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A relationship starts with facing each other performing a “couple stance” together. It does not need to be genuine at the beginning. They become confederates by being in a style, like costume play. What feeling would be left after the experience of performing a couple seemingly facing each other? This video shows the transformation of the relation of the two lonely children through their fantasy, pretentious fashion, and the reality.
A is an international student in Japan. He sometimes wears samurai costume and plays with swords. For him, wearing costume in public is to show off what he thinks is cool and becoming cool by being in it. Idol is a Japanese girl who performs in a band and wears stage costumes in her daily life. For her, wearing costume is to mark her position in the cultural society and to balance her originality and the sense of belonging. What they share is the need of love in order to affirm their real identity and being in the society like everyone else in the world.
A tries to win Idol’s trust and his place and meaning in her existence by taking pictures, providing audience, and serving her desires. He acts in order to be the addressee for her and to clarify her existence and social position. Idol slowly finds her place in the relation of interaction with A.