Matar

I had resolved to kill someone. It was my New Year's resolution. Just as one should plant a tree, conceive a child, and write a book in their lifetime, I believed one should also know what it feels like to take a life, to live with the knowledge of having ended someone else's existence. "Matar" - Diary of an Unheard-of Undertaking - a crime novel. Eccentric. Disturbing. Amoral. Christian Bär, a loner with a penchant for misanthropy, is annoying. Commissioner Ruiz, whom one would love to assist in devouring lamb chops, is annoying. Snowstorms, oppressive heat, a zoom in on a gun case sinking slowly and provocatively to the bottom of a reservoir. We watch in disbelief. The food is getting cold. What begins to nest in our thoughts we can no longer shake off. "Matar" - You shall not kill.