So I have noticed a refreshing trend in the glitzy business of show lately:
"You Were Never Really Here" is a film about an Iraq war veteran with severe PTSD and suicidal ideation who finds his calling in tracking down trafficked minor girls and returning them to their family.
He winds up uncovering a pedophile ring headed by a state governor who collects lolitas and our tormented hero kills a lot of pedos and spooks in the process.
"Memory" is a story about an aging hitman with early-onset Alzheimer's, who is contracted to kill a young, trafficked teen girl but our hero decides to snuff out the pedophile ring that hired him in stead.
"Message from the king" is a movie about a South African man coming to LA in search of his sister. She is killed by a pedophile ring covering up their tracks to protect a high-ranking politician and a (((movie producer))). Our hero ends up killing everyone connected to the pedophile ring.
Now, one is a coincidence, but three is a distinct trend worth noticing.
Are we seeing a shift in the Overton window in popular culture? Is Hollywood, dare I say it, 'our guys' now?
(I know, I know, that last sentence is a bit of a stretch, but something is definitely happening here...)
Regrettably, I don't think it's "our guys", although there is a bright side to it.
In my view, this is a form of limited hangout. Normies process reality by what they see in entertainment. So when they see this type of material, they think, "OMG, that's so crazy! I mean, I know it's not like anything like that could ever actually happen and they gotta jazz it up for the movies, but could you imagine if it ever really happened sometime?"
See the dynamic caused by the framing? They place the much worse reality outside the imagination of the viewer. So now if you talk about it, you're some kind of conspiracy kook who thinks movies are real.
The bright side, though, is that They have been pushed to such measures. They would have liked to have kept it invisible, unreasonable, impossible. Read correctly, it's a sign of substantive progress.
Good analysis.
Thanks very much!