The Game is On...
"I believe that young people
without future, will one day take up arms and hang upside down
the traitors of this country at the Syntagma square,
just like the Italians did with Mussolini in 1945"
...taken from suicidal-murdered Dimitris Christoulas' (77 years old) last note at Syntagma square, Athens!
Το παιχνίδι ξεκίνησε...
"Πιστεύω πως οι νέοι χωρίς μέλλον, κάποια μέρα θα πάρουν
τα όπλα και στην πλατεία Συντάγματος θα κρεμάσουν
ανάποδα τους εθνικούς προδότες, όπως έκαναν το 1945
οι Ιταλοί στον Μουσολίνι (Πιάτσα Πορέτο του Μιλάνου).»
...απόσπασμα από το τελευταίο σημείωμα του αυτόχειρα-δολοφονημένου στο Σύνταγμα Δημήτρη Χρήστουλα,77 χρόνων.
Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job...
We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad.
They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone. Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone.
I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, "I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!"
I want you to get mad!
So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"
Words from the film
"Network" (1976)
