This movie took me by surprise.
This is my current favorite movie of all time. Although fantasy I feel that it really caught the experience of having psychic gifts. The sense of fear and isolation that the main character, Dan, experiences are right on. Obviously, the depiction of those abilities are more dramatic then anything I've experienced (not saying someone might have those abilities) but there is so much. I've always loved the concept of the 'shine' in King's books. Because that's a good way to describe people who are connected to the Collective Conscious/Source. I was on the edge of my sit for much of this movie. I was actually sad that it ended. I love the character Abra and little indications of why she has the ability to bravely wield her ability. There is the image of a super hero on her bed stand and she takes on appearance of that super hero when facing the villains. Now Rose The Hat and company (the villains) are superb. They are the best depiction of psychic vampires I've ever seen. They are dramatic over stylized versions of that concept but really demonstrate the idea. There are nods to "The Shining" which it's technically a sequel. The directing andacting are top notch. This, for me, is the movie of the year! Go see it!
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I enjoyed this movie a lot.
I highly recommend watching IT:Chapter Two. I wasn't a fan of the first one. I found myself laughing a lot which surprised me. I don't go to horror movies very often. Too many are rooted into Catholic superstition for them to affect me. I'm not scared of ghosts or demons so I think they're stupid. I've always been a bit of a Stephen King fan. I think his best book, though, is the On Writing. The Collective Consciousness Interpertation There are spoilers beyond this point. On a deep level the world is transforming a lot very quickly. As I touched upon in my blog about why the transition from Light Worker to Shadow Worker is so important. This movie is 100% about the members of the Losers Club doing Shadow Work. We literally watch them Spiritually grow up. At the end even Pennywise says, "Look at you! You're all grown up," as they reduce him to nothing more than a beating heart that they squash. Pennywise As The Ego Pennywise is a good metaphor for the Ego. The Ego always has to feed and it doesn't care where it comes from. The scene with the Little Girl with the birth mark on her face was particularly potent. The Ego claims to be a friend and that it wants to protect the person. However, it really doesn't. As parts of the person. are suppressed to support the Ego it starts to consume people. The Ego also creates fear- often paralyzing fear- to control people. When people do Shadow Work the Ego becomes less and less powerful. Until finally it just disappears. Pennywise also showed up when a meteor hit the earth. The entire city of Derry sits on top of the crash site. This harkens back to the story of Atlantis/Lemuria and the meteor that destroyed them. When the fear of feeling seperation spread through the people on the planet they created the experience of an planet wide destruction to destroy themselves. The Ego was part of the result of that realization of self-identinty. Echo Mike refers to Pennywise as an Echo. This was never really explained in the movie. He also says there was a ritual performed that tried to capture Pennywise but not all of those performing the ritual thought it would be successful. Through a series of synchroncities the Echo concept popped up a lot recently as a theme for me. Athena Perkins, for example, said that she believes the hurricanes in the Florida area that happen about the same time every year were an echo of he destruction of Atlantis. I agree with her. That area has such a strong charge of energy from the events that happened there hat it echos..but the Lemuria/Atlantis experience has echoed throughout my lifetime. Edgar Cacye said that more people from Atlantis were incarnations when he passed away in the 1940's. I think the culmination of that group was the very dark and filled with despair Generation X. That Generation has had a lot of karma to work through. That would be the generation of the Loser's Club.
I debated what I wanted to write tonight but I was meditating on how this movie fits into a larger trend that I didn't realize until just now. So, I decided I would write this review.
