Christian Swegal’s “Stasis” seems to be set some time during the future. The main protagonist, through some confusion revealed as Henry Archer, gets amnesia after activating a proximity mine while on duty. The two only memories he retains is about the briefing of the mission and a woman. Henry goes through many different stages of during this time period that one might think he had psychological trauma not just from the accident. There are many elements in this production worked very well to give the reader a feel of what the protagonist is going through. The backgrounds of this production really work well together to give an overall amazing feel of the terrain and temperature. There were many different backgrounds but the most mesmerizing,
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When Henry in the possible stasis chamber there are is a specific memory he remembers after his accident and there are three lines will repeat numerous times. “If I ask not to go, to stay, would you?”, “When did you know, tell me,” and “A lie, and a predictable one at that” are repeated in the beginning, the middle, and in the end (Stasis). Those three lines gives a small glimpse on what his life was probably like before everything happened. When he goes into his memories in the middle of the production, that is when the meaning of those words are realised. In the end we know what the words mean and what he is going to. Another thing that happened was that never once in the 24 minutes that “Stasis” runs that it mentions the title in anyone of the characters dialouge but there is one instance where it does appear. Around the 4:27 mark there is a scene of a hallway right after the session with Dr. Graham very faintly a female voice goes over the intercom says, “Paging Dr. Stasis, Dr. Stasis please” (Stasis). Now it is never revealed who “Dr. Stasis” is, but they could be someone who is head of the institute or just a clever way of putting the name into the production. Dialogue and little hints in the background noise allows for more pieces of a larger puzzle to be put together, not just in Easter eggs, for the story to
When Henry in the possible stasis chamber there are is a specific memory he remembers after his accident and there are three lines will repeat numerous times. “If I ask not to go, to stay, would you?”, “When did you know, tell me,” and “A lie, and a predictable one at that” are repeated in the beginning, the middle, and in the end (Stasis). Those three lines gives a small glimpse on what his life was probably like before everything happened. When he goes into his memories in the middle of the production, that is when the meaning of those words are realised. In the end we know what the words mean and what he is going to. Another thing that happened was that never once in the 24 minutes that “Stasis” runs that it mentions the title in anyone of the characters dialouge but there is one instance where it does appear. Around the 4:27 mark there is a scene of a hallway right after the session with Dr. Graham very faintly a female voice goes over the intercom says, “Paging Dr. Stasis, Dr. Stasis please” (Stasis). Now it is never revealed who “Dr. Stasis” is, but they could be someone who is head of the institute or just a clever way of putting the name into the production. Dialogue and little hints in the background noise allows for more pieces of a larger puzzle to be put together, not just in Easter eggs, for the story to