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No. It is never explained.
Or rather, it is, by implication: it works the same way that Kenny gets killed in every episode of South Park.
Aeon Flux is non-linear. That is, no episode is necessarily related to any other episode. If I recall correctly (it's been ages since I watched the original, wordless shorts), the set-up would change from episode to episode; genders would swap, alliances would switch, characters would transpose. But the basic situation would stay the same.
In musical terms, what animator Peter Chung was doing would be called variations on a theme: the same tune going through a series of reharmonizations, arranged for different instruments, reinterpolated at different tempos, the tune itself altered. The same tune is at the heart of each variation, but each one sounds different from each of the others.
I've heard lots of complicated theories about "alternate realties" and recursive looping virtual reality AIs and clones and whatnot, but that all smells like bullshit to me. It's pictures-as-music, is all: so-called "pure" music—not really designed to carry a story: its own melodic flow seems to imply a story, but it's just imagery for its own sake.
So the secret is that there's no secret, and the point is that there's no point. |
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