One Hundred Years of Solitude.. I read this book by Gabriel García Márquez many years ago. When I read it, I felt like I was in a magical world. What I remember is an old woman who is blind but moves around the house as if she can see every point, and the one that sometimes eats soil. The house that comes to mind is as if I lived in it.
When I learned that the book was available as a series on Netflix, I immediately dived into that world. A hundred years of life flow where fantasy and reality are lived together as a single reality. Fantasy and reality... Aren't they all actually parts of a single reality? Neither surreal nor fantasy.. That's why the description of magical reality fits this story perfectly.
At the beginning of the book, Jose Arcadio Buendia kills Prudencio, who insults his manhood, in a duel. But he can't get rid of him by killing him. Prudencio's ghost appears before him and his wife Ursula everywhere, in the house and on the street. There are many examples like this in the book that make one's heart tremble. One's heart trembles, but does not fear. Because in our daily lives, we always confront something in our mind, don't we??
The desire to get rid of Prudencio's ghost causes Arcadio to migrate far away and establish the village of Macondo with the young families that come with him. And that village grows and grows. Of course, on the other hand, we watch how capitalism and religious exploitation have taken the world captive through Macondo. And how power and fear are intertwined..
Disappointments tear Arcadio away from the world. And finally, we see him tied to a tree in the courtyard of the house. The priest asks, why did they tie you like that? He says because I'm mad. What drives him mad is his sense of rebellion. He can't stand people being closed to the truth and insensitive to what's happening. This insensitivity is so deep that the townspeople gradually catch the disease of forgetting.
There is also the Gypsy sage Melquiades. He brings new inventions every time he comes to the fair with the group he leads. The first camera is one of them. Melquiades introduces it as a device that stops time. When I look at old photographs, there is one from each year or not. In every photo, it is as if there is a trace of a whole year in our eyes. I look at myself. Did I foresee such a life back then? How much of it did I choose, how much of it did I get carried away by?
As I think about these, the conversation between Neo and the oracle offering him candy in the movie Matrix comes to mind:
- Candy?
- You already know if I am going to take it.
- Would't be much an oracle if I didn't.
- But if you already know, how can I make a choice?
- Because you didn't come here to make the choice. You've already made it. You are here to try to understand why you made it.
When Jose Arcadio Buendia set off, his mother had said that no matter where you go, you will not be able to escape your destiny. Indeed, separations and untimely deaths followed him in his family that grew up together in Macondo. In the end, he walked side by side with Prudencio, whom he killed, to the afterlife.
So, what do you see when you look back a hundred years?
Stay with love.
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