This is a discussion thread, not just an article. So PLEASE comment, and continue this discussion for as long as we all want.
I would like to invite people to present movies (or just one) that they have watched that you think have a pertinent message relating to the situation we are now facing in the world.
Comment with the name of the movie, maybe a bit of a synopsis, and a general idea as to why you think it has some relevance to our current situation…virus, trans humanism, vaccines, Great Reset, world domination, etc.
I’ll start with a few. First, Demolition Man. This is one I saw a while ago, and although quite silly, when I watched it again I was surprised how so much was correlated with our current world. It was a bit uncanny actually, but I guess it is a no brainer that people have been thinking about this insanity for quite some time. I especially liked that the characters in the story were not allowed to curse, and how they were continually monitored and then issued a ticket if they uttered nasty, offensive, words. Chilling.
One I re-watched just last night was Surrogates. This one was also quite unsettling from a “trans human” perspective. Robotics had advanced to a point where people no longer interfaced with the world or with each other in their “meatbag” bodies but instead sent out a robot, a “surrogate”—prettier, stronger, etc. through which the “operator” could experience the world. The ensuing story was rather disappointing but was still intriguing, down to the huge groups of people who refused to go along with the “surrogate” world—shrews of the future!
Please join in and let us know some of your favourite movies!
Just watched “007; No time to die”. I believe it came out in 2017 or 2019. About nanotechnology being implanted in people through foods, those individuals could then be targeted for extermination by computers. And those with the implants could transfer the “kill switch” to others with the same DNA; potentially wiping out families, entire ethnic groups from a hug, a handshake. Hollywood’s warning message? Or a good laugh for the elite designers? Fantasy became reality in 2021.
Brave New World, 1984, Ordinary Man (Twilight Zone) Soylent Green, Escape from NY, The Borg (Star Trek), Matrix, Gattaca, Elysium.. kinda in chronological order are ones that come to my mind as SciFi movies that are coming true w/ the global authoritarian psychopaths we now have.
😂 had to do a little 🤔 & digging of my getting old memory banks:)
Wow! Great list! I wasn’t aware that Brave New World was a movie! Can’t believe I missed that one! Some of these I didn’t realize would fit our criteria, looking forward to checking them out! What about Fahrenheit 451? Logan’s Run? I just thought of them as well….Great list! Matrix! Of course! Thanks!
Brave New 🌎 did have one season on a paid subscription platform ‘Peacock’ by NBCUniversal in 1999. It never made it to season 2 but based on long list of comments of it being canceled didn’t sit well w/ subscribers.
There were a few TV movies made actually, one in 1980, another in 1998, one in 2020...a series. I don't see any silent films (talkies started in 1927). I did not realize the book was written in 1931! I always thought it was more contemporary!
The hysteria over the C-19 shot awakened many to the cozy relationship between pharma and the US governmental regulatory agencies. This problem is nothing new.
The film, 1986TheAct documents the 1986 federal law that granted vaccine makers immunity from civil prosecution for any damage their products caused. It shows some of the disasters caused by the current vaccine program. ($10 -$12) https://1986theact.com/watch/
VAXXED shows how the CDC covered up a known connection between the MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) shot and autism. VAXXED II is more of that story – with videos of parents who detailed how their children were injured. https://vaxxedthemovie.com/watch/
The only good thing I can see, after investigating the V topic for over 26 years, is that people are finally waking up & recognizing the lies they've been told. Here is a link to some documents a group in PA created. I helped with some of them - https://informedconsentpa.org/resources/#downloads
Look under the General Education heading.
Keep researching - the more you investigate, the more you learn about how the system is rotten to the core.
Excellent! Thank you for the amazing link. All this information that the sheep call "conspiracy theory" is so sound, it clearly is correct, the ONLY reason to ignore it is because someone a person trusts says to ignore it...why do people trust these criminals?
The movie, Mr. Jones, explores the true story of Welsh reporter, Gareth Jones, who travels to Ukraine in 1933 and gives firsthand reports of the famine. His reporting was mostly dismissed while New York Times reporter, Walter Duranty, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for covering up what was really happening to the Ukranian people. Duranty's Pulitzer has never been revoked.
