12 Monkeys

A strange journey of an otherwise bright young Ivy League man whose insanity creates an unusual tale of modernism distance.

A fun adaptation of the iconic apocalypse-disorientation(s) film 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam) starring Brad Pitt. Enjoy! 

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Amlan Satan studied at Dartmouth (Ivy League) and graduated with a degree in social science and started coaching for a New England youth-soccer league and kept his ties with his alma-mater as the Coronavirus tribulation began in 2020.

He'd become a true American dreamer of social activity during the Coronavirus tribulation and liked to encourage his soccer team youngsters to practice safe/good hygiene and protection-mask practices and himself always wore a protective mask, even when he'd be in 'cool' sunglasses.

He spent fall and spring preparing for the major summer-league youth-soccer seasons as his team, the Fury, rose to great heights while he himself was considered an 'excellent' teacher in social choreography and teamwork-acrobatics. The Fury won the championship in New Hampshire in just Satan's 3rd year of coaching.

Then, things turned for the worse. The Coronavirus was still a 'reality' in Western civilization, and something inside Satan (Amlan) started to go awry. He'd always been something of a 'natural mystic' or 'optimist' and ideas floated in his depressing mind about the 'quality' of civilization errors/troubles like the sectarian violence in Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) between Irish-Catholics and British-Protestants created by economics disparities and the Russo-Ukrainian tribulation created by Crimea-territory ambiguity! He told his father he suddenly wanted to 'quit' his job as a soccer-coach for youngsters in New England and live at home with his wealthy mother in Boston. His father, a stern/successful lawyer (Pranda), was very disappointed but agreed to have Satan, his only son, admitted into a psychiatric center in Boston called Hope Well (HW).

PRANDA (Satan's father): We noticed Amlan, our son, collecting unusual comic book art' featuring world-conspiracy theories.

Once admitted into Hope Well (HW), the psychiatric asylum in Boston, Satan kept regular hours drawing regularly. He indulged in his fascination with comic book arts and drawings/avatars reflecting his 'fascination' with the life of a human being in a planet filled with tribulations like the Coronavirus and Northern Ireland violence! His father (Pranda) started to think he'd be 'better-off' at Hope Well (HW) than as a soccer-coach in New England. This was disturbing!

SATAN (Amlan): I'll make some watercolors and pencil-stills of heroine-women working to ease the 'troubles' of deformity!

At Hope Well (HW), the psychiatric center in Boston, Satan felt more 'at-home' and started to indulge in his creative ideas/sensibilities of using art to treat his depression about real-world problems/troubles. He started thinking about the 'potential' or 'scope' or 'scale' of lifestyle-prescriptive 'cures' to man's terrible deformities and wondered about the various 'cures' to Coronavirus and Northern Ireland like Moderna-19 (vaccine) and affirmative-action employment assistance debates in governance for the Irish-Catholic under-class in the United Kingdom! He started to regard himself as a 'natural mystic' of civilization paranoia and looked at himself as a 'fashion-model' of traffic-distance(s).

SATAN (Amlan): I'll make an incredible drawing of a guerrilla-heroine/nurse named 'Kitana' who I dreamt visited me at HW!

His father Pranda continued to worry his life-condition(s) simply worsened/darkened! However, at Hope Well (HW), Satan met a beautiful young female patient named Jasmine, an Algerian-American who graduated from Brown and was being treated for schizophrenia! When Satan told Jasmine about his 'dream' about this 'fairy-heroine' woman 'Kitana' visiting him at HW in his dream-sleep, Jasmine started to 'believe' this 'Kitana' being/angel was somehow...real (despite the fact that all she really saw of her was the color-pencil drawing(s) Satan made with great ardor).

JASMINE: Darling, I think your 'fairy-angel' is real, Amlan.

AMLAN: No, no, no; she's a faerie-Centurion angel of heroism for my fantasies at Hope Well!

JASMINE: No, I think there's something 'tangible' in what Kitana offers you for world tribulation(s).

AMLAN: I dunno...I think she's an 'erection' or 'construction' of civilization 'matrix' drawing(s).

JASMINE: No, no; I swear, I start to feel I myself am feeling somehow 'lightened by her presence.

AMLAN: No, I dunno...I think you're just in love with me, Jasmine my fair-lady.

JASMINE: Damn it, I think this is all somehow a nice tribulation-consciousness for the both of us.

AMLAN: You're thinking of the estrangement of matrix deformity and what Kitana 'promises' for confidence.

JASMINE: Satan, I think I'll remain your 'loyal' fan in this daydream of yours; it just makes me feel nice.

PRANDA: What'd you tell that lovely young woman, that female patient at Hope Well, son?
AMLAN: I simply told her 'Kitana' would cure both the Coronavirus and Belfast hellmouths.

PRANDA: You incompetent misfortunate; you've got to tell her you're 'swaying' her to childishness.

AMLAN: We all need childishness good father of mine!

PRANDA: This Hope Well 'treatment' better work...for your mother's concern(s) as well, Amlan.

AMLAN: 'Kitana' will save the world, Pranda Satan.

PRANDA: Right-o.

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)