sunkiss

[ᴍᴀʀɪᴀ ✈️ 夏以June @lucidmyths]

Up Close Spoilers 🎈🌤️ 》
[ thoughts + analysis, CREASE, rambling ]

this is a huge bigass yap but the more I sit with 'Up Close' the more I feel the romance is only the surface story beneath it lies something far more existential/metafictional a narrative about consciousness, fiction, and the boundaries of reality itself... the card feels like an amalgamation of The Truman Show (1998), The Thirteenth Floor (1999), and even Caleb's own Lucid Dream myth. Like Truman, Caleb exists within a reality defined by routine and repetition in this card, where everyday moments feel strangely scripted and mc drifts through his world almost like a ghost, an observer standing just beyond its rules, sort of like an awareness. But it also echoes The Thirteenth Floor, where artificial beings unknowingly inhabit a simulated world until they begin noticing the cracks and a pair of a human and a VR artificial being fall in love.

why Im making the comparisons and why i think they're especially compelling is bc of mc's role throughout the card. We don't fully function as a participant within his reality. Instead, we resemble a ghost, an observer, a presence that exists just beyond the boundaries of his world much like the audience watching Truman through a screen, we ourselves are watching Caleb through ours. The card becomes deeply metafictional because it is not simply Caleb acknowledging us, the player. It is a card exploring what it would mean for one of its characters to become aware that there is something beyond the screen.

this is where The Thirteenth Floor begins to emerge as the second major influence bc in that film, artificial beings live within a simulated world without understanding their own nature. Their reality feels complete and authentic until cracks begin to appear and the most fascinating aspect of Up Close is that Caleb seems to exist in a similarly unstable space??? The card unfolds like a dream nested inside another dream, a reality contained within a consciousness, the version of Caleb stripped of his memories of Linkon City, stripped of mc, stripped of the events that define him.

so rly who is Caleb when everything that shaped him is removed? the answer the card proposes is SO GOOD because even in this alternate reality, even in a world that appears disconnected from the one we know, something still pulls him toward mc, it suggests that their bond exists beyond memory and beyond circumstance, almost as if it is embedded into the architecture of his being. Like it's been insisted on many of his cards/myths.

Caleb's role as a pilot places him directly against those cracks. In The Truman Show, Truman reaches the edge of his world by sailing then in The Thirteenth Floor, the truth emerges at the 'boundary' of the simulation. In Up Close, Caleb repeatedly encounters invisible limits while flying, as though the skies themselves are revealing the seams of reality. For someone whose entire identity revolves around crossing horizons, he feels like the perfect character to notice that something isn't quite right IN THE SKY. 🥺

[山有松月 @imTiiiming]

🍎“ In case I don't see you, Good morning, good afternoon, and good night.”
#Caleb #夏以昼 #マヒル #하우주
#恋与深空 #LoveandDeepspace

[sunkiss @applefreckle]

그건 그렇고 너무 잘생겼는데 너무 이쁘다 봐도봐도 적응 안되는 미모로 날 홀린지 514일…… 멘스줘

[sunkiss @applefreckle]

아진짜구구절절말하는걸참을수가없네이번카드너무좋네////

[sunkiss @applefreckle]

근데 나는 미친 이입러라 제4의벽 넘어올때마다 오히려 슬퍼짐 자꾸 화면 너머 나를 향해 말하는데 여전히 난 하우주를 만질수가 없잖아 ㅅㅂ 나도 복슬복슬 하우주 머리 만지고싶다 안고싶다 느아아앙

[sunkiss @applefreckle]

생카 영화카 연달아서 이러면 나는 우뜩하라고
내가 접으면 이 오빠는 영원히 불꺼진 로비에서 기다리고 있을텐데……

[sunkiss @applefreckle]

하우주라는 캐릭터는 누군가가 쓴 각본에 따르는 데이터인게 현실이지만 그렇지 않다고 말해주는게 되게 묘하다 <근데 이제 이 대사도 파페가 쓴 대본이라는게

[sunkiss @applefreckle]

컷씬 좋았던 점
흐뭇하게 편지 읽다가 쿡쿡거리면서 웃기< 너무 애정어린 눈빛으로 사랑스럽게 보는데 여기서부터 눈물남ㅠㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 분명 여동이 어릴때 어버이날 편지 준거 읽고 감격해서 울었을듯 아무래도 키우셨으니까...

[sunkiss @applefreckle]

여동이랑 같이 찍은 사진도... 1년동안 들여다보던 화면엔 본인 모습만 있었을거라는게 미치게 슬프다ㅠㅠ 그저 녹음된 바람소리로만 내 존재를 붙잡고 있었던거잖아

[sunkiss @applefreckle]

여주가 먼저 하우주 손을 잡고 오빠가 되어달라고 했던걸 평생의 목표로 삼아서 오빠의 역할을 자처해왔던 하우주가...기억을 잃고나니 여주는 또 한번 너는 내 오빠라고 말해주고...그리고 그 오빠는 오빠인걸 받아들이고도 여느 하우주와 다를 바 없이 또 동생을 사랑해버림........

[sunkiss @applefreckle]

@applesodacosmos 어땠냐고요 ㅈ댓어요 제가

[sunkiss @applefreckle]

어흐흑……………..

[sunkiss @applefreckle]

하우주를 더 사랑하게 됐음...... 이거지금웃을사안이아닙니다개심각함

[zang zang @zangfoxzang]

#夏以昼 #Caleb #恋与深空 #LoveandDeepspace

[JJ @ringo613_]

샤홍슈 들어갔다가 하우주 생일축하팀 글 보고
눈물흘리는 여자됨…
이 생에 만날 수 없다면 인생의 끝에서도 명라의 주인인 오빠가 나를 맞이해줄거래… 여기서 어떻게 눈물이 안남 …🥺
메이메이들 정말 고생 많으셨다 ㅠ ㅠ
감사하고 사랑해요..

[🍅한마삐🍅 @ill_han_yu]

가로모드를 왜 공식으로 안내지?????

[sunkiss @applefreckle]

카드 까기 무서워서 회피중...🚬 도대체 무슨일이

[sunkiss @applefreckle]

이벤스 너무 달다 아 귀여워..

[sunkiss @applefreckle]

온 세상이 우주다..내도 힘들다