Russell Crowe Goes Hitchcockian in Taut ‘The Next Three Days’

Movie: The Next Three Days

The movie I just watched today was excellent. Right on topic with what I’m most interested; namely, the subject of reality and again the collectivists trying to pull the disinformation game.

Early in the movie there is a reference to Don Quixote in Russell Crowe’s class and how reality is subjective which is the set up that this is movie is a discussion of realities subjective nature. Carlos Castaneda processes much of this in his books to the point that if a person is focused on changing his reality he can proceed and execute every plan with flawless delivery. The book “Hagakure” also touches on this briefly on various pages. One reference that comes to mind is, to be so focused on success that even in the last moment of death one can do even just one more act no matter how impossible before the life passes out of the body. In the movie “The Ninth Gate” Dean Corso makes off with a rare copy of Don Quixote, for his character development. Even this movie speaks on the subject of our perceived reality quite overtly.

Either way Russell Crowe’s character is faced with having to get his wife out of prison for a murder she didn’t commit, no secret she’s innocent, but even with Russell’s certain belief of his wife’s innocence, here in this world the law says you are a criminal, even though the law is fallible. Again reality is subjective and truth is hidden for lack of evidence and civil servants that are failingly, “only human”. Any appointed Judge should have picked up that the crime was plausibly deniable but there too is the subjective nature of reality where if it is plausibly deniable, in a collectivist world structure, the right answer is to convict the innocent. Any drain on resources is an acceptable drain on society, the individuals’ spirit, and the individuals’ family. Through tyranny of the state “they” feed on the human suffering. Law makers Judges, city builders and politicians all benefit personally, monetarily and get their fix of power over another’s. Not in any sense that we the sheep would ever clue into from their perspective. Conventional wisdom would say this is preposterous, putting an innocent in jail would result in lost dollars and there in lies is the flipside of the same coin. Collectivist and unwitting public live in the same physical world and operate in different realities.

Anyway back to the main storyline, the character Russell is playing—as in “The Fire From With In” by Carlos Castaneda— he goes up against the tyrant (the State) and even the criminals in this world know that he is too focused as he tries to purchase new identification passports and such, where upon receipt, the one forger on the motorcycle gives his sage advice “your trying too hard, your going to fuck it up”, very true as the Don’s of Castaneda advise Carlos to let it come naturally as anything worth doing won’t come no matter how hard you concentrate. Eckhart Tolle a German spiritual guru in current favour of some on the subject of living in the moment, states that it is impossible to live in the moment always, well let me back up he doesn’t say this so much as demonstrates that although we can have brief periods of living in the moment, it requires focus but not concentration because the very act of concentration means you are not here anymore your mind is somewhere else. Just like if you try to empty your mind of thought, you can do it for a fleeting moment, but as soon as you think your doing it you realize your not.

So with this revelation, Russell’s character after this changes as he learns he doesn’t have as much time as he thought after the “Bump Key” mistake he is now on the radar and attention is put on him, he can’t continue with this plan anymore. So now he has to let the new plan come naturally and realizes his wife’s diabetes is the new “Key”, he is totally rejuvenated and shows this as he exacts his plan with confidence. From the medical deliver truck he passes though like clockwork, when he strides up to the telephone cable box and cuts the phones strategically and moves on to take his son to the birthday party for safe keeping and contingency plan on contingency is shown and he strides through every seeming stumbling block as though he has replayed this role of a loving husband. Getting his wife out and changing his reality or creating a new reality were he and his family can be happy, defeating the tyrant “the State”. This act of perfection in plan has a overall grand unifying aspect as the tyrant is defeated, the world can become a bit better bit by bit. This possibility is glimpsed at the end of the movie when the one detective, perhaps astounded by the perfect getaway in his mind, wonders if it was meant to be by going back to the original crime seen to find the button in the wife’s testimony, if he had been able to see the button that revealed itself with the rain as he pulled the gutter grate off, the tyrant would have been defeated. If it weren’t for the human failing to “see” our tyrant would also be defeated and our reality would change.

Where the collectivist view and a lie or disinformation is imparted to the movie is with regard to trying to make us the audience believes the whole world or the State is so impossible to beat, 15 minutes before the city of Pittsburg is locked down and then 35 minutes the state is locked down. Well if there was anything the collectivist would want people to believe is just that, to stifle the individual and demoralize any attempt to rebel. You are their possession and under their thumb and it was luck every step of the way that Russell’s character and family got away. Again two sides to every coin, one reality vs another, a little bit of truth with a lie to let it settle into the viewers subconscious so you settle down and don’t try to create your own reality to be free.

Conventional wisdom would say, if the state would want to truly keep people ignorant why would they let such a movie hit the theatres for public viewing. I could say it has to do with keeping things palatable to enter the subconscious of humans. Our minds are so apt to reject anything contrived and for this reason a mixing of truth with disinformation makes the medicine go down. This would be dismissed by conventional wisdom and certain people would just rather say reality is reality or quote Occam’s Razor or something and burry their head in the sand but this is just a coping mechanism. Even after saying all this, reality is a bitter pill to swallow and some just need to believe there is a steak in front of them and that it tastes good.

PML
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