Obligate Mutualisms
- Episode aired May 5, 2017
- TV-MA
- 51m
The Sensates make contact with a key figure in BPO. Ripped from her prison cell, Sun sends out a plea for help. Wolfgang meets an intriguing stranger.The Sensates make contact with a key figure in BPO. Ripped from her prison cell, Sun sends out a plea for help. Wolfgang meets an intriguing stranger.The Sensates make contact with a key figure in BPO. Ripped from her prison cell, Sun sends out a plea for help. Wolfgang meets an intriguing stranger.
- Min-Jung
- (as Yuh Jung Youn)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAlmost every detail about Rembrandts painting The Nightwatch or De Nachtwacht told by Croome in the Rijksmuseum are accurate. Parts of the paining were cut off in the 16th century, because it did not fit into the room of the buyer.
- Quotes
Croome: How much do you know about BPO?
Nomi Marks: Biologic Preservation Organization. Began in the early '60s by...
Will Gorski: ...Ruth El-Saadawi.
Croome: An incredible woman. One of the great scientific minds of our time. She believed sapiens and sensorium to be obligate mutualisms, dependent on one another for survival. BPO was founded by her and dedicated to her vision of natural and ethical balance.
Riley Blue: That doesn't sound like the same organization we know from Iceland.
Croome: No.
Will Gorski: So what changed?
Croome: The same thing that changed for the rest of the world 9/11. The end of the Cold War mutated into the endless War on Terror. And whether we're talking about spies or terrorists, sensates, by their nature, are a threat to secrecy and sovereignty.
- SoundtracksAll My Days
Written and Performed by Alexi Murdoch
Also, there's a "bigger picture" that can be fathomed when watching Sense8 through a comparative lens with the Watchowskis' other movies, esp. Matrix and Cloud Atlas. Recurring themes show a genuine ambition of the Directors to convey a message :
1. The leitmotiv of the benevolent underdogs fighting an almighty and obscure Big Brother (BPO in Sense8).
2. The somewhat federation/unity of humanity, beyond and independently of races, countries, religions, sexes or even economical motivation (e.g. : Capheus with Amondi Kabaka)
3. The courage it takes to fall 100 times and to rise 101. The fact that although life is absurd and often full of cruelties, one can build his own meaning, making life an aesthetic magnum opus, if and only if one keeps the ability of amazement in front of the beauty of the universe (e.g. : Capheus' history and kindheartedness, epitomized in the speech and conversation scenes in this episode)
Conclusion : I'm eager to watch the next episodes, yet I want to be patient, because each one requires time and focus in order to be not consumed, but fully reveled in.
- kams120
- May 25, 2017
Details
- Runtime51 minutes
- Color