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Dernière question de la soirée - un petit histoire
Déclaration de l'auteur: Cette histoire ("Dernière question de la soirée") parle, je l'espère, pour elle-même. Il est installé dans un centre d'appels pendant une élection lorsqu'un parti conservateur est au pouvoir ... et veut garder les choses comme ça. Cependant, l'histoire existe aussi comme un film et fait partie d'un plus grand projet intitulé PLASTIC MILLENNIUM. Des liens vers la version cinématographique de cette histoire sont ci-dessous. J'espère que les gens vont regarder le film ainsi que l'histoire.
Liens Vimeo (deux parties)
https://vimeo.com/126326733 (pw: lastone)
https://vimeo.com/126785622 (pw: lastone)
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Dernière question de la soirée
Fade in.
Un bureau composé de cubicles, toutes alignées en rangées, comme si les allées d'un avion avaient été converties en bureaux. Dans chaque cubicle, un travailleur avec un casque.
"Ils sont tous des menteurs", dit une voix à travers un casque.
L'homme qui mène l'interview, Anders, ne répond pas. Il attend que le répondant réponde à la question dans le sondage.
"Eh?" le répondant dit, sa voix chargée d'une énergie coercitive. "Qu'est-ce que tu pense?"
"Beaucoup de gens ressentent la même chose que vous, monsieur."
"C'est vrai!" l'homme de la Saskatchewan rurale dit. "Ils vont tous à Ottawa, ils vous promettent le monde, et ensuite ils ne font rien."
Pause. Anders jette un coup d'œil à la station des superviseurs, impatient de voir si son appel est surveillé. Il n'arrive pas à distinguer les écrans des superviseurs.
"Monsieur, si vous pouviez s'il vous plaît répondre aux questions telles qu'elles sont formulées, nous pourrions passer à travers cela beaucoup plus vite."
Dire que c'est une erreur pas parce que l'intimé est offensé par le châtiment d'Anders, mais parce que cela lui fait soudainement prendre conscience du temps qu'il a passé au téléphone. - Seigneur, monsieur, regardez l'heure, nous avons passé une demi-heure!
"Nous avons presque terminé", ment Anders.
"Je ne peux pas parler de toutes ces sottises politiques pendant une demi-heure!"
Last Question of the Evening - excerpt
Monday, October 16, 2017
Fiction #75: Finn Harvor
Author's statement: This story ("Last Question of the Evening") speaks, I hope, for itself. It is set in a call center during an election when a conservative party is in power … and wants to keep things that way. However, the story also exists as a movie and is part of a larger project entitled PLASTIC MILLENNIUM. Links to the movie version of this story are below. I'm hoping people will check out the movie as well as the story.
Vimeo links (two parts)
https://vimeo.com/126326733 (pw: lastone)
https://vimeo.com/126785622 (pw: lastone)
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Last Question of the Evening
Fade in.
An office comprised of cubicles, all of them lined in rows, as if the aisles of an airplane had been converted into office space. In each cubicle, a worker with a headset.
"They're all liars," a voice through one headset says.
The man conducting the interview, Anders, doesn't reply. He waits for the respondent to answer the question in the survey.
"Eh?" the respondent says, his voice charged with a coercive energy. "Whaddayou think?"
"A lot of people feel the same way you do, sir."
"That's right!" the man from rural Saskatchewan says. "They all go to Ottawa, they promise you the world, and then they do nothing."
Pause. Anders glances at the supervisors' station, eager to see if his call is being monitored. He can't make out the supervisors' screens.
"Sir, if you could please answer the questions as they're phrased, we'd get through this much faster."
Saying this is a mistake; not because the respondent is offended by Anders's chastisement, but because it suddenly makes him aware of how long he's been on the phone. "Good lord, mister! Lookit the time! We've been yammerin' for half an hour!"
"We're almost done," Anders lies.
"I can't be talkin' about all this sort of political nonsense for half an hour!"
Vimeo links (two parts)
https://vimeo.com/126326733 (pw: lastone)
https://vimeo.com/126785622 (pw: lastone)
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Last Question of the Evening
Fade in.
An office comprised of cubicles, all of them lined in rows, as if the aisles of an airplane had been converted into office space. In each cubicle, a worker with a headset.
"They're all liars," a voice through one headset says.
The man conducting the interview, Anders, doesn't reply. He waits for the respondent to answer the question in the survey.
"Eh?" the respondent says, his voice charged with a coercive energy. "Whaddayou think?"
"A lot of people feel the same way you do, sir."
"That's right!" the man from rural Saskatchewan says. "They all go to Ottawa, they promise you the world, and then they do nothing."
Pause. Anders glances at the supervisors' station, eager to see if his call is being monitored. He can't make out the supervisors' screens.
"Sir, if you could please answer the questions as they're phrased, we'd get through this much faster."
Saying this is a mistake; not because the respondent is offended by Anders's chastisement, but because it suddenly makes him aware of how long he's been on the phone. "Good lord, mister! Lookit the time! We've been yammerin' for half an hour!"
"We're almost done," Anders lies.
"I can't be talkin' about all this sort of political nonsense for half an hour!"
(To be continued; end of part one)
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