17.4.25 - Joko Anwar's Nightmares and Daydreams

I wasn't expecting much from this series. I watched it out of curiosity, but as i started, I realised that this was a very political, very sharp commentary on the dysfunction in Indonesia society on par with Parasite, and by extension on colonialism, neoliberalism and the awful disparity of wealth. The first episode was Rumah Tua - which is a play on the words Old Folk's Home and Old House, or generational wealth, which takes place in a retirement home for the uber wealthy. The second is about emptiness of wish fulfillment as well as the plight of refuse scavengers in the massive dumps of Jakarta - the episode was actually filmed in one of the dumps there. The third was about Domestic Violence and how wealthy men have second families in Asia. The fourth, land theft. The fifth mental health and possibly drug abuse. The sixth finding work with a disability and the desperation which drives people who cannot make ends meet - the middle class. The seventh was the theft of the uber rich of people's lives and the literal consumption of people's skills. It was so so clever. I was blown away by it. There were also taboo themes like homosexuality, pornography, rape, hidden families, affairs... all wrapped up in a mythology I had never heard of before - Argatha - which is part of the Hollow Earth theory. I was then able to do a deep dive into the realm of Argatha and as someone who loves this sort of lore, it was up my street. I did come to the come to the conclusion though that the diary of Admiral Byrd was a fake, before it was exposed as a fake in the documentary. People sitting around all day waiting for shit to happen, probably very bored, and wanting to create something.

Still though, the idea that the uber rich are demons is not such a far fetched idea. Look at the zionists and the people with whom they have colluded with - these people are at the very least psychopaths, if nothing else. The monomania is off the scale.

I cannot understand this obsession with the things money can buy you. Not so much Hollow Earth, but Hollowed Humans. Steiner did say that if the human being is devoid of spirituality, demonic entities will occupy it. I'm hoping that if he does get a second series he doesn't sell out the way the Matrix and Lord of the Rings sold out. Looking forward to seeing a second series if he is ever given it. If not, it will stand the test of time and it is already in my top ten favourite TV anthologies of all time.