Storytelling & Writing
Ateez’s “Halazia” Does What Most Stories Don’t
Recently, Ateez released a new EP called “Spin Off: The Witness“ with the title track (paired with a stunning music video) “Halazia”.
It hit me why this EP concept is so powerful and how it accomplishes something most other stories don’t.
While many movies, books, and TV shows try to create stories of revolutions or social change- you can usually expect them to follow a similar format.
The best example of this is Hulu’s Handmaid’s Tale. I love Margaret Atwood’s book but the show is a total miss for me, especially after season 1. Why? One incredible writer, Max S. Gordon, does such a great job at explaining some of the shows’ many problems that I must link him here.
But for me, its how the show turns a story about a terrible societal system into an individual’s story. The individual is the only hero who will save everybody else too passive to do anything.
Other stories do the same thing. Two more great examples: there’s Neo of the Matrix: “the one” and Harry Potter: “the boy who lived”. All our collective fates’ rests in their hands. We may help but if these fated heroes die, our cause does too.
