Black Swan manages to make cracked toenails just as horrifying as a woman literally transforming into a kind of mutant black swan.
#EXORCIST SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES MOVIE#
The movie complements the ruthlessness of the dance world with an array of hallucinatory images, courtesy of the film's damaged protagonist, Nina (Natalie Portman). According to Verhoeven, Quaid "likes the dream so much he does not want to wake up." Viewers would have been stuck right there with him if it weren't for that smarmy little Ernie guy.īut then there's his creepy little movie Black Swan, and if anyone ever thought that ballet dancers couldn't be the most terrifying thing in film history, well, Aronofsky set out to prove them wrong. When Quaid is first getting set up at Rekall, a background technician named Ernie casually comments about Quaid's program, stating, "That's a new one, blue sky on Mars!" So yeah, Quaid probably got lobotomized. Wow, blue sky on Mars, huh? That's cool.Įxcept right at the beginning, the film drops a subliminal cue that tells you exactly what's going to happen while you're too distracted to pay attention.
By the film's conclusion he's made it to Mars, gotten the girl, and managed to spread an Earthly blue sky across the Red Planet in a few minutes. At one point, another character even tells Quaid that he's fallen too far into the dream, and if he doesn't wake up, he'll get lobotomized.īy the way, Quaid shoots this guy. Throughout the movie's duration, it's deliberately unclear whether the rather bizarre experiences occurring are real or if they're a vivid dream that Arnold's character, Quaid, had injected into him by the Rekall corporation. Gaston's been in the grave ever since, so by now he's certainly irritating everyone in the afterlife with his haughty shows of manliness. So instead, they literally drew the reflection of skulls over his pupils, which appear for only a single frame. The animators wanted to show that the egotistical jerk was dead, dead, dead, but displaying his rotting corpse impaled on the spikes beneath the castle would set off alarm bells around the studio. This color clash is why she seems so "different." Disney, you sly devils!īut the sneakiest bit of subliminal imagery tucked into the movie comes into play during the death of that arrogant villain, Gaston. All of the other villagers are wearing washed-out earth tones, the same color scheme as the village itself, while Belle is the only one wearing blue. Ever wonder why Belle seems like such an outsider in her poor little village? It's not just that she reads books. One Disney movie that was especially gleeful about sneaking subliminal imagery into our poor little brains was 1991's Beauty and the Beast.
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