, his image appears in the woman’s hallway, seemingly torn between real and comic form, hurling himself repeatedly left-and-right against the walls as he attempts to shatter his two-dimensional barrier, finally managing to escape and becoming human, with the video ending as the woman runs towards him, smiling.
However the video for the band’s follow-up single, The Sun Always Shines on T.V., starts with a prologue continuing the story of the young lovers, having survived the ordeal of the story in the first video, now facing one another in a wood at night. Suddenly the young man begins physically reverting to his original animated 2-D comic state. The young woman, distressed, realizes that he cannot remain in her world. In pain, he flees the scene into the distance back to his comic-book world, and she is left behind.
