folie à deux

I am sorry. I have done you evil, and I cannot undo it. No. Unicorns are in the world again. No sorrow will live in me as long as that joy, save one. And I thank you for that part, too.

we start off with a shot of sua watching past alien stage performances to practice dying for mizi, and mizi seeing her do so. then mizi claims that she knew all along but let her go through with it.

she even goes to say that the reason she didn’t stop sua was because she just wasn’t as desperate for her as sua was for mizi

followed by a shot of mizi looking VERY desperate for sua.

this is where i think mizi’s unreliability as the narrator comes into play. because by the end of the episode, it’s revealed that mizi DOES run towards sua to stop her from practicing her own death and they embrace

i think there’s a reason that this scene was delayed to the end and it was just because mizi’s view of herself by that point of the story was extremely skewed. i think that mizi hatched the plan with sua to try and tie with a duet after she catches sua plotting to sacrifice herself.

that’s why this scene at the start of the episode has them fighting right before the competition. mizi finds out that sua never planned on going with their duet, and fights her on it. to which sua probably tries to reassure her once more that she will not be sacrificing herself (and she lied.)

and let’s be honest. if mizi really wasn’t as desperate for sua, would she really look at her like this?

from the beginning

to the end

flowers for breakfast

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Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)