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Blow is based on the true life story of George Jung, as told by George Jung (from his perception).

Being fed-up and disillusioned with the lifestyles of his parents, he progressively got into drugs and drug dealing at a relatively young age.

He likewise was made painfully aware of the betrayal, dishonesty, distrust, and general lack of honour which are natural parts of that lifestyle and/or field(s) of endeavour.

The story line depicts the insanity, pain, misery, suffering, and consequences involved in such endeavours.

The entire cast and crew are to be commended for an excellent job of telling/showing this gentleman's story, as he sees it.

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I recently viewed this film as an adult, having once seen it as a child and not having remembered much about it.

I usually endeavour to stay in a positive mode of thinking, but that is difficult for me to accomplish regarding this movie.

The movie illustrates dishonesty, obsessive/compulsive disorders, mental illness(es), sadomasochism, greed, and control.

Additionally, it is seriously dated and indicative of the closed-mindedness of the era in which it was created.

I gave it a 6 out of 10 and that was pushing it.

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Pulp Fiction (1994) is predominantly about one man's awakening/enlightenment. It is a beautifully illustrated movie about specific types of lifestyles.

The entire cast and crew create an excellent production of real life situations for some people. It's honesty and ability to be aboveboard are much appreciated and much needed by our current society/world.

Interwoven amongst the violence and betrayal are dedication, love, morality, loyalty, immortality, and spirituality.

To make it even more interesting is the fact that it ignores the time-space continuum, which many of us know is an illusion relevant to the ordinary 3-D reality only, and illustrates the real reality of existence.

It is classified as "fiction with a purpose" - it teaches and instructs if we will pay attention and paying close attention is mandatory for understanding of the messages that are contained within this movie.

pulp: 1. a soft, moist, shapeless mass of matter. 2. A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and being characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper. American Heritage Dictionary, New College Edition.

A splendid work of art, science, and esotericism.

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Jacob's Ladder (1990) excellently illustrates the existence of multiple realities/Universes/worlds/existences/dimensions; scientific reference: select quantum mechanics physics' theories; philosophical/spiritual reference: "In my Father's house there are many mansions."

Jacob Singer actually dies physically during the Viet Nam War. This movie illustrates accurately the immortality of the human spirit.

The movie is classified as "fiction with a purpose" and as a "teaching movie" illustrating facts of the realities (truths) which have always existed, to the best of our understanding of the word "always".

Superb work by all cast and crew.

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This movie accurately depicts several modes of human behaviours and the effects those behaviours have on others, specifically children.

Billy Bob Thornton has created a masterpiece displaying the bottom of the human chain and a human being's ability to overcome such ignorance.

The parents of the main character operate with less intelligence quotients than most animals. These types of individuals are warts on the ass of humanity, sucking life force from every available source. To classify the parents as "demons" would be an insult to actual demons.

Furthermore, Dwight Yoakum has done an excellent job of illustrating some of the actual character defects of alcoholics.

Paradoxically, the main character finds more sanity in an asylum/sanitarium than he encounters in the "outside" world.

The movie accurately illustrates that people are predominantly products of their original environments until and unless they begin to think on their own, have vision, and question everything that we as a society consider "normal".

The movie is classified as "fiction with a purpose" - it teaches and instructs, if we will pay attention.

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Who are we? What are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? This movie deals with some, if not all, of the above questions.

The main character portrayed by Demi Moore is classified by medical science as "multiple personality disordered". Yet, from a spiritual/philosophical/mystical/metaphysical/quantum mechanics physics viewpoint, she is classified as multidimensional in existence or inter-dimensional in existence. Spiritual philosophical reference: "In my Father's house there are many mansions".

This movie does an excellent job of accurately illustrating the overlap of one or more universes onto and into another or others and/or the overlap of one or more consciousnesses onto and into another or others.

