"MindRiot: The story behind the story" ___ I am a curious person, I like to know the origin of things. I swallowed the typical DVD extras in full, the same as a child wondering endlessly "why this, why that." So now that I'm older, and I have to explain things, I like to show the why of things.
___ Angela establish a basis for the story. First, it should be an intimate story with a couple of characters and scenery. Second, should have a roll manga, anything Japanese. And third, he proposed to do something related to robotics, network, the future ... We believe in "Serial Experiments Lain ", "Blade Runner " and "Brazil ." That same night, chatting on the messenger explained a very first-that had happened in the subway. Something about glass domes and rain, rain in droves. Rain! The proposed bases and the word "rain" set to work in a spiral of dormant neurons late in the morning and improvised a story in the same messenger. Afterwards, Angela said: "We story, write ." And it was that simple.
Rain ... in a frame of the film.
___ We let a few days, I do not think we had very clear whether we were going to be able to pull forward or not, but after a week I decided to write it. Obviously, in that week, my head laid the ideas, the fit a little better than in the spontaneous and polished draft a story that, according to the approach could be simple or complicated. When we had the script, took 10 days to finish filming. Going crazy.
___ "But what about what happens in" MindRiot ? Well, I think that every good writer or a writer (and do not consider myself good, but I try) write what you know, what comes out of the bowels. And although I did not dedicate myself to making robots (no doubt frustrated vocation), yes I have often been some of the basic feelings that move the character.
___ The story is about self-isolation that undergoes the protagonist, the rest is just atmosphere. Both could be a mechanical robots as a telemarketer for Amena (but the first thing was cool more.) The space, the atmosphere was only one context. The story, of what he spoke, it was loneliness.
___ As I'm pretty nerdy, has long interested me for a problem that seems to affect only the Japanese: the so-called "hikikomori ." It is something like agoraphobia (fear of open spaces with many people, the opposite of claustrophobia ), but with some different nuances. The hikikomori gets imprisoned in her room for years to those who suffer. Do not leave for anything, even to eat. Their parents bring food, often leaving them at the door waiting for the patient's open and eat on the sly. Its rooms are filled with trash and debris and all they do is connect to the net, play games and read manga. Sounds good right? No, it is a very serious sociological problem Japan almost as much as the high rate of teen suicide.
___ say the reason is the high demands of Japanese society. They leave the university with a job for life. Often a 10-hour job, monotonous and boring. Whose only ambition is to move up a position with the old (and not the merits). Furthermore, it is easy to feel that "has failed" to someone or yourself. Thus, many adolescents or young unformed personality, decided not to confront the world that oppresses them and withdraw into their rooms dedicated to what they like. I recommend the documentary " Hikikomori: The missing million " I could see in almost a year ago TV3. It's brutal.
Locked. Frame of the film.
___ loneliness being the main theme in the story shows other less interesting concepts, but perhaps more curious. The analogy between the girl and manga, the obsession with ramen (pre-cooked noodles), rain (it always rain, except when it comes out, it's sunny) and so on. Another important thing is the subtlety with which we wanted to address the future. Nothing spaceships and lightsabers. Yes, that is fine, but more seen the comic. I remembered something I said those responsible for " Robots," the animated film review here. Said that his best success was to "retro-futurism" (which in fact already seen in "Blade Runner " or "The Fifth Element "). In other words, a future full of cables, texture, screws and metal mechanical parts. Forgetting the polished steel, highlights and the latest technology. And here I have to congratulate and Gabi Iris, the two leaders of art, which is what the nice gigs.
___ Finally, remember that history is influenced by these dramas those who are hooked lately. And I must admit that some names and concepts came directly from the first feature film script I wrote 15 or 16 years (and obviously, villain, never see the light as it is written). The name of it was precisely " MindRiot " which means something like "mental disorder" and is straight out of a "demo" of the ancient Commodore Amiga 500 my older brother (one day speak of such intimate Amiga 500 and ZX Spectrum). A demo used to be something like a "demonstration" of what he could do a programmer, in this case, the " MindRiot " were some girls dancing in two colors on the screen. The demo was not much, but that name stuck with me in the head for years. On the other hand, Mss. Cuckoo was in fact "Mr. Cuckoo "In my first long script. He was a hacker got a cure to save himself from jail time (yeah, yeah ... pathetic, but you hear that with 15 years old and full Internet-fever by that time Infovía - you want). That's it. Let the ideas flow, be transformed and eventually materialize. But the important thing, always have something to tell. While on death and loneliness.
That's me. 
That's me. 
