Years and Years (2019)
YEARS AND YEARS (2019)
SCREENPLAY & CREATED BY: Russel T. Davis
DIRECTED BY: SIMON CELLAN JONES / LISA MULCAHY
STARRING: EMMA THOMPSON / RORY KINNEAR / RUSSEL TOVEY / T'NIA MILLER...
PRODUCTION: BBC/HBO
셰익스피어와 조지오웰과 올더스헉슬리의 나라가 또 해낸 것이다.
(약간의 스포를 포함하고 있음)
핍진한 비극이 임박했나니
핍진성(verisimilitude) . 작품이 얼마나 신뢰할 만하고 개연성이 있는지, 진짜와 비슷한지에 대한 정도를 이르는 말이다. 핍진한 정도의 완급 조절에 실패한 작품은 논픽션 다큐멘터리마냥 딱딱해지거나, 허무맹랑한 공상처럼 붕 뜬 신기루에 그치고 만다.이어즈 앤 이어즈는 아주 핍진하다. 실존하는 인물들이 나타나 국제 정세를 어그러뜨린다. 시장경제는 모래성처럼 무너져내린다. 엊그제 뉴스에서 본 것 같은 어쩌면 내일 뉴스에서 볼 것 같은 정무적 '막말'들이 극속 정치인들의 입을 거쳐 쏟아진다. '지능이 낮으면 투표권을 박탈해야 한다', '투표를 의무화해야 한다'와 것 같이, 술자리 안주거리로 지금도 오르내릴 말들이 드라마 속에서 현실이 된다. 목숨을 걸고 바다를 건너다 익사한 난민들 이야기는 이미 화면 밖에서 반복된 사실(史實)이다.
당장 내일 일어날 일이래도 고개를 갸웃거릴 사람이 적을 정도로 모든 요인이 현실적이다. 실제의 오늘을 알면 알수록 흑빛이 짙어지고 웃음기는 사라지는 생물 같은 블랙코미디인 것이다. 게다가 이 모든 엉망진창은 스마트폰속 뉴스 속에서만 벌어지는 일이 아니다. 마주앉은 저녁 식탁 위로, 이불 속으로, 너의 일이 아니라 나의 일로 다가와서는 어쩌면 지나치게 평범하고 무탈했던 가족을 뿌리부터 뒤흔든다. 회가 거듭할수록 이 오싹하고 슬픈 이야기가 부디 미리 쓴 역사는 아닌 디스토피아 SF로만 남기를 간절히 바라게 되는 이유다.
품에서 기른 괴물들의 역습 앞에
진짜보다 진짜 같은 이야기 속에서 가장 두려운 것은, 거기 절대악이 존재하지 않는다는 사실이다. 물론 극단주의 정치인 비비안룩이 있다. 언뜻 보면 악하다 손가락질 당할 만한 세력을 대변하는 것처럼 느껴진다.그러나 비비안룩은 아무것도 아닌 미친 정치 괴짜에서 영국의 수상 자리까지 해마다 기어 올라간 인물이다. 드라마는 그를 절대악보다는 국민의 욕망을 먹고 자란 개인이자 더 거대한 악의 꼭두각시로 비춰지도록 여지를 두며 흘러간다. 왕관 쓴 괴물은 잘못된 선택의 퇴적물인 셈이다. 소름끼칠만큼 두려운 결과가 아닌가.
국민을 그를 상대로 완전한 승리를 거두지도 못했다. 비비안룩 대신 죄 없는 누군가가 수감되었으며, 그는 여전히 건재하다는 도시 괴담이 파다하다. 뮤리엘의 말처럼 광대를 자처하는 사기꾼들은 계속 뭇 사람의 이기심에 깃든 빈틈을 파고들어와 괴물로 자라난다. 난장판에 휴지는 있지만 종결이 없다.
오직 사랑으로 맞서기를 이야기하며
드라마는 모든 내용이 임종 아닌 임종을 앞둔 이디스의 기억에서 흘러나온 '이야기'로 보이도록 연출되며 끝을 맺는다. 절정에 이르기까지 세계를 누비며 이야기를 전하는 '스토리텔러'가 직업이 되고 '구전'이 흡사 종교같은 예술로 자리잡은 광경을 보여주던 드라마다. 다시한번 '이야기'의 의미와 중요성에 방점을 찍음으로써 스스로의 존재 가치를 탁월하게 증명한 것이다. 인간의 본질이 사랑이라는 점을 유언처럼 남기면서.서늘한 6부작 괴담 최후에 서린 그 온기에 참았던 눈물이 눈 녹듯 비어져 나온다. 목숨까지 바칠수 있는 용기 그 이면의 본질을 반추한다. 나와 가족을, 연인과 친구와 이웃을, 더불어 살아가는 타인들을 사랑하는 마음 오직 그것 하나만으로도 인간은 더 나은 세상을 향해 손톱만큼이라도 나아가려는 열정과 의지를 발휘한다. 그 사실에 가슴이 벅차다.
