More on Atlantis Theme

Of course the original Atlantis account is from Plato:

Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written in 360 BC, contain the earliest references to Atlantis. For unknown reasons, Plato never completed Critias. Plato introduced Atlantis in Timaeus:

    For it is related in our records how once upon a time your State stayed the course of a mighty host, which, starting from a distant point in the Atlantic ocean, was insolently advancing to attack the whole of Europe, and Asia to boot. For the ocean there was at that time navigable; for in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, 'the pillars of Heracles,' there lay an island which was larger than Libya and Asia together; and it was possible for the travelers of that time to cross from it to the other islands, and from the islands to the whole of the continent over against them which encompasses that veritable ocean. For all that we have here, lying within the mouth of which we speak, is evidently a haven having a narrow entrance; but that yonder is a real ocean, and the land surrounding it may most rightly be called, in the fullest and truest sense, a continent. Now in this island of Atlantis there existed a confederation of kings, of great and marvelous power, which held sway over all the island, and over many other islands also and parts of the continent.

So we see that Plato talks to the pillars of Heracles as being the icons either side of the Straights of Gibraltar [or in Tolkien speak the Two Towers], creating what Plato calls a "haven" [The Mediterranean Sea] on the same three sides as for Night's Cove, but open at one end for "the bad/good guy" to get in.  Here is the Cove of Ancient Times which of course for "Signs" use [back in 2002] encompasses all of the three Ancient Religions/Cultures [and more to boot as Plato might say].

When I say good/bad guys, mixing those two up [eg in The Happening where those doing suicide are to him the bad guys, but don't tell J Doe] is a specialty of Night so we see him here taking Donovan's good guy option for the Atlantians, particularly Story.

Babylon is about 300 miles to the Right and was a major "stop-off" for Atlantians "heading East young man".

Now the legend says they also "cultured" South America and maybe North America if there was anybody home back then, but Night is taking up the cause after 9/11 and after America destroyed so much of Ancient Babylon in a fake "war on terror".  He has therefore caused a top notch Atlantian gal in the Story [so he calls her Story] to pay a visit to North America [where man has gone feral and as Nietzsche would say, more ape than the ape himself] and see if she can talk some sense into some dude who can then wake J Doe up from his 9/11 TEOTWAWKI coma

Or to "quoth it lively" as John Lennon would say, one does NOT become a man by flinging open the doors of his Ellen Degenerate [sic] closet and singing "I think I'm gay", as Night beautifully described by the "30 year old virgins" bit in Signs.  And "WHY can't they get girlfriends".

So Night once again grabs his beloved adopted home of Pennsylvania and looks for some pillars to use for Story to do her thing, and finds these two below that "guard" Delaware Bay at what is most appropriately called Harbor of Refuge.

From there we paddle upstream a few miles to the actual site of The Cove

Note the familiar three sided "sanctuary" where Night designed, built, dismantled his own Cove to the same specs.

This is the Ancient map of Atlantis [shown inverted with North up top as is usual today] and you can see the "short straight of sea miles" into the Mediterranean Sea on the right, which Night has simply mirrored by having Story enter THIS Story by a similar straight on the left.

And by gosh, it sure looks a bit like the shape of the pool.

So there it is dear folks, the CSI style scene of the crime, ready and waiting for Story to TRY to get J Doe to THINK.  And never forget the greatest mantra of the 20th Century from Hitler

"It is most fortunate for governments that the people do not think"

Now read on as they say.

What is the Blue World?

I don't think Night even tries to hide the fact that it is Atlantis, and his dialog up front is not only a dead give away [ie same as song] but same message.  Here is the Donovan song from 1968, the most memorable line being his pronunciation of "Though Gods they weer".