I know this review is super late but...better late than never right? The Movie Review I really enjoyed this movie. This is not a movie that you take seriously or think has a deeper meaning. This a very shallow sketch of an idea. Given the really difficult nature of this material- I mean, the cartoons are the epitome of silly childishness and the actual comic books never really rose above that. I have that complaint about most of DC- there charecters and plots tend to be shallow- and that's why I rarely bought those comics when I was a kid. I think of it more of a piece of Art then anything else. The director, James Wan, clearly had a fun time making this movie. The images are breathtaking. The underwater sequences were brilliant. Given how difficult the material was and how thin the plot he really pulled off something I thought was impossible. I loved how unapologetic it was when it came to huge plot holes. For example, when Arthur and Mera are stranded in the Sahara there are jokes about how they might not be able to get out of there...but the movie doesn't cover that struggle. They simply go to the next scene which is a town in Italy, I think, and they never explain how they left the temple in the Sahara. That's a huge difference from most movies...but this is the type of movie where you have to suspend any notion of reality. I give Aquaman a solid B. I wouldn't list it among my huge list of favorite movies but I'll watch it a few more times. I consider this one of those films you can pop in when you're having a bad day and just need to watch something silly. Could it have been better...yeah, whoever wrote the script could have done a better job but the only other DC movie I own is Wonderwoman so that says a lot! Although, the idea that Atlantis still exists with 'evolved' people is nonsense (I don't know where that idea came from) at least they got the story right. Almost all sources agree that Atlantis destroyed itself by miseuse of technology. I think that concept and that warning could make for a really good movie but it wasn't explored in this movie at all. The Archetypal Message The ocean is the subconscious. The "One True King" sequence at the top of this post really captures the archetype in this film. He goes to the deepest darkest place within his subconscious to retrieve the Trident and he faces his greatest fear. For me, in my dreams it was fish and eels that represented my fears. I was afraid to touch them for some reason. That goes back to my childhood...but even on the Indigenous American Medicene Wheel the West Directon of Water is Black...the ocean is the symbol of the underworld. In the Mayan tradition the caves of initiation had flood caverns and tunnels that had to be passed through. Arthur retriveing the Trident from the ocean depths is much like the legend of King Arthur pulling the Sword from the Stone. The Stone, of course, is the mind. Here it all goes back to owning our own personal power and soverignty. We are literally the Creators of our personal Subjective Reality. Athena at SageGoddess just released these awesome Agate Plates that say: "Energy follows intention and words create reality. Speak and write your visions with confidence and love. Amen, A'ho, So it is." That sums it up. Isn't it time you took control of your Subjective Reality? The Collective Consciousness Here is the thing, and it really wasn't until Game of Thrones came out and Bran was crowned that I realized this theme. Aquaman really belongs to last year and last years theme that was being worked out by the collective consciousness. That theme was the Rightful King being crowned. I didn't really understand that theme. You can really see it in Black Panther, King Auther: Legend Of The Sword (which had so much potential but was awful) and Aquaman. This year this trend continues with the Game of Thrones and, of course, Lion King (coming out this July). While Lion King is an old Disney movie I'm sure they will put a little bit of a spin on it to 'update' it especially since it will be 'live action' (CG?). I was pondering what this means and realized that it's the Colelctive Consciousness saying, "We're done with people who want to rule." The monarchy system, for the most part, has been dead for a long time. The Big Shift in humanity will be not to give people who are 'rulers'- whether they are called Presidents, Kings or Queens- power. Instead, how we perceive those who become leaders of nations has changed...and their motives, in particular, are coming into scrutiny. Power, as Tyrion pointed out in GOT, is an illusion. The people, by thought alone- through belief- are what give leaders power. If no one feared them and no one followed them...if they were ignored...they would cease to have power. Personal soverignty is so important. Here in the United States the Framers of the Constitution knew the importance of personal soverignty. That's why a centralized government was soomething they strongly debated. That's also why a standinig army for the centralized government was discouraged...each state was to have a standing militia that would unify if the country was in peril. The thought was that a standing army had to DO something and so it invited war. They didn't want a powerful ruler over all fifty states. As time evolved, however, that's what happened. We ended up with a system where the President has too much power. He can Veto and use Executive Orders to ignore the House and Senate. We have a standing Army, Navy, and Air Force that's awlays engaged in war. People are starting to wake up to this concept. They are starting to take responsibility for their own lives. If a President issues an Executive Order and everyone unanimously ignores it what would happen? That order might as well not exist. Almost all people who end up in a position of power, who desired that position above all else wishing to reshape the world into thte idealized image they hold, have resorted to using their armies to enforce their will. Think about that for a moment. That's why the Framers of the Untied States weren't sure they wanted a centralized leader- a president- because that power is so intoxicating to the dominant war-hungry idealists. In all of these films you have the same plot. The unfit person who wants the throne wants war- in Black Panther it was to arm terrorists with superior technology, in Aquaman it was Atlantis attacking the surface dwellers, in GOT it was a number of people but Daenary's who was going to start taking out other nations that had slaves was the biggest one, and in Lion King it's Scar who upsets the balance of life. Conclusion We live in exciting times. That the Collective Consciousness has completely fallen out of love with the concept of people who are power hungry to be leaders of nations...is awesome. I'm not sure what system can replace the ones that are currently out there. Right now, it's the power hungry people who are attracted to politics and no one else. How do you put people who are not power hungry idealists into leadership positions? I can only think of some sort of random lottery but that seems...archaic. I have always beleived that the year 2023 would be an important milestone for humanity. That the bulk of the suffering and termoil would end then as humanity grasped the idea of how to move forward. Could humanities thinking regarding who truly holds power in society change that much? Absolutely, humanity has changed far more then I could ever have imagined in the past twenty years. I wish I had access to Reiki teachers back then, or Sage Goddess.com, YouTube channels about spiritual topics and the Learning Light Center in Anaheim. There is just so much more information and it's just so much more accepted.
