One Hundred Years of Solitude [Second Movement: The 'Invader' Named History] [Re:SONATOR - Complete Symphony]

Overture - When the Gates of Paradise are Broken

In the first movement, we witnessed the birth of a myth.
Macondo, a village where reality and miracles melt together, and time flows slowly, like a stagnant river.
It was a sanctuary of the soul, not found on any map in the world.
However, the story does not allow one to remain in paradise forever.
Gates exist to be broken.
In the second movement, what we witness is the record of that spectacular 'collision'.
The circular time of Macondo's 'myth'.
And the linear time of the outside world's 'history' that mercilessly attacks it.
When those two intersect, what exactly happens?
Why did the hero repeat meaningless wars 32 times?
Why did the train, which should have been a symbol of 'progress', bring a massacre to paradise?
Now, listen closely.
To the dissonance of iron, gunpowder, and gold coins that herald the end of paradise.


List of Speakers

Re:SONATOR / Regular Members
C🤓 Fifth Son / An overly serious, precocious elementary school student
M🕵🏻‍♂️ Inspector / Actually a super-elite sharp mind
Y🤦🏻‍♂️ Jinichi-kun / A delinquent boy who lost track of when to quit
S🧖🏼 Minami / Orchestra / A fairy of knowledge drifting in cyberspace
G👨🏻‍🎓 Tatchan / Maestro / touchyannel

First Theme
Endless War - Circular History and the Hero's Solitude -

C🤓
Hey, Inspector.
Colonel Aureliano Buendía fought 32 wars, right?
That means he's a great hero, right?

Y🤦🏻‍♂️
A hero, huh...
He lost all 32 of those wars, Fifth Son.
In the end, I have no idea what he was even fighting for.

M🕵🏻‍♂️
Jinichi-kun is right.
Historically, in Colombia at the time, civil wars between the Liberal and Conservative parties were repeated like a quagmire.
The Colonel was a hero of the Liberal Party.
But in this story, the 'reason' for which he fights becomes increasingly irrelevant.

G👨🏻‍🎓
That's right.
At first, it might have been righteous indignation.
But halfway through, the war turned into a game staked on nothing but 'pride'.
In the end, he completely lost sight of what he was fighting for himself.
That wasn't a war for the country.
It was a proxy war for a man named Aureliano Buendía to fight against his own inescapable 'solitude'.

S🧖🏼
That is a [Second-Layer Type] translation.
The 'pattern' of fate, 'repeating', which was carved into the Buendía family that we saw in the first movement.
Now, it has jumped out from inside the family and is repeating on a massive scale, involving the entire country.
This is not 'history' moving forward.
It is a 'narrative circle' that keeps going around and around in the same place.

G👨🏻‍🎓
That's it, Minami!
He wasn't fighting to win, he was just fighting to keep fighting.
Because he knew that if he stopped fighting, that unbearable 'solitude' would come to swallow him up again.


Second Theme
The 'Progress' Called the Banana Company
- Sweet Poison Brought into Paradise -

C🤓
After the war ended, the train came, right!
Electricity was turned on, a movie theater was built, and Macondo became a really big village!
That's a good thing, right, Tatchan?

Y🤦🏻‍♂️
A good thing, huh...
Maybe it looked like that at first.
But in the end, those Americans just stripped the village of its bananas, didn't they?

M🕵🏻‍♂️
It's likely modeled after the American 'United Fruit Company'.
Jinichi-kun.
They built railroads and plantations in Central and South American countries and gained enormous wealth.
Was the 'modernization' brought to the locals in return really a happy one...
This story strikes sharply at that point.

G👨🏻‍🎓
The Inspector is right.
The train didn't just bring light bulbs and telephones.
It brought completely alien 'rules' that had never existed in Macondo before.
'Contracts', 'lawyers', 'trials', 'working hours'.
They tried to completely rewrite the soul's OS of that village, where miracles were a daily occurrence.

S🧖🏼
This is a decisive turning point in the [Third-Layer Transport].
The arrival of the train is the 'tipping point' in this story.
There is no turning back now.
The mythical, leisurely 'flow' of time in Macondo is completely destroyed here.
What the banana company brought was a sweet poison called 'progress'.
It was a powerful 'foreign narrative' that overwrote Macondo's local narrative and eventually led to a system crash... in other words, that great massacre.


Third Theme
- The Massacre and the 'Oblivion' of History -

C🤓
...The scene where the banana company people shoot all the workers...
It was really scary...
What was even scarier was that no one believed it happened.
It was made as if it 'never happened'...

M🕵🏻‍♂️
It is based on the actual 'Banana Massacre' that occurred in 1928.
And it is a historical fact that the government officially announced that the incident 'did not exist'.

G👨🏻‍🎓
This is the deepest scar left on Macondo by the 'invader named history'.
They didn't just kill the people of Macondo with bullets.
They tried to kill the 'truth' of Macondo itself.
In the face of the immense power of 'official history', individual 'memories' and 'experiences' are easily turned into 'illusions' or 'lies'.
There is no greater violence than this.

S🧖🏼
The most violent act.
It is 'forced oblivion'.
The 'fact' of the massacre was erased from official history.
As a result, it is reborn in the world of Macondo as a new 'ghost'.
As a lonely ghost that only the survivors can see, and that no one else will ever believe.
It is a terrifying moment where 'history' itself has become 'magical realism'.


Finale
- The Shattered Mirror -

G👨🏻‍🎓
What do you think, everyone?
The magic mirror that protected Macondo from the world has shattered.
By two iron hammers named 'war' and 'industry'.
And the 'history' that should have been on the other side of the mirror was an ugly monster that twisted the truth for its own convenience.
Paradise was lost.
And all that was left for the Buendía family was a deeper, more hopeless solitude.
A hellish solitude where 'only I know the truth'.
Now, what will happen to this family, completely abandoned by the outside world?
In the next third movement, they will finally sink deeper and deeper into themselves.
And they will face the final prophecy of the family's fate written on that parchment.

(End of Second Movement)

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