The movie is classified as "fiction with a purpose" - it teaches about alternate realities/existences/universes/worlds/dimensions. It is a "truth movie" or "teaching movie"

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The movie opens with dialogue between the main character and a police detective. The main character, identified as "the young man" makes the following statements: "I've been on my own for awhile and getting kind of lonely and bored. Nothing to do all day. And that's when I started shadowing."

The main character, in a warped and infringing state of mind, begins to follow people only to find out that he is likewise being followed, set up, and framed. Like attracts like, unfortunate for him in this case. His original motives were not harmful, only loneliness, boredom, and overinterest in other peoples' lives; infringement. He used the fact that he aspired to become a writer as an excuse for his behaviours.

The movie is presented in non-linear time movement sequences cognitive-wise and there are many similarities between this film, Christopher Nolan's first work released in 1998, and Memento released in 2001.

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The main character in this movie, played by Jeff Bridges, is obsessed with his wife's death in the line of duty and with terrorists. He is unable to face reality the way the reality is set up.

Furthermore, he allows his only child to control him as opposed to taking a mature and responsible stance of teaching the child via mature and responsible actions. Additionally, he is overemotional to the point of childishness.

He is looking for someone to blame, a scapegoat, for his wife's death in her line of duty and decides that that blame can be shifted to all terrorists or whom he believes are or could be terrorists and the FBI. Additionally, he takes his states of overemotionality out on his college level students in a self-centered and self-obsessed manner; not teaching what they signed up to learn in the class but teaching about his own feelings.

Via his dysfunctional state of consciousness, he literally attracts in a real terrorist. Then the real fun begins.

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This movie is classified as a "comedy" but depicts real-life behaviours of people when subjected to suicide of a parent.

The three main characters, sisters, each deal with their childhood issues in their individualistic manners.

One is withdrawn, shy, and non-assertive as an adult, believes she is defective because of the ignorance of her grandfather in regard to a minor medical problem, and afraid of relationships with men.

Another is a chain-smoking alcoholic who hated her father, probably for more reasons than were depicted in the movie, has a long string of men whom she never allows herself to become genuinely close with, and suffers a temporary mental breakdown.

The third sister married a controlling and abusive man at her age 18 years, suffers from loneliness and suicidal ideologies, and finally snaps enough to shoot her husband due to his abusiveness.

The movie is a triumph in its illustration of accurate human behaviours and reactions to traumatic events and depicts the seriousness of those situations with humour. Additionally, it accurately depicts denial in operation.

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This movie is a definite work of art. The entire cast and crew are superb in their production.

Basically, anyone could be the murderer in this film or there may be more than one murderer or a murderer or murderers with an accomplice or accomplices. In any event, deciphering it will keep you on your toes, figuratively speaking.

The heaviest suspects are the construction worker/snow plow driver/minister fellow known as Gary Jackson, the elusive and possibly non-existent "Oliver", and the investigating detective known as Detective Jerry Black.

Benicio Del Toro's character, Toby Jay Wadenah, was essentially ruled out by the fact that he was imprisoned at the time of the first murder which occurred on July 18, 1992 in Monash County, Nevada, if one agrees with the modus operandi theory. From a psychological viewpoint, Mr. Wadenah was lead into a confession via duress from the egotistical and impatient Detective Stan Krolak.

The teenage boy who appeared on the scene of the second murder dealt with in the movie arrived there as a result of bogging his snowmobile down into snow. His curiosity at seeing Mr. Wadenah departing the wooded area in an apparent state of stress and/or fear prompted him to go into the wooded area whereupon he encountered the crime scene.

The good minister whom his mother believed that the good Lord had not yet seen fit to provide him with a perfect-enough wife as yet, is a strong suspect due to the unusualness of his stopping his truck on the side of the road, getting out of it, and striking a conversation with a young female child with whom he is not acquainted, nor is there any indication in the movie that he is acquainted with the child's mother. Additionally, working as a construction worker during the summer and a snow plow driver during the winter puts him in a state of freedom, comparatively speaking, to be on the scene of the first murder which was committed in July and the second murder which was committed in the winter of 2000, as well as possibly having some association with the missing child.