실수를 돌이킬 줄 알고, 눈물로 용서할 줄 알고, 그럼에도 살아갈 줄 아는 존재로서, 여전히 내일을 기대하는 것. 그토록 힘겨운 시간을 살아내고도 10년 뒤, 20년 뒤, 100년 뒤, 1000뒤를 경험하길 원했던 이디스를 통해 희망을 본다.
다만 그 마지막 희망의 실체를 위해
이 드라마는 스스로, 또 나와 당신들에게, 우리 모두에게 묻는다.
한줄 코드나 데이터로 치환할 수 없는
하나하나 사랑인 이들이여
지금 그대들은 어떤 세상을 만들고 있는가?
- 감상은 왓챠플레이: https://play.watcha.net/contents/tPJZQ9K
- 극본 전문은 BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts/years-and-years
DANIEL
But now. I worry about everything. I don’t know what to worry about first.
Never mind the government, it’s the sodding banks, they terrify me.
And it’s not even them, it’s the companies, the brands, the corporations, they treat us like algorithms. While they go round poisoning the air. And the temperature. And the rain!
Don’t even start me on Isis. And now we’ve got America,
I never thought I’d be scared of America in a million years.
But all we’ve got is fake news and false facts and I don’t know what’s true any more,
what the hell sort of world are we in? Cos if it’s this bad now...
(to the baby)
What’s it going to be like for you? In 30 years’ time?
10 years? Five years? What’s it going to be like?
But now. I worry about everything. I don’t know what to worry about first.
Never mind the government, it’s the sodding banks, they terrify me.
And it’s not even them, it’s the companies, the brands, the corporations, they treat us like algorithms. While they go round poisoning the air. And the temperature. And the rain!
Don’t even start me on Isis. And now we’ve got America,
I never thought I’d be scared of America in a million years.
But all we’ve got is fake news and false facts and I don’t know what’s true any more,
what the hell sort of world are we in? Cos if it’s this bad now...
(to the baby)
What’s it going to be like for you? In 30 years’ time?
10 years? Five years? What’s it going to be like?
STEPHEN
I know. Sometimes I think we went too far. Like we imagined too much.
We sent those probes out into space, we went all the way to the edge of the solar system,
and we built the Hadron Collider, and the internet,
we painted all those paintings and wrote all those great songs and then... pop!
Whatever we had, we punctured it.
Now it’s all collapsing. Nothing we can do.
DANIEL
Our brains are devolving. Seriously, what if they are?
STEPHEN
Some species don’t survive. Actually, all species don’t survive. In the end.
- Ep. 1
- Ep. 4
I know. Sometimes I think we went too far. Like we imagined too much.
We sent those probes out into space, we went all the way to the edge of the solar system,
and we built the Hadron Collider, and the internet,
we painted all those paintings and wrote all those great songs and then... pop!
Whatever we had, we punctured it.
Now it’s all collapsing. Nothing we can do.
DANIEL
Our brains are devolving. Seriously, what if they are?
STEPHEN
Some species don’t survive. Actually, all species don’t survive. In the end.
- Ep. 1
STEPHEN
Did you see today? They’re not calling it a Hung Parliament any more,
they’re calling it the Parliament of Water.
Just flows through your fingers. Gone.
EDITH
It’s our fault. We voted them in.
DANIEL That’s helpful.
EDITH
But it’s true. It just proves, democracy was a very nice idea, for a while.
And now it’s worn out.
Did you see today? They’re not calling it a Hung Parliament any more,
they’re calling it the Parliament of Water.
Just flows through your fingers. Gone.
EDITH
It’s our fault. We voted them in.
DANIEL That’s helpful.
EDITH
But it’s true. It just proves, democracy was a very nice idea, for a while.
And now it’s worn out.
DANIEL
Oh my God. Golden days. The news would come on and we’d just yawn.
STEPHEN
Now we hide! I have to hide my eyes. Literally.
EDITH
It’s like, in school, they’d tell you about the olden days,
with Sun Kings and plagues and people electing pigs.
And now it’s all come back. It’s happening again.
Oh my God. Golden days. The news would come on and we’d just yawn.
STEPHEN
Now we hide! I have to hide my eyes. Literally.
EDITH
It’s like, in school, they’d tell you about the olden days,
with Sun Kings and plagues and people electing pigs.
And now it’s all come back. It’s happening again.
STEPHEN
We were lucky. For a bit. Born in the 80s. We had, like... 30 years.
The first 30 years of our lives -
EDITH
- we had a couple of wars -
STEPHEN
- okay, but you and me, we had a nice time. Basically, we had a really nice time.