Funny you would mention that...I just wrote an article that comments on Jones and his efforts to publish the holomodor...he DID get published, but was totally obliterated by Duranty and others...
Here is what I say, the article should be out in a week or so...
"Another story that comes to mind, which was very real, took place around 1933 during the great artificial famine of Ukraine known as the holodomor. Gareth Jones, a Welch journalist travelling to Russia and illegally into Ukraine wrote of his findings there. He was attacked mercilessly by fellow journalists who had special relationships with Moscow and accused Jones of being a liar reporting that Stalin was taking all the grain from Ukrainian farmers to meet his quotas thus starving the entire nation. Here attempts at censorship was rife but, despite this opposition, he did get published. Unfortunately Russian NKVD agents murdered Jones a few years after publication, before he was eventually vindicated. "
By the way, "Mr. Jones", in my opinion, is a great film...
I'm surprised no one has mentioned "Don't Look Up"...that's another one that is a reflection of our current "anti science, cell phone obsessed, nothing-important-means-anything-to-anyone culture"...
Also, what about the "Terminator" series...well, at least the first one, and maybe the second one. Certainly an interesting consequence of trans humanism...
I hated DONT LOOK UP and turned it off after 15minutes. Then my wise brother told me it was somewhat of a black comedy. Yep… went back and watched it and was surprised at how relevant it is. I highly recommend it.
"The Flight of the Phoenix" (The 1960s original, not the later remake disaster). The messages encapsulated here are many and diverse for managers and politicians everywhere. The themes of belief, innovative engineering, skill, adaption, faith, people management and sheer doggedness of spirit are present throughout.
The climax has you on the edge of your seat willing the engine to start knowing that there are only a few tries left - will they or won't they after all the extreme effort and trauma they have experienced.
Enjoy Tiny: "Was the movie 'The Flight of the Phoenix' a true story?
The Flight of the Phoenix (Aldrich & Blake, 1965; Aldrich et al., 2004; Dudley-Smith, 1964) is based on a real-life event from World War II in which a twin-engine cargo plane crashed in the desert. The whole story entails the survivors struggle to live in the desert whilst rebuilding part of the crashed aircraft as a single-engined one to finally fly out. I won't spoil the dramatic ending.
Being an aeromodeller in my younger years, in the 50s and 60s, it appealed to me immensely.
I am sure you will enjoy every minute Todd, especially if you have an interest in engineering and all the human lessons contained therein. Do try and get the original nineteen sixties version; the remakes omit essential messages as sadly our societies have been dumbed down over the decades.
I trained as a corporate systems consultant with Xerox in the 1970s and they used it as a training film together with Tom Peters et al of course.
Not a movie as to say but the TV show Black Mirror is pretty scary about what's to come in our not so distant future. Each episode can actually be considered as a stand alone TV movie. If you don't know it, I suggest it to you. Episode 2 "Five Million Merits" is really something we're tending to with social medias and its drifts to dystopia.
Recently I rewatched Eyes Wide Shut, available on the Internet Archive site, which was recommended as a true-enough rendition of the oligarchy's back room behaviours in the light of Jeffrey Epstein, etc. Having seen it when it came out, and having found it repulsive then, not believable in any way but more of a parable on decadence, and who knows how it would have ended if the director hadn't died? It's even more repulsive now, but/and has some relevance.
which is one of the most intelligent and beautiful films ever made IMHO. Its wikipedia description makes it sound like a weighty tome, when its painterly and sometimes cartoonish rendering integrates perfectly with the character's negotiation with consciousness and reality. Absolutely worth watching. Especially now.
Ooo...I have not heard of "Waking Life"...will definitely check that out. Yeah, "Eyes Wide Shut" was an eyeful. The first time I watched it I hated it. Then someone explained it to me, and I watched it again and loved it...don't mean I loved what it was literally was, just loved it as an insightful movie.
"We Deal in Illusions" - Turn Off Your Television Sets
So, you listen to me. Listen to me! Television is not the truth. Television's a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business. So if you want the Truth, go to God! Go to your gurus. Go to yourselves! Because that's the only place you're ever gonna find any real truth. But, man, you're never gonna get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you wanna hear. We lie like hell. We'll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer and that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker's house. And no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry. Just look at your watch. At the end of the hour, he's gonna win. We'll tell you any s--t you want to hear.
