- the triangle follows the opressed burnish throughout the film; evolves into different colours. flams animated very colignially represents alien nature and the aesthetic - pink triangle is a common lgbt symbol; initially used by the nazis during the holocausts, transofmred into queer liberation, ultimately become positive symbol for the majority of the community. difficult to reclaim in a lot of ways - galo is optimistic and forward thinking is not initially on the side of the oppressed - lio fotia leader of mad burnish, terrorist organisation, create chaos - galo and his burning rescue members are always there to save the day, no burnish casualties - lio, as the leader, reveals that his intentions are to save the burnish not hurt other humans, burnish are humans too - galo has a nature of wanting to save everyone, sees burnish, told bad for humanity, see them suffering, wants to help them - sees lio's passion and his own burning soul reflected in it - intentions often criticsed for being unclear; burning passion colliding with another burning passion - lio gives galo his burnish flame seeing his unbridled courage, recognises his potential - galo says i will save him, i will save the planet i will save you - takes the burnish flame, gives it back to lio with a kiss - the flame pours out of galo into lio and regenerates his body - is the kiss queerbaiting? - borrows symbolism from queer culture - climax is the two of them comign together in order to burn the entire world down - their ideals cross - galo and lio's flames become one - galo's desire to protect everyone and lio's desite to watch the burnish thrive; the society comes down but everyone stays alive - came together in a powerful and beautiful way that ended opression in-universe - nobody has to be persecuted, nobody has to be persecuter - the lgbt symbolism is impossible to ignore - mainstream movie that feels like it represents the community - metaphorically aligned with who we are and who we love - produced by studio trigger - first feature film - explodes onto the screen - not a single frame that is not stunningly composed with the unique stylings of our world - constructed primarily out of straight lines - certain elements stand out as unnatural - integrates well with everything as an aesthetic - lacks sense of realism; constructs individual style - absurd visual creative risks - shapes are thought about on a minute level - flood of pure creativity - sharp angles - definition for trigger going forward - requires characters that adjust to the ongoing stimulus - due to the medium of film - cannot explore the background characters - cast of people to want to become invested in - promare is a complete and utter visual assault of colour - director hiroyuki imaishi - writer kazuki makashima - opens with catasrophe - people combust explode into stylised pink flames - half the popukation dies in this event - fast forward 30 years the world sees a new evolution in humanity who become dubbed hte burnish - can control fire; wreak havoc amongst the cities - galo is a new and brash memeber fighting the burnish flames - shounen protagonist - massive spectacle - macho fire time flies into a burning buolding - action shots - bombastic, over the top; glues you to the film - camera rotations mixed with bright vivid colours captreu explosions of ice fire and lights and title shots of each character - pop art explosion - a visual spectacle first, story second, story leads to the spectacle - colour, movement and art - vulcan heastus - leader of the freeze force - free-for-all of colour clashes is mirroing events as drastic as the holocaust - burnish aren't considred human - if you sympathise with them you're just as bad as they are - governor kray foresight; galo saved from a fire when he was a boy - the freeze force are the government law enforcement - the general populace doesn't even know that the burnish are human - kray is rounding the burnish and experimenting on them - the governer is experimenting and is using them to quote "save humanity" - allegory for the holocaust - the world's magma levels are rising to catastrophic pressures and will erupt due to the burnish - build a ship to take a select 10k people to a new planet similar to the earth - glaring humanitarian issues with his plan - holocaust allogry, political corruption, imagery - the majority of the audience for this film will not be minority people. it was a film made for japan, a largey homogenerous country. it's clear why they would take the prespective of galo, a normie thinking he's fighting for good, but actually needs to relearn who the real bad guys are, over lio, the oppressed minority -