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Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
An Explaination, Not a Review - by an Exorcist II Apologist
I speak a lifelong and devoted lover of The Exorcist, not mere the greatest 'horror' movie ever made, but also the finest and most important movie on the subject of Spiritual Warfare ever filmed.
I am, however, also, an unashamed apologist for Exorcist II : The Heretic (for which The World was not-yet ready....)
apologist (n.)
"one who speaks or write in defense of something," especially "a defender of Christianity," 1630s, from French apologiste, from apologie, from Late Latin apologia "a speech in defense"
At the outset, let me say this - put on your David Lynch Glasses.
A film such as this can only really be approached beginning at a firmly pre-conscious level; where it begins to fall apart however, therefore, is that while David Lynch maintains total and absolute authorial control over every aspect of the production (cinematography and sound in particular, in case that not being too obvious), and only picks out and works with actors who he knows and trusts to plumb the depths of their own psyches and the collective unconscious enough to tap into what he wants (even if he very often does not know what he actually wants, or indeed what he is doing until it is done being captured on film).
What happens instead here is that there is a baggy creative looseness (no-doubt excacerbated by John Boorman's 6 week illness in the midst of principle photography), so the whole thing drifts about alarmingly and looses focus, so your inner-eye and attention is never drawn quite where it is supposed to be for much of the film and the actors don't really know exactly what they are meant to be doing, so the emotional tone is just all over the map in places.
So when something in a David Lynch film comes across as absurd, tacky or bad, its because (and you can be assured of the fact that) Lynch WANTS it to be absurd, tacky or bad - it isn't because it just doesn't work.
And in Exorcist II : The Heretic that isn't the case - so the viewer, even the most charitable apologist such as myself - is constantly being challenged to decide : is this consciously esoteric and dream-like (as much of the film is, or could take place viewed from the perspective of a dream), or is it just an attempt to do something over-ambitious (such as a man falling off the side of a mountain and his body becoming lodged in a tight rock crevasse) that didn't *quite* work.
So your brain is constantly being overstimulated, and your mind cannot relax on being immersed within the film.
There are also some horrendous errors of judgement that might have been very easily resolved and made the film less superficially ludicrous and absurd. Personally, I have no problem whatsoever with the hypnotic "Synchroniser" device used to achieve shared states of deep trance, it's both scientifically and spiritually not only plausible but also very largely accurate - unfortunately it just LOOKS completely silly and ridiculous, with the black and red plastic-rubber ECG headbands, and the various bleeping noises are, again, probably clinically accurate but not cinematically helpful.
With every year that passes, more and more I am reminded, with regard to Exorcist II of the great, untold Sherlock Holmes case touching on the Giant Rat of Sumatra ("For which The World is not yet ready", notes Holmes).
The central theme and message of the film - one which stands in stark contrast and defiance to that of it's predecessor, where it was the very randomness and seeming pointlessness of Reagan's ordeal which is speculated to be the whole reason a point to her being singled out for possession - that it is the purest GOOD souls on the Earth who are singled out BECAUSE the diabolical hordes want to take such powerful spiritual warriors off the board by corrupting them and bringing about their self-destruction) stands as bold a statement of Jungian psychic theory as was ever committed to film.
Jung's ideas and concepts of The Shadow and Spiritus Contra Spiritum inspired the original founders of Alcholoics Annonymous, first originators of the 12 Step model for personal spiritual purgation of the demon drink, and the many other that followed, via formation of "societies of mutual sufferers" -
"You Must Tear Out Her Dark Heart"
Very Excellent, Sound Advice.
For Which The World was Not-Yet Ready.
A Noble Lie: Oklahoma City 1995 (2011)
The Gold Standard for Deep State / False Flag Documentaries
This film is such a respectable piece of work - It's been about 5 years since last I saw this film, and I was delighted to discover it offered available for unlimited views via my streaming service subscription, so I decided to revisit it and see if it holds up as well as it first did upon initial release - it does not disappoint.
Oklahoma City is NOT a simple or linear event to make sense of, it defies even the concept of 'narrative', True, False, Fictititious or None of The Above.
There are multiple layers upon layers of cover-stories, disinformation, official denial and flat out lies, to unpack and reconcile it all would take a lifetime (which of course is the point) - the only possible answer to such a challege is "Don't Even Try."
"Just present all the evidence and information that checks out and has been verified - and embrace The Contradiction.
The sheer volume and density of revelatory information, evidence, quotes, witness testimonials is just VAST - and it comes at such rapidfire pace, you will notice something, some fact, that sticks in your consciousness and gains traction on every viewing that you never even recognised the true significance of before - and then the film will tell you where that information came from, who said it, and in what book it appears in to allow you to go and verify that it is indeed the case.
Example, case in-point : The place where McVeigh was living for the week prior to the bombing, with the Big Yellow Ryder Truck parked outside for everyone to see (in order to get noticed) was a motel in Kansas.
What I had not appreciated prior to now was that
1) The Motel was JUST OUTSIDE THE GATES of an Army Fort in Kansas.
2) The name of the motel was "Dreamland", the same name given to Groom Lake Test Flight Range in Arizona, aka "Area-51"
That, to me, tells me that The US Army owned and operated that motel, which was why McVeigh was there, trying to get noticed all week.
NB. The Dreamland motel has since been closed down, razed to ground and demolished, with a Memorial to OKC (funded, by implication, using public money by another State, which States are generally not inclined to do, that is entirely counterintuitive), which further speaks to the implication that DoD paid for it as part of the Cover and Deception to hide their involvement in directing McVeigh and Nichols and the bomb truck
The movie has 10,000 gems like that embeded within it.
Hell, even Alex Jones manages to be on his best behaviour for this one....