We deal in illusions, man. None of it is true! But you people sit there day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds. We're all you know. You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you. You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube. You even think like the tube. This is mass madness. You maniacs. In God's name, you people are the real thing. We are the illusion. So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off. Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence I am speaking to you now. Turn them off!
NETWORK, Sidney Lumet, 1976 - The Tube Lies - YouTube
I've often thought of this before, it started for me as fear (but not too much) then the excitement of discovery (this can't be what they are saying!) then frustration, then anger, and now humour...!! Or maybe a mixture of all of those feelings now...
Yes, "Network" is clearly a classic...right on the nose. Even though we know that there monkey business going on with the movie biz, it IS interesting how they have consistently pushed out movies that address our problems, either on the nose, or peripherally.
There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business. The world is a business, One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.
For example: "So, Who Owns Canada? The land of Canada is solely owned by Queen Elizabeth II who is also the head of state. Only 9.7% of the total land is privately owned while the rest is Crown Land. The land is administered on behalf of the Crown by various agencies or departments of the government of Canada."
To name but one. Google, "the crown corporation" - it has many answers, thus it is not hidden. A few laughs:
Maybe I am naive, but I have always put more weight in the fact that Canada is part of the monarchy. My wife, who is a full blooded Canadian (I am a landed immigrant/citizen), swears up and down that the Queen has zero power in Canada...huhhh???...she may not have official power (I even question that), but there is no way the Queen has no power at all...even suggestive power...and now you tell me she owns 90% of the land?...yeah, right, no power at all.
Not only Canada - "Queen Elizabeth II holds title to roughly 6.6 billion acres of land throughout the world. For reference, that’s about one-sixth of the land on the entire planet. Most of the land falls under the Crown Estate, which essentially operates as a real estate business."
A couple of nights ago I watched the documentary Theaters Of War. It’s all about how Hollywood is in lockstep with US military industrial complex, submitting scripts for approval in return for stuff to blow up, for example. What it can’t cover are the numerous films that were never made because the DoD or CIA nixxed them. Anything that portrays the USA as murderous imperialists tends not to get very far. The film is available via Vimeo streaming
it is interesting to me how movies went through a period where the US government always was the evil one...then that started disappearing. I would be interested in seeing the series you mention. I know during WWII the government was involved in financing and pushing films to support the war effort (obviously) but also did this in areas the public wasn't really aware of. The US wanted South America more involved in the war, so started a movie campaign intended to boost US-SA relations and present Latin American, and Latin ways, more favourably with the US population. Think of all those 40's films that had prominent Latin American actors, music, performers, etc.
I watch the series, Handmaids Tale, which I believe is leftist propaganda about their fear of right-wing fascists taking over, creating a new world order. I need to go back and reread the book to get a full picture of how it all started. Perhaps others here have a better handle on its original plot.
I am curious about the book. Written during a different time. I did get a bit tired of the leftist vibe with the series...the patriarchal evil in your face, etc. It was interesting for a while....you can pathologies anything, the left, the right, whatever. Any ideology to its extreme is oppressive.
I read the book years ago, it runs out of steam about two thirds the way through, and I haven’t been curious enough to watch the series. There is some pseudo religious stuff in there, if I recall, that contextualises the patriarchal structure.
For me it is One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest on many levels.
When McMurphy finds out most of the inmates are voluntary, mimics what has been happening to most people over the last 2 years we consent to everything that happens it is voluntary servitude.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Committed - YouTube
Also medication time reminds me of the vaccination, when McMurphy asked what’s in the medicine I don’t like taking it if I don’t know what it is, then he subtly coerced, threatened to take it and succumbs.
When McMurphy asks to turn the music down Nurse Ratched says the music is for everyone ie the individual doesn’t matter it is for the greater good
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Medication Scene (Hi Definition) - YouTube
The way Nurse Ratched keeps everyone in a state of fear and anxiety and constantly talks down to the patients, never trying to help them just keep them in their fearful state, similar to health experts who never talk about vitamin d, eating healthy etc but only about vaccines.
