Both Reality Hunger and Futuristic Manifesto are based on independent literary and artistic
views, and express an urgent need for the development of literature genres and
human perspective. The Futuristic
Manifesto , as stated with its name, is a time traveling journey that
starts from the epoch of mythology and furthers
on into modernization. Marinetti finally leaves the ages of god and goddesses to
the time where man is born, and his tone can only reveal one thing, and that is
the simple fact that he was tired of a setback in society and yearned something
more realistic, “Alone with the engineers in the
infernal stokeholds of great ships, alone with the black spirits which rage in
the belly of rogue locomotives.” He travels to the time of the
guillotine and the “cruel Queen” of absolute power, all the way to the era of industrialization
with the dirty ditch and factories, “Oh maternal ditch, half full of muddy
water…a factory gutter!”
The
originality of this manifesto is that it creates a motive behind their travels
and ends up in the holy bible. Marinetti was now wise, he had all the experience
in the world and therefore, he was ready to create a testament to speed up change
in the world. On the other hand, Reality
Hunger wants to change rather than reject a past that has managed to break “larger
and larger chunks of ‘reality’ in to the world.” He relies on an artistic
movement that looks to blur the distinction between fiction and non-fiction,
almost as if Inception was Shield’s
final testament.
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