I always saw this as taking place in a futuristic (post-apocalyptic?) world… “On the big screen they showed us the sun, but not as bright in life as the real one”…maybe a meteor hit the earth and sent up a dust-cloud that obscured the sun, and all they have left are old films on the “big screen.” The world around him is worn and torn, the beautiful things exist mostly in memory or picture books, "drawings from the eye." Picture the world in the classic Twilight Zone episode "The Old Man in the Cave.”
I always saw this as taking place in a futuristic (post-apocalyptic?) world… “On the big screen they showed us the sun, but not as bright in life as the real one”…maybe a meteor hit the earth and sent up a dust-cloud that obscured the sun, and all they have left are old films on the “big screen.” The world around him is worn and torn, the beautiful things exist mostly in memory or picture books, "drawings from the eye." Picture the world in the classic Twilight Zone episode "The Old Man in the Cave.”