Anyone living in Melbourne will see the similarities between Nurse Ratched and Daniel Andrews the continual gaslighting and talking down to people and blaming people for the predicament they are in.
Wow! "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is one of my favourite movies! And believe it or not I did not make the subtle connections you make here! Thank you! Of course I knew it was a commentary on the individual, but I did not blow it out to include the global collective like you have here...excellent!
Awww....don't be a party pooper! I agree that Hollywood could very well be engaged in conscious nefarious activity. I worked in Hollywood for 30 years in music (post production) so know a little bit about their disorganization and their veneration for money. I do think once in a while something comes out of that factory that might be worth watching, or might have a message for shrews. But I could be wrong. Also, movies are not just made in Hollywood...
Where do you find the rules for the "Do Not Participate" initiative??
Just watched “007; No time to die”. I believe it came out in 2017 or 2019. About nanotechnology being implanted in people through foods, those individuals could then be targeted for extermination by computers. And those with the implants could transfer the “kill switch” to others with the same DNA; potentially wiping out families, entire ethnic groups from a hug, a handshake. Hollywood’s warning message? Or a good laugh for the elite designers? Fantasy became reality in 2021.
1. They Live. Very 80's and corny but interesting. "Just put on the glasses!"
2. Westworld (series). Somebody already mentioned it.
3. The Mauritanian. Heavy, based on a true story. (war on terror)
4. The Card Counter. Heavy, based on a true story. (war on terror)
5. A Few Good Men. "You can't handle the truth!" has a new meaning these days.
6. Starship Troopers. Based on Heinlein. One of a handful of movies that criticizes the MIC.
7. Dune (2021). Based on Herbert. Energy wars in the Middle East.
8. Black Mirror. Somebody already mentioned it, but especially *Nosedive* and *15 Million Merits*
9. Electric Dreams. Especially *Safe and Sound* and *Kill All Others*.
10. Truman Show, Matrix and Vanilla Sky (all three deal with solipsism and/or transhumanism)
Bonus Track: *Upload* (Amazon show). Comic relief but interesting.
This is a great list Andy!! Thank you!!
Some series here...
Westworld... It's got some of the best psychology and look into what consciousness is
The leftovers... It's what happens in society when things get a little crazy, like this convid nonsense
Thanks for the suggestion of Westworld… I need to watch! It always looks so intriguing.
Brave New World, 1984, Ordinary Man (Twilight Zone) Soylent Green, Escape from NY, The Borg (Star Trek), Matrix, Gattaca, Elysium.. kinda in chronological order are ones that come to my mind as SciFi movies that are coming true w/ the global authoritarian psychopaths we now have.
😂 had to do a little 🤔 & digging of my getting old memory banks:)
Going to add these to my list.
Wow! Great list! I wasn’t aware that Brave New World was a movie! Can’t believe I missed that one! Some of these I didn’t realize would fit our criteria, looking forward to checking them out! What about Fahrenheit 451? Logan’s Run? I just thought of them as well….Great list! Matrix! Of course! Thanks!
Brave New 🌎 did have one season on a paid subscription platform ‘Peacock’ by NBCUniversal in 1999. It never made it to season 2 but based on long list of comments of it being canceled didn’t sit well w/ subscribers.
😊BNW.. a silent movie? 😂 from 1931. Did they even have ‘talkies’ then ?
Btw F451 & LR! 👍
The more we dig the more we find🧐
There were a few TV movies made actually, one in 1980, another in 1998, one in 2020...a series. I don't see any silent films (talkies started in 1927). I did not realize the book was written in 1931! I always thought it was more contemporary!
The hysteria over the C-19 shot awakened many to the cozy relationship between pharma and the US governmental regulatory agencies. This problem is nothing new.
The film, 1986TheAct documents the 1986 federal law that granted vaccine makers immunity from civil prosecution for any damage their products caused. It shows some of the disasters caused by the current vaccine program. ($10 -$12) https://1986theact.com/watch/
VAXXED shows how the CDC covered up a known connection between the MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) shot and autism. VAXXED II is more of that story – with videos of parents who detailed how their children were injured. https://vaxxedthemovie.com/watch/
The Greater Good film explores additional dangers of the vax program. https://greatergoodmovie.org/
I do need to watch some of the above suggestions. Before the Covid vaccine I truly had never looked deeply into vaccine harm. Thanks!
