ZBRKA, A NE FILM
A MESS, NOT A MOVIE

Summary/Abstract: In order to prevent the excessive use of firecrackers during the holidays, the Slovenian Ministry of Defense announced on Twitter on December 23, 2021: "Become a soldier!" and the tweet says: "DON'T THROW FIREWORKS!!! Join the army, plant explosives, throw a bomb!" The pragmatic reason is clear: military service is not mandatory in Slovenia and the army lacks manpower, plus throwing firecrackers can sometimes cause harm. However, one cannot help but notice the brutal irony of this announcement. In order to avoid violence, common sense says that we should channel this need of ours into something more sublime, such as competitive sports events (boxing). We read a lot about the potentially harmful consequences for children of violent video games in which they kill opponents - the question would be: do such games encourage actual violence or allow the player to express his destructive impulses in a painless way and thus prevent real violence? But the Slovenian Ministry's announcement is almost the opposite: in order to avoid throwing firecrackers (which, despite the risk, is a minimally sublimated form of violence), become a soldier and train for the real violence of wounding and killing people! Such perverted logic is the hidden truth behind many of today's complaints that we live in a false virtual world and need to return to real life, no matter what the risk. Escape to the Real is the immanent flip side of the fascination with fiction - both extremes characterize what used to be called postmodernism, so the problem with Matrix Resurrections is that it proposes a postmodernist solution for an age that postmodernism has left behind.

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