Nightmare From Utopia
What if I wake up screaming, in tears, in a beautiful bed, with a beautiful wife and a beautiful life?
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I found this nifty Japanese architectural design site on Styleboost.com.
It has this section where you can get a 3D virtual tour of a dream apartment they are building.
To navigate around the interiors, you move the "standard family" package they have provided you with. You can put mum in the study, dad in the kitchen, and the kids in their bedrooms.
Or like me, you can put them all into one unnamed section on the ground floor, get creative with Photoshop, throw in some inspiration that you gathered from the French film "Love Me If You Dare"......
and share with the world: your "Nightmare from Utopia."
Maybe it's the young male hormones speaking;
Maybe it's the postmodernist prescriptions ;
Maybe I'm just curious if mrbrown, and other flat-dwelling, COE-paying fathers like him, are Complacent, Condemned, or Complete.
I really loved that film, "Love Me If You Dare."
I loved how Julien and Sophie were so intensely aware of the fact that they were the only ones in the world who could truly hurt/cherish/destroy/free each other.
I loved the notion that in an alternate universe, they would grow old together, sit side by side under the tree in the late afternoon breeze, and look lovingly into each other's eyes.
I loved the mellow "La vie en Rose" by Louis Armstrong.
I loved how Julien and Sophie fought all our stupid notions of monogamy, love, marriage, social ties, rules and appropriate behaviour.
I loved the game they played...
but I hated the way their game ended; the way they chose death as their path to ultimate victory.
Which is why I'm scared.
Because I don't think I have their courage.
I might not win the game.
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Four Loans. Two Kids. Three Fucks a week
One wife. One house. One car.
Sum of my fears, thus far.
--- meekia modern man (deciphering the Singaporean dream)
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posted by audaciousjoy @ 3:03 AM
3 Comments:
i liked the show "love me if you dare" too. especially the song in it, the original french version by edith piaf. but hmm, i tot the ending was quite ambiguous. or mayb i was interpreting it correctly. their last game was at the cement rite? but they showed a scene of an old squabbling couple, rite? i kinda chose my own ending. i'd rather believe that they did not die. :) and were game til they were old.
I think the director chose to show us life has endless possibilities, and infinite possible endings.
Whether they played their suicidal last game in the construction site, or grew old together in bliss, both endings would've been a testament of their audacious love. One of the things I liked most about the ending sequence was the montage where we see scenes of them kissing at different stages of their lives. Makes you wonder, if you had gathered the courage to kiss someone there and then in your life, would everything have been different... : )
Hey dude, thanks for linking me! And double thanks to recommending our video at the Youth Portal Project Blog!
Btw, I've linked to your blog too! Can't resist an interesting one like yours!
P.S. I like that Jap House article. :)
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