Oliver's name is called out by the Christmas store lady a total six times, once on the first occasion and five times on the second. But, to our knowledge, we are never given any further information regarding Oliver. The Christmas store lady could have been talking to an imaginary character, a ghost, herself, or a host of other possibilities. Furthermore, if there is in reality an Oliver, he is associated with chocolate porcupine candies.

Detective Jerry Black is a suspect for a minimum of four reasons: 1) he makes the statement to his former colleagues, "At the time of the murders Toby Wadenah was in Stillwater Penitentiary doing time on his own rape conviction, so he couldn't have done it". The problem with his statement is that at that time which would have been during July of 1992, there was only one murder confirmed, that of Luanne Fay Rotze. The case of Catherine Anne Olstad, reported missing on October 12, 1997, was not classified as a murder but as "Missing - Presumed Dead". Either Jack's character made a Freudian slip, a simple mistake in language, or an assumption not characteristic for a law enforcement officer, retired or not. 2) Jack's character likewise talked with Chrissy in the restaurant and seemed a little "too" interested in her. 3) He made the statement at the Crazy Daze Parade/Festival in re the red dress which Chrissy picked out, "Well, that'll look real nice. It is her colour". 4) He made the statement at the crime scene regarding a knife being easily thrown far away, "Assuming it was a knife".

Furthermore, the question can be legitimately posed as to why he was the person to inform the Larsens of their daughter's murder out of all the other officers in attendance at the crime scene.

We are not given much information regarding Detective Black's background other than he's been divorced twice, he is a chain smoker, a possible alcoholic, lifted evidence from Sheriff P. Adrien Dorval's file without permission, didn't appear to be concerned about lying to James Olstad in stating that he was a detective instead of a retired detective, his office was decorated with pictures of himself and fish indicating self-centeredness and/or self-obsession and/or narcissism, was controlling in his offer to pay a high price to the owner of the gas station for his own self-serving purposes as well as other instances of control, broke out into a sweat upon questioning by his therapist regarding current sexual activity while hearing the words in his head "There are such devils", as well as other parts of the conversation between Mrs. Larsen and himself. Those are just the starters.

Detective Black was definitely obsessed with the case and was clearly baiting Chrissy into a similar situation as the previous girls had encountered.

The question is, who was he baiting? The murders and missing girl's cases seemed to give his life meaning. What were his motives? What did he want? Why was he willing to leave his own retirement party to investigate a case in another county? Additionally, he was dimensionally slowed down consciousness-wise at his retirement party possibly indicating depression and/or "black hole" effect, superficial, and appeared ungrateful.

Then there is the situation wherein Chrissy is swinging in her red dress, the black station wagon with a porcupine creation hanging from the rear-view mirror drives by and stops just out of forward sight Chrissy dismounts the swing to meet whomever was driving the vehicle, and the sound of the door opening. The scene just prior to that one depicted Jerry's character on the lake fishing. That night she told Jerry about having met the wizard and showed him the porcupine candies which she stated that the wizard had given her and also that he would provide more the next day.

There are more than one black station wagons in the vicinity and portrayed in the movie or else they are changing license plates frequently. The wagon which the minister is driving in one scene is not the same style station wagon as the one shown in the scene with Chrissy or in the wreck. Nor is it clear that the station wagon at the service station when Jerry pumps gas and tells the driver that his type of vehicle sticks out is definitely being driven by the minister.

The mysteries abound in this movie. Enjoy them but don't become obsessed with them. This is excellent work mystery-wise.

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Carl Jung, M.D., who originally studied under Sigmund Freud, M.D., but broke from him due to his (Jung's) expanded consciousness, mysticism, and spirituality, stated in his book "Man and His Symbols" that we are everyone in our dreams. This movie illustrates that theory as well as some quantum theories on alternate worlds/universes/dimensions/existences.

People will not usually experience such an awareness without some "black hole" type of consciousness experience, i.e., personal trauma, which the main character in the movie did encounter.

