Being a play I read through this story pretty quickly, but I'm not sure how I feel about it. It was different, especially in the end when Zero has to start all over again.
To start with I have to say that I kind of felt sorry for Mr. Zero, it would be awful to be told "your fired" by a company that you have worked hard for, for 25 years. I could understand his anger but not his reasoning to kill the boss. There had to be better ways to fight the system. In todays world if that would have happend, somebody would have been taken to court.
I also found it quite funny that Mr.Zero seemed to find his "true love". He could have spent a happy eternity together. Because he wasn't happy unless he was working with numbers, he got screwed over in the end by having to go and start over again on his already low on the totum pole status.
One thing that I kept wondering about, was how did Mr. Zero die? Maybe I missed it. I know the jury convited him of being guilty but I don't think the judge gave him a death sentence, or did he?
After the guilty verdict is announced, the next time we see Zero, he is dead.
There was actually a scene that was cut from the show, appearing in between the trial sequence and the graveyard sequence, in which Mrs. Zero visits Mr. Zero in zoo-like jail, where he is on exhibit as a specimen of the North American Murderer.
I think it's safe to assume that most directors would interpret the trial as resulting in a death sentence.
Posted by: Dennis G. Jerz at February 3, 2005 5:10 PMI was thinking that might have been the case. The only thing is, there are a lot of murderers that are in jail but not on death row just because they killed someone.
Posted by: Sue at February 3, 2005 5:25 PMHi Sue! I'm sorry, I can't comment on the topic (because I haven't read the story), but I wanted to say "hi" and that I like your color assortment on your blog. :)
Posted by: Emily Kasky at February 4, 2005 11:31 PM