THE DARK TRIAD
Overall, there is one tycoon murdered, one photographer seriously injured, struggling for survival on the operation table, and a terrible mess - the aftermath of a paintball game, a deadly, dark triad
DANTE, ZENON, VANICA! DANTE, ZENON, VANICA! DANTE, ZENON, VANICA!
An unsuccessful photographer, Bret, reaches an existential crisis. His friend tries to snap him out of it making him fly a sports plane that almost crashes. During their flight over a millionaire's mansion they eye-witness to a strange incident, taking a few pictures: one man with a gun pursuing another, most probably shooting him. They believe that they saw a murder, a murder of or by some influential person.
Bret already sees the bombastic pictures published as a total breakthrough that will send him running in a career. However, after the scandalous publication Bret is forced to talk to the owner of the mansion to hear that the alleged murder is only his overly active imagination, that PAINTBALL is among the favorite games to bored tycoons.
Bret breaks down, thinking he somehow missed the last chance of his lifetime, unable to tell wrong from right because the right thing changes from state to state, hardly distinguishing between dream or nightmare and reality. He, through a series of sorry circumstances, inclines to believe he has gone insane. The lawsuit against him is dropped.
A few months later, Bret reads an old newspaper saying that a certain tycoon "has just inadequately left" his family. It may have some link to the paintball masquerade incident that kicked the last nail in in his life, Bret wonders bitter, grimacing. But the report date falls before that of his damn, "almost" fatal, flight. He becomes interested again, drawing a picture of the alleged murder:
Somebody in trouble kidnaps an influential man, forcing him to tell his family that he is OK, that he just wants to leave for some time so that there be no suspicion of a crime occurred at all. But the hostage does not cooperate and, unfortunately, is shot dead on the run. When eye-witnessed from an unexpected plane the murder is masqueraded under some stupid but very convincing paintball game of bores. Quite sophisticated, though.
Bret is obsessed with his fabulous hypothesis, convinced deep inside that he has been right from the start. He cannot tell the police because no one would believe him anyway, thinking of him as insane, then written off. Instead, he begins investigation on his own, visiting the wife of the "missing" tycoon, piece by piece, gathering more information to fit his picture. Yet all is getting him nowhere.
The sneaky owner spies on Bret guessing what's going on, in a friendly manner inviting him to participate in shooting, in a "real" paintball war, of course. Bret accepts in the hopes to get any further in his secret investigation discarding danger and again is left totally confused when one of the paintball players is his supposedly missing or murdered tycoon now relaxed and enjoying the thrilling game. Bret talks to the imaginary victim, explaining his serious worries, telling him the whole story, taking it all as a very smart train of coincidences fooling him, misleading him. Bret gives apologies waxing philosophic...these days it's very hard to distinguish the real from the fake. Everybody is laughing. The final round of the game is still to come.
Suddenly Bret comes around dizzy and finds a "real" dead body beside him. Bret seems to be laughing to death because he does not believe a single thing no matter the red all around does not taste like ketchup. It is the "missing" tycoon, raised from dead or vice versa, he grows doubtful. Nothing makes sense to Bret.
A spectral voice says: "Well, let's make things clear, once for all. The game is over. But still there’s one more bullet left. Try to guess for whom, Mr Bret?"
Bret makes out a dirty face of a man. The sneaky owner, he concludes. The man jerked pulling the trigger while police sirens started invading his ears. Black-out. The bored shooter finally gets excited running away from the scene.
Bret's friend, sharing the same assumption, managed to convince the police to check on the "correctness" of the paintball game. He takes a great number of pictures to add up to the actual story of a wild imagination becoming a deadly reality supposed to be a bestseller.
Overall, there is one tycoon murdered, one photographer seriously injured, struggling for survival on the operation table, and a terrible mess - the aftermath of a paintball game, a triad. A deadly, dark triad = DANTE, ZENON, VANICA!
Will Bret finally become famous after all that he has been through not only as a photographer as he was traumatically labeled the spoiled brat who does not give a shit about anything except scraping by in the jungle off-grid?
THE DARK TRIAD stands for three sickening echoes of madness in Bret’s head luring him into suicide, triadically, DANTE, ZENON, VANICA !!!
Will he find a cure ??? Is he really seeking a cure ??? Is typing heavily one-handed on a dying 15 year old computer the cure ??? Perhaps, melodramatically, it is !!!
Triad, triad, triad …..
1: a union of three : TRINITY
2: a chord of three tones consisting of a root with its third and fifth and constituting the harmonic basis of tonal MUSICK
Dante means enduring, steadfast, everlasting. The poet, its most famous bearer, Dante Alighieri wrote 'The Divine Comedy' with its graphic description of medieval Hell known as Dante's Inferno.
“From a little spark may burst a flame”
“Remember tonight, for it is the beginning of always”
Zenon meaning Gift of Zeus; Host. Zenon is a boy's name, forever young, with roots in ancient Greece. This striking name is a derivative of Zeus, the Greek god of the sky whose image is synonymous with the lightning bolt.
Vanica is a jovial compassionate seer with great intuition, freethinking outside the box, a determined self-starter, detail oriented, a versatile true survivor wearing his broken heart on his dirty sleeve, deeply philosophical, original, creative, zealous, conscientious, having an optimistic attitude.
Did you know that THE DARK TRIAD is based off this spooky philosophy!? Dante is machiavellianism, Zenon is narcissism, and Vanica is psychopathy, THE DARK TRIAD in the shallow limelight. I am seated, not very comfortably, though.
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