I don’t wish to subject my readers’ to more than they can handle in terms of ‘psychic distress,’ but if there is anyone out there who — having experienced the Friedkin/Letts collaboration, Bug, which I have been so highly recommending (for reasons other than entertainment value) figures he/she can ‘handle’ another example of… well, of what I’m getting at in this series of posts, I would suggest he/she take in their other collaboration, a ‘family drama’ called Killer Joe.
In my analysis I’ll only be touching on this one briefly, but it’s still worth a look… if you can take it.
The scare quotes above are an indication of irony: Hypothetically speaking, thematically speaking, if the destruction of the family were the goal of the collaborating storytellers behind Killer Joe, they could not have done a more memorable, more powerful, deep-rooted job. These are talented people. And as with Bug, Killer Joe is a marvel of storytelling craft.
I know there is at least one of you who refuses to experience Bug for fear of what I interpret to be psychic damage (of the mind control variety). I must say that this reaction to my challenge of ‘dueling analyses’ is, in its own odd and indirect way, the most insightful I’ve so far seen. What I mean to say is that my upcoming ‘storytelling’ analysis at the rock bottom, deepest of deep layers, is that Bug (and now Killer Joe) are as good examples of PTB attempts to damage or (best case) disintegrate what is left of what we can call ‘American culture’ as you’ll find on what we used to refer to as ‘The Silver Screen.’
If you blink you might miss this image from Bug, but (and this is a hint of what I’ll be driving at) it tells us something very important about the story. In comments, give me your best shot at what this image tells us. (It flashes at the climax of the sex scene.)
I’m recommending both of these works because they do their jobs in very different ways; in a sense, in opposite ways, although this is only apparent after deep analysis.
There’s a line in Bug, and I believe it’s uttered by the Peter character (although it would work just as well coming from Agnes), that goes thusly: ‘It’s better to know,’ referring to… for lack of a less abused (on this forum) term… how the world really works… a sentiment that I’ve sought to stimulate, encourage even these past few years.
Sitting up here in the mountains of the ‘old west’ with my dog and my accomplishments and my regrets and failures and with all I’ve learned and not learned… now more than ever I’m sure this is the only way to live, and indeed is the only hope for us all. So yes, the reader’s refusal to be exposed to art-as-mind-control is insightful, but only in its labeling of said ‘artwork’ as purposefully, successfully harmful.
But keep in mind that this sort of mind control, the sort we are subjected to daily, constantly, from all directions, is of the NLP/subconscious sort, i.e., in order to do its job must be covert. If the victim/subject is aware what is being done, not only does it not work, but a reverse effect kicks in, along with a deep scorn that the PTB could think we’re that stupid. To refuse to be subjected to it — a movie like Bug, say — for reasons of fear is in-effect giving up. (If you aren’t interested in it, fine, but find another reason to refrain. And self-reflect in doing so: Don’t fool yourself!)
Another hint: For our purposes of story analysis, why is this guy the most important character in the film?
If we assume all popular entertainment to one extent or another is a part of a mind control agenda (and this is close to being the truth) we can train ourselves to be immune from its harmful effects. The sort of damage done by storytellers like Friedkin/Letts (and yes, this is a bit of a spoiler re my upcoming post) is not like damage from vaccines or environmental poisoning; the ‘defense muscle’ in our brain — our awareness of their agenda plus critical thinking — like any muscle grows strong with active use.
The post I’m still struggling with is significant, I think, because my conclusions are so inarguable, so stark and obvious, yet so completely unperceived by everyone (and likewise this observation is inarguable, stark and obvious) that those who didn’t see it all coming may be ‘shocked awake.’
Addendum: On the other hand, I felt that way about my video interview with my Montauk crony, Walter Iooss, the famed photographer, only to realize that the load of thumbs up and encouraging comments merely equaled the preaching to the choir effect: As far as I know, not one mind has been changed by that effort, the latest example being ‘JC on a Bike,’ an obviously awake guy (in some ways) whose reaction was, ‘I’ll have to let this settle in’ — which it never did.
In Killer Joe, Friedkin/Letts use character (in its deepest meaning) in diametrically opposite ways to plant their message.
I am somewhat disappointed by the response to my suggestion that viewers of Bug supply their own analysis, as both a learning tool (for all of us) and to accrue more anecdotal data on how successful the PTB mind control op (the big one, the ‘Hollywood Project’) really is. So far, I only count about 10 attempts. Hey, we’re in lockdown! There’s time to do your homework!
Plus, there are a bunch of you who use comments as a forum for your views, then take advantage of it by going on and on. Here I’m asking you to do so, and suddenly you’re reticent? You know who you are. What gives?
