Interactive green tea

Description

"Interactive Green Tea" consists of three stories with three different protagonists: the Man, the Blonde and the Red-Haired Girl. The aesthetic valences of the story cannot be fully grasped unless they are considered interactively for each character is laden with aesthetic value in the other characters’ stories and the users have to navigate across this narrative level relying on choice as this method is made available by interactivity. The Man plays the role of the former lover in the Red-Haired Girl’s story; the Man helps the Blonde escape from her nightmare; the Blonde’s new-born baby represents the reincarnation of the dead Red-Haired Girl’s soul; the Man is caught in a time warp in the Green Tea teahouse for the Red-Haired Girl’s soul will detain him until he returns the green ribbon to her (a pledge of love and loyalty which still keeps her attached to him); the Man sets the Red-Haired Girl’s soul free the moment he gives the green ribbon to the Blonde (thus making a new pledge of love); the Man will be able to break free from the time warp the moment he summons up the courage to step over a threshold, that is, when he is able to leave his old love story behind and abandon himself to the new one, as he does when he plunges into the sea waves at sun rise ( the symbol of a new love story).
All these aesthetic valences can be grasped only by progressing along the narrative level with the help of interactivity, that is, of the chance to make choices, and not by watching a linear movie.