JohnnyJackson
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I was surprised by the extremely low (imdB) ratings. I decided to watch it as a "so-bad-its good" movie. I was agreeably surprised by the depth and symbolism in the movie. I've never heard of the play before. I must say that I've enjoyed very much the movie (and I hate musicals).
There are plenty of Hollywood movies that if you don't have the references/background (notably Masonic), the movie doesn't make any sense. This one went probably went too far for the general public...
Spoilers ahead after this point!
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I was expecting to watch the dumbest movie of my life. It was the opposite. In less than five minutes, you're bombarded with esotericism. The movie starts with a hotel called "The Egyptian", next to another one called "The Rising Sun".
An old woman dressed in black and white drives a car (with blinding headlights) and drops what seems to be a baby in a cloth bundle. Like the myth of storks delivering babies to parents. According to Wikipedia, In Slavic mythology and religion, storks were thought to carry unborn souls from Vyraj to Earth in spring and summer. This belief still persists in the modern folk culture of many Slavic countries, in the simplified child story that "storks bring children into the world" .
The old woman has a black-and-white scarf, a black-and-white dress, and black-and-white shoes.... Duality of black and white (and duality in general) is very important in Freemasonry. She might represent the Demiurge bringing souls to the world.
After this delivery, our main character Victoria, the White swan is being born. She gets out of the cloth bundle left by the old woman, and takes her literal first breaths.
As she is born, we see immediately behind her a red Tetractys, an important symbol for Pythagoreanism, the cult many Freemasons say their movement takes roots.
Then the musical lyrics give hints to the theme of the movie :
Can You see in the dark?
Do you know your way to Heavyside Layer?
Because Jellicles can and Jellicles do.
Can You ride on a broomstick to far distant places?
The Pied piper assistant?
Have you been an alumnus of heaven or hell?
Were you there when the pharaohs commissioned the sphinx?
If were you and you are, you’re a Jellicles cat.
Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats.
We have to assume now that "Heavyside Layer" is heaven, and a "Jellicle" a freemason. These Jellicles seem obsessed with pantheim (Pied Piper), Egypt and witchcraft (riding broomsticks). And they keep repeating the phrase "Jellicle songs for Jellicle cats", probably to mean that only Freemasons or those with FM culture can understand the lyrics.
As they dance, we see a pyramid with a shining sun and "London Pavillon - The Centre of the World" written. Modern freemasonry is born in England and the Grand Lodge of England still make and unmake "regular" lodges around the world... The phrase "Wake up and dream" just under it could summarise the FM ideology. Wake up from your illusions, and dream. Create your own reality/be limitless. Very discreet is also the car plate where you can read : "EVE 6IS". It relates to Eve/Isis, the main goddess of Freemasonry and Egyptian mystery cults.
As the cats sings they make a list of all the kind of cats you will find in their esoteric group, the list is long :
♪ Practical cats ♪
Dramatical cats,
Pragmatical cats,
Fanatical cats,
Oratorical cats,
Delphicoracle cats,
Skeptical cats,
Dyspeptical cats,
Romantical cats,
Pedantical cats,
Critical cats,
Parasitical cats,
Allegorical cats,
Metaphorical cats,
Statistical cats,
And mystical cats.
Political cats,
Hypocritical cats,
Clerical cats,
Hysterical cats,
Cynical cats,
Rabbinical cats
And magical cats ♪
It's probably to emphasise that when you join Freemasonry, you join a group of humans, not saints. That you will find every kinds of "cats" in Freemasonry. You will find as many freemasonry as there are human beings. It's not a mono-bloc of thought, it's the exact opposite. The long list finish with "magical cats"...
When all the cats finished dancing and explained to her the "general idea" of Freemasonry, they all leave Victoria alone in front of the Black and White milk bar. Probably relates to black/white magic in FM. Freemasons are free to follow their own path, the black one or white one. Serve yourself or humanity. Later in the movie, we can see the famous masonic checkerboard on the floor inside.
The bad guy of the movie makes his appearance : Macavity (my cavity...???), with Idris Elba in the role. He watched Victoria from afar and now he comes to her and say : "Going to the ball? I wouldn't if I were you. Could get dangerous. (...)There's no one like Macavity. A wonderful magician. But a monster of depravity." He warns her of the dangers of FM, and declare himself a monster of depravity.
Despite all the joyful dancing and singing and great advertisement for Freemasonry, when she tries to follow the Jellicles, she finds herself in front of heavy bars. She cannot enter... They ask her name, she answers Victoria (which tell us that the character is probably gonna be victorious in this journey). When they let her enter, she finds herself in a cemetery... Again very masonic. You first have to die (symbolically) before joining the club. She then dances on a tomb at the moonlight, which clearly indicates witchcraft/magical practices.
(Part II is coming)
