“The love we share Seems to go nowhere.”- Tainted Love

The “twilight zone” series have a real “horroshow” music theme. As Alex (main character of clockwork orange) I also share a great interest in music. This episode from “twilight zone” is well known for its captivating subject, poetic justice. The beats that are heard at the beginning of the show leave a trance in the spectator. These combination of white and black shapes with music create an indefinite environment. I was being immersed in the “twilight zone”.

The main idea of this episode is having society and fate against human nature and unexpected events. As the clip begins we listen to the description of the setting in which the story takes place. “This is a jungle. A monument built by nature honoring disuse. Commemorating a few years of nature being left to its own devises. But it’s another kind of jungle: the kind that comes on the after math of mans battles against itself.” The woman who appears in the screen is bewildered, she is confused. We are just watching carefully for details, we want to understand the story as it moves along. The place where she is seems destroyed, it’s typical postwar scenography. She decides to enter a building, she is exploring her surroundings. Suddenly as she is looking for food she encounters a man. This moment of the episode is where allegory can be found. They begin to fight, to show their instincts. Society is depicted on the uniforms, gender and situation of a rivalry. The characters barely talk, they seemed doomed and brainwashed. Their behavior is primitive, the man knocks her out and then pours water to awaken her after the quarrel. Finally she regains consciousness again, the woman stares at him while he says “The only reason I can see for our fighting, is that your uniform is a different color than mine.” As mentioned before this encounter is the main idea in which poetic justice revolves around. The man has realized that society (war and uniforms) and fate (survival and destroying the other) are obsolete when it comes to finding another human in times of destruction. As the story continues we see the shift of how “twilight zone” has a clear idea and suddenly alters to end up with a counter unexpected ending. Finally this odd couple walks in harmony with no apparent direction, but the one of “tainted love”. As I recall an excerpt from the song it summarizes this episode “The love we share Seems to go nowhere.”