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A-ko: I wonder, I wonder... do you know what I wonder?
B-ko: There's going to be another duel out back in the forest today.
A-ko: The time has come to settle things once and for all.
A-ko: I'm done for...
A-ko: But it's okay, 'cause I lost on purpose!
B-ko: But beware, brave warrior,
A-ko: do you know how difficult it is...
B-ko: ...to lose on purpose?
A-ko: I wonder, I wonder...
A-ko&B-ko: Do you know what I wonder?
Another literal one. My thought is that the director started off normally and then started
writing weirder and weirder plays. That theory seems to fit with the entire show, really.
At any rate, this play seems to suggest that Utena is caught up in forces beyond her
control. Even if she goes in intending to lose, she will be manipulated so that she wants
to fight.
In fact, if you think of the spirit of Dios actually taking control of her body in the moment
that she wins the fight, the fight was really completely out of Utena's control.
In the greater sense, this play sets up one of the major truths of the show: None of the
duelists are really in control. From the beginning of each episode, we know who is going to
win the duel, because that's the way it was fated to end.
Then again, 'fate' as it is applied in Utena isn't 'fate' in the traditional sense
(a la X/1999), it's more like simply not holding the reins on your own life. The point of the
show is that by the end, Utena has taken hold of the reins.
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