As you’ll see if I ever finish this goddamn thing, I’m trying to enlighten you — plus myself, as I’m being forced to dig deeper than ever before on this subject — using a specific example (one movie, but on many levels/implications) to elicit an epiphany about how storytelling (of any sort but especially film) is used as a powerful mind control tool by the power structures that seek to do us harm.
Allan
Allan,
I may be wildly off base here, but would adding a picture of a praying mantis to future editions of CYGAWA be appropriate, relating to the point you will be making regarding Bug?
So you know the point I’ll be making? Okay, tell me.
“To refuse to be subjected to it — a movie like Bug, say — for reasons of fear is in-effect giving up. (If you aren’t interested in it, fine, but find another reason to refrain. And self-reflect in doing so: Don’t fool yourself!)”
Though I do see your point, Allan, I think ultimately this reasoning is somewhat fallacious. It is in effect asserting that we are obligated to subject ourselves to all the trash that’s thrown our way. Since they control the means of production, and their Culture Machine is so obscenely prolific, that is an awful lot of trash for an individual (so-called “consumer of culture”) to keep up with. I’ve been in this game of externalizing the hierarchy/lifting the veil for over a decade, and have by now seen the basic lay of the land, and no longer feel this obsessive need to observe every last speck of Psy-Op they hurl our way, if I did I’d never sleep. Personally, I’d rather read Paradise Lost. Old culture might not keep us “up to date” on every nuance of the current moment, but it nurtures our minds in a way new culture cannot hope to emulate. For many of us it has nothing to do with “fear,” rather, we are tired of being tortured by their shallow mass culture, and made to feel that it is our “duty” to keep coming back for more.
Please take this in the spirit of friendship and not antagonism.
James, I totally get your point and have no problem with it, but I would ask you to take in my upcoming post with an open mind. I believe you will see its merits, in terms of exposing that which has not heretofore been properly understood.
I certainly will. You scour the muck so I don’t have to! Please understand, as well, that I have no problem with avid researchers. Quite the contrary! I suppose I was just trying to wedge in another motivation besides fear and disinterest. I’m sure to enjoy your analysis much more than I would the movie which prompted it.
Allan, Martha G (formerly Maggie from TBP, where I am now shadow banned for calling people there liars, which they are)
I check in occasionally because I always thought you were on to something big. Now, I will watch Bug.
Whazza matter, Allen. Some of the comments dont pass your smart test, is it?
We know you have a thaaang for IQ. I mean, Crockett ‘n Tubbs? You’d have to be an NSA analyst to come up with that grade of material, fo’ sho’
At least. 😉
What are you going on about? You have anything useful or even just specific to say?
For you to poop on, Triumph. No thanks.
I saw the movie BUG and hated every minute of it.
Ashley Judd has been my favorite actress for years
and she was completely phenomenal in this film
even though not likable at the start. I didn’t like
any of the characters really but felt sorry for them eventually.
As for all the seen and unseen nuances, I saw many and felt
many but not enough to wrap my mind completely around
anything concrete which may be the point. The Dr Sweet character
was believable until he came in and started smoking the pipe.
Then I said out loud, “What the heck?” I think he is thekey.
Watching Peter and Agnus go completely insane was very disturbing.
It was brilliant but insane. I tend to think you can go any of three ways with this
movie but never really be sure of any of them. I totally believe in every theory that’s
been mentioned thus far on this blog. I’ve experienced some of most of them.
They are as real as they are hard to believe. Having said that, I hate films that just end
giving no explanation for anything becuse they make you feel crazy and perhaps that
is the primary reason they make them. TPTP want us to feel crazy and unsure of any-
thing. Has anyone seen The Killing of the Sacred Deer? That movie made me feel the same way: Crazy. And in it’s way, quite similiar to Bug. I remember the day I WOKE UP. It was 1996 and I was standing on my front porch looking at the sky (I’ve always been a sky, star and moon watcher and have seen unexplainable things in the doing) but that day I saw (or noticed) Chemtrails for the first time and I was amazed and puzzled because I knew I was seeing something abnormal. Then to my amazement I either heard in my spirit or my mind, I don’t know which but I heard : Nothing is as it appears. And a veil lifted off my mind and I began to see and hear and learn that that statement was quite true. And I’ve never stopped learning and hearing and seeing. So to sum up, I guess this movie is the epitome of Nothing is as it seems. It’s all true yet nothing is true. There are many kinds of realities but not all of them are true. The truth is there hidden within the
riddles inside the enigmas inside the puzzles. But it is there. We just have to wait till that veil is lifted so we can truly see what’s hidden. And honestly, sometimes I wish I didn’t know but once you know, you can’t unknow it and you always feel compelled to share what you “know.” You can’t help it. For many years I tried to share what I knew with friends and family only to be treated like I was just crazy but little by little I have seen almost all of them wake up and start sharing with others what they have learned. It’s been wonderful because the world is such a lonely place when you know things and see things that others don’t and nobody believes you. Lonely, indeed. And it can make you crazy…….smile Poor Peter. Poor Agnes. sigh
IMO this film is not confusing at all, as I’ll try to show you in a couple days. I have to finish Friedkin’s memoir and view his director’s commentary in a DVD, do I’m delayed.
