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not my son

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Well actually it is not a movie and overall it is impossible to cover the entire thing, but I just want to note down here that Southpark has been all about showing weird (and at times vilifying) everything and everyone that are decent, and normalising everything indecent. Many times it just looked like a project. I must be honest that I have not seen any episode for over ten years by now but I cannot imagine it has changed since then. I think it has had a big role on the majority of people in their 20s and 30s today.
 
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Sasori said:
I've compiled a list of every MK-Ultra movie I know of here:

https://letterboxd.com/golubgluhan/list/movies-about-project-mk-ultra/

If someone knows more of them, please reply to this post so I can add them to the list.
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A movie I'd definitely consider adding to this list is 'Beyond the Black Rainbow', a film seemingly set in the 80's which tells the story of a girl with strange psychic powers kept isolated in a hellish private facility overseen by strange old doctors/occultists who turn children into robotic slaves, and seem to get some parasitic pleasure out of the psychic connection they establish with her using drugs when she's in extreme discomfort. Very much a nightmare-vision of an MK-Ultra style program, and brimming with symbolism we're all used too as fans of the site; the device which controls and dampens the girls psychic powers, for example, is a large and humming black pyramid.

While not necessarily 'about' MK-Ultra and similar processes, another movie I think VC might want to take a look at is 'Dark Skies', which follows the pretty standard 'paranormal horror' film-formula while using 'Aliens' as its adversary rather than 'ghosties' or 'demons'. What struck me as significant about this movie was its strange focus on pornography and its implied role of inspiring/allowing the interest of the 'aliens' in the young child/eventual victim of abduction to develop. The hand-in-hand nature of the threat of financial fragility for the family and the threat of alien influence is a strange one as well, and there's a scene toward the end- projected into the eventually taken child's brain- of his 'deadbeat' dad engaged in a robotic murder-suicide, having killed the rest of his family with a shotgun and trying, with a mechanical lack of success, to finish the job on himself. The imagery and strange themes of the movie didn't strike me as a remotely typical direction for a 'spooky alien movie' to take, and felt more like the Aliens were just a metaphor for real-world people of power, and their capacity to destroy lives with impunity

On the transhumanist front, I encourage everyone to check out the excellent dystopian science-fiction film 'Advantageous'. This is a drama, no shoot-outs or action scenes for those seeking base entertainment, but the story it tells is horrifying, depicting a dreadfully believable future that doesn't seem so far off at all, in which rampant automation has made work so scarce that even the customer-service jobs are eaten up by smug and discourteous AI, and the value of human life is dwindling into the negligible.

Another dystopian sci-fi flick that's a bit more fun and uplifting that I recommend to any VC fan is 'Snowpiercer', a bizarre but brilliant little film out of Korea about a self-perpetuating train running a global circuit around an otherwise entirely dead world, the last survivors of humanity confined within. A direct metaphor for the inescapable economic paradigm of poverty and plenty that rules our world, dividing us into different classes but capturing every living soul up in its rotation, and how at the very heart of our seemingly infallible, inescapable, unstoppable system forever rests a dark and secret fuel that warrants its complete destruction/derailment: the slavery of children.
 
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not my son said:
Well actually it is not a movie and overall it is impossible to cover the entire thing, but I just want to note down here that Southpark has been all about showing weird (and at times vilifying) everything and everyone that are decent, and normalising everything indecent. Many times it just looked like a project. I must be honest that I have not seen any episode for over ten years by now but I cannot imagine it has changed since then. I think it has had a big role on the majority of people in their 20s and 30s today.
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As a pretty big fan of Southpark back in its day (I've not kept up with it the last few years, as who watches TV anymore) I'd have to say I don't entirely agree with this. While Southpark has unquestionably had considerable influence over people who grew up watching it, to say that Southpark vilifies normal/good things and normalizes indecency is something of a stretch. Quite the opposite is true of many episodes, which rightly vilify such sick organizations as NAMBLA (North-American Man-Boy Love Association), such cultish organizations as the Church of Scientology (with whom they fought a legal battle over their right to do so), such shameful practices as the violent reactions to depictions of Mohamed in cartoons, and many, many other questionable organizations/practices, Jehova's Witnesses, Mormons, etc.

Surely they make fun of decent things too, such as Canadians like me (beady-eyed, floppy-headed block-people in Southpark's hilarious assessment), and even 9/11 truthers, which grinds my gears given I count myself among them to an extent, but its a bit of a stretch to suggest these two funny guys who got exceedingly lucky with their little cardboard cut-out cartoon are some kind of pre-planned plot.
 
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I am a pretty big movie goer... so sometimes it sucks when a movie that I did not catch the subtle hints from is ruined by VC's breakdown. Oh well, it's better to be educated than entertained. Plus, as long as I am not purposefully ignorant, there are ways for me to watch movies without giving money to Hollywood. :)
 
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Minority Report, and not just because it's one of my favorites.

Let's see. Drug experiments similar to the nazi programs created precognitive beings. They are then kept in a dreamless sleep until they sense murder and then dream of that murder exactly like it will happen. Tom Cruise has to get both his eyeballs replaced, and there's even a shot he gives himself that shapeshifts his face. It has it all!
 
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