The Hanging Stranger

काही वर्षांपूर्वी फिलीप के डिक ह्यांच्या निवडक कथांवर बेतलेली "Electric Dreams" नावाची एक मालिका tv वर आली होती.
काल परवा ओरिसा मध्ये एक मानवी जीवनाला काळीमा फासणारी रक घटना घडली. दुसऱ्या ठिकाणी ४०० अश्रू ढाळणारया माबो करांनी या घटनेला अजिबात महत्व दिले नाही.
Why so silective ? असे का झाले असावे? असा जर प्रश्न आपल्याला पडला असेल तर त्याचे उत्तर कदाचित ह्या कथेत मिळेल.
The Hanging Stranger
https://americanliterature.com/author/philip-k-dick/short-story/the-hang...
आणि ह्या कथेची चित्रफीत
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFWFKTUBa9E
येथे पहा.
मुल कथा आणि चित्रफीत मध्ये काही फरक आढळेल. त्याचे कारण असे आहे कि ह्या सेरीज मधील कथा काही प्रसिद्ध लेखकांनी पुनर्लिखित केलया आहेत.
ही कथा Dee Rees नावाच्या दिग्दर्शिकेने लिहिलेली आहे. त्या सेरीज मध्ये कथेचे नाव आहे. Kill All Others.
Dee Rees ला ही कथा का आवडली?
‘Going home—with their minds dead.’ ह्या एका वाक्याने.
In this story, the spectre is literal and physical—a hanging body from the square. But in principal, Philip K. Dick illustrates that in real life, the spectre can be much darker, much more insidious. It could be words, it could be an attitude, it could be an idea. And obliviousness is the real alien that destroys . . .‘Going home—with their minds dead.’
पहा तुम्हाला आवडते का.
dee rees ला ही कथा आवडली. तेव्हा ट्रंप च्या पहिल्या निवडनुकीची धूळवड चालू होती.
तिच्याच शब्दात ऐका
"I adapted this story into the screenplay for Kill All Others during the throes of the 2016 US presidential campaign. There was blind, chanting jingoism. Many dangerous ideas were declared, nurtured, and allowed to propagate. There were many debates about ‘literalism’ vs. hyperbole; there were many debates about freedom of speech; there were many debates about nationalism. This is not really happening, they said. What you are seeing is not what you are really seeing, they said. What you are hearing is not really what is meant, they said. There were many debates about the wrong thing altogether. We didn’t see it.

There was a body hanging in the square.