DOCUMENTARY-DRAMA DEALING WITH RESIDUAL POST-NUCLEAR LIFE

"Laetius" in Latin means something like more than life and more than death.

The autodestruction of humanity is something taken for granted.
Earth is nothing more than a small planet within the enormous cosmic order destined to produce cycles of life and at the same time destroy them.
The sophistication of the nuclear engineers who surround us, leads us to the inevitable conclusion that we are living the last moments of our cycle, as we possess all we need to bring about the end. Within the social order symptoms appear to be the same as the last stages of previous cycles e.g.Deluge, Sodom. This gives us the right to claim that we have found ourselves in the best position to push the button...

After the nuclear holocaust a new form of life emerges with a certain resemblance to present day man (on the outside). Slowly, and despite finding himself on a sterile desert planet, Laetius, the name of this strange creature, starts to create his own way of life and relate to his fellow creatures and eventually he will evolve at the same rate as his terrestrial environment.

Laetius will be the hero of the new cycle, a being exhibiting some mutations with respect to his predecessors which turn out to be a great advantage derived from his intimate relationship with the earth and his magnificent adaptation to the environment.

The actors are immensely fond of the being they have created, feeling a great respect and admiration for him which grows as they get to know him. Perhaps we have come across this type of experimental effect in other cases of creators of human beings (Jekyll and Hyde, Pigmalion, Frankenstein).

Parallel to the evolution of Laetius and in the form of a documentary, we will begin to understand, apart from the fundamental details of this evolution, the deep feelings which lead the actors to give life to this new being.

 

 

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