I would like to tell you a story about us, and I would like to end it with the beginning of another story, a story not about us. The end is not like the story itself, it’s not its closure, it’s not its end, it more like reflection about the future. An utopic reflection. However, it’s only the end which is utopic, the story itself is far from such. It’s about two brothers, twins, and different, but as twins are, the are linked and more similar then it seems. The story has evreything in it: death, sex, love, hate. It’s classic story about our classic times. Our times are classic, but different. They are new, but same as old. The end, however, is new, totally new. It’s about an utopia. About how humanity reached a point where it was so advanced that it could prepare its heir, when we have the technological abilities to create a new race of humans (or maybe something different). A point in our evolution in which we had the mental ability to create something better, to notice our own faults and to correct them. A point in which we have the ability to humbly leave the stage and make way for a something new and better. A point in which something better is really a possiblity. Of course, it’s an utopia, and one can argue about its plausiblity. But this is the utopian end I promise you, an utopian end to a book filled with despair, a book so much about you and me. However, have no doubt, the end is utopian but not for us, as we are not a part of it. Despair, my friend, but do enjoy this masterpiece.
Digging in my mind about this book made me dig about it in the external realm as well. And then I got really excited: a German movie was made following the book. Movies based on books are usually a disappointment, but this one might still prove to be something special, as it has Fanka Potente (the one from Run Lola Run) in one of the lead roles.
India 2006:
Yesterday I met Bruno (one of the characters in the book). Really. I met a french guy named Bruno. He was a bit different from the Bruno in the book, but same issues and same problems. He has been traveling for the last 10 years. No home to get back to, he doesn’t know what’s next. Waiting for something to happen, he is 49 and tired, but nothing will happen (say the ever skeptic me). It was funny to talk to him, I wonder where he will lead himself next.
Links:
Wikipedia record
Movie IMDB entry
Trailer in German