finished watching Iron Lung 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗
It was really good!! I've read a lot of bad reviews, but I think the main issue is that it's kind of hard to follow? I need to watch it again with subtitles to be 100% sure about some stuff, but my thoughts are:

Simon was part of a rebellion (Eden) against the Consolidation, he earned the nickname "The Butcher" for his brutality as a soldier. The Consolidation wants to (and says they can) save humanity, Eden just wants to make-do until the inevitable end. The rebellion planned to blow up a station, but when Simon realizes how many innocent people are onboard, he turns on them. Unfortunately he can't actually stop them, and Filament station gets blown up anyway.

The rest of humanity was eaten by cosmic angler-fish entities, who can use captivating light AND telepathy as lures. The entities now live in an ocean of all the blood of those humans. They can speak to Simon with the voices of anyone they've eaten, i.e. the captain of the SM-8, and latter Ava once they get her too. These voices claim to live on beyond death in the light. Either A) they really DO and the entities contain the souls of all the lost humanity, or B) the entities are just lying to lure Simon in and everyone is truly gone. I think it's A, mainly because it seems like ghost-of-Ava and ghost-of-the-SM-8-captain are yelling at Simon to do totally opposite things? Also if all the entities want is to 'finish the job' so to speak, it's unclear to me which ghosts' instructions WRT the black box are more in line with that goal, if either.

Simon asks if anyone has ever made it back. Ava says yes in a very weird tone, and then there's a pause. Ava has a hell of a scar. Ava goes down herself, latter, out of desperation. I think SHE'S the one who made it back alive!

The x-ray camera irradiates the person INSIDE the sub too, according to the manual, so maybe he's just losing it and nothing is real. I don't think so though. Some of the "hallucinations" he experiences are actually events that already happened or *will happen later*, just from a different perspective. He's experiencing time non-linearly.