The seriously, seriously funny roller-coaster ride of sex and violence that Aleksandar Hemon has long promised Script idea #142: Aliens undercover as cabbies abduct the fiancée of the main character, who has to find a way to a remote planet to save her. Title: Love Trek. Script idea #185: Teenager discovers his girlfriend's beloved grandfather was a guard in a Nazi death camp. The boy's grandparents are survivors, but he's tantalizingly close to achieving deflowerment, so when a Nazi hunter arrives in town in pursuit of Grandpa, he has to distract him long enough to get laid. A riotous Holocaust comedy. Title: The Righteous Love. Script idea #196: Rock star high out of his mind freaks out during a show, runs offstage, and is lost in streets crowded with his hallucinations. The teenage fan who finds him keeps the rock star for himself for the night. Mishaps and adventures follow. This one could be a musical: Singin' in the Brain. Josh Levin is an aspiring screenwriter teaching ESL classes in Chicago. His laptop is full of ideas, but the only one to really take root is Zombie Wars. When Josh comes home to discover his landlord, an unhinged army vet, rifling through his dirty laundry, he decides to move in with his girlfriend, Kimmy. It's domestic bliss for a moment, but Josh becomes entangled with a student, a Bosnian woman named Ana, whose husband is jealous and violent. Disaster ensues, and as Josh's choices move from silly to profoundly absurd, The Making of Zombie Wars takes on real consequence.

アレクサンダル・ヘモンの筆致が冴え渡る本作は、滑稽な日常の綻びと、その裏に潜む凄惨な暴力性を冷徹かつユーモラスに描いた傑作です。主人公の脳内で蠢くチープな脚本案と、泥沼化する現実が交錯する構成は、虚構が現実を侵食していくスリルに満ちています。言葉の端々に宿る鋭いアイロニーは、読者に「人生は悲劇か喜劇か」という究極の問いを突きつけ、強烈な知的興奮を呼び起こします。 映像化作品では、活字ならではの多層的な内省が、ダイナミックな演出により視覚的なカタルシスへと昇華されています。テキストが持つ深い思索の影と、映像が突きつける剥き出しの滑稽さ。この両メディアを往復することで、物語が孕む「戦慄すべき狂騒」の真髄に触れることができるでしょう。原作の迷宮的な面白さと映像の躍動感が呼応する、稀有なシナジーをぜひ堪能してください。