Blog Post No. 25: Our first feature-length movie
Symphony No. 57 is the soundtrack for my first feature-length movie. It has a tentative release date of Christmas 2028. The plot: climate catastrophe is destroying our habitat (big deal– there are already countless movies about this– OK, but wait): I list some to set the stage: massive floods, tornados, out of control forest fires, sudden blizzards in the tropics followed immediately by typhoons, massive outbreaks of once-eradicated diseases because some people have been convinced that vaccinations cause cancer. In fact, all consumer protection has been eliminated along with social security, Medicare, so there would be more money for the Departments of War and the few who benefit...
Nothing is being done to address these problems because there is no profit to made– or at least not enough of a profit. (Again, nothing new). However, the main reason for inaction in this "boiled frog" scenario is that no one can agree on how to tackle the problem. The disagreements are so intense that World War III rages– on earth as well as all our colonies in outer space.
Despite this, the movie opens with a light touch: gentle humor, families on picnics. Act One (movement one) has hints of troubles afoot. People easily brush them aside as normal fluctuations in millennia-old weather patterns. Alternatively, they believe that someone else's problems in distant parts of the country or world have nothing to do with them.
The hatred between peoples (even in some families, specifically that caused by some men believing all their problems are due to the fact that they can no longer control their wives. In fact, these men believe women should not only stay home but not have the vote because they are all potential murders of unborn boys). All this suddenly ceases when a man says to another, at a United Nations session being broadcast to all our fellow human beings, "You will never be a Christian."
No one cheers.
No one boos...
No one cares.
The magic evil spell of hatred suddenly is replaced by an awakening. This fantasy makes believe that all the hatred since the dawn of humanity was something done to us rather than something we brought on ourselves.
When suddenly the curse is lifted, every child, every adult, has the epiphany that if we continue to ignore the real problems facing everyone, there will soon be...
... no one.
Beethoven is the inspiration for this work.
