Ever since the surreal 2000 presidential elections, the world has been reeling under blow after stunning blow from natural and man made disasters. I am not the superstitious type. I don't believe in the inauspicious confluence of planetary forces or evil demonic powers exercising their destructive will on the routine circadian rythm of life. But George Bush's horror filled regime has shaken up even prosaic skeptics like myself who are beginning to waver in our rejection of the supernatural. To live under the stewardship of this administration is like having Typhoid Mary cook your supper on Friday the 13th.
Suspense / horror movies fall into essentially two broad categories. The Manchurian Candidate, North By Northwest, Dr. Strangelove, Clockwork Orange and all James Bond movies deal with the natural capacity of the human mind to spread evil in order to satisfy greed and lust for power. For a long time I thought that the Bush administration belonged in this class - selfish, brutish, power hungry men who wreak havoc on the world by their evil genius for secretive, cruel and murderous plots. In this scenario, G.W.B. appears as the hapless puppet in the hands of ruthless and shrewd puppeteers like Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove, Wolfowitz and other assorted neo-cons. This premise can explain some of the recent events but not all.
George Bush's frightening tenure makes you wonder if mere human forces could do so much damage in five short years. What if the "puppet" himself - of the seemingly harmless, comical and even affable appearance, IS the true fountainhead of evil and the hand pulling the strings belongs to no earthly being? Think now of the second genre of horror movies to find a parallel. The Omen, Rosemary's Baby, The Shining, Carrie and other spine chilling cinematic works about otherworldly phenomena. Could that indeed explain the tsunami, hurricanes, earthquakes - along with Iraq, Iran and 9/11? Well, the always funny and "off the beaten track" blogger, Matt certainly thinks that there is something to it. Read his hilarious and almost convincing explanation at Cerulean Blue.
Great stuff ... I could definitely see it being like the upcoming Omen remake, scary but also very, very stupid
Posted by: Keith Demko | June 03, 2006 at 05:12 AM
While we are on the subject of movies and conspiracies,I remember distinctly thinking when I saw the blur of a plane hitting the second tower of the WTC, while the first emitted ghastly clouds of smoke and dust, that the whole thing seemed unreal, like a badly made horror flick.
I recently saw Loose Change which was a top conspiracy theory documentary on Google video until a few weeks back. Even if many of the things discussed in it seem a bit far-fetched, there are some that make you go hmmmm...
Posted by: Sujatha | June 03, 2006 at 06:28 AM
Oh man, it's so true! I think reading Matt's post has just made my day--maybe even my week.
Posted by: Joe | June 04, 2006 at 05:25 PM
dude. we just watched the Omen and it, obviously, left me scouring the net for correlations between such movies and Bush. It just all adds up so perfectly. What a mess.
Posted by: daisey | October 06, 2006 at 02:32 AM