Anne Parillaud's character was able to see into and interact with another of her dimensions of existence and her alternate self was able to do the same. She probably would not be classified by medical science as "multiple personality disordered" but more than likely as "PTSD" (post traumatic stress/shock disorder) as a result of the rape which she experienced and her father's death, both apparently occurring in close proximity to each other judging by statements made and actions taken by some individuals within the movie. Although, her alternate self probably experienced something of a traumatic experience somewhere down the line due the fact that she was a hit-woman for hire, specializing in hits on men only. Additionally, this movie is philosophical in nature evidenced by the statements made by the gentleman whom she kills in both realities, and who in one reality is a store owner partner and in the other, a detective. This individual(s) makes the statement to her both times that she has decided upon a plan of action which she will go through with, but will live to regret it.

Many, if not all, of the characters throughout the movie and in both dimensions of existence are very similar to each other, if not identical.

The theme of this movie is that dreams are real, not some fantasy world that human beings immerse themselves into plus or minus eight hours every night on the average.

The film's classification is "fiction with a purpose" - it teaches about human realities, human betrayal, and human reactions to stressful experiences.

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This story is set in a small town apparently somewhere in the South. The main character is a widow who is raising three young boys and is of modest means apparently due to her husband's death approximately one year prior. She receives small death benefit payments from the Social Security Administration and donations for her psychic readings which she provides as a service to her "appointments".

Her character is impeccable, honest, caring, loving, understanding, forgiving, and conscientious. She is called by one member of the community, "The Soul of the town". The entire theme of the movie revolves around her.

Some of the characters included in that revolvement are a victim of childhood sexual abuse and sadomasochism, an angry and rageful physical and mental abuser (tyrant), and a murderer.

The main character is able to see into the past, present, and future and is an inter-dimensional individual who is strongly religious in nature but accused by some of the town's folk of being a Satanist and a witch.

This movie can be considered an actual depiction of the lives of some people. Cross dimensionality is also depicted in the movie on numerous occasions by three different individuals, the main character, the murder victim, the childhood sexual abuse victim, and on one occasion by one of the main character's grandmothers who she calls "granny".

Individuals who are still in denial regarding their own behaviours probably will not care for the honesty in this film nor will those who are into "formula".

The film's classification is "fiction with a purpose" - it teaches about real human lives and real human situations and circumstances as well as offering solutions to some of the dilemmas that human beings find themselves in. It is a 10 out of 10 movie.

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This movie is based on mysticism, philosophy, quantum mechanics physics, spirituality, and immortality.

It will be liked or disliked by the masses according to their state(s) of consciousness awareness.

It deals with the particle and wave theories in quantum physics in the respect that each time Lola encounters certain people, we are presented with quick flashes of those people in other situations and/or existences/realities.

It encompasses spirituality as we see Lola speaking to her God and asking for help in the desperate situation she finds herself in. Then she is stopped in her tracks by an oncoming truck, made aware that a casino is right across the street, then given the instructions on how to play the casino.

It depicts immortality and free will in that she nor Manni die, even though it appears that they died, or they actually did die only physically in the ordinary 3-D reality. Spirit is infinite. Death is just a dimensional shift.

The movie does an excellent job of displaying the fact that we, as human beings, have many options available to us at every given point in time and that each of those options create different realities, some similar, some not so similar.

Lola continually strove to do the "right thing" and found that the right thing wasn't always what she thought it was or should be, i.e., the scene with her father wherein he attempted to invalidate her with his emotional abusiveness and cruelty.

There are some Angels in the movie, which is not uncommon for this kind of movie. Although, they do not identify themselves as Angels. It is up to us to recognize them, if we choose, by their actions.

The statements at the beginning of the movie by the later security guard spill just about everything we need to know to play the game called life.

I noticed some references to Lola's screams. From a metaphysical viewpoint, her screams represented energy in motion directed by her motives and intentions; her will.

