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dorritx's review
5.0
Judith Thompson never stop hurting me
But for real this book was so raw and honest, probably the definition of nuance, you see all the basal parts of being a human placed on either 'side', you're living, you want a life, a constitution, to belong, to feel accepted, amongst all the degradation all around, how hard is that? (much) How to then extract yourself? This book offers no answers, not quite ones. You can die and tell yourself you'll watch it all from above and not give in (to the spectacle that everything is reduced to) but what good is that? Is it any?
On another note I'm thinking of Nehrjas's story and how the stories of survivors and martyrs are so similar, all deaths glorified, the end is the parting is the high point/the pain. But is it not the life, the living that makes their deaths worthy of lament? Why must we only be told stories of painful tragic deaths when it is mighty harder to live and continue making decisions that will most probably put you in much more strife but is the good/right thing? Every action a person takes towards good when he knows the forces oppose him and will make it difficult for him, where is that? Are we all making decisions out of desperation?
But for real this book was so raw and honest, probably the definition of nuance, you see all the basal parts of being a human placed on either 'side', you're living, you want a life, a constitution, to belong, to feel accepted, amongst all the degradation all around, how hard is that? (much) How to then extract yourself? This book offers no answers, not quite ones. You can die and tell yourself you'll watch it all from above and not give in (to the spectacle that everything is reduced to) but what good is that? Is it any?
On another note I'm thinking of Nehrjas's story and how the stories of survivors and martyrs are so similar, all deaths glorified, the end is the parting is the high point/the pain. But is it not the life, the living that makes their deaths worthy of lament? Why must we only be told stories of painful tragic deaths when it is mighty harder to live and continue making decisions that will most probably put you in much more strife but is the good/right thing? Every action a person takes towards good when he knows the forces oppose him and will make it difficult for him, where is that? Are we all making decisions out of desperation?
bohowallflower's review
1.0
Another play I read that I recall absolutely nothing about. I didn't get immersed in the story.
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