The 2005 live-action film and various reboots have attempted to streamline this "abstract and surreal" tone into a more coherent plot.

The following is a thematic piece centered on the subtitles—both the literal text and the underlying subtext—of the avant-garde sci-fi world of . The Paradox of Choice in a Closed System

Created by Peter Chung for MTV’s Liquid Television , the original series relied heavily on visual storytelling. In its earliest "shorts," there was no spoken dialogue—the visual movement was the subtitle.