Hypnotic (2023) really good

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I recommend watching the movie “Hypnotic” (2023) with Ben Affleck, it's phenomenal. It's one of those fiction thrillers that mess with your mind, make you use your brain and surprise you from the first to the last minute.

In the film Ben Affleck plays the role of a detective Danny Rourke, who undergoes hypnotherapy sessions to be able to withstand the trauma of having lost his daughter (she was kidnapped), but in the development of the plot of the film we discover that there is a conspiracy behind it. There is a villain Lev Dellrayne, who is a hypnotic (can influence people's minds from a distance, but is not hypnotic in the ordinary sense, more like a psychic) and he was part of a secret government (probably CIA) project with psychics who control people's minds.

Then he rebelled and took control of that program. Brazilian actress Alice Braga plays “Diana” a psychic too, who helps him escape the villain (I won't reveal details of the ending). In some ways the film is reminiscent of “Inception” with Leonardo DiCaprio, as there are scenes in which they see buildings curving in the sky, an illusion, “Diana” tells Rourke “None of this is real”, as he was watching hypnotic constructs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In another scene it reminds me of the movie Matrix 1, as Rourke discovers that he also has psychic powers and manages to control the minds of the agents, who point the gun at the villain. At that moment Rourke realizes that he has psychic powers superior to those of Lev Dellrayne.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The movie, obviously is science fiction and has hype and entertainment, but it has some small points of truth: The CIA had several mind and psychic control projects (Remote Viewing, ScanGate, MK Ultra, and others).

All the scenes in which Rourke (Ben Affleck) is inside a construct (simulation) the simulation was inside his mind (because he was in subconscious mode, hypnotized inside the Division facilities), but he walked through those facilities in somnambulistic mode… Such facilities had to have some physical scenarios, to serve as a basis for the rest of the simulation. Because for our mind to believe in the simulation it sees, it has to “grab” to something tangible, that is real (in this case it is the scenario, the construct). And all the agents repeated “key words” (triggers, triggers) to him during these exercises. The film has real elements of hypnotism techniques.

Another curious detail is that in all the films I see where there is mind control, or simulations, there are agents dressed in red, or a woman in red.

In "Inception" the young Ariadne (Ellen Page) in most of the escape scenes had a red coat.

 

 

 

 

In the “Matrix” there is a woman in red, in the crowd, who are a simulation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the movie "Don't Worry Darling" the agents who try to prevent the actress Florence Pugh (Alice) from leaving that prison village "Victory", are in red.

 

 

 

 

 

In the movie “Hypnotic” the Secret Division agents wear red coats.

 

 

 

 

 

There's a pattern here, in a lot of movies, full of symbolism.