Overall, a brilliantly scripted and executed work which will open the eyes of those who are ready to have them opened.

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This movie, produced in 1980, does an exceptionally good job of dealing with the subject of alternate and/or parallel realities/worlds/universes/existences and was ahead of its time in the quantum mechanics physics arena.

Particularly noteworthy is the statement by William Hurt's character that schizophrenia is not considered an illness or disease by some scientists, but "another" or a different state or states of consciousness. If medical science were to accept this theory, there would be many advances in the treatment of schizophrenia. (RE: the movie "The Cell")

Particularly noteworthy again are the scenes wherein Hurt's wife's character is illustrated as a reptile. (RE: Studies on the part of the human brain known as the reptilian sector) (RE: Also bar scene in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas")

Mr. Hurt's character uses floatation type meditation to access altered states of consciousness in some cases, as well as psychedelic drug-inducement in others.

Although, the main character is not Source-oriented therefore not well versed in interpretation of the altered states of existence portrayed in the movie.

Overall, an excellent film classified as fiction with a purpose; a "teaching movie".

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From a philosophical viewpoint, The Prophecy 3 and The Matrix are synonymous. They use different terminology and different approaches, but the objectives are basically the same.

In the study of Angelology, it is believed that Archangel Gabriel did fall for a short period of time, then returned.

The movie stays rather honest throughout. Perhaps the "demons" themselves are what scare people away. What does everyone think the "agents" were in The Matrix? I suspect The Matrix creators decided to use the term "agent" to avert the normal fear that most people have regarding the subject of demonology and the word itself.

The movie sheds some light on the Nephilim (Genesis 6) and other Biblical matters as well.

This movie is not-so-fiction with a purpose; it teaches. It has some humour; Christopher Walken as Gabriel is adorable, even when he was "bad" in the previous two movies. Excellent actors and excellent movie.

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During the first 75% of this movie I found myself bored, irritated and judgmental toward the main character. It was not until the last quarter of the movie when the interesting twists started occurring that it actually arrested my attention.

The main character's, Patrick Bateman, behaviours would be classified by medical science as psychopathic and/or sociopathic in nature, or as being mentally insane. Whereas, most psychopaths have or appear to have no conscience, Mr. Bateman did possess some conscientiousness, at least toward the latter part of the movie.

Bateman experienced at least one consciousness dimensional shift as a result of the "black hole" effect he was experiencing in his consciousness/mind. That shift indicated by the facts that his attorney did not recognize him as Bateman but as Davis, the attorney's knowledge that Paul Allen was alive in his (the attorney's) reality, the apartment where Allen had resided and which was then under remodeling, the real estate representative's apparent knowledge of more than one existence/dimension evidenced by her statements to Bateman wherein she requested him to cause no trouble, to leave, and to not return.

Mr. Bateman wanted, needed, and attempted to get help for his dilemma evidenced by his statement to his secretary on the telephone, "I need help Jean, I don't think I'm going to make it" to which she essentially ignored until later and his statement to his girlfriend, "I need to engage in homicidal behaviour on a massive scale. It cannot be corrected but I have no other way to fulfill my needs", to which she also ignored as well as ignoring the drawing he was making at the dining table in the restaurant. The poor fellow was surrounded by egomaniacs who were totally engrossed in themselves only.

Patrick Bateman's statements at the very ending of the movie illustrate his confusion, frustration, and lack of knowledge concerning the reality(ies) he found himself in.

This is a movie which deals with immortality, infinity, free will, and a host of other esoteric-related philosophies, as well as some quantum mechanics physics' theories.

Under the circumstances, it was impossible for me to not feel human compassion for this gentleman who found himself in a loop in hell with no obvious way out, to his present knowledge.

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This movie is akin to The Matrix in its illustration of alternate/parallel/hierarchal realities and/or existences. Additionally, it runs some parallels with The Game, starring Michael Douglas.

It openly depicts three separate realities stacked one upon the other, the stacking being determined by the amount of conscious awareness of the creators of each, respectively.

