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The Man in the High Castle s02e06 joins a long list of movies and series that try to visually represent the experience of taking entheogens ("tripping"). They results are often beautiful pieces of art, but they never capture the essence of such an inner journey, and I think I just figured out why;
It's not really a visual experience. At least not for me.
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Imagine waking up in someone else's life, and trying to make sense of it. Over, and over again.
Every time I move my eyes or turn my head, I'm reborn into a new moment, with its own unique perspective. When I shift my attention again, that moment is gone, never to return. A new one takes its place.
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There is visual content, some of it beautiful. But that's just the wallpaper. The full journey folds all the senses into the one unique moment existing right then, then resets them for the next.
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As far as tripping scenes go, the one in The Man in the High Castle is pretty good. It focuses on the disorientation that comes with any journey to a new and radically different place. The way background objects becoming richly meaningful symbols, then dissolve into the next moment.
But as with the original comic of V for Vendetta, it isn't just there for shock value. It serves as a narrative bridge to important aspects of the story. A number of them, I suspect.
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