Sorry for all the typos in my post. I had no idea until
I just saw it posted here. I’m not familiar with the format or
anything here so I just went for it and started typing.
I can only state my own opinions and feelings, of course
as that is what you asked us to do. I’ve been reading you for
years and find you fascinating but haven’t felt the urge to comment
until something came up that I could relate to. When I said the truth
was hidden inside a puzzle, riiddle, enigma, ect, I wasn’t so much saying
that about this film, but the truth about the world, the SAPS programs
and all the PTB, elites, black ops and all the other schemes and anti-human plans going on. The Mysteries…in general and as a whole. That’s what I meant. It’s very clear that only a remnant of the human race ever learns the true realities or even wants to know what’s really going on. I have had people beg me to stop telling them what’s really going on in every aspect of life. They simply can’t deal with it. cause basically, you can’t be held responsible if you are ignorant os something’s existence.
Right? That’s the premise anyway.
Obviously Agnes and Peter had implants or something controlling them and Dr Sweet was the handler or one of the heads of the Project. On the whole, the film threw a kitchen sink full of well known “conspiracy theories” and Psy-Ops and Deep State stuff out there at the beginning when Peter was talking rationally as they looked for the “cricket”/smoke alarm chirp. He was Triggered. Like I said, I saw all the nuances or almost saw them. Perceived them, anyway. I await your theory about this film with baited breath. lol
As someone who has had experiences with real ufos, ghosts/apparitions/demons had my phones tapped by a very big M Agency and had the whole gang stalking experience, relatives who work in Black Ops and SAP projects, been on the Jeff Rense show discussing and demonstrating remote viewing, I know a little about a lot of these things. I love your work. I respect it and you, Allan. I do.
Voo
you are interesting too, voo
I’m really enjoying your responses to Bug,… Ahhh… well, most of them anyway, and encourage those who haven’t done so yet to get on it. I’m into researching Friedkin now, reading his memoir. I also have to wait to get the Bug DVD I ordered (mine self-destructed). I HAVE to hear his ‘Director’s Commentary’, which, as far as I know, is only on the DVD.
The big question, or at least the final, practical question, is Why are Friedkin/Letts saying and writing about Bug as if they were a part of the great unwashed idiots who don’t have a clue.
So you still have a couple or so days. To do your homework.
It would be awesome to meet this guy Allan, he is nothing short of Brilliant, cool, intelligent, great speaker, won’t stand any nonsense (like someone we know!) > William Friedkin speaks
https://youtu.be/pLCvMA4KM1I
Well, Brett, I would add one adjective to your string of them. Can you guess what it is?
Angry. Yes William F. is angry too – anyone who isn’t is in a deep coma sleep.
I haven’t had a chance to listen to his whole big talk, but he indicated at the beginning that he had no ‘secrets’ to tell. But I am not surprised he won’t reveal much there, he is now 84 and wants to get to 104 without being murdered.
Yeah, he’s 84 and looks 60. Do you find that odd or revealing? Like maybe he has the same ‘dermatologist’ as Madonna et al.?
Everyone who watched Bug would have seen the Mantis (unless they were on their cell phone at the same time). Yep, I have heard about the Mantis race…
Hey it’s too bad if you are a Humming Bird at least – > https://youtu.be/uWqTZErviJI
I wouldn’t want to get in a fight with a large one.
Allan & folks, is Corbett a “show pony” who’s job is to flaunt the PTB/NWO power & tricks – so they have “power” ??
Did Lassie save lives or solve a mystery of a crashed military aircraft? 1961 producers were getting ready to film when a Pentagon film office representative asked them to change the narrative. The original script stated the crash was from a correctible design flaw. (fast forward to Boeing “max”) “This….could elicit serious opbections from the Cessna Corporation”…
Read David Mcgowan book on Hollywood. Big corporations and Military script Hollywood.
Just for starters. Imbibe all the main stream propaganda over years and we can’t think we can only react. Multi layered deceptions for years.
