Thread by @Askesis369

Heres a thread:

1) We have witnessed over the past several years how important narratives and stories are essential and central to controlling the masses. Herding us like sheep as if we’re completely clueless.

Newsflash, we’re not.

2) Hollywood is infamously an insidious center of propaganda creation. The intelligence community’s connections to the very few companies that OK a vast majority of all projects are well known.

I could spell that out for you, but thats not what Im here to do.

3) I want to showcase movies I believe stand as inner resistance to the corruption in Hollywood.

Movies that use their pedestal to promote awareness of how easily positions of power can be corrupted and how false realities can be constructed.

4) I’ll start with one of my favorites:

The Matrix (1999)

A man is chosen to save humanity from technology’s harvesting of our energy

Awoken to learn his reality is essentially holograms, where he can learn entire languages or fighting styles like downloading some files

5) Next up includes now iconic imagery:

They Live (1988)

A blue collar construction worker finds random glasses that unveil which humans are not, how they exert their power over those who are, and the power of advertising.

6) This one was made twice and still wasn’t culturally accepted as a genuine possibility:

Manchurian Candidate (1962/2004)

Based on a 1959 novel that details a Presidential candidate’s mere existence is to act out the desires of those who pull his strings through MK-Ultra means

7) Lets get modern:

Captain America: Winter Soldier (2014)

Cap’s childhood friend has his mind wiped and is trained by remnants of Nazi Germany’s high tech secret society known as ‘Hydra’, which is later revealed to have corrupted and taken over the entirety of the world stage.

8) Sidenote:

Industry underdogs Anthony and Joe Russo were merely known for their scrappy and hilarious TV show Arrested Development when Winter Soldier was made and earned them the jobs of directing not only Infinity War but also the recent Endgame.

9) I think horror should be used to get across these notions more:

Hereditary (2018)

This one hits an unfocused viewer like a wall in the end and is new enough for me to simply ask all interested parties to direct themselves to the nearest screen and rent it. Buy it even.

10) Jordan Peele probably has the most clout in Hollywood at the moment for his two entries to this thread:

Get Out (2017)

A young man goes to visit his girlfriends family only to learn they want him for something much more sinister, revealing a whole black market of evil.

11) and:

Us (2019)

This is another one too recent and well made to spoil for those who haven’t yet enjoyed it. Just know at least that it humorously mentions Fluoride being in our tap water as a method of control.

12) An openly admitted unfinished work:

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

A man goes from an elitist party to realizing he might have a way in to *the* party for true elites. Rife with underaged prostitution, sex magick, and satanic rituals with masked and cloaked people of power.

13) Why wasn’t it finished, you might ask?

Renowned director Stanley Kubrick pushed for his ability to create this movie for years. He reportedly showed what was close to his final cut to executives, who demanded he edit out the ending and other scenes.

14) Stanley Kubrick died soon after of a heart attack, and the movie was released anyway. Reports of these details wildly vary, which only leaves us with whats in the actual movie presented. Most commonly pointed to is the final scene:

15) The two main characters are seen in a toy store with their young daughter, who suddenly runs off with two long coated men and the parents seemingly reacting with zero care at all. I should note this is after they were caught at an elite party, where they shouldnt have been.

16) Next:

The Shape of Water (2017)

A woman working at a top security military compound slowly falls in love with a cryptid sea creature they had just recently captured and held in secret

17) An obvious classic:

The Truman Show (1998)

A man finds out little by little that his entire reality is designed and built to use his existence as entertainment for millions

18) and lastly, an underrated one:

The Adjustment Bureau (2011)

A politician running for Senate suddenly meets a woman he’s never supposed to see again and is thrown into a battle with an intelligence agency that doesn’t publicly exist and uses advanced tech to operate

19) Im sure I missed some so feel free to reply with your own.

While we are witnessing the slow dismantling of artifical narratives, lets enjoy some actually well crafted ones and learn their moves.