Pandemic project by filmmaker dj Rus Thompson a taut believable bit of fiction chock full cultural references and realistic details English
A work of literary fiction Hard Times in Babylon tells the story of a man in his early sixties a husband and father and filmmaker who is already adrift in a malaise of irrelevance and invisibility when a worldwide plague jolts him with thoughts of suicide Why bother to live he wonders now that the world is facing its apocalypse As he trudges through the ensuing days and months seeing nothing but futility all around him he imagines all the ways he could end rope pills a leap from a bridge a step towards an oncoming bus He even goes to a gun range if nothing else but to hear what a bullet sounds like up close As the relentless drama of the pandemic continues with its pocket sized tragedies the slow motion rockfalls of continuous deaths and the ravings of a two bit king something keeps tugging him back from the edge of despair He wonders if maybe just maybe there is too much living going on to call it quits now Hard Times in Babylon
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