The only good thing I can see, after investigating the V topic for over 26 years, is that people are finally waking up & recognizing the lies they've been told. Here is a link to some documents a group in PA created. I helped with some of them - https://informedconsentpa.org/resources/#downloads
Look under the General Education heading.
Keep researching - the more you investigate, the more you learn about how the system is rotten to the core.
Excellent! Thank you for the amazing link. All this information that the sheep call "conspiracy theory" is so sound, it clearly is correct, the ONLY reason to ignore it is because someone a person trusts says to ignore it...why do people trust these criminals?
Thank you SO much for this information! It is greatly appreciated.
The movie, Mr. Jones, explores the true story of Welsh reporter, Gareth Jones, who travels to Ukraine in 1933 and gives firsthand reports of the famine. His reporting was mostly dismissed while New York Times reporter, Walter Duranty, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for covering up what was really happening to the Ukranian people. Duranty's Pulitzer has never been revoked.
Funny you would mention that...I just wrote an article that comments on Jones and his efforts to publish the holomodor...he DID get published, but was totally obliterated by Duranty and others...
Here is what I say, the article should be out in a week or so...
"Another story that comes to mind, which was very real, took place around 1933 during the great artificial famine of Ukraine known as the holodomor. Gareth Jones, a Welch journalist travelling to Russia and illegally into Ukraine wrote of his findings there. He was attacked mercilessly by fellow journalists who had special relationships with Moscow and accused Jones of being a liar reporting that Stalin was taking all the grain from Ukrainian farmers to meet his quotas thus starving the entire nation. Here attempts at censorship was rife but, despite this opposition, he did get published. Unfortunately Russian NKVD agents murdered Jones a few years after publication, before he was eventually vindicated. "
By the way, "Mr. Jones", in my opinion, is a great film...
I didn't know about your article. :-) I heard about the film on the Eric Metaxas podcast.
yeah, the article isn't out yet...
I'm surprised no one has mentioned "Don't Look Up"...that's another one that is a reflection of our current "anti science, cell phone obsessed, nothing-important-means-anything-to-anyone culture"...
Also, what about the "Terminator" series...well, at least the first one, and maybe the second one. Certainly an interesting consequence of trans humanism...
I hated DONT LOOK UP and turned it off after 15minutes. Then my wise brother told me it was somewhat of a black comedy. Yep… went back and watched it and was surprised at how relevant it is. I highly recommend it.
"The Flight of the Phoenix" (The 1960s original, not the later remake disaster). The messages encapsulated here are many and diverse for managers and politicians everywhere. The themes of belief, innovative engineering, skill, adaption, faith, people management and sheer doggedness of spirit are present throughout.
The climax has you on the edge of your seat willing the engine to start knowing that there are only a few tries left - will they or won't they after all the extreme effort and trauma they have experienced.
I have never forgotten it and its lessons.
Wow I want to watch that… thanks!
Enjoy Tiny: "Was the movie 'The Flight of the Phoenix' a true story?
The Flight of the Phoenix (Aldrich & Blake, 1965; Aldrich et al., 2004; Dudley-Smith, 1964) is based on a real-life event from World War II in which a twin-engine cargo plane crashed in the desert. The whole story entails the survivors struggle to live in the desert whilst rebuilding part of the crashed aircraft as a single-engined one to finally fly out. I won't spoil the dramatic ending.
Being an aeromodeller in my younger years, in the 50s and 60s, it appealed to me immensely.
Very cool! I have not seen that one but will now for sure...
I am sure you will enjoy every minute Todd, especially if you have an interest in engineering and all the human lessons contained therein. Do try and get the original nineteen sixties version; the remakes omit essential messages as sadly our societies have been dumbed down over the decades.
I trained as a corporate systems consultant with Xerox in the 1970s and they used it as a training film together with Tom Peters et al of course.
Not a movie as to say but the TV show Black Mirror is pretty scary about what's to come in our not so distant future. Each episode can actually be considered as a stand alone TV movie. If you don't know it, I suggest it to you. Episode 2 "Five Million Merits" is really something we're tending to with social medias and its drifts to dystopia.