Of course the mystical Story is the "she" where Donovan wants to be

The continent of Atlantis was an island
Which lay before the great flood
In the area we now call the Atlantic Ocean

So great an area of land that from her western shores
Those beautiful sailors journeyed to the South
And the North Americas with ease
In their ships with painted sails

To the East, Africa was a neighbor
Across a short strait of sea miles
The great Egyptian age is but a remnant of the Atlantian culture
The antediluvian kings colonized the world
All the Gods who play in the mythological dramas
In all legends from all lands were from fair Atlantis

Knowing her fate, Atlantis sent out ships
To all corners of the Earth, on board were the
Twelve, 'The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist
The magician and the other so-called Gods of our legends'

Though Gods they were
And as the elders of our time choose to remain blind
Let us rejoice and let us sing
And dance and ring in the new
Hail Atlantis

Way down below the ocean where I wanna be, she may be
Way down below the ocean where I wanna be, she may be
Way down below the ocean where I wanna be, she may be

Never Look Under the Sink

OMG, OMG OMG even as the fictional character Lester_Burnham_Risen in www forums it took 2 views of the amazing movie Lady in the Water to get the Night joke in first scene.

"It's big, it's Hairy, you don't want to look at it".  And those screaming are the 5 girls ... and the penny did not drop.

It is simply MY dick, even after my death, which is trying to escape from the Mason Jar under the sink.

This Night bloke is a genius, and he has put this up front in movie [instead of a crass "Look Closer" sign] to say Bette Davis wise "fasten your seatbelts, we're in for a bumpy night" once again, as Night explores the American Beauty.

This is a great nod to the movie American Beauty - sorta like a CSI of unfinished business, ie the cardboard cutout fag in American Beauty kills Lester, just as he thought he has overcome all his demons, but everyone had forgotten that his lovely wife had left his dick in a mason jar under the sink, as everyone IN the Beauty watching the film was mesmerized by the Ellen Degenerate [sic] closet hopping exploits of Col F, who actually had a [Nazi] closet inside his [gun room] closet, so he had closets on overdrive.

Here is the action folks, and just be thankful it is not YOUR dick - watch the fat girl with cleaver.

 

Or try it here

Summary

As usual, this is another magnificent movie by M Night S, both on the lower [bums on seats] level and the upper, deeper meaning level.

The lower level vehicle in this movie is an ancient Vietnamese/Chinese myth about sea creatures that used to work along with man in Olden Times, but which cooperation all but vanished as men "dealt in Tolkien style greed" and war.  So in the movie one of these creatures [a Nark] has "flown in" on a Tolkien style eagle and "interacts" with humans in a Unit Block called The Cove, trying to rekindle some of "that old time religion".

The deeper side of the movie has a person representing Martin Luther King who is termed The Vessel in Nark terminology as the person who is to be "inspired" by the visit of Story.  He is then to write a book which will in turn inspire "a young man from the Midwest", ie Bob Dylan, to "spread the good news all over the Land".

The Vessel [Night acting as Vick] is working on a book which he has titled The Cookbook, but it in fact signifies the greatest speech of the 20th Century generally known as "I Have a Dream".  The main connection to Dylan of course is Dylan sang "Only a Pawn in the Game" at the same Washington Rally in 1963 where King did his speech, and the song was dedicated to Medgar Evers, already assassinated by the CIA with King about to be assassinated by the CIA the following year [and blamed on yet another "Oswald style" Pawn in the Game].

And so it was that Dylan fed off all these abuses and told his stories in his songs "throughout the Land and the World" for all to hear IF they wanted.

So the setting was in early 1960s, as evidenced by TV style and typewriters instead of computers, and the Vietnam War "escalation" stage on every TV as if "wallpaper"of life, half real, half "Story" [the theme of Apocalypse Now].

In the end Story has a "happy ending" [a subtle side swipe by Night at his many critics] but of course nobody listened to what Dylan had to say, especially in God on Our Side.  In fact instead of the famous last lines "if God's on our side, He'll STOP the next war" we saw GW Bush use God to START the next war.