Saw is one of the few horror movies with an intriguing philosophy behind it. Victims of the main character, John Kramer (a.k.a. Jigsaw), wake up in the middle of a puzzle which needs to be solved within a given period of time. Solving the puzzle involves a lot of pain, and most of the time requires a proper use of intelligence. Victims do not have the chance to not play the game, because the consequence is death.
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Government officials who consider themselves to be doing highly important jobs may very well be unaware of the workings of the more complex system that they are a part of. The movie Lord of War portrays a good example of that. At the end of the movie, Jack Valentine (Ethan Hawk), the Interpol agent, who arrests Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) is surprised to hear him say that he would be released shortly. Therefore he tells him that he is not fully aware of the seriousness of his situation, and that he is living in a dream world! In a short while, things turn out exactly the way Yuri Orlov predicted, and Agent Valentine realizes who, in fact, has been living in a dream world the whole time. At this point, one has to remember an earlier scene, in which Agent Valentine asks Orlov, “Do you know why I do what I do?” and makee a cocky explanation.
‘Once there was a bishop who was worrying over what seemed to him the evils of the doomed world. Tossing on his bed at midnight he thought he heard the Lord say: “Go to sleep, bishop. I’ll sit up the rest of the night.’ – Reinhold Niebuhr
Status quo is a term used to refer to the ‘existing state of affairs’. Since most people do not question the way things get going, repetitive imposition of mainstream values shape the borders of a status quo mindset. By nature, the majority of human beings have a strong tendency to keep things the way they are. They resist change. This makes it easier for all political systems to push citizens inside a mainstream. Since this has to be a specific mainstream that serves the best advantage of the controllers of the political system, citizens are subjected to mental programming with the use of mind control techniques.
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