Lalaland

Lalaland is a surrealistic science fiction adventure story that takes one on a journey, which evolves around a constant search for the reason behind the Evil on Earth, self-worth and changes in peoples' fates associated with the Universal Wisdom and factors that lay outside of the human fate. Good vs. Evil concept is in the core of this story. Mental Wards with the sadistic tortures and medical experiments conducted on humans, Gulags (Siberian prison camps) with their harsh environment aimed at breaking a human's will vs. freedom and hope for the better future to be found in Space. It is a vivid example of surrealism that unfolds throughout the Morphus' life and his escape from the harsh realism into the often-harsher fantasy. What if Moses was a 22nd Century dissident, and had to lead the remaining inhabitants of Earth into space?

 

 

This story begins in the realism of the Evil Empire, the world that has changed, the world that is governed by a dictator, the world where human values are diminished to nothingness, the world full of confusion and the gender line erosion, the world where a cost of a human life is worth a joke, the world where animals understand human speech and humans understand animals, humans and animals intermarry and are used in crimes, the world where the sea-pirates navigate the polluted oceans with microbes and infection populated by beasts -- species never known to the mankind before, the world which takes the characters on an emotional journey and physical challenge, a physical and mental escape from reality into the fantasy, a fascinating story filled with action and exploration of the uninhibited lands in space and one's self, a mental and physical escape from a prison and mental ward into an unknown open space, from the gloom of the Evil Empire into the future to be found among the bright stars situated throughout an unknown space.

 

 

The entire story unfolds through the dialog-interview conducted by the news-anchor and host of the Galaxy Show from the Galaxy Union's channel, a spectacle unfolding in front of the eyes of the thousands, who came to settle the new frontier in space takes the audience in the studio on an unprecedented physical and emotional journey through their own history, the journey full of adventure into the new and unknown, the journey which evolves around an unparalleled search for the new frontier. The camera panning from the studio with a huge screen over the heads of the dialog's interviewer and interviewee constantly heads to the actual scenes without the audience noticing the change, and a story told by the main character blends with the actual events that had taken place before the audience became the settlers in a new land situated in space. Where the characters enter one world just to exit via the next one are taken through the time-borders of the journey they are in no position to control, settings change manipulating people as puppets on the stage of the Universal Theatre where the end audience watches themselves perform in real life not being aware of it prior to the show formed and starting, you will feel opiumized as you the observer will become them.

Forget such notions as the people who you grew up with will never be met by you in your life again, they will reappear as new characters and will never actually leave your world. Forget Korea where people eat dogs, in Lalaland dogs eat people and one is never safe, not even in his own place. Can you trace a 'smooth' transition from your foggy reality into the even foggier future? Morphus did it. How would you feel if you suddenly discovered your own father being operated on and conducted medical experiments on in the Mental Ward where the doctors are beasts? Morphus felt it and witnessed it. Have you ever lived in the world with no sidewalks where people walk at the walks situated up high by the windows of the concrete jungle's skyscrapers? Morphus walked them and so did many others who lived in 2200. What would you be willing to pay to get from one block to the next? You would need to live in 2200 to know it just as Morphus did. Have you ever escaped a prison just to become a slave locked up in the bird's cage to the alien beast? Morphus did. Have you ever existed, for that what your life was while not knowing that someone else who looks just like you commits crimes on your behalf and is living your life? Morphus lived that existence. Have you ever thought that those who you would never think of could be related actually are and the dead live in the world with no life in it? Live it through the Lalaland as you watch the story unfold as the book with the script in a form of an ancient puzzle from which a link is missing and you are in charge to find it, or it will link you to the chain of events whirl-pooling you through the lands with no life in them just to marionette you as a puppet to the mean and almighty dictator who signs contracts on your behalf without you even knowing it, but being put into an obligation to fulfill them. Did you live a life of an innocent child to become an innocent adult guilty of the biggest punishable crime of being yourself? Morphus experienced it. Have you ever experienced navigating a huge city-space-ship where you are at the helm with no experience to charter it? This hero did it!

 

Being born in the society ruled by a dictator thirsty for power, Morphus -- the main character, portrayed as a hero, gets drawn into the deteriorating life around him, persecuted for his beliefs, tortured with medical experiments in the mental wards and prosecuted without a reason and sentenced to prison for life, deemed crazy in one point and becoming a prisoner under the ground in the uranium mines in another, the escapee from a prison hidden deep down under the ground - a place that no one ever escaped from, the main character accidentally finds a spaceship previously fallen at the location of his escape route, Morphus learns how to navigate the ship and leads the survivors on Earth from the devastated world of the aftermath of the World War III and the environmental disaster around them up into space above them.

 

Without realizing his mission in it, Morphus becomes a Moses of the twenty second century, leading the broken-hearted and despaired from their demise into the rapture in space. In their quest for love, happiness and self-worth, the people, who are led by Morphus, get involved into an all around rescue campaign without realizing that they are making Human history happen. With the main character at the helm of the whole mission to save the Humans affected by the readings of the Horoscope that controls the aliens who secretly signed evil contracts with the Dictator, and in the Humans' attempt to alter the Horoscope's readings, the Humans discover themselves as well.

 

While saving as many lives as they could, the whole crew of the spaceship that takes them on their journey, commits to a mission that makes them feel as one family as they became during their common effort to save those who could be saved and settle in a new place in space, a place situated much further away than the colonies settled by the Space Colonists representing the regime of the Doctator on Earth. A mutiny on the space ship tests the characters and the main character becomes switched with a double designed to match him, but not in his good deeds, rather the evil ones.

The human encounters with the extraterrestrial and power from the outer space place the characters into the setting for a new horizon just to discover no challenges waiting for them in space. Destined towards them, and taking upon the seats of the flying city spaceship with a mission that takes them on the journey full of action, beasts and challenges, they all anticipate a new life and a new beginning in the new land. A new life that they want to live out in the new settings of the newly discovered lands in the other Galaxies, and the thrill in their quest to leave the gloom behind themselves, the gloom that they had lived in, clouding their sober knowledge or lack of such of what lies ahead of them set tone for their dangerous mission. While discovering new lands and ventures in them, and even more important, new relationships, people bring them and their personal lives full of their personal problems, into a common melting pot of still the same, only to discover a new old world full of new hopes, but also realistic problems that could set them back in their quest.

 

Having sins of his own and remaining far from being a perfectionist, the main character remains a strong leader even in his dispare and attempts to explore into the meaning behind one's existence. He finds out a common wisdom, that one is solely a single entity, and if a relationship becomes available, it must not be taken for granted, but should be perceived as rather a blessing and a compliment. Thus, it is up to one to make the best out of it, even though nothing lasts forever, or not to use the opportunity.

 

 

Affected by the Horoscope, Morphus takes upon the Big Mission to save the world of Humans from the calamities and trouble that they get involved into because of the Horoscope's malfunction and an inner conflict within the Horoscopes' family, the conflict between the Horoscope mother and the Horoscope daughter, the conflict that started in the 18th Century and is still going on in 2200 and beyond.

 

Taking the humans to the horizons of the Lalaland, where a new beginning and new relationships are waiting for them to be explored, the main character himself remains single and becomes old and mentally settled in his discovery for self-worth. The Savior topples the dictator; the Good prevails over the Evil, but will the main character and the new-comers to the new land in space survive being faced with the new challenges facing them in the new frontier they settled in?

-Rough Draft. Unedited