Thank you...yes, I have certainly heard of this series and have been interested in watching it, now I will for sure...! Sounds very interesting....
Recently I rewatched Eyes Wide Shut, available on the Internet Archive site, which was recommended as a true-enough rendition of the oligarchy's back room behaviours in the light of Jeffrey Epstein, etc. Having seen it when it came out, and having found it repulsive then, not believable in any way but more of a parable on decadence, and who knows how it would have ended if the director hadn't died? It's even more repulsive now, but/and has some relevance.
One film I DEFINITELY recommend is Waking Life, also on the Archive: https://archive.org/details/waking.life
which is one of the most intelligent and beautiful films ever made IMHO. Its wikipedia description makes it sound like a weighty tome, when its painterly and sometimes cartoonish rendering integrates perfectly with the character's negotiation with consciousness and reality. Absolutely worth watching. Especially now.
Ooo...I have not heard of "Waking Life"...will definitely check that out. Yeah, "Eyes Wide Shut" was an eyeful. The first time I watched it I hated it. Then someone explained it to me, and I watched it again and loved it...don't mean I loved what it was literally was, just loved it as an insightful movie.
Hey Todd: Shrews will be interested to learn about Publicis Groupe and their founder Marcel Bleustein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Bleustein-Blanchet
This international advertising group ties it all together. Mercola has done an incredible video about this: https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/08/05/advertising-business-linked-to-deaths-and-greenwashing/
Hey, great to hear from another TBPer - go well my friend:
https://www.theburningplatform.com/author/austrian-peter/
Yes, Admin really does pick 'em.
Aye sir. It is my go to every morning. Go well too my friend.
Cool!! I will definitely check it out!
Network
"We Deal in Illusions" - Turn Off Your Television Sets
So, you listen to me. Listen to me! Television is not the truth. Television's a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business. So if you want the Truth, go to God! Go to your gurus. Go to yourselves! Because that's the only place you're ever gonna find any real truth. But, man, you're never gonna get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you wanna hear. We lie like hell. We'll tell you that, uh, Kojak always gets the killer and that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker's house. And no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry. Just look at your watch. At the end of the hour, he's gonna win. We'll tell you any s--t you want to hear.
We deal in illusions, man. None of it is true! But you people sit there day after day, night after night, all ages, colors, creeds. We're all you know. You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here. You're beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal. You do whatever the tube tells you. You dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube. You even think like the tube. This is mass madness. You maniacs. In God's name, you people are the real thing. We are the illusion. So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now. Turn them off right now. Turn them off and leave them off. Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence I am speaking to you now. Turn them off!
NETWORK, Sidney Lumet, 1976 - The Tube Lies - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HQTNZRmJdg
Once you realise it's all smoke and mirrors it's fun for me to observe their ridiculous antics in trying to dumb us down as stated by Karen below.
I've often thought of this before, it started for me as fear (but not too much) then the excitement of discovery (this can't be what they are saying!) then frustration, then anger, and now humour...!! Or maybe a mixture of all of those feelings now...
As Sun Tzu advises: "keep your friends close and your enemies even closer" :-)
Yes, "Network" is clearly a classic...right on the nose. Even though we know that there monkey business going on with the movie biz, it IS interesting how they have consistently pushed out movies that address our problems, either on the nose, or peripherally.
The world is a corporation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35DSdw7dHjs
There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business. The world is a business, One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.
For example: "So, Who Owns Canada? The land of Canada is solely owned by Queen Elizabeth II who is also the head of state. Only 9.7% of the total land is privately owned while the rest is Crown Land. The land is administered on behalf of the Crown by various agencies or departments of the government of Canada."
To name but one. Google, "the crown corporation" - it has many answers, thus it is not hidden. A few laughs:
https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/the-fourth-turning-endures-as-canada?utm_source=url
Maybe I am naive, but I have always put more weight in the fact that Canada is part of the monarchy. My wife, who is a full blooded Canadian (I am a landed immigrant/citizen), swears up and down that the Queen has zero power in Canada...huhhh???...she may not have official power (I even question that), but there is no way the Queen has no power at all...even suggestive power...and now you tell me she owns 90% of the land?...yeah, right, no power at all.
