Counter-Currents
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I read a lot and always have, but there is only one book I have ever finished and immediately gone from its last line straight back to page one and started reading it again. It was Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The movie version featured Johnny Depp with Benicio del Toro as his lawyer (and I guess Depp has met his fill of lawyers just recently, although hopefully not on acid). But it wasn’t at all bad, I thought. Thompson’s famous gonzo style of writing (much better than precursor H. L. Mencken, who I have to say I could never stand) put a fishhook in my upper lip I could not shake free of.
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I recently saw this movie for the first time myself. It was unusual, but I wouldn’t rank it as highly as you do. Movies have grown to be the most important part of my life as well. All these movies you mention have kabbalistic underpinnings, I’m not sure if you are aware. They chronical, sometimes allegorically, sometimes literally, real individuals that new world order types are persecuting! Particularly there is a group of movies, of which Kill List is an exemplar, whose plot element is that some cult or coven is sacrificing an individual. Sometimes, as in The Witch or Hereditary, the coven has actual supernatural powers, other times, as in say, The Invitation or Get Out, they are merely deranged humans. I believe each of these movies allegorizes the persecution of a distinct actual individual. Not famous necessarily, mostly obscure, but real! These movies start around 2005 and continue to the present. Examples I have watched would be House of the Devil, Kill List, Midsommer, Get Out, The Invitation, Hereditary, The Witch, etc. There are probably others—please chime in if anyone knows of any! You will see that they have the same basic plot structure; basically they are the same movie more or less, allowing for details. Kill List was interesting to me because it had several figures I didn’t know much about. I don’t like this sort of film actually—they give me the same sick feelings slasher movies do, but I watch them to decode the kabbalism.
Thanks to Mark for this essay, I also meant to say. Most enjoyable over all. I’m inspired to read Fear and Loathing in Vegas now based on his comments!
I’m curious about the title. That phrase came up in something Anne Boleyn said, which didn’t end too well (to say the least). Is it in common use still?
What it means is that they put pinhole cameras in the guy in question’s shoes. It’s the same figure as pertains to the Jarmusch film Dead Man. It’s very interesting. The movie Under Silver Lake is about all this stuff. While not a very good movie per se(similar to this one), it has a lot of good stuff pertaining to this. Pay particular attention to the scene where he goes to the Anthony Hopkins character. That’s how it is!
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