It’s hard to imagine that it would work, but I think in these latter frames we’re seeing a fascinating tension in this match. Each designer is staying very faithful to the previous layers and to the overall motif, but they are pulling those ideas in different directions. Jason is making a horror film. Scott is constructing a romantic comedy. One of the good ones. Or, you know, the Platonic ideal of a romantic comedy instead of an actual romantic comedy.
These two passengers are supposed to be together, but the specter of Jason's environmental holocaust outside is impinging on their potential for happiness. Scott isn't really giving them great odds either. As the train rolls on and she doesn't notice him, absorbed as she with texting, he starts to disappear. I'm tearing up a little bit. Not Hoosiers crying, but almost.
Back to the mechanics of the match, I really admire how both of these guys have not only combined more tools and engaged more senses than any match I can remember, but they are letting the story tell itself. They aren't engaging in one-upsmanship. they aren't piling tricks on tricks. They aren't letting the thing escalate into an incoherent mess. Video is followed by static image. Noise is followed by music is followed by silence is followed by music.
It feels like a story.
Play by play commentary for this match is provided, as it happens, by Kevin Guilfoile.
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