I really enjoyed the first How To Train Your Dragon and the second one. This third one did not disappoint. The villian could have been given more development but...seriously, it's a kids movie. I don't expect a relatable or deep villian (nor did I really want a Thanos or Killmonger type charecter in a movie like this one).
That said I give this movie an A. The true magic of this movie is with the Little Ones. The theater was packed with small children...and all of them were spell bound through the entire movie. There were no random children talking or crying. They were completely absorbed in the action. This was the only childrens movie with that many children packed into a theater where this occurred. The fact that they aged these charecters and ended the series conclusively was absolutely bold and awesome. The ending of this movie made me cry in the theater because it was so Sweet! How To Train Your Dragon 3: The Lost World does hold surprises which- as the third movie in a trilogy- is shocking. So, that said, if you have children you need to take them to see this in theaters!
I loved it and give it an A++
The following review has spoilers. Scroll below the embedded video if you want to continue to read.
This movie was definitely made for those walking the Path.
I have always felt that M. Night Shymalan. The overwheming theme- Everyone can be super heros. We just have to believe in ourselves. In a lot of ways, it was the samemeaning as Spiderman Into the Spiderverse. I loved that M. Night dived into the pyshoclogy of the different charecters, Dunn, Glass and The Horde. The fact that he went through and brought up all of the different doubts that the charecters had about themselves. I think that was the crux of it, the supposed psychologist, brought up the same quesitons they asked themselves. She was able to make up reasons and even try to suggest there was a physiological reason why they had a problem. There was so much to love about this movie. I won't give it all away. The twist left me feeling like I had watched Infinity War all over again. I was absolutely shocked M. Night was so bold. I think it's hilarious that the one critic I follow, Chris Stuckman, had so much disannonce because of what M. Night did he couldn't even appreciate the movie. I don't doubt most people who watched the movie had that disannoance. They had one expecation and were disappointed when it wasn't fulfilled. Little things like the Osaka building saying it was a, "Modern Marvel," made my day. The fact that The Osaka Tower looked reminiscent enough of the Two Towers destroyed in 9/11 was significant. That's where it sounded like Glass was trying to sheperd Dunn and the Horde to prove to the world that something was going. How many people woke up and began questioning the carefully constructed reality we were told existed in the United States because of 9/11? That was just a brilliantly placed item. So subtle. Then the twist at the end with the secret society with the shamrock's on their wrists. That was the first shocker. The second was when the psychologist told Dunn that he was right, he was super human, after the entire movie where you were wondering if it was really in their heads. I mean, their powers are subtle, after all. I thought maybe M. Night would go there. That would be just as brilliant. The Horde and Beast already have the overtones of the charecter in Revelations that most people are taught to fear. That's one of the reasons I felt that Split was amazing. What a way to handle that concept in a way that is not what the religious people anticipate. This movie was a beautiful journey it was very intellectual but not overt. I cried in the theater. One of the things that Christ Stuckman didn't like is my favorite. The fact that M. Night makes Glass relateable. He's not just a one dimensional villian. He has so much more to him. In the real world that's how things work. Villian's have back stories...they have histories that motivate them. I cried for the good guys and the villian. That's powerful story telling. The last line that Glass's mom states, "This is how we join the rest of the universe." I loved that and the ending. My husband said that M. Night could have stopped at the part where the psychologist realized why Glass wanted to go through the basement. I liked the full sequence. I felt the ending for the three final charecters and Glass's monologue for the video he created for the world held so much more meaning. Conclusion For fans of the series and the