THE DREAM OF A FUNNY MAN based on a novel by F. Dostoevsky
Scriptwriter / Director / Animator - Petrov
It was all like on earth, but it was lit up by some holy exultation.
I had never seen such beauty in a human being on earth,
except for in our earthly children in the first year of their lives.
As I looked on their faces for the first time, I comprehended everything.
Everything!
It was an earth of no-sinners.
Only innocent people lived here.
I saw them with my own eyes, and I came to know them.
I felt an affection towards them, and I had my heart bleeding for them.
Oh dear, a dream is nothing but delirium,
hallucination.
But how could I turn the earth into paradise?
I have no idea, for I can't put my thoughts into words.
At the same time it is so simple, and it could be done in an instant.
The most important thing is to love other people as you love yourself.
It is the only thing that matters.
I learnt the Truth last November, it was November, 3.
I can recall every detail of my life since that moment.
That night I decided to commit suicide,
and I bet I would have shot myself but for that girl...
Master!
There!
Mommy!
Master!
I don't care anymore, do I?
In an hour or two I shall be dead and neither this girl
nor anything else in the whole world will matter to me anymore.
I will fall into oblivion, I will become an absolute zero.
Go! Go!
Zero...
Absolute zero.
You were denied your tea, for you're a debtor.
Look at this lodger!
Who's there?
The world depends on me now.
If I shoot myself, the world will stop to exist, at least for me.
At that moment I thought: what if I had lived on the Moon or Mars
and had done something dishonorable there?
Would I care on the earth?
At that very moment I fell asleep as if keeping on thinking about that.
Who's there?
So there's life after death.
Is this world the same as on earth?
But how can it be? And why?
Hey!
I saw love for each other in them, and it was all-embracing.
But they were free from lusty passion that afflicts almost everyone on earth
and that is nearly the only source of human sins.
Does it really matter that it was a dream?
After all, it was a revelation.
My shallow heart and feeble mind
couldn't have elevated me to such revelation, could they?
I saw them with my own eyes, I got to know them,
and I realized that I loved them!
Afterwards I had my heart bleeding for them.
Now they tease me and keep repeating it was nothing but a dream.
Does it really matter that it was just a dream?
After all, it revealed the Truth to me.
I saw the Truth!
I saw it and I know that people can be beautiful and happy on earth, too.
And they make fun of my very belief!
But may be it was not a dream.
I have kept it back but now I can tell you this truth, too.
The truth is that I debauched them all.
It's him!
We might be liars, wicked and unjust.
We are aware of that, but we have science
that will help us learn the Truth once again.
But this time we shall take it consciously.
Knowledge comes before feelings.
Perception of life comes before life itself.
We all belong together.
Who's there? Who's there?
Who's there?
Bang-bang!
Who's there?
They say this dream was a delirium, hallucination.
Dream... But what is a dream?
Isn't our life also a dream?
All right, let it be just a dream.
But I wanted to pass out of life that you praise so much,
and my dream heralded a new blessed life to me.