Just reflecting on how pandemic has completely cornered attention far beyond anything I’ve seen. Beyond fall of wall, gulf war, 9/11 etc by orders of magnitude. It hasn’t just sucked attention away from those activities, it has shut them down. Life is domesticity and distancing
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Something very mellow, gentle and contrarian about this apocalypse. Like the big bad wolf being murdered and eaten by grandma
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So many people so busy either just coping or trying to solve the problem that they haven’t noticed the other-worldly character of this situation. The only thing that would compare is migration to Mars
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Where are the doctors, nurses and other careworkers in the above: A) metaphor? Do they have a life or are they living, albeit with a timer? B) screenplay? Walk-on, zero dialogue roles killed by the monster to rank up the tension? Both pretty bleak.
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Aliens
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