#AEON FLUX MOVIE SERIES#

#AEON FLUX MOVIE SERIES#

Although creator Peter Chung is South Korean, the series is considered more in the spirit of Euro-animation. The original series is often erroneously categorized as anime. The episodes tend to be fairly disconnected from each other, and center on the two main characters' (Æon and Trevor) interactions, political and personal, and the themes surrounding them. Her arch-nemesis and lover, Trevor Goodchild, is also a main character a morally-ambiguous totalitarian ruler attempting to be a benevolent dictator. The actual content proves even stranger than the art - the lead character is a highly self-motivated secret agent doing spywork, or possibly just sabotage in the name of anarchy, whose sense of work attire is the lesser the better.

The early shorts forwent spoken words and the later episodes used them frugally. The episodes strive to use the art style to further the viewer's interest as opposed to wordiness. For instance, one of the series's iconic images depicts a human eye staring at a fly that is trapped in eyelashes long enough to remind one of the mouth of a Venus flytrap. The art style is a scribbly blend of Expressionism, Cyberpunk, and Gnosticism distinct from but reminiscent of European comic books. Æon Flux is foremost a visual experience. As a whole, the show was a thorough deconstruction of action hero tropes and cliches. Æon Flux (1991-1995) is probably the fourth-best known example of this type of series (after Beavis and Butt-Head, Daria, and Celebrity Deathmatch). Throughout the 1990s, MTV regularly produced animated programming and fronted some experimental animation.

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