I’ve been toying with the idea of putting words on my political, societal, philosophical and satirical thoughts as well as my indignations for a while and now I stopped procrastinating and gave a go at this exciting project.
In my teenage and young adult life, I wrote script for short and feature films but them life came in the way and the writing stopped. Now having passed the half century mark, I decided to say what I think, whether it’s politically correct or not, part of the zeitgeist or not, and to be truer to my Asperger self!
I might also write about movies and the movie business from time to time as I’m an entrepreneur in the film industry juggling between my companies within film distribution, film festival, servicing & theatre. Earlier on I had the pleasure to operate SubDVD, a video store both physical in Stockholm as well as a web shop, between 2002 and 2016.
Being born and raised in the French speaking part of Belgium but having lived my whole adult life in Sweden, I will publish my texts in English, in French and in Swedish.
But why are the turmoil and agitation considerable you might ask?
In the mid-nineties, I read the debut novel of French writer Michel Houellebecq which deeply marked me, as well as his masterpiece ‘The Elementary Particles’ published a few years later. In ‘Whatever’, the author describes in the opening scene a home party composed of work colleagues with those words: “le trouble et l’agitation sont considérable“, or in English: “The turmoil and agitation are considerable“. He means that there is in the air both hope, tension, despair and lust mixed together as the main character tries to approach a female colleague hoping to seduce her. He won’t succeed and from that rejection his life he will spiral into despair and darkness as the Houellebecqian archetype male character should. Hope, tension, despair and lust mixed together feels like a good description of the ideas I want to put into words.
Thanks for reading and much love whether we agree or not.
Nicolas Debot, December 6th, 2024.
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