“Hello, French playwright Yasmina Reza, writer of Art and God of Carnage.”
“Oh my God, acclaimed director Roman Polanski, what an honor!”
“Listen. I, Roman Polanski, loved your play and I want to make a movie out of it.”
“Wow, that’s fantastic.”
“It’s hilarious and dark, just my cup of tea.”
“Oh! Well, thank you so much!”
“I especially appreciated how it, like many of the films made by me, Roman Polanski, is about the pointlessness of a society attempting to force rules or standards of behavior on its citizens.”
“Well, I don’t know if that really—”
“I loved how the story’s message is basically that people are evil agressive monsters so it’s hypocritical for any individual to be held accountable for his actions. Who is anybody to judge anybody, right?”
“Uhhhh…”
“In fact, the work posits, people who act on their violent urges are perhaps better than those who sit back and condemn, because they are being more truthful to their innate animal instincts.”
“Uhhhh…”
“After all, the universe is chaotic, so why should anybody be held responsible for anything they do, right? No matter how atrocious it might seem to quote-unquote society, right?”
“…”
“Right?”
“…”
“Right?”
“Uhhhh…”
