He’d hoped to be placed somewhere in California, with Oregon a close second. So, we came up with this idea that I could go be an exchange student for a year.”Īs with nearly everything Kinnaman describes, he appears equally as interested and grateful for the awfulness of something as he does his own personal triumphs. “It was a period of a lot of anxiety and I developed this weird eating disorder,” Kinnaman continues. They would leave me unscathed, just to really rub it in. Then, all of my new friends, as soon as they ran into any of my old friends, then my old friends would beat up my new friends and rob them. My whole group of friends, when I tried to leave them, they turned on me. I was getting into a lot of trouble back home in Stockholm. His father suggested a year abroad, just to get away, regroup, and see some of the world He describes his education at an English school in Stockholm as a weird time, where he would move in and out of different circles of friends, get into a trouble, not quite fit in anywhere, and brood. Call it an Achilles’ neck, if you will, but even when death is solved, drama still demands its possibility, or why keep watching? Damage the stack implanted at the base of your cortex and you’re toast, sleeve or no sleeve. In other words, the human body has basically become a protective OtterBox for your iPhone’s SIM card, but way more expensive. The problem of death has been solved, as long as you can continue to find new sleeves (a.k.a., bodies) to animate the stack that makes you, you. In the year 2384, bodies are skins, or “sleeves,” that are mere vessels for cortical “stacks” that contain the self in a kind of stone-shaped glowing hard drive that looks as if you could skip it across a lake with a perfect throw. It turns out, Kovacs’ consciousness has been “imprisoned” for the past 250 years, yet he still possesses superhuman fighting abilities. Disorientation and paranoia soon set in and he lunges after his lab-coat wearing overlords in search of a fragment of mirror to see his face, and someone to explain to him when it is, why he’s here, and what, exactly, happens to him now. With a fit of gag-inducing gurgles and coughs, he pulls from his throat an endoscopic feeding tube.
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In the first episode of Altered Carbon, Netflix’s bid for a big, dystopic sci-fi-blockbuster series, Takeshi Kovacs, played by Swedish-American actor Joel Kinnaman, drops to the floor, his naked body oozing out of body bag full of gelatinous preservatives that have kept this new corpus intact.
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