Not only Canada - "Queen Elizabeth II holds title to roughly 6.6 billion acres of land throughout the world. For reference, that’s about one-sixth of the land on the entire planet. Most of the land falls under the Crown Estate, which essentially operates as a real estate business."
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/is-queen-elizabeth-ii-worlds-biggest-landowner.html/
Should we tell somebody?
A couple of nights ago I watched the documentary Theaters Of War. It’s all about how Hollywood is in lockstep with US military industrial complex, submitting scripts for approval in return for stuff to blow up, for example. What it can’t cover are the numerous films that were never made because the DoD or CIA nixxed them. Anything that portrays the USA as murderous imperialists tends not to get very far. The film is available via Vimeo streaming
Thanks for the tip, hadn't heard of this, will definitely have a look sounds interesting.
it is interesting to me how movies went through a period where the US government always was the evil one...then that started disappearing. I would be interested in seeing the series you mention. I know during WWII the government was involved in financing and pushing films to support the war effort (obviously) but also did this in areas the public wasn't really aware of. The US wanted South America more involved in the war, so started a movie campaign intended to boost US-SA relations and present Latin American, and Latin ways, more favourably with the US population. Think of all those 40's films that had prominent Latin American actors, music, performers, etc.
I watch the series, Handmaids Tale, which I believe is leftist propaganda about their fear of right-wing fascists taking over, creating a new world order. I need to go back and reread the book to get a full picture of how it all started. Perhaps others here have a better handle on its original plot.
I am curious about the book. Written during a different time. I did get a bit tired of the leftist vibe with the series...the patriarchal evil in your face, etc. It was interesting for a while....you can pathologies anything, the left, the right, whatever. Any ideology to its extreme is oppressive.
I read the book years ago, it runs out of steam about two thirds the way through, and I haven’t been curious enough to watch the series. There is some pseudo religious stuff in there, if I recall, that contextualises the patriarchal structure.
For me it is One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest on many levels.
When McMurphy finds out most of the inmates are voluntary, mimics what has been happening to most people over the last 2 years we consent to everything that happens it is voluntary servitude.
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Committed - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehPcYibzUKc&t=163s
Also medication time reminds me of the vaccination, when McMurphy asked what’s in the medicine I don’t like taking it if I don’t know what it is, then he subtly coerced, threatened to take it and succumbs.
When McMurphy asks to turn the music down Nurse Ratched says the music is for everyone ie the individual doesn’t matter it is for the greater good
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Medication Scene (Hi Definition) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVPdZBQm38M
The way Nurse Ratched keeps everyone in a state of fear and anxiety and constantly talks down to the patients, never trying to help them just keep them in their fearful state, similar to health experts who never talk about vitamin d, eating healthy etc but only about vaccines.
Anyone living in Melbourne will see the similarities between Nurse Ratched and Daniel Andrews the continual gaslighting and talking down to people and blaming people for the predicament they are in.
Analyzing Evil: Nurse Ratched - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSB_IX560S4
It really is worth re watching while keeping in mind the last 2 years
Wow! "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is one of my favourite movies! And believe it or not I did not make the subtle connections you make here! Thank you! Of course I knew it was a commentary on the individual, but I did not blow it out to include the global collective like you have here...excellent!
Children of men was about global infertility of the human race.
Is that a series, or a movie, and where is it available? Sound interesting...
It's a film from about 15 years ago. I think I've watched it three times and appreciate it more each viewing.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/children_of_men
Love it, and the Jarvis Cocker song at the end is perfect
Part of the Do Not Participate initiative is to avoid everything coming from Hollywood.
Awww....don't be a party pooper! I agree that Hollywood could very well be engaged in conscious nefarious activity. I worked in Hollywood for 30 years in music (post production) so know a little bit about their disorganization and their veneration for money. I do think once in a while something comes out of that factory that might be worth watching, or might have a message for shrews. But I could be wrong. Also, movies are not just made in Hollywood...
Where do you find the rules for the "Do Not Participate" initiative??
I need the secret code. Are you ready?