Do You See?

Every now and then a movie is released and the people go mad for it, other times one may be released and the main stream maybe just don't quite get it so it becomes a 'cult classic'. The majority of the time however a deeper message is lost almost entirely on the majority of people that watch them for television is really just "distraction t.v"

For a few years now the idea of water wars has been banded about, after all, we cannot live without it. This subject raised it's head in the last James Bond Movie 'Quantum of Solace' starring Daniel Craig whereby whoever controlled the water controlled the power.
More recently this theme was taken up by the animated movie 'Rango' voiced by none other than Johnny Depp. My sole reason for viewing it. The gist of the movie was that the town of Dirt is running low on water, the currency of which the animals trade in. One scene showed a damsel in distress going to a greedy banker only to find that the water had virtually run out with less than a few days supply left. They had obviously heard of the fractional reserve banking system and the theory that not everyone will go in for their water at the same time and loan out more water than they can actually supply!
Behind it all was a corrupt mayor who had a dream to build a new town based on Las Vegas and so he switched off the mains supply to the town forcing the people to sell their lands, default and eventually move to this new 'haven' out of a situation the Mayor had in fact created. You couldn't make it up.

I sat quite literally flabbergasted as the movie unfolded, the symbolism of a landing wheel to receive water echoing Jesus and a heavy inference to The Human Races desire or need to 'believe' in something. A saviour if you will. There was time for light hearted but an in your face nod in reference to George Carlin who once said that the "owners don't need to hold meetings, they socialise and move in the same circles such as golf clubs to decide what they want to do with us" as the Mayor and his people discussed the town of Dirts future and the fate of it's people over a round of desert golf......
All the while people around me were laughing and giggling but I couldn't help but think that the point had been lost. It was quite literally hidden in plain site "this is what they are doing to you, this is how they operate" but the cinema folk seemed more content with supping on their diet cola and being blissfully unaware of the message being played out to them.
The next film I saw was 'Limitless' starring Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper whereby an equally loud message was thrust in the audiences face as a presidential candidate elect was informed by the head of a pharmaceutale company that they were funding him so that when he was in office he would pass some laws for them. Jaw to the floor time. This must be how Tesco came to such prominence during the reign of Tony Blairs 'New Labour' con as they funded his initial campaign for the 1997 election.

So the question now was how many movies had I watched pre 1999 with a message that just wasn't processed at the time due to being conditioned by the 'social conditioning box'. Total Recall? A movie about controlling the air that people breathe? The idea of charging emission taxes has already begun so perhaps the 1990 movie was not so far fetched after all. Or how about 1991s Twelve Monkeys, or Steve Buschemi's speech at the beginning of Quentin Tarrentino's 'Resevoir Dogs'. I imagine the list is endless and there aren't enough Earth minutes in a day to go through them all but one things for sure, the message is getting more blunt and things are being increasingly hidden in plain sight..and what better place to hide it because we look but we do not see.