Just a few lines from the video "One" I posted earlier. These come from the movie used in the video. I'd like to see the movie. Or maybe better not...
"It is impossible for this celebrated individual to experience pain, pleasure, memory, dreams, or thoughts of any kind. This young man will be as unfeeling, as unthinking as the dead until the day he joins them."
"I don't know whether I'm alive and dreaming or dead and remembering."
"How can you tell what's a dream and what's real when you can't even tell if you're awake or you're asleep."
"Where am I?"
"Oh, God, please let them hear me. They won't listen. they won't hear me. Hear me!"
"It's like a piece of me that keeps on living..."
"It won't always be like this, will it?"
"I can't live like this! Please wake me!"
"Oh, God, let them hear me."
"Kill me, I'm asking you to kill me."
"Inside me I'm screaming. Nobody pays any attention. If I had arms I could kill myself. If I had legs I could run away. If I had a voice I could talk and be some kind of company for myself. I could yell for help... but nobody helped me."
"I don't see how I can go on like this"
"SOS, help me, SOS, help me..."
I found it so incredibly powerful and captivating, and so extremely unsettling. I kept coming back to this video again and again. Imagine trying this for yourself. Lie down in a totally dark room, your arms and legs tied up so tight that you cannot move them at all, your mouth silenced with tape. It may take longer for some people, shorter for others but soon enough you'll be going insane, screaming: "Kill me!" over and over again. I guess some people get a feeling like this even without being deprived of the freedom of movement and voice. But can these two be really compared? How much can we imprison ourselves or let other people or situations imprison us without any physical limits in place? Or maybe the limits are there, different, less tangible, but equally compelling, threatening, never to be escaped from...
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