This year of 2024 has been the 25th year anniversary of the audacious, historic movie of The Matrix. The Matrix (like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, and Blade Runner) changed science fiction movies forevermore. The Matrix came out in March of 1999 when I was a sophomore in high school, and I remember the time when the movie was released to the public vividly. The Matrix focused on many complex religious, philosophical, social, and technological themes. Its impact has been shown in future movies since 1999. The Matrix series didn't end in 2003 with Matrix Revolutions. In 2021, the film of Matrix Resurrections was released. The Matrix back 25 years ago focused on questioning reality and the necessity to be free from systems of control. Back then, Generation X people especially questioned authority and governmental policies (this was commonly shown in TV shows, talk show debates, Internet, etc. back in the 1990's), and The Matrix is the personification of that skepticism of controlling systems. I always mentioned that Generation X has a libertarian streak in their consciousness, even when many Generation X human beings are progressive. Older Millennials like me include many younger Generation X people as our peers. The Matrix was written and directed by the Wachowskis. The film starred many talented actors and actresses including Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Joe Pantoliano, etc. A summary of the plot of The Matrix is about a movie showing a dystopian future in which humanity is unknowingly tapped inside the Matrix. The Matrix is a simulated reality that intelligent machines have created to distract humans while using their bodies as an energy source. The computer programmer Thomas Anderson (who has a hacker name of Neo) undercovers the truth, so he joins a group of like-minded human beings to rebel against the machines. Neo allies with other people who have been freed from the Matrix. The film is part of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction. The Wachowskis were inspired by anime and martial arts films. The Matrix movie focused on utilizing fight choreographers and wire fu techniques from Hong Kong action cinema influenced the Matrix film series and some other Hollywood action films, Plato's Cave, and 90's Telnet hacker communities. The film popularized terms such as red pill, and introduced a visual effect known as "bullet time", in which the heightened perception of certain characters is represented by allowing the action within a shot to progress in slow-motion while the camera appears to move through the scene at normal speed, allowing the sped-up movements of certain characters to be perceived normally.
The Matrix opened in theaters in the United States on March 31, 1999, to widespread acclaim from critics, who praised its innovative visual effects, action sequences, cinematography, and entertainment value. The film was a massive success at the box office, grossing over $460 million on a $63 million budget, becoming the highest-grossing Warner Bros. film of 1999 and the fourth-highest-grossing film of that year. At the 72nd Academy Awards, the film won all four categories it was nominated for: Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Sound, and Best Sound Editing. The film was also the recipient of numerous other accolades, including Best Sound and Best Special Visual Effects at the 53rd British Academy Film Awards, and the Wachowskis were awarded Best Director and Best Science Fiction Film at the 26th Saturn Awards. The film is considered to be among the greatest science fiction films of all time, and in 2012, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant. The Matrix led to 3 sequels who were The Matrix Reloaded (in 2003), The Matrix Revolutions (in 2003), and The Matrix Resurrections (in 2021).
The film has many twists and turns. The movie starts at an abandoned hotel. A police squad comes to go near Trinity (played by Carrie-Ann Moss). In the scene when the police try to arrest Trinity, but Trinity uses her superhuman abilities and martial arts to escape from the officers. She flees. The police and a group of Agents in suits fail to capture her. The Agents used superhuman feats along with Trinity. Trinity goes to a public telephone booth to escape. A ringing telephone exists at the booth. Trinity disappears when she answers the phone (Morpheus's voice was on the phone). Later, the computer programmer Thomas Anderson, known by his hacking alias "Neo", is puzzled by repeated online encounters with the phrase "the Matrix." Trinity contacts him and tells him that a man named Morpheus has the answers Neo seeks. A team of Agents and police, led by Agent Smith, arrives at Neo's workplace in search of him. Though Morpheus attempts to guide Neo to safety, Neo surrenders rather than risk a dangerous escape. The Agents offer to erase Neo's criminal record in exchange for his help with locating Morpheus, who they claim is a terrorist. When Neo refuses to cooperate, they fuse his mouth shut, pin him down, and implant a robotic "bug" in his abdomen. Neo wakes up from what he believes to be a nightmare. Soon after, Neo is taken by Trinity to meet Morpheus, and she removes the bug from Neo.
