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The Doll — Visual Concept

The Doll — vizuální koncept

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Production design concept
Author
Jan Kadlec
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To make everything resonate as we intend, the film — the story needs to be divided into two timelines. One line, which depicts the world of women, takes place in the present day in an environment where the man no longer exists, or rather, where no one perceives him anymore, and he therefore logically feels like a being stripped of his original powers. He is thus forced to flee into the world of men, and that is our second world (within the current screenplay it represents the world of homosexuals and pedophiles), which, however, takes place in the future. This temporal structure allows us to better highlight the danger into which our society is heading. A society where the man has ceased to exist, and where the originally natural emancipation of women has become the only ruling order. And so, for men, there remain only two possibilities: a) either we perish as men, or b) we finally, in accordance with nature, stand up to women, take back the positions they have long been building, and return them to their original place!

However, the question remains whether we, as men given the hormonal changes of our age ,are still capable of this. After all, even the very food we eat is wrapped in plastic and contains progesterone or other hormonal substances responsible for the softness of the material itself. If we continue to wait and see how this situation unfolds, we will soon no longer feel the need to react to anything because by then, we will already have become women. Furthermore, this temporal division gives us an opportunity to remove the inappropriate themes of homosexuality and pedophilia from the screenplay, even within the context of the present day. The world of men will thus be presented already in its developmental stage, somewhere in the future, as a legitimate form of man with effeminate behavior. The reference to pedophilia, on the other hand, will be used as a reminder of childhood of the present, or rather the past, when the world still followed the laws of nature, as we vaguely remember them through our parents. Yes, in the beginning, man was a rough ape and woman a fluttering butterfly. Today or rather, in the future it will be the other way around. The world of women is therefore the present, and the world of men is a colorless, effeminate future in shades of white. That is why, when our young hero finds himself in the world of men that is, in the future, he will feel more at home there, and unfortunately, correctly so, even though he comes from the present. Through this boy as a visionary, and through his connection between these two worlds, we can clearly point to the social danger being addressed.

This film can be seen as a revolt and a clear signal for our awakening for the salvation of the world! But beware! Not a revolt of the type of “men” who lure boys with a spinning candy cane. I truly do not believe that the salvation of man lies in the image of a man who, in a checkered flannel shirt, entices other boys with his trendy beard trim. I believe that this “lumberjack” from the cover of Elle magazine would hardly be able to change the chain on a chainsaw! Let’s not confuse a butcher’s shop with a perfumery, even if, by mistake, there’s a cow in the logo.

This story, though it may not seem so, is not about pedophilia or homosexuality, as the author might have originally intended. On the contrary, it is a science-fiction story,unfortunately outlined in real contours.

I have always told a story about hunting a wild boar, which was meant to serve as a metaphor for the function of society. A man spends the entire day running through the forest to hunt a boar. And when he returns home exhausted with his prey, it is up to the woman to complete the day and give it meaning. The man hunts; the woman transforms the prey into the meaning of the day, the dinner. Without that final act, men exhausted from the hunt would simply watch their catch decompose. The man is muscle; the woman gives it all meaning. And all of this has been said with enormous respect for women, not against them! Unfortunately, today the situation is different. The man has kept the nature of the hunter, but under the woman’s supervision, he has also acquired an apron.

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