2 B R 0 2 B

This article is about the short story from 1962. Regarding the movie making of 2016 supervised by Marco Checa Garcia, 2BR 02 B: Become an underage or become a minor

"2 B R 0 2 B" is a SF short story written by Kurt Vonnegut originally published in "Science Fiction World" in January 1962 and published in Vonnegut's Bagombo Snuff Box (1999). The title is pronounced as "2 B R 2 B" and cites the famous phrase "yes or no" of Danish prince, William Shakespeare's Hamlet. In this story, the title refers to the telephone number that the Federal Conciliation Bureau arranges to help suicide. Vonnegut's 1965 novel "God bless you", Rosswater used this name to explain the story caused by the repetitive role by Kilgore Trout [1]. The summary of the plot has properties closer to the story of the same name in his short story Welcome to Monkey House.

This environment is a society where population management is used to limit the population of the United States to 40 million people, as the aging cures, the life expectancy of individuals is unclear. It is maintained by a combination of infant extermination and government suicide - in other words, someone must first die voluntarily in order for someone to be born. As a result, birth is rare and death is mainly coincidental.

That scene is in the waiting room at the Chicago Temporary Hospital and Edward K. Welling (Jr.) faces a situation where his wife is going to lay a triplet, but he is the only one - his grandfather - There is only spontaneous death. The painter on the ladder has been renovating the room with mural paintings of famous doctors and nurses - especially the hospital chief obstetrician, Dr. Benjamin Hitz. Federal End Office Service Leora Duncan was preparing the mural. Mural painting is a photograph taken care of the garden. This was a metaphor for the United States of the day. After that, Dr. Hitz entered the scene and talked with everyone except the mural painter.

Obviously, Wehling is in a desperate state, he did not want his grandfather and two children to die. Dr. Hitz questioned Wehling's idea for the system and attempted to make Wehling feel better by explaining that the surviving children "live in a happy, wide, clean, wealthy planet" It was. Suddenly, Wehling painted a revolver, killed Dr. Hitz, Leora Duncan and himself - "Make a place for three children."

A painter with a 200-year history stayed at the scene thinking about life, war, plague, and hunger. He got off the ladder, first picked up the revolver and tried to commit suicide, but he could not do it. Instead, he called the called office to make a reservation. The last line is from the receptionist of the bureau.

"Thank you, teacher" said the hostess. "Your city thanks you, Your country thanks you, your planet thanks you, but your deepest gratitude comes from all descendants."

The story of Vonnegut is the basis of Canadian short film 2BR 02 B in 2016, supervised by Marco Checa Garcia [2] premiered at the Science Fiction London Music Festival in April 2016. [3]

'2 B R 0 2 B' is not one of the most original work of Vonnegut. After all, this is a short story - a limited scope and the serious problem it introduces. However, this is a stupid bizarre and absurd story written by the main authors of the 20th century. Most readers do not know this story, part of the reason, because Vonnegut does not care if his science fiction novel is hidden. As a novelist, he spends most of his career as a science fiction writer. He feels that the road of respect for literature goes through the mainstream path If no one accepts science fiction, no one seriously will take him. However, the distorted world view of Vonnegut is fully verified with '2 B R 0 2 B'. This is more average than the 1960 's, the average life expectancy seems to be 7 billion people and 80 years old can not understand.

"2 B R 0 2 B" is a SF short story written by Kurt Vonnegut originally published in "Science Fiction World" in January 1962 and published in Vonnegut's Bagombo Snuff Box (1999). The title is pronounced as "2 B R 2 B" and cites the famous phrase "yes or no" of Danish prince, William Shakespeare's Hamlet. In this story, the title refers to the telephone number that the Federal Conciliation Bureau arranges to help suicide. Despite the essence of the plot summary, Vonegut's 1965 novel "God Bless You", Rosewater used this name to explain the story caused by his frequent character, Kilgoor Trout To do. Welcome to the monkey house closer to the story of the same name in his short story collection