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Human Nature
The comedy "Human nature" is a satiric story on life of modern civilization, which covers its snobbism and biased attitudes under the mask of progress and culture. "Human nature" is a story about Nathan Bronfman (Tim Robbins), scientist, who is trying to teach good manners to mice and who ends with "civilizing" a wild man, Puff (Rhys Ifans). At the same time the girlfriend of Nathan (who is abnormally hairy but hides her real nature) has sexual attraction towards wild Puff. The plot of the story is very amusing and symbolic as it describes modern concept of civilization and modern concept of culture on issues of sexual relations, morality and public opinion, which are always based on contradictions and antagonisms.
Nathan Bronfman is educated and well bred but his snobbery provokes uncertainty and prevents him from healthy communication:
"Nathan: Lila moved in with me. Did I love her? I thought so. But from my new vantage point I realize that love is nothing more than a messy conglomeration of need, desperation, fear of death, insecurity about penis size, and the self-involved, ego driven need to collect other people's hearts. Not that I judge it.(puts head in hands.beat. looks up) Listen, I don't want to be dead yet. Is there any way to..."
Even though that dialogue of Nathan is ludicrous it reflects truth of modern moral realities, as quite often restrictions in communication are created by people themselves, so they suffer most from "virtues" of their own ethics. Love and snobbism cannot correlate, as love requires freedom of feelings and freedom of their expression. From the other side, human sexual desires have noting to do with animal instincts as they can be realized only if human communication and mutual sympathy are present. Puff learns these facts in order to get sexual satisfaction, as he needs to follow the rules established by human society; Lilia understands that hiding her real nature she suffers more turning into snob and hypocrite.
"Human nature" shows, that in modern world it's important not to lose the unity with reality, in order to remain human, but not a senseless, puritan robot.
Kaufman, Charlie "HUMAN NATURE" http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Human-Nature.html
HUMAN NATURE
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