Screenshot redraw thing from electroma, made this in December 2022
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you've given me too much to feel,
sweet touch,
you've almost convinced me i'm real.
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I feel that electroma strongly conveys the isolation of existing separately from the status quo. it shows the disconnect between them and other robots before their transformation and their desperate attempt to live as they see themselves and as they wish to be afterwards. the rejection of their reality and identity by everything and everyone else around them and how it destroys them. at this point they feel that they only have each other to live for. and even with each other, the pain is too much.
for a more me-specific understanding of it though, it makes me think a lot about the process of me attempting to unmask my neurodivergencies, as well as my transition. before having the self-understanding and the resources to know how I work and why I am this way, I likely appeared similar to some of my peers, but I felt separate, I thought that I was either worse than them at coping with life or that I was something else entirely. They (daft punk) feel this too in the film. they do something to change this, to physically alter themselves to better represent the way they feel internally. this resonates with me as both unmasking and transitioning. they were joyful and euphoric and happy with their existence for a short period. but the others wouldn’t accept them and drove them away for being unlike them, and the place they were in wouldn’t allow their joy. The isolation and rejection of your true self from all around you, and the experience of watching a physical manifestation of your inner self melt off of you and be lost from yourself, is pretty horrible-feeling. this all connects for me to the stronger experiences of ableism + transphobia, and how they can wear you down so significantly, as well as the disconnect with your identity that masking and being separated from yourself brings. i’m sure that this film also applies to other more complex experiences, but I am only commenting on what I know from my own life.
these are only two of my interpretations of it though, and are simply some late-night ramblings of an exhausted girlthing
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