Tässä pohjalle mun yks ehdoton suosikki, Dr Evil ekasta (ja ainoasta oikeasta) Austin Powersista: "The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it."
There's the television. It's all right there - all right there. Look, listen, kneel, pray. Commercials! We're not productive anymore. We don't make things anymore. It's all automated. What are we for then? We're consumers, Jim. Yeah. Okay, okay. Buy a lot of stuff, you're a good citizen. But if you don't buy a lot of stuff, if you don't, what are you then, I ask you? What? Mentally ill. Fact, Jim, fact - if you don't buy things - toilet paper, new cars, computerized yo-yos, electrically-operated sexual devices, stereo systems with brain-implanted headphones, screwdrivers with miniature built-in radar devices, voice-activated computers...
Jeffrey Gaines (Brad Pitt) vaahtoaa kulutusyhteiskunnasta mielisairaalassa leffassa 12 apinaa. Mielettömän hyvä kohtaus. Ajattelin aikoinaan käyttää tämän väitöskirjani johdantoluvussa. :)
Vähän hitaalla käyn, mutta mulle on jäänyt mieleen 20 vuotta sitten nähdystä Havana-leffasta tämänsuuntainen repliikki:
Joku kysyy uupuneelta Robert Redfordilta, mikä tätä vaivaa. Robert vastaa: "I just realised that I'm not gonna die young." Siinä kiteytyy hienosti oman iän syvällinen oivaltaminen sekä toisaalta nuoruuden mielikuvien ja käsitysten romuttuminen. Kaunista ja surullista.