Any form of story telling is, at rock bottom, a manipulation of its audience. This gave rise to the “hero” character, who loses everything, gets backed into a corner, only to flip the scenario in the third act and emerge victorious. I think Bug’s manipulation is that it we are not to trust our own senses, or it will lead to madness. As if to say don’t trust your own eyes and ears with what the PTB are doing to us. Thus if you can’t trust what your instincts are telling you, you will instead have to rely on a higher power. Once upon a time for a millennia that was the church(es). Now the PTB want us to rely on the “guvment,” the new church. Same as the old boss really. Probably even more evil and capricious.
Seems like a whole lot of truth telling coming from a paranoid/schizophrenic ex-military type perhaps deliberately ‘infected’ with ‘truths’ thereby conveying the idea that those who espouse ‘conspiracy theories’ are dangerous and that those who hold to these type of ideas are nuts and can and do infect others and potentially endanger those who care/‘care’ for them including ‘health professionals’ with ‘projects’ who also happen to also know a lot about their partner’s history.
My one (long) sentence summation not to belabour the point.
Cheers all,
Just watched Killer Joe, too. Never seen or heard of it, before.
Very interesting story unfolding beneath the ‘trailer trash’ inbreds kind of meme on the surface.
Is Dottie really Lileth? Or some other kind of powerful demon? Pretending to be young and naive? Or is Joe the demon?
Simplifying, I know.
Like Bug, I saw it as a warning (?) –informing us that reality is a complete, 180 degree inversion of what we believe reality to be.
But disguised as a silly comedy of errors. There’s also lots more going on, of course. It is Friedkin, after all. The Master himself. (But of what? Allen might know. )
As was Bug. But with gore in both cases. (MKUltra via the silver screen? Awareness is the best armour against that, indeed.)
Needs another watch.
Complicated ‘movies’ and much deeper than the critics even realised. And I too scanned a few.
Even Ebert fucked this review up. That right there was a mockingbird plant if ever there were. That much is obvious, now. He couldnt have otherwise got it so wrong.
But hey. Mebbe thats just another conspiracy theory, too. Jusf like Majestic is. Right?
Cmon, Allen; the suspense is killing me!
Just to remark on Killer Joe (I’m saving my details for the post), I believe it is a simple re-definition of ‘family life,’ today’s version of Ozzie and Harriet et al. Brilliantly crafted (as is Bug) to make its points.
Look, if anyone really wants to understand this film you have to read the Amazon reviews. If you read all 573 of them, you might in the process (of reading) have an epiphany. This is what happened to me, and why I’m taking so long to write the post. One thing kept leading to another and the implications kept piling up and my astonishment and curiosity grew and grew.
Maybe the mantis flashes up with that sort of grin because all is going to plan, in his mind: Peter and Agnes are about to create an enormous food bank for him. Maybe the mantis means that it’s actually real; that’s the thought I had while watching it. The PTB want you to believe Peter and Agnes are crazy, but maybe it’s actually happening. Happy Mantis seems to think so. And maybe this is an allegory (?) for what “they” do to us. Get us to colonize like bugs, with certain behaviors that are beneficial to them, that provide food, physical and otherwise; in other words, we’re just an ant farm for their benefit. I remember reading Bringers of the Dawn way back when, and that was one of the major themes, that suffering on this planet was an energetic “food” for the alien overlords. That for all of our conscious awareness, maybe we are as insubstantial to another “superior” species as the bugs are to Peter and Agnes; just pests to be gotten rid of, or to provide food, as with the mantis (who, let’s face it, looks like a stand-in for an alien.) As others have said, but hey, what do I know?
You know more than you think, I daresay.
Brilliant take, IMHO.
Cheers.
Thanks, Aztec, right back atcha!
Sorry, Azzy….autocorrect!
Interesting comment, the details and wanderings your mind did, but for my purposes you got the ‘Mantis point’ exactly right in a sentence early on….
Which is also the theme of the first Monsters, Inc. movie brought to you by the wonderful world of Disney (Pixar). Monsters, Inc. can point you down a number of different rabbit trails.
Bug was an experience. Shannon and Judd were mesmerizing and gave performances that have blown away anything else they have done (that I have watched). I found the doctor to be the creepiest character of all. Unfortunately, I’m still trying to formulate my thoughts as to what I think this movie is about. I guess I’ll check out the Amazon comments in search of some enlightenment (and/or wait for Allan’s reveal).
I quit television 25 yrs ago and could only watch a few minutes of Bug.
I believed that the virus was a thing when no one thought it was and then it was fake when everyone thinks it’s real so I am what could be called a fucktard.
