July 15, 2014

• So Adam, hurled from the moon,

  So Adam, hurled from the moon, is inspired by his dream girl Eloy to become a universally acclaimed concert pianist.

  I better back up a little.  On the moon, Adam had been grabbed and hurled down to earth by the bus driver's goons.  The autocratic bus driver, played by Bill Murray, needs to keep the passengers, mainly elderly shoppers, along with the crooner Eddie Fisher, busy with shopping.

  I better back up a little.  Adam had been advised by Father Knickerbocker that love and peace had been spread everywhere in the world by homeless bums, but only he (Adam) was capable of spreading love to the moon.

  I better back up a little.  The movie is called Nothing Lasts Forever.

  http://youtu.be/Y2bXpNJSNaY

  The movie was made in 1984 at about the same time as Ghostbusters, but it was never released.  It shows up sporadically in film festivals.  You can watch it on youtube.

  Is it dystopian?  Surely.  A surrealist vision?  Philosophical voyage?  Stoner entertainment?  Yes.  Yes and no and yes.  It shares themes with Metropolis, Wizard of Oz, The Matrix, 1984, and Twelve monkeys. I am sure you will find parallels of your own.

  At the outset, a worldwide recession causes a rationing of essential services in the Port Authority, which engenders a gestapo-like regimentation.  Adam gets shuffled from office to office in an endless bureaucratic loop.  To prove that he has an occupation, Adam is given an art test, which is nude figure drawing in three minutes or less.  Adam's sketch turns out to be nothing but a dark triangle, and he fails.

  
  Adam's three-minute art test

  
  Adam and Eloy find True Love on the moon.

  
  Elderly moon shoppers

  
  Those lovely lunar welcoming girls

   

  Have fun!  By way of explanation, the theme song offers, "It's a Barnum & Bailey world, just as phony as it could be, but it wouldn't be make believe if you believed in me!"

   

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