When the Turtle Drowns

A super new bestseller from сантехник Слава Сэ.

The screenwriter is the most important person in cinema. He writes universes where every detail is perfect.

But then the producer, the director come—everything gets ruined, crumpled, and trampled by huge boots.

So the most unhappy person in a movie is… also the screenwriter.

There are fantasies for yourself alone, not for the audience. Like some little island where women are beautiful, men are noble, and there is wine, cheese, and a pleasant climate.

A shard of flat land floating on the back of a turtle. There’s only one sin there—gluttony. You could run away there from reality and live quietly. If not for the residents.

Well-written characters always rebel against their creator. They stir things up, bicker, and spoil the idyll just as much as the producer does.

The creator, meanwhile, worries for the people—doesn’t sleep and drinks heart drops. Fictions wins over reality.

And when the invented beauty suddenly walks through a real door, there is no one in the cinema happier than the screenwriter.