Galaxies are Colliding

The confused hero, Adam, is getting married ta the daughter of a priest. But the state of the world and the fact that the Andromeda galaxy is closing in, upsets Adam to such an extent that he loses all interest in sex and marriage. Adam's seductive fiancee tries to get him into bed, but without luck. Instead he goes out into the Mojave desert on his wedding day. There he meets a mental patient on the run, a lonely inspector of public health, and beautiful Margo, who is sleeping her way to Hollywood to become a movie star.

Comment:
All cultures have their unwritten rules prescribing what its members can permit themselves to do without being cast out. There is a limit. In the United States existential contemplation is definitely beyond that limit.
Adam contemplates. The idea that there should be room for his thought, his will, is considered almost repugnant by a society that often gives proof of as much collective conformity as any Communist empire in history. Why reflect when you can drift along, cruise down those splendid highways, let yourself be sucked into the flickering roller coaster of prepackaged sensations
that TV offers. Adam's behavior is so hopelessly outdated that the people around him can just exclaim: ''What's the matter with you? Are you out of your mind? You have a great thing going for you here. Don't ruin it.''
Adam is so busy contemplating, that even sex loses its power of attraction. It is one thing to become impotent - to want to, but not be able to - but this man just doesn't want to. Doesn't even think about it. When he, on top of everything, exchanges the ''American'' car (which symptomatically is no longer American, but Japanese) for an old, rusty, real, American station wagon, we begin to understand that he is in real trouble. There is only one way out. Exile. A silent walk through the desert together with a runaway loony who is forever lost to American popular culture. Who isn't, whose life isn't a bunch of cliches from old films and sitcoms? What we also understand is that Adam's introvert rebellion is nostalgic:
America is no longer what it used to be!
Håkan Östlundh

Medverkande
Dwier Brown, Susan Walters: Producent
John Ryman, Stanley Wilson: Manus
John Ryman: Foto
Philip Lee: Musik
Stephen Barber: Talat språk
English