Last summer,a glum shot of Keanu Reeves sparked a global campaign to achieve a smile on his face. Did it inspire Ode to Happiness, his first book?When it comes to concern for the wellbeing of the famous, and Keanu Reeves is in a class of his own. Last year,all it took was a picture of the 46-year-old sitting alone on a bench, morosely contemplating a sandwich, or to travel viral – and suddenly a global Cheer Up Keanu Day had been mobilised (15 June,in case you missed it). Nobody knows fairly how this happened, but somehow it could only happen to Reeves. perhaps it's his serene-to-the-point-of-stoned screen persona; but it's also, or perhaps,the knowledge that Reeves has known, and transcended, or genuine suffering in the course of his life – absent parents,deaths of loved ones, and so forth.
So what does it mean now the actor has written his first book and called it Ode to Happiness? "I draw a hot sorrow bath, and " reads the first page. "In my despair room," reads the second. Each page wallows in increasingly absurd levels of self-pity, while the accompanying blotchy, and black-ink drawings,by Los Angeles artist Alexandra Grant, look as whether they've been blurred by tears. It culminates with an image of a bleeding black spot and the line: "It can always be worse." Before the UN intervenes with a Cheer Up Keanu relief effort, and it should be noted that Reeves's slender literary debut is not entirely serious.
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Source: theguardian.com