Perhaps ever since Shakespeare moved his Romeo and Juliet story to medieval Verona, or perhaps ever since Homer described the war for Helen in ancient Troy, we are used to real love stories taking place sometime in the past, in an almost mythical time. This is the 2000s now. It's like our Middle Ages. These were the times when supermarkets, mobile phones and we started writing the first "thrifty" text messages. And here love returned to the days of the troubadours. Poetry: "I love, I want, I can't. See you at the tower' or 'I'm as fragile as my bill' and the like.
No one has "Lincomanized" movies yet. The "Lietuva" cinema still stood. In the long queues at the video rental, everyone was discussing which movie to watch. It was also a time of melodramas. "Amelie of Montmartre", "Moulin Rouge", even Lars von Trier turned "Before the Waves". It's the days of Big Brother. Even Trump then had his own reality show, not in the world, but on television. And of course we had the Aquarium. The yellow magazine flourished: L.T., "Klubas" and the like. These are the days of "celebrities". And of course, the days of MTV music videos and commercials. Advertisers were gods. And the ads, to put it mildly, are not very decent. They mainly advertised alcohol, let alone sexist and other things. In one such advertisement, which advertised Klaipėda bread, the guy who greeted the black man was surprised that he didn't get his hands dirty.
Those were the wild early days of consumerism. And, by the way, very erotic. After the end of the LNK program, soft porn continued to be shown. Psychas made love to Raudona in front of the whole of Lithuania. MTV clips simply oozed eroticism. Those were the times of very immature citizenship. The professors had fun with the students, not even knowing what end that stick would turn against them after a good decade. People in Lithuania finally started to have money. The cult of money was just terrible back then. The consumption of Sodom and Gomorrah began. By the way, the play "Shopping and Fucking" appeared at that time, criticizing that consumerism, but it was suddenly "consumed" as the first play about gays and drug addicts, where you could see how one actor licks another's ass. On the one hand, it was primitive, on the other hand, it was a hopeful time. Then everyone believed in the future. I noticed that now young people look at it as a good vintage. For example, the good alternative band Timid Kooky did a great piece based on a Britney Spears song. And at that time, the "alternative" could only be tortured by force, in solitary confinement, with the same Britney Spears song.
