Kampusch, Natasha by 3 096 Days

Author:3,096 Days
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2010-09-23T23:24:07.101000+00:00

Afraid of Life My Psychological Prison is Complete Punches and kicks, choking, scratching, contusion on wrist, squeezing of the same, shoved against the door frame. Hit with hammer (heavy hammer) and fists in stomach area. I have bruises on: right hip bone, right upper (S x i cm) and lower (c. 3.5 cm in diameter) arm, on my left and right outer thigh (left c. 9-io cm long and deep black to purple, c. 4 cm wide) as well as on both shoulders. Abrasions and scratches on both thighs, my left calf. Diary entry, January zoo6 I was seventeen when the kidnapper brought a video of the film Pleasantville into the dungeon. The story is about a brother and a sister who grow up in the US in the r99os. At school the teachers talk about gloomy job prospects, AIDS and the threat of the destruction of the planet due to climate change. At home, the divorced parents fight on the phone over who is to take the kids for the weekend. And there's nothing but problems with their friends. The brother escapes into the world of a television series from the r95os: `Welcome to Pleasantville! Morals and decency. Warm welcomes: "Hi honey, I'm home!" The right food. "Do you want some biscuits?" Welcome to the perfect world of Pleasantville. Only on TV Time!' In Pleasantville the mother serves dinner exactly when the father comes home from work. The children are nicely dressed and always hit the basket when playing basketball. The world consists only of two streets and the fire 179 3,096 Days brigade has only one job: rescuing cats from trees. Because there are no fires in Pleasantville. After a fight over the remote control, the brother and sister suddenly land in Pleasantville. They are trapped in this strange place where there are no colours and the inhabitants live according to rules that the two find incomprehensible. When they adapt and integrate themselves into this society, it can be very nice in Pleasantville. But when they break the rules, the friendly inhabitants turn into an angry mob. The film was a parable of the life I was living. For the kidnapper, the outside world was synonymous with Sodom and Gomorrah: dangers, dirt and vice lurked everywhere. A world which for him had become the epitome of what he had failed at and what he wanted to keep his, and my, distance from. Our world behind the yellow walls was supposed to be like Pleasantville: `Do you want some more biscuits?' -'Thank you, dear.' It was an illusion that he conjured up again and again in his chitchat: we could have such a nice life. In that house with the gleaming surfaces that shone too much and with the furniture that nearly choked on its own conventionality. But he continued to work on the fa~ade, investing in his - our - new life, which he then battered with his fists the next minute. In Pleasantvilie there is a scene

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