The events of the play in our hands take place in the sixties of the last century in London, during a period of great social changes. The theme of the play is the cultural and civilizational poverty and great frustration experienced by an entire generation of young people living on social aid.
In “Rescued,” Bond appears to enjoy exhausting our senses by torturing an infant - in a public park - whose mother had left him with his father. What is most horrific is that the alleged father joins his companions in practicing this violence against the infant, to the point of death, without a clear reason. But the critics who defended Bond - and they are few - realized that when he presents a scene like this, he presents it to condemn that political, social, moral and economic vacuum through what T. s. Eliot calls art the “objective equivalent.”
How could she find boldness, ardor, detachment, and greatness in her? These qualities only appear when a freedom throws itself into an open future, emerging beyond every given thing. We lock a woman in a kitchen or a bedroom, and we are surprised that her horizon is limited. We cut its wings, and we are sorry that it does not know how to fly. Let us open up the future to her, and she will no longer have to stay in the present.
We show the same contradiction when we imprison her within the confines of her ego, or her home, and blame her for her narcissism, her selfishness, and what accompanies them: such as vanity, crankiness, evil...etc. We strip her of all possibility of tangible communication with others, so that in her experience she does not feel the call of solidarity, nor its benefits, since she is completely devoted to her family, and isolated; Thus, we cannot expect it to transcend itself towards the common good. She stubbornly stays in the only field she is familiar with; Where you can exert influence over things, and within it you find fleeting sovereignty.
