BUG...THE MOVIE

[MASONIC PLOT]

No, not Bugs Bunny...

I just watched the new film called Bug and I really do not know what the fuck to say, it appears this movie was made specifically to make people like us look completely fucking insane.


Has anyone else seen this film, if so please comment and if you havent, rent it immediately!

Seriously, rent the film and watch it come here and lets talk.

[sunny]

MP, I posted a review about it somewhere and can't find it. Thought it might interest the RI crowd, but I never actually got to see it. I'll have to rent it soon.

[anothershamus]

I just saw one for "Flight of the Living Dead" Zombies on a plane. Hard to beat that one.

[Jeff]

MP, I posted a review about it somewhere and can't find it. Thought it might interest the RI crowd, but I never actually got to see it. I'll have to rent it soon.

Sunny, here's your thread

And just as I found it, what did I see out of the corner of my eye, but a spider crawling down the wall next to me.

[sunny]

Thanks Jeff!

I was thinking-maybe we should have a separate category in the archives for film threads?

[§ê¢rꆧ]

Well it's downloading... looks really interesting. Girlfriend will be happy it's 'not another documentary'

[8bitagent]

Well it's downloading... looks really interesting. Girlfriend will be happy it's 'not another documentary'

Ooh, I have literally about 50 MUST SEE powerful documentaries to reccomend that are online that a lot of people havent seen, covering all subjects in regards to coverups.

[MASONIC PLOT]

The movie really brings to mind MORGELLONS DISEASE in my opinion and is perhaps a way to discredit it along with a myrid of other conspiracies like human traffiking, CIA/Military mind control experimentation etc etc, it just goes on and on along these lines and appears to make a joke of all of it, to make anyone who believes in these types of things look completely delusional and out of touch with reality.

I dont know if it was intended to make a mockery of these matters or if this was truly the only way the writer/director felt they could present the ideas to get them into the mainstream but it came off to me as an attempt to really make conspiracy culture look whacked out and dangerous.

[theeKultleeder]

it came off to me as an attempt to really make conspiracy culture look whacked out and dangerous.

It is.

[streeb]

It is.

Yup. It's conspiritainment until the last ten minutes, then it's about paranoia. Covers a lot of the ground you'd expect, with a subplot about child abduction, and an ambiguous reference to govt. involvement. The screenwriter (playwrite, actually) knows his stuff, but the ending is unequivocal and even kind of uses its ostensible villain, a wife-beater, as the sole source of reliable narrative.

William Friedken of course also made the Exorcist and French Connection.

[Seamus OBlimey]

The film begins with a very bloody corpse of a man in a blue-lit room that has tin-foil everywhere...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_(2007_film)

Sounds like my average day. Not something I'd want to watch.

[Seamus OBlimey]

Too real!

Masters of Reality - Domino

[§ê¢rꆧ]

Oh my.. painfully compelling viewing. Definite Morgellon's reference.

Not something for the first date.

[geogeo]

Watched it the other day, and it is as described. I knew something was bothering me--had forgotten about Morgellon's disease. In the commentary, however, I believe it was the director who mentioned that the film showed a terrorist type of person, hiding from the authorities, with delusional fantasies, dangerous...

Definitely the way Judd buys into the guy's paranoid schizophrenia is her obvious interest in conspiracy theories, mentioning early on about the psychic who predicted Kennedy's death. So she is open to the mad ramblings of the conspiracy theorist/terrorism, bcause she has a few pet theories of her own (most Americans are like this). But I'm not sure about the intentionality of the film--it's based on a play; it doesn't mention 9-11 at all, and seems such a hodge-podge of conspiracy theories that it might well have been written by someone who just assumes all of that is symptomatic of madness. Also I believe, or want to believe, that there is a subtext of rationality, some sort of darker "what if" in there, like the filmmakers are playing with you. Definitely, though, on the surface it's ludicrous, after they coat the entire inside of the house with tinfoil, and Judd does an awful job at losing her mind and connecting ALL the dots. The fact that Connick the wife-beater is the "normal" one is somewhat disturbing.

[§ê¢rꆧ]

Also I believe, or want to believe, that there is a subtext of rationality, some sort of darker "what if" in there, like the filmmakers are playing with you.

I think so too... I mean, the doctor character - Dr. Sweet - WAS preparing a syringe for Peter before he was attacked, presumably to knock him out and capture him. That and the helicopter sounds/shaking house seemed to indicate they were under surveillance, although that was somewhat explained as being perceptual when the abusive boyfriend bangs on the door, and it produces a similar perception/effect.

I want to know - what is she smoking - the glass pipe Dr. Sweet takes a hit off, too. Does it look like a crack pipe, or just a marijuana bong?