The Absentee: Vote For Your Life

A Marshall Mathers rebel-type man has failed to see the importance of making his voice heard and he's in for a rude awakening. It may have been a dream, perhaps a parallel Borgesian reality coming to warn him that his own apathy is an apocalyptic epicenter. In this plural-tone film, he journeys back to a nondescript starting-over point. Along the way, he is confronted with the fruits of his unresponsiveness, and is given the chance for redemption. This time, he is sure to inspire others as they travel in real time toward the future. Even so, nobody knows what is real.




Though left of center on views of liberty lost, it could easily be seen as right of center in regard to the urgency for national security. Again, it depends on what the viewer reads in the text. With the exception of the opening dialogue and the trailing tagline, we've done our best to keep any specific political statements out of this work in an attempt to foment a voter response regardless of affiliation. It is fair to state, however, that one should question the price we're paying in liberty to exchange for security (Davis, 147). Benjamin Franklin once declared that exchanging one for the other would result in the loss of both. We're under surveillance in nearly every public space, we're on stage in this, the grand Panopticon we call society (Foucault, 63).

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