Turns out, we were born in a pause.
We were lucky. For a bit. Born in the 80s. We had, like... 30 years.
The first 30 years of our lives -
EDITH
- we had a couple of wars -
STEPHEN
- okay, but you and me, we had a nice time. Basically, we had a really nice time.
Turns out, we were born in a pause.
- Ep. 4
MURIEL
STEPHEN ...what is?
MURIEL Everything.
Perhaps. But it doesn’t alter the fact. It’s all your fault.
MURIEL Everything.
ROSIE Who?
MURIEL All of you.
STEPHEN What d’you mean?
MURIEL
Every single thing that’s gone wrong, it’s your fault.
...
MURIEL
We can sit here, all day, every day, blaming other people,
we blame the economy, and Europe, and the opposition, and the weather,
and then we blame these vast sweeping tides of history like they’re out of our control.
Like we’re so helpless and tiny and small.
But it’s still our fault, and d’you know why?
STEPHEN What d’you mean?
MURIEL
The banks. The government. The recession. America. Mrs Rook.
...
STEPHEN
God knows, I get blamed for awful lot, but how am I to blame for the entire world?
God knows, I get blamed for awful lot, but how am I to blame for the entire world?
Because we are. Every single one of us.
we blame the economy, and Europe, and the opposition, and the weather,
and then we blame these vast sweeping tides of history like they’re out of our control.
Like we’re so helpless and tiny and small.
But it’s still our fault, and d’you know why?
It’s that one pound t-shirt. A t-shirt that costs one pound. We can’t resist it.
Every single one of us, we see a t-shirt that costs one pound,
and we think, oh that’s a bargain, I’ll have that.
And we buy it. Not for best. Heaven forfend.
But a nice little t-shirt for the winter, to wear underneath, that’ll do.
So the shopkeeper gets five miserable pence for that t- shirt.
And some little peasant in a field gets paid nought point nought one pence, and we think that’s fine. All of us. We hand over that quid and buy into that system, for life.
I saw it all going wrong, on the day it began. In supermarkets.
When they replaced the women at the till with automated checkouts.
Every single one of us, we see a t-shirt that costs one pound,
and we think, oh that’s a bargain, I’ll have that.
And we buy it. Not for best. Heaven forfend.
But a nice little t-shirt for the winter, to wear underneath, that’ll do.
So the shopkeeper gets five miserable pence for that t- shirt.
And some little peasant in a field gets paid nought point nought one pence, and we think that’s fine. All of us. We hand over that quid and buy into that system, for life.
I saw it all going wrong, on the day it began. In supermarkets.
When they replaced the women at the till with automated checkouts.
FRAN I can’t stand them.
ELAINE They drive me mad.
MURIEL
ROSIE No, but I still think we’re not -
MURIEL
- and I think we do like the checkouts! We want them.
Because that means we can stroll right through, and pick up our shopping,
and we don’t have to look that woman in the eye.
The one who’s paid less than us. She’s gone.
We got rid of her. Sacked! Well done.
So yes, it’s our fault, this is the world that we built.
Congratulations. Cheers, all!
ELAINE They drive me mad.
MURIEL
But you didn’t do anything, did you?
20 years ago, when they first popped up, did you walk out?
Did you write letters of complaint? Did you go and shop elsewhere?
No, you huffed and puffed but you put up with it. Now all the women are gone.
And we let it happen.
20 years ago, when they first popped up, did you walk out?
Did you write letters of complaint? Did you go and shop elsewhere?
No, you huffed and puffed but you put up with it. Now all the women are gone.
And we let it happen.
MURIEL
- and I think we do like the checkouts! We want them.
Because that means we can stroll right through, and pick up our shopping,
and we don’t have to look that woman in the eye.
The one who’s paid less than us. She’s gone.
We got rid of her. Sacked! Well done.
So yes, it’s our fault, this is the world that we built.
Congratulations. Cheers, all!
EDITH
Well. Maybe. But you know what my Gran says?
Wait for the next one.
If you get rid of one monster,
it means the next one is waking up inside its cave.
MURIEL
The jokers and the tricksters and the clowns.
They will laugh us into hell.
Beware those men.
They will laugh us into hell.
EDITH
You’re wrong, you know. You’re absolutely wrong.
DR MOSS
In what way?
EDITH
Everything you’ve stored. All the downloads.
Those bits of me that you’ve copied on to water, you’ve got no idea what they really are.
I’m not a piece of code. I’m not information.
All these memories, they’re not just facts, they’re so much more than that.
They’re my family. And my lover.
They’re my mum, and my brother who died years ago.
They’re love.
That’s what I’m becoming now. Love.
I am love.
They’re love.
That’s what I’m becoming now. Love.
I am love.
- Ep. 6
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