From a philosophical and spiritual viewpoint, at least one major teacher has touched upon this subject matter with his statement, "In my Father's house there are many mansions".

From some quantum mechanics physicists' viewpoints, such occurrences are only a matter of time, if they have not already actually begun in the ordinary 3-D reality. Some quantum physicists categorize such situations as "virtual reality".

Computer Technology is based upon and was created by human consciousness; humans created computers. Super-humans or God (gods) created humans, with or without computers. Consciousness itself creates. This movie deals with consciousness using computers to create, therefore, it can be considered an analogy for human consciousness.

Key words and phrases in the movie regarding truths in the reality are (please note that some quotes are summarily only): "How many worlds are there?" "Thousands." "I'm not even real." "You have a soul, Fuller did." "You can't just plug your brain/mind into this thing and not expect to be affected by it." "These people are real; they as real as you and me." "I am a reflection of his character profile." References to deja vu and "in another life". "Now we can beat the s**t out of and try to drown one another; that's always fun."

"I think, therefore I am" - Descartes.

Naturally, these realizations, if accepted, can lead to deeper seeking for answers to the reality(s). This movie is classified as "fiction with a purpose". It can be considered an analogous teaching.

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This movie portrays matrixes within matrixes within matrixes, or games within games within games, etc. and illustrates the intense efforts necessary to arrive at the center of the maze.

Deception, corruption, and dishonesty are everywhere but fortunately there are some who will go to any length to undue the ball of string.

Once exposed, it takes evil to fight evil, with care taken to not become evil in the process. To quote Christopher Lambert in Beowulf, "The only thing that keeps me from becoming evil is fighting evil" and Nicolas Cage in re 8MM, "One needs to be careful when fighting monsters that they don't become a monster".

This movie portrays in an exceptional manner the forces than can be behind crime and murder and those forces' quests for power and greed. Additionally, it takes one from the nieve state of mind of the young cop (Guy Pearce) to the reality of the world we live in; a maturation process. It also illustrates the driving forces behind human behaviour, i.e., Russell Crowe's character's war against men who abuse women and how his fear and loathing of those characteristics results in his becoming what he feared and loathed in one scene.

Overall, an exceptional and informative movie about human nature with as good an ending as can be expected under the circumstances.

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This movie is commendable, if nothing else, for its honesty.

It depicts a recovering heroin addicted individual's sincere attempt to maintain his old friendships, after he had changed himself. Like attracts like, therefore, when one changes, like will then be attracting dislike, or its opposite, until it likewise makes adjustments therein.

As the main character's female friend advised him, "You've got to find something new", he partially did so, but failed to cut all of the strings, resulting in more addictive-like behaviours and his submission to his conditional friend (the friend's conditions) allowing himself, his life, and his home to be victimized.

A key phrase in the movie was made by the star, "For the first time in my idle life, I was almost content". Some valid theories on addiction are that addicts come into the world in a state of restlessness, irritability, and discontent.

The movie closes on a positive note with the main character's statements: "The truth is I am a bad person. But that's going to change. I'm going to change. This is the last of that sort of thing. I'm cleaning up and I'm moving on; going straight and choosing life".

An overall positive movie illustrating the difficulties some individuals have with acceptance of life in the everyday, ordinary 3-D reality.

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This movie is a Godsend. It deals with one man's search for and location of himself, that having a paradoxically positive effect on others thereby nudging them along to enter the same pathway, if they choose.

It likewise reveals the overwhelming states of denial, obsession with materialism, control-freak individuals, tyrants and abusive-type individuals that exist in our current world.

Overall, it is a 110% positive movie, illustrating honesty, nobility, respect, and freedom of the mind, soul, and body.

Physical death is just a change in dimension for consciousness, as was illustrated by Kevin Spacey's character's comments at the end of the movie. This is a "Know Thyself" movie. It is "fiction with a purpose" - it teaches freedom and the real reality.