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MR ETERNITY
Key West, 2016: Sea levels are rising, coral reefs are dying. In short, everything is going to crap. It’s here that two young filmmakers find something to believe in…
Narrated by five different twenty-somethings from around the New World and at five moments in time (1560, 1750, 2013, 2200, 2500), each is concerned with the problems that besiege young people: loneliness, family trouble, drugs and alcohol, the feeling of not knowing anything and not knowing what to do with their lives.
What links them is the immortal Mr. Eternity, an ancient mariner called Daniel Defoe who entangles himself in the lives of people he meets while searching the Americas for his lost love.
Set against an ever-changing ecological and historical backdrop—from conquistadors and Brazil nuts to slavery, colonialism and lecherous mermaids—the adventurous tales paint an epic picture of expansion and collapse, climate change and human vanity, and the poignant vulnerability of a species trying to satisfy infinite ambition on a finite planet.
Aaron Thier is the author of "The Ghost Apple". He writes a column for Lucky Peach and he is a regular contributor to The Nation. He lives with his wife in Miami.
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Published 2016-03-01 by Bloomsbury |