Squatters VS Cockroaches
I once wrote a whole screenplay, maybe pages of textfile, which now I can’t find. Damn computers. it had a story about future housing agencies and mortgage brokers, together with property hedge funds, who decide to develop bioweapons and surveillance bots as a test project for world roll-out. They choose Barcelona, a place where squatting is still partially legal or in a grey zone.
Students A and B, are in high school and decide to drop out from their urbanism and property management course and go and squat a desecrated church. In the squat are squatters C and D - a goth/guerrilla girl, and a long term alcoholic/drug user.
Their names could be Arnau, Bernat, Cassandra and Damiano from Rome. They find there a cockroach infestation beyond their worst nightmares. After an intense time liberating their flat from enormous mutated cockroaches, and some that even seem to have a printed circuit attached to their bodies. In their attempts to win over this threat they fashion body armour made from recycled bottles, cardboard and plastic. They end up destroying their squat by blowing up a bunch of gas canisters in order to stop the spread of the beasts .
The evil boss of the property housing conglomerate is like an evil Kirby Jenner whose instagram persona is actually the same as in this world, but in that dimension, it’s his actual real one! He believes and states repeatedly on Ig that he’s making Barcelona better, and renewing or saving it from decay or whatever. Actually he’s selling the whole thing out and turning it into a privately owned prison services corporation, and in the posh districts, a luxurious tourist hostel complex.
They look at an app that shows them how companies have shareholders of others and find that the registrars of their house was also the sister company of the company that now runs the La Caixa corporation building on diagonal: Barcelona’s own digital eye of Sauron. Inside they are breeding new bioweapons to stop squatters. (here is the building in question: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:234_Torres_de_la_Caixa,_av._Diagonal_621-629_%28Barcelona%29.jpg )
Once the news spreads about this new bioweapon menace, the squatters decide the only way forward is to stage an enormous protest march. At Arc de Triomf, the gargoyles decorating the arches secretly stare at the squatters, and then dive on them,disrupting the protest and sending everyone running.
Our squatter friends flee the scene of gargoyle terror, and commandeer some segways to flee the gargoyles, who are in turn chased by protestors who destroy them.
Our squatter 4 now infiltrate their way into the La Caixa tower before confronting the evil boss guy with a big moustache, who is running the whole thing. It’s of course full of super cockroaches of various types, who he turns on the masses outside who were coming to destroy the tower. .In the end after monologuing about how after this, the world, and it’s just a bit of violence that’s needed for a lot of peace etc, and well, let’s say they are unable to stop him from falling into the larvae’s food vat, and he gets eaten by a bunch of baby cockroaches.
The next day, the neighbours comment on it and decide in their dingy bar that it would have been better if it had been those useless squatters.