Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, Jude Law & Christopher
Plummer’s ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’:
High Profiling Mk-Ultra and Quantum
and
Labelling Canada’s Complicit and Loyal Law Enforcement “Filth”
© 2010 Brad Kempo B.A. LL.B.
Barrister & Solicitor
With so many coalition partners of the Hollywood A-Lister caliber starring in this remarkable production there was no doubt something that triggered worldwide trepidation would be embedded in the script. And there certainly was. This time it wasn’t technically the ‘stealth cognition technology’ nor the ‘lab monkey’ theme. On this occasion they recalled the genesis of that which in the early 21st century scares the hell out of the world’s upper crust of power, wealth and celebrity – the ‘mind control’ experiments of the 1950s and ‘60s funded by the CIA that hoped to find something that would stop the Soviets dead in their tracks.
There really were no meaningful scientific, medical or military gains made by MK-Ultra. The only thing that came out of it was a lot of embarrassment for U.S. and Canadian authorities. And to rub salt on an open wound they paid out tens of millions of dollars in settlements to victims who screamed to high heaven until they got pecuniary satisfaction. In Canada litigation continues to this day.
But skip ahead a few decades and what transpired north of the 49th Parallel and gone totally undetected until the Custodian Chief filed his September 2002 Federal Court lawsuit gripped the attention of everyone in elected office, the boardrooms of the most powerful corporations on the planet and in professional circles that ran the gambit of genres in today’s multitudinous forms of mass media.
The film that falls into the same category of diplomacy as Imaginarium is documented in Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio & Sir Ben Kingsley’s ‘Shutter Island’: High Profiling MK Ultra and Threatening What Coercive Diplomacy Promises to Deliver for the R&D, Deployment and Proliferation of Stealth Cognition Technologies.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a 2009 fantasy film [about] a traveling theater troupe whose leader, having made a bet with the Devil, takes audience members through a magical mirror to explore their imaginations and present them with a choice between enlightenment and slothful ignorance.
Source: wikipedia.com
Producers don’t fill the movie with geo-issues; and instead concentrate their contribution to two scenes. One involves a tag-along to the caravan troupe, played by the late Heath Ledger, who gets frustrated at the lack of sophistication of the performance. He wants to spruce it up so it can play to a more upscale audience and thereby make money to survive capital inadequacies that have the players bordering on starvation.
It’s when he confronts the patriarch played by Christopher Plummer that the MK-Ultra topic is introduced; and at the same time a salvo of condemnation is fired at Canada’s police agencies – federal, provincial and municipal – which one way or another, directly or indirectly, contributed to the R&D, deployment and proliferation of stealth cognition technologies. In addition to a coalition identifying triple reference in the script to what law enforcement is considered to be, lexiconic colors are introduced at the beginning of this geo-scene: the colors of China.
Heath: The fact of the matter is this show, the stage, is not – I don’t know what the word is – it’s um…
Chris: …Modern?
Heath: Modern, yes. See people want modern. You know like [opens magazine – prison certainty]… See this? This here is contemporary. This is what people want. I know this world – trust me. All right with you and your mind control thing-a-majigy. You know we need to meet the people half way. The right public in the right part of town.
Actor: What about the filth?
Heath: What?
Actor: The filth?
Chris: He means the police.
Heath: Oh, they’re a class of filth too.
A bit later, when the troupe’s moved to a more revenue-generating forum, a shopping mall full of well-to-do consumers, a compensation ratifier is added to underscore that being the Guinness Book of World Record's longest experimented upon human has its upside.
In the DVD’s special features is an interview with the late Heath Ledger. Photos of him in make-up were added, which clearly show what was painted on his forehead during his appearance in the movie. But these three symbols were never clearly observed nor explained; until watching this segment. A critic states the following:
Our first sight of Ledger’s Tony is pretty shocking – dangling, hanged, from London’s Blackfriars Bridge, which is where Valentina discovers him. He claims to be amnesiac, with no recollection of how he came to be strung up, nor any explanation for the arcane symbols drawn on his forehead.
Source: http://www.uncut.co.uk/film/terry_gilliam/reviews/13682
In a coalition context they comprise a double coalition identifier.