Morpheus (played by Laurence Fishburne) gives Neo a choice between two pills. The red pill will show the truth about the Matrix. The blue pill will make Neo forget about everything and return to his former life. I rather experience the truth than live in a lying faux reality. Neo takes the red pill, and his reality begins to distort, awakening in a liquid-filled pod among countless other pods, containing other humans. He is then brought aboard Morpheus's flying ship, the Nebuchadnezzar. As Neo recuperates from a lifetime of physical inactivity in the pod, Morpheus explains the situation: In the early 21st century, a war broke out between humanity and intelligent machines. After humans blocked the machines' access to solar energy, the machines responded by enslaving humankind and harvesting their bioelectric power while keeping their minds pacified in the Matrix, a shared simulated reality modeled on the world as it was in 1999. In the years following, the remaining free humans took refuge in the underground city of Zion. Morpheus and his crew are a group of rebels who hack into the Matrix to "unplug" enslaved humans and recruit them; their understanding of the Matrix's simulated nature allows them to bend its physical laws. Morpheus warns Neo that death within the Matrix kills the physical body too (as the body will die when the mind dies) and explains that the Agents are sentient programs that eliminate threats to the system, while machines called Sentinels try to eliminate rebels in the real world. Neo's prowess during virtual training cements Morpheus's belief that Neo is "the One", a human prophesied to free humankind. The group enters the Matrix to visit the Oracle, a prophet-like program who predicted that the One would emerge. She implies to Neo that he is not the One and warns that he will have to choose between Morpheus's life and his own. Before they can leave the Matrix, Agents and police ambush the group, tipped off by Cypher, a disgruntled crew member who has betrayed Morpheus in exchange for a deal to be plugged back into the Matrix to live a comfortable life.
To buy time for the others, Morpheus fights Smith and is captured. Cypher exits the Matrix and murders the other crew members as they lie unconscious. Before Cypher can kill Neo and Trinity, crew member Tank regains consciousness and kills him before pulling Neo and Trinity from the Matrix. The Agents interrogate Morpheus to learn his access codes to the mainframe computer in Zion, which would allow them to destroy it. Neo resolves to return to the Matrix to rescue Morpheus, as the Oracle prophesied; Trinity insists she accompany him. While rescuing Morpheus, Neo gains confidence in his abilities, performing feats comparable to those of the Agents.
After Morpheus and Trinity safely exit the Matrix, Smith ambushes and appears to kill Neo. While a group of Sentinels attack the Nebuchadnezzar, Trinity confesses her love for Neo and says the Oracle told her she would fall in love with the One. Neo is revived by Trinity, with newfound abilities to perceive and control the Matrix; he easily defeats Smith, prompting the other Agents to flee and he leaves the Matrix just as the ship's electromagnetic pulse disables the Sentinels. Back in the Matrix, Neo makes a telephone call, promising the machines that he will show their prisoners "a world where anything is possible." He hangs up and flies away. Many don't know that Rosie Perez, Janet Jackson, Salma Hayek, and Jada Pinkett Smith (who would play Niobe in the sequels) were either approached or tried out for the role of Trinity. In The Matrix, Joe Pantoliano played Cypher, Marcus Chong played Tank, Matt Doran played Mouse, Anthony Ray Parker played Dozer, Julian Arahanga played Apoc, Belinda McLory played Switch, Rowan Witt played The Spoon Boy, Ada Nicodemou played DuJour, and the late Gloria Foster played the Oracle. Gloria Foster was a great actress who lived form November 15, 1953, to September 29, 2001. RIP Sister Gloria Foster. As early as 1996, the Wachowskis planned The Matrix film. Most of the principal cast and crew were required to read French Philosopher Jean Baudrillard's Simulcara and Simulation.
The directors had long been admirers of Hong Kong action cinema, so they decided to hire the Chinese martial arts choreographer and film director Yuen Woo-ping to work on fight scenes. To prepare for the wire fu, the actors had to train hard for several months. The Wachowskis first scheduled four months for training, beginning in October 1997. Yuen was optimistic but then began to worry when he realized how unfit the actors were. Yuen let their body style develop and then worked with each actor's strength. He built on Reeves's diligence, Fishburne's resilience, Weaving's precision, and Moss's feminine grace. Yuen designed Moss's moves to suit her deftness and lightness. Prior to the pre-production, Reeves underwent a two-level fusion of his cervical (neck) spine due to spinal cord compression from a herniated disc ("I was falling over in the shower in the morning"). He was still recovering by the time of pre-production, but he insisted on training, so Yuen let him practice punches and lighter moves. Reeves trained hard and even requested training on days off. However, the surgery still made him unable to kick for two out of four months of training. As a result, Reeves did not kick much in the film. Weaving had to undergo hip surgery after he sustained an injury during the training process. The filming took place at Fox Studios in Sydney, Australia. The filming lasted from March 1998 to August 1998 in 118 days. Fishburne later said that while being in Sydney to shoot the film, he experienced a racist vibe and that it felt like America in the 1950s. Many wires and sound effects plus music (like Rage Against the Machine and other artists) were used in the film. The film score was composed by Don Davis. The popularity of the bullet time effect was used in a slow-motion existence. When it was released, people called it one of the best science fiction films of all time with groundbreaking special effects and massive action. M. Night Shyamalan expressed admiration for the Wachowskis, stating, "Whatever you think of The Matrix, every shot is there because of the passion they have! You can see they argued it out!" The Matrix made an ambiguous skeptical person (Neo) a reluctant hero.
