Corner of solitude

Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey can be interpreted as an allegorical story of man’s journey through hell, heaven and earth. Unlike the first movie which focused on mankind’s future as a whole, this movie delves into the individual’s immediate future. A future of certainty, unlike society’s fate which is on a shimmering and shaky ground determined by history’s wildcards. This certainty is death.

In 2691 a dark lord has emerged, Chuck De Nomolos, vent on destroying the future present by destroying the past, through the death’s of our two protagonist Bill and Ted. “It is time. They’ve reach the second crucial turning point in their destiny. When our mission is successful no longer will the world be dominated by the legacy of these two FOOLS!”

De Nomolos presents his instruments of destruction, like a card player revealing aces, the two evil “robot usses”. Bill and Ted’s evil robot replicas is a symbol of man’s worst enemy, an enemy greater than any that mother nature can muster and throw at him. Bill and Ted is portrayed as the everyman, and the man’s greatest enemy is man himself, in this case personified by the two evil robotic replicas.

Throughtout history humans have waged war upon itself. It is a fact that written history is a record of events that revolves around wars and conflicts or in the least set as a backdrop. And everything else seems like a punctuation mark. Humanity is flawed and thus there have always been conflicts in the past, also there is conflicts now as you read these very words in the present. And no doubt there will be conflicts in the future no matter what happens to the development of human society.

Even in the future of the Bill and Ted universe, when society is as near perfect as it can be, conflict is inescapable. De Nomolos in an anthropomorphic sense is the very embodiment of this.

Yet humanity is such that the act of war and conflict is seen as despicable, the base nature of mankind. Like Newton’s third law of “every force has an equal and opposite reaction”, it will always be countered if not overcome by humanity’s virtues such as compassion and the everlonging need for peace.