Yes I’d actually read it before without seeing the film and read it again last night. I’m gonna take another look sober. been thinking about that point of power relying on the banal and the magical/theatrical co-existing together
 
“... Deprogramming simultaneously retro-produced the program, just as witch-trials preceded devil-worship and regressive hypnotherapy preceded false memory syndrome. Yet, once these ‘fictions’ are produced, they function in and as reality. It isn’t that belief in Project Monarch produces the Monarch Program, but rather that such belief produces equivalent effects to those the reality of Project Monarch would produce, including some that are extremely peculiar and counter-intuitive.”

Consider Q-Anon in this respect
 

luka

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A lot of these eighties films are set in towns that look like film sets in the same way but they're not film sets its just what America looks like
 

luka

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Those one story buildings, bars, gun shops, diners. Wide streets. Empty space everywhere. A feeling of impermanence
 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
Apologies for this in advance preamble, the droopy eyelids coerced me

 

DLaurent

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I like the bit where he gets called to the house of a patient who's just died and the daughter tries to seduce Bill. Everything in the film has a meaning. I remember watching it and seeing it as a series of what seemed like vivid vignettes all with a meaning like that but I watched it again it seemed different, there's a proper story arc to it. One of my fav films.
 

HannahB

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Interjection hope that’s ok, the thing I liked about Eyes Wide Shut was that 53 times (I read) Tom asks a question like:

not Tom: “the sky is blue today”
Tom: “the sky is blue today?”

as a device to lead into dream
 
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