That’s not very PC Barry. Fucktard? Perhaps you might use the term “procreatively challenged” in future? It’s so important to be politically correct these days…
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Hi folks. I just thought I would introduce myself. Despite the author making statements that ring many bells within my online searches I am lost here. Regardless Weisbecker becomes a type of use case for sw tool design I have.
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Explain the layers of messaging and symbology as a tool of elite power. I get that. But where is the beginning of this series?
I don’t understand much after your first paragraph. Maybe it’s me but could you rephrase? Or don’t.
I watched the movie, closed my eyes for some of it, (the tooth self extraction) but I didn’t blink at the wrong time and I did see the flash of the picture of the ‘bug’ (looks like a praying mantis). The movie was disturbing, there was some truth dropped for sure as in they are watching us, human guinea pigs and the like. (Peter mentioning the Tuskegee experiments) Missing children, used for God knows what. That’s all I got for now, I seem to shut down when I feel pressured to come up with something.
No pressure, dear! If you have a thought, share it with us. If not, no worries.
The etymology of the character’s names and their associated myths/his-story are worth considering.
The mantis flash in the context of this story could indicate the moment that Agnes’s ‘queen mother bug’ program activates resulting in peters symbolic mantis like post coital decapitation though loss of sanity.
Dr. Sweet is the tell. Without him it’s a tale of random brain chemistry chaos.
The flyer for ‘body work’ on only Agnes’s car among others suggests organized gang-stalking harassment and remote neural monitoring given what was going on in the room at the time and like Dr. Sweet serves as a further tell.
The tells have predictable e(a)ffects on the sleepiest of viewers as well as those with discernment. This is true sorcery. In the modern parlance emotioneering, mind control or simply entertainment.
Mmmmm!
Dr. Sweet is critical as he’s the link between all characters whether they know it or not. For Agnes, he represents the truth (to finding her son, and hidden knowledge). For Peter, he represents control, fear, the machines, and experimentation. And, possibly, for Jerry and R.C, he’s an enabler/money giver (getting Jerry out of Jail early, possibly paying him for their son, etc.). R.C. appears to have suddenly won a custody battle of a child.
Per Dr. Sweet speaking to Agnes, “…He’s [Peter] my project…”
Damn, Todd, you’re so close! As Peter would say, ‘What else do you know?!’
Interestingly, enough; mantids are an ‘extraterrestrial’ race that MAJestic deals with on a ‘regular’ basis. Or so they say.
Interdimensional, too; and are hundreds of centuries ahead of us and our mechanistic, newtonian way of seeing things. They deal with quantum tech and have a very big say on this here sentience nursery. Or so they say.
Service to self means absorbtion into a collective, of sorts. The Greys.
Service to others– approved sentience– means we get to go exploring. The Mantids as guides, or so they say.
The mysterious Dr. is STO sentience and represents the Mantids.
The status quo is most definitely hive-like and Grey.
Friedkin knows all about what were called demons in the old world.
But hey, what do I know.
Looking fwd to Allen’s take o’ thaaangs.
Just in case y’all think I’m nuts:
https://metallicman.com/an-authorized-majestic-disclosure/
After we absorb Allen’s take, you might find this interesting and– by the way– very, very relevant to the subject matter at hand.
I am reading that site as we speak. Fascinating
and brilliantly written but with several things really bothering me
overall. I am giving him the benefit of the doubt however until I have absorbed
everything and come to a conclusion. It explains a lot of things but still makes
you go….say what???!!! haha I can see a tie in with Bug though and an explanation
of sorts.
I did notice the flash of the mantis during the sex climax as well.
When mantises eat other animals, they start with the head and eat the brains first. The hummingbird appears to be most affected type of bird when they do catch them, per National Geographic. Maybe this be a metaphor for a brain eating disease or come kinda brainwashing mechanism…
Oh, and mantises are scary-as-hell looking. Bad-ass. But they are quite nice to humans and actually help with aphids/insect control. I’ve used them in my backyard once. I do recall Peter talking about the type of bug he was infected with as being aphid-like. There must be a connection here, of course…
The other effect is the damn mantis pictured in my head during climax – does this make people see their lover as an alien bug? Like we are seeing now with friends and neighbors walking on sidewalks, avoiding each other like the plague?
Reminds me of Def Leppard’s song Love Bites.
“Watch out, love bites
When you make love, do you look in your mirror?
Who do you think of?
Does he look like me?”
I like Ashley Judd (for her looks) and wish her well, but that scene kinda blows it for me for a while anyway.
Todd, Todd, Todd…. Simplify!
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/praying-mantises-catch-and-eat-birds-alive-video/
This video of the mantis sucking the brains from a hummingbird is a must see.