charecters who have been awakened and walked the Path of The Seeker there is a lot of food for thought in this movie. Other people probably won't get it. The fact is that for the Mass of Unawakened M. Night's movies don't make sense. When I go back and watch them there is so much meat to them. So much there that's symbolic and speaks to a subconscious level that people who come at them from a purely physical material reality intellectual stand point just won't get...and that's okay. Not all movies are for everyone. Society needs to get over this idea that everything needs to be the same for everybody. The idea that every movie has to speak to everyone and be super generic is limiting. The idea that everyone must have the same lifestyle and level of living to be happy is also limiting. We are not carbon copy clones of one another or the Source/Creator. We are individuals developing through unique experiences to be unique individual souls. There was also a very Star Wars-ish story to it..., "Whenver one of you shows up the opposite always shows up as well." So whenever a hero steps up...a villian steps up to battle them creating balance. Doesn't that sound a bit like the Kylow Ren and Rey story? Esoteric Thoughts Perfect synchronistic timing for this movie for me! I am so blown away! First, it was funny because a few weeks ago Astrologist Molly Mccord said we were going into a new phase and she saw a glass breaking. There is a limitation that has been removed for those of us a little farther along the Path then the majority. I guess, you could call us the way showers. Then, I happen to hear glass breaking and shattering only a few days ago int hat huge rainstorm. I thought it was fascinating. Whatever broke was not in my house. Maybe it was a neighbors but I have no idea. Then I was told in my dream, "Fly!" The fact that this movie came out during the Super Blood Wolf Moon Eclipse was awesome. That Blood Moon Eclipse really crossed a boundary. Now, astrologically people will say that it was in the sign of Leo...but from my perspective looking up at it...it was in the Sign of Cancer. ey I kind of wonder if the astrological software most people use for charts is out of date...that it hasn't been updated with the Pole Shift. Don't believe me about a Pole Shift? Here is an article: That's an entire blog of it's own! Now, I heard a couple nights before the Blood Moon the howl of the closest things that we have to wolves in this area- Coyotes! I hadn't heard a pack howling since I lived in Big Bear. I'm guessing the rain drove them out of the usual places they hunt and I have no idea what they killed. I've seen rogue coyotes in the streets further north so I take not chances with Apollo (my dog). Of course, my sun sign is Cancer and I was born during the apex of a Blood Moon back on July 5th 1982. So, to me, this is super cool and has a deep symbolic meaning. To me it is symbolic of my own personal spiritual rebirth! I'm just sitting back and receiving the re-birthday presents this year. Haha! Also, it's very interesting that this Glass came out just before Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I am not a super paranoid conspiracy theorist...but like 9/11 I have no doubt that the government killed Marin Luther King. They saw him as a threat to the order of this nation and took him out...then staged a fall guy. Political assasinations are an timeless tradition for governments. Glass, a black man, reveals a secret organization that kills super humans who believe. I mean, what else was Martin Luther King but someone who held a very deep belief in himself and humanity? When powerful people step up who really believe themselves that wish to be of Service to the People, like Mr. King and like Trump, people get scared. They are scared of the power those people hold because it can be contagious and they can't be corrupted by outside influences. When someone is doing something out of the desire to be of Service to the Whole they are naturally supported by the Natural Order so they succeed against what seems like staggering odds. They achieve the impossible and send out strong ripples into the Dream Weave (I will be making a video on this subject soon because it ties in so intimately to the Native American Medicene Whele). No amount of money or spin can silence them. For false shallow people who crave only power to make others serve them....that's scary stuff. For the rest of us...we should be celebrating! |
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