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Gorgeous Vortex Explained/Analyzed


Okay, I know a lot of people are confused on the whole Gorgeous Vortex thing, like what goes on in it and so on, but here are my personal thoughts and explanation on what happens on the short. Not everyone may agree with me, but here's what I got out of it. Note, spoilers ahead.
The short, to me, is a statement on how women are objectified and dehumanized, and the lead woman, who I'll call Jayden after the actress playing her, is trying to escape the same fate. All those dead bodies of women were ones who I think worked for and/or were used up by the main organization with those masked guys. Jayden is the next in line for this position, more than likely against her will. She's meant to be subservient to this organization for various things, and she's had enough. So when she's set up with that older guy, she kills him as her way out and escape. In reality, though, she can't escape from this organization. The whole thing with that scanning machine, I'm assuming that's to find any abnormalities in her or to see if she's perfect or something. She has that thing in her leg, which she's given needles to treat or whatever. The vending machine with the shoes and accessories, I have 2 possible explanations on that. One is that it's for women to take for themselves in an attempt to be beautiful, only to end up like the other women, who got their accessories in such an easy way. This could possibly symbolize how material beauty is just a thing which could be passed around like nothing or something. The other is similar, except that these accessories were on those victims and could be just as easily taken from one dead woman and given out to another, going back to my point on material beauty. By burning the shoes, Jayden is rejecting the whole society and concept of easily passed-on material beauty, or she's saving the lives of other potential victims by not letting them succumb to the same fate as the other women. The organization is lead by the weird monster thing, which Jayden, in her head, tries to kill in that abandoned house with the dollhouse, which is where I assume she was abducted and forced to be with that organization. She's captured and forced to be directly subservient to that monster, though, as punishment for trying to flee from them. I have a couple possible explanations as to why that guy she killed is there. For one, she did kill one guy like him, a drone for the organization (kind of like those masked people) and this is just another one. Or, more likely, that's just a reminder that, like the organization, she can't escape her past, and that guy there is a reminder of what she's done.
But yea, this is just my analysis of it. If you disagree with anything I said here, please let me know, and feel free to tell me what you think certain things mean. Thanks!

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