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CONSPIRACY THEORY AND CATCHER IN THE RYE #2663

Mind Rape in a movie and literature - response to Q drops in early days of January 2019: #2663

Posting blind and in absolute “darnkess” here..... This will be a little bit shorter two part report than you sometimes see from me. However it may still be of interest or importance based on the Q drop #2663

In amongst the recent drop and digs dealing with MK Ultra, as well as the now well-known amongst FReeQs “MacNEE NOTEBOOK,” Q stated:

“Something out of a movie?
Fiction?”

Some suggested “Jason Bourne” and some others, but I didn’t see mention yet (but I could have missed it) of the Mel Gibson movie, “Conspiracy Theory.”

That movie portrayed the programming of a veteran who was tough minded enough to fight the programming in order to save the life of the daughter of his friend. Certainly this one would seem to be in order to consider as perhaps one among many where H-wood has somehow managed to inform us while thumbing their noses at us.

WARNING - PLOT SPOILERS:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118883/plotsummary#synopsis

Synopsis

Jerry Fletcher (Mel Gibson), an obsessive-compulsive New York City taxi driver, visits his friend Alice Sutton (Julia Roberts), who works for the U.S. Attorney, at the Justice Department. She is trying to solve her father’s murder. Jerry tells her that NASA is trying to kill the President using a secret weapon on the Space Shuttle that can trigger earthquakes.

Jerry identifies some men on the street as CIA, follows them into a building, and is captured by them. He wakes up in a mental hospital bound to a wheelchair. A doctor (Patrick Stewart) tapes his eyes open, injects him with LSD, and interrogates him using torture. As the LSD kicks in Jerry remembers many previous sessions, which he sees as terrifying cartoons. In a fit of panic, Jerry manages to bite the doctor’s nose and sufficiently incapacitate him long enough to escape, still bound to the wheelchair. He manages to shut himself in a laundry truck, escaping the premises. Jerry goes to Alice’s office again and grabs a guard’s gun, collapsing in Alice’s arms.

Alice visits Jerry in the hospital. Handcuffed to the bed and forced to enter a drug-induced sleep, he pleads with her to switch his chart with that of a criminal in the next bed or he will be dead by morning. In the morning, when Alice visits again, the criminal is dead, as he has suffered a mysterious heart attack during the night. The CIA, FBI and other agencies are there. She meets a mysterious CIA psychiatrist, Dr. Jonas. Meanwhile Jerry fakes a heart attack and escapes again, dropping himself down a linen chute. Jerry dresses up as a doctor and escapes the building.

Jonas quizzes Alice over lunch; she explains that Jerry saved her from muggers once, so she tolerates him. In Jerry’s hospital room she finds a copy of The Catcher in the Rye. As she discusses it with an FBI officer named Lowry, the CIA come and confiscate all of Jerry’s personal items. Lowry offers to share information with her but she declines.

The CIA cannot find Jerry. Alice goes to her car, and finds Jerry hiding in it. She stops the car and speaks with Lowry, who is tailing them, and then they go to Jerry’s apartment where he tells her about his conspiracy theories and his newsletter. He has dozens of copies of Catcher. He feels compelled to buy it, but doesn’t know why. They are interrupted when Jerry’s alarm goes off, signaling the entry of a CIA SWAT team. Jerry sets everything on fire and they leave by his secret trapdoor exit. In the room below, there is a large mural on the wall, which features both Alice and the triple smokestacks of a factory near the mental institution.

The pair go to Alice’s apartment and he reveals he’s been watching her through her window. She kicks him out. Outside, Jerry confronts Lowry and his partner staking out her place, and he warns them, at gunpoint, not to hurt her. He goes to a book store and buys a copy of Catcher. The CIA detects his purchase, and sends agents to catch him. Jerry sees their black helicopters with men rappelling down and goes into a theater. He yells “there’s a bomb under my chair” and manages to escape during the resulting panic.

The next morning, Alice has been calling each person who gets the newsletter, and they have all died that night except one. Jerry uses a ruse to get her out of the office, and then attaches cables from the CIA vehicle following her to a vendor’s cart. On a bus they discuss more of his theories. In a subway station where one Herriman drowned in another conspiracy, she agrees to check the autopsy. He says he loves her and she rejects him.

Alice goes to see the last surviving person on the subscription list, and it is Jonas. He explains that Jerry was an MK-ULTRA subject but the project was terminated - except for his research. Jonas shows her a photo of her father taken from Jerry’s locker, and claims that Jerry went out of control and killed her father. She is crushed.

Jerry sends Alice a pizza containing a message to meet him. Jonas gets her to agree to a homing device in the pizza box and Jerry drives her with the box across the Queensboro bridge. He has made previous arrangements that enable him to ditch the agents following them, leaving the homing device behind. As he drives her to her father’s private horse stables, Jerry tells her that he can almost remember what happened and is taking her to where “the music is playing.”

Alice turns on her mobile phone so they can still track her. At the stables Jerry remembers that he was sent to kill her father (a judge who was about to expose Jonas’s operation) but found he couldn’t kill him. Instead they became friends and Jerry promised to watch over Alice before the judge was killed by another assassin. She admits she switched the charts in the hospital. The CIA arrive and capture Jerry. Jonas gloats but Jerry says, “you’ve never seen her run.” Alice outruns the men; a sniper misses her, killing the last guy chasing her, and she escapes.

Jonas tortures Jerry again. Meanwhile, Alice leads the FBI men (who are not actually FBI but from a “secret agency that watches the other agencies”) to Jonas’s office, but it has been entirely dismantled. Declining Lowry’s help, Alice starts searching for Jerry. She realizes that a detail of Jerry’s large mural is near a mental hospital and goes there. She bribes an attendant to show her an unused wing, breaks in through locked doors, and finds Jerry after hearing him singing through the ventilation ducts. As Jonas catches them, Lowry arrives with his men and attacks Jonas’s men. Jerry attempts to drown Jonas but is shot once. In retaliation, Alice shoots Jonas dead. Alice tells Jerry she loves him as he is taken away in an ambulance.

Some time later, Alice visits Jerry’s grave, leaving his union pin upon it, before returning to horse riding. As she rides away, Jerry, Lowry and Flip watching her. Jerry is not allowed to contact her until they are sure they have rounded up all of Jonas’s other subjects. He secretly lets her know he is still alive by placing his union pin on her horse’s saddle and the film ends.

END OF “CONSPIRACY THEORY” PLOT SUMMARY
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PART ONE of TWO

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CONSPIRACY THEORY AND CATCHER IN THE RYE #2663

PART TWO

The plot summary of “Conspiracy Theory,” posted in PART ONE, brings out the obsession Jerry has with the “Catcher in the Rye.”

I had forgotten the details of that story, and decided to remind myself of what that book was all about. The research confirmed that yes, I probably did not pay very good attention in my English class that semester.....and maybe there’s a reason! LOL!

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-plot-of-Catcher-in-the-Rye

Courtesy of Bookworm(yahoo ans.)

“The Catcher in the Rye is a psychological novel based more on how events affect the hero’s mind than on the events themselves; therefore, the actual plot is not as important as the psychological analysis behind the action.

In truth, the plot is only a loosely strung set of incidents that are combined to reveal four days in the life of Holden Caulfield. The novel is episodic in nature, and the bulk of it is narrated in the form of flashbacks. The plot is also supplemented with a number of digressions, which help to reveal more about the various characters, especially Holden himself.

Holden’s journey begins on a Saturday in December just before school closes for Christmas break. He has been informed of his expulsion from Pencey Prep School. What worries him most about being kicked out of school is his parents’ reaction, for he has already been expelled from other educational institutions. He cannot bear to remain in the dormitory after he has been beaten up by his roommate Stradlater and on a whim, he decides to leave the same night. However, he does not want to face his parents until they have recovered from the news of the expulsion. He decides to stay in a cheap hotel in New York City, going home only on the day he was originally expected.

The novel charts Holden’s experiences over a period of about forty hours, starting from the time he leaves Pencey Prep. Holden encounters a large number of people as he traverses the city of New York and goes into nightclubs. Lonely and desperate, he accepts the offer of the hotel elevator operator to find him a prostitute, but he fails to have sex with her and fights with her pimp. The next day, he calls an old girlfriend, Sally Hayes, takes her ice-skating, and and tries to convince her to run away with him.

Holden looks for some degree of understanding and acceptance from all the characters he encounters, even taxi drivers, but he is denied his needs. As a result, Holden feels dislocated, as though he does not belong anywhere, and he is right. It becomes obvious through his encounters that he is in an entirely different orbit than the rest of the world. Each time Holden extends himself, he is rewarded with rejection, until he is finally driven to almost a schizophrenic state.

With his mental health deteriorating, Holden returns to his parents’ home, where things are no better for him. Even his young sister, Phoebe, questions his negativism and asks him to name one thing he would like to be. Holden replies that he would like to be “the catcher in the rye” and explains that his job would be to prevent the children, who are playing nearby in a field of rye, from going over the cliff.

More distressed than ever, Holden goes to see Mr. Antolini, his former English teacher. When the teacher makes sexual advances, Holden flees in horror. Returning home, Holden experiences a complete mental breakdown and is sent to a psychiatric center in California for treatment.”

End of this particular summary.

For those who wish to refresh themselves on more of the details without completely immersing in the book, here is a more detailed summary chapter by chapter. I will only post the first chapter, and those interested can go to the link provided:

Chapter by Chapter Summaries:
https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-catcher-in-the-rye/summary

Chapter 1
“Writing from a rest home where he’s recuperating from some illness or breakdown, Holden Caulfield says he’ll tell the story of what happened to him just before the previous Christmas.

Holden’s story begins at Pencey Prep on the day of the big football game. Instead of going to the game, Holden, who has just been expelled for failing four of his five classes, visits Mr. Spencer, his history teacher. Mr. Spencer lectures Holden about playing by the rules and thinking about his future.

Holden pretends to agree with what he hears, but actually thinks Mr. Spencer is a “phony.” Back in his dorm room, Robert Ackley, Holden’s irritating neighbor, interrupts Holden as he tries to read, and Ward Stradlater, Holden’s conceited and good-looking roommate heads out for a date with Jane Gallagher, a girl Holden knows and likes. Before he leaves, Stradlater asks Holden to write an English composition for him while he’s away. Holden writes about his dead brother Allie’s baseball mitt.

When Stradlater returns, he says that the essay isn’t on topic, and refuses to reveal the details of his date. Holden attacks and insults him. Stradlater punches Holden in the nose.... “

For the detailed chapter summaries, go to the link.

https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-catcher-in-the-rye/summary

END PART TWO of TWO
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