Jeff wrote:Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:Get it now? "Four deaths" + "Alice Kraus" is a very strong mirror of what is known as Kent State which was the USG killing civilians over the Vietnam War, just like MLK.
Jesus, Hugh. Did
you miss
even if Grisham/Pollack chose the name to evoke an association, it was a sympathetic association, and a recalling to mind of a moment in history.
Hunh? How did you decide this subtle (it is subtle) reference to Kent State was intended as a sympathetic association, just a tribute... dropped into a movie out of nowhere?
That REALLY doesn't make any sense.
The rationale I posited makes complete sense.
And I've found the same inoculation theme with secondary triggers tickling a primary message in scores of psy-ops films, not just this one.
Fer pete's sake, I've found the cognitive science that describes this and from Charles Osgood, one of the CIA's MKULTRA specialists!
SCIENCE TEXTS back me up. I didn't make up "inoculation" and "interference" and "retroactive inhibition." This is REAL cognitive science right out of the books!
Am I posting in invisible ink when I point at the science? Seems so, Jeff.
Here's the way to look at these little tiny subtle hints all leading to the same place-
You know how you can't hold up a weight with a thin hair that you can hardly even see?
But you CAN hold up a weight with a number of hairs that you can still hardly even see.
This is the way to do subliminal cueing that influences subsequent audience attitudess but without the audience realizing they've been influenced.
If you look right at one thin hair, there's nothing there.
But those secondary thin hairs are still tied on to the central primary weight.
And if you look closely and find lots of thin hairs all tied to the same primary weight, this is intentional, not coincidence.
This is how subliminal psy-ops works in movies using just the thin hairs of keywords framed in different contexts (displacement) so your critical attention sees the decoy narrative while your subconscious takes in the subliminal framing.
It's like showing people a painting which they stare at but you've snuck your message into the frame around the painting and it sneaks right into their brains with no resistance.
Parafoveal priming in your vision is how product placement outside the center of attention on a movie screen works in a similiar manner.
That which is outside of your center of vision is not processed with your brain's critical thinking filters which - counterintuitively - do have biases screening things out. So the stuff you don't look right and see clearly but stays on the margins of perception is what gets into your head the most effectively.
Wait! Reread that last sentence. That's the key to subliminal psy-ops.
So the 'parafoveal priming' effect for your mind is in subtle use of keywords and thematic hints and positive framing of semantic elements of government cover-ups plus negative framing of semantic elements of whistleblowers exposing scandals.
Has Kent State been erased from memory by "The Firm"?
That's not the purpose of barely evoking it in the movie. For some, it will be diminished.
For who? For youngsters, they get pre-biased to think it is Tom Cruise fiction.
For people who know Kent State, the slight memory tickle helps reinforce the MLK central theme.
Have people forgotten Allison Krause because of the fictional "Alice Kraus"?/quote]
That's not the purpose of barely evoking it in the movie. For some, it will be diminished.
For who? For youngsters, they've been pre-biased to think she is Tom Cruise fiction.
For people who know Kent State, the slight memory tickle helps reinforce the MLK central theme.
If no, then nothing has been "hijacked" except another thread.
I respond to other people's desire to discuss. And some want to know how a movie works on the mind and on culture.
Gee, your pal Pan keeps claiming that I'm "biased."
But he suggests that the science of marketing and psy-ops and PR and campaigning that is ALL about creating bias...only happens to me...and not the info-vulnerable general public and youth?
The CIA which specializes in psy-ops and disinfo and media doesn't, according to Pan, use the basic cognitive science for counterpropaganda that I, a mere well-read civilian, have found?
C'mon. That would not make sense. I'm bright but I don't have decades of Ivy League state-of-the-science research and resources and billions of dollars to figure this out.
Hate to say it, but not every body can hold multiple layers of a semantic construct in their minds at once. Some reading this will never understand it.
And this is how the subliminal remains subliminal.
Once you know the science, methods, means, motive, opportunity, etc....it ain't subliminal anymore. It's overt. And obvious.
I thought my post explaining the cues for "MLK" and the cues for "1960s/Vietnam War murder" was pretty good. Read it a few times.
And remember my analogy about thin almost ALMOST invisible hairs all tied on to the same center weight to hold it up.