The Matrix has tons of philosophical, spiritual, and cultural references including symbolism. The Matrix film has been influenced by literature like the 1984 novel Neuromancer by William Gibson. For example, the film's use of the term "Matrix" is adopted from Gibson's novel, though L. P. Davies had already used the term "Matrix" fifteen years earlier for a similar concept in his 1969 novel The White Room ("It had been tried in the States some years earlier, but their 'matrix' as they called it hadn't been strong enough to hold the fictional character in place."). Gibson said that The Matrix has Gnostic themes, and it related closer to the work of Philip K. Dick (like in Dick's Exegesis). Philip K. Dick's 1977 conference, in which he stated: "We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in our reality occurs. People have been questioning reality for centuries and thousands of years. There are many Christian references too like the character Trinity. The character Morpheus paraphrases the Chinese Taoist philosopher Zhuangzi when he asks Neo, "Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference from the real world and the dream world?" Some scholars focus on The Matrix being influenced by Gnostic and Buddhist teachings. Gnosticism teaches that the spiritual world is the world created by the one true God (he created aeon in the pleroma. One woman aeon is named Sophia), and the physical material world was created by an arrogant deity named the Demiurge (or Yaldaboath. He created the angels or archons, the world, and humans. The Demiurge to Gnostics refer to the God of the Old Testament) who seek to prevent true knowledge from humanity. The concept of gnosis is that the Gnostics believe that an individual can be saved by spiritual revolution and following light (in an inverted hermeneutic teaching that the Serpent is good and Yahveh or the Deimergue is bad. This blasphemous teaching is promoted in Gnosticism and by many in the New Age movement. Gnostics believe in the existence of Jesus Christ, but Gnostics view him as growing into divinity instead of being totally divine originally. Gnosticism is also in error to assume that everything physical is evil. Obviously, trees involved in photosynthesis aren't evil. The human body with many functions helping the immune system, learning new information, and doing constructive, righteous activities, is not evil. Evil is done irrespective of a plane of existence. The Matrix film questions the real world and views the real world as a prison controlled by evil machines. Like in Gnosticism, The Matrix film shows humans creating artificial intelligence out of pride. In the Matrix, Morpheus shows the As Above, so Below hand sign representing the Buddhist concept of samsara, which teaches that the world humans live in is constructed from the sensory projections devised from their own desires.
At the beginning of The Matrix, strange green computer codes are running down the screen in the foreground. Back in 1999, many people didn't know about the digital codes found in the Universe in the form of electromagnetic waves, fractals, etc. Now, we do. Room 101 is found in The Matrix film. That Room number is found in the book 1984 by George Orwell. Orwell wanted Room 101 to show fear and nightmares. Neo in The Matrix opens the Room 101 to eliminate his fear and go to enlightenment. In the scene when Neo opens the Room 101 door, he shows one eye. The number 101 is binary meaning 5. When Neo wakes up, Trinity gives him a message to follow the white rabbit (in reference to the story Alice in Wonderland. This means that Neo is told to look into the glass to prepare to go into another dimension. Morpheus and Trinity want Neo to go through the rabbit hole in trying to wake him up to what is real). In the scene, where Neo's mouth is wired shut, it shows how the corporate elite heavily don't want people to stand up for their inborn natural human rights but be silent in fear. Even the name Morpheus is symbolic. In Greek mythology, Morpheus represents the god of Dreams. So, Morpheus is revealing how the Matrix is a dream of illusion. As for Trinity, Morpheus, and Neo, they act as a trinity of a team. The Matrix has the impression that most people on Earth today are asleep to how things are from geopolitical matters, deceptions in mainstream society, distractions, and poisons found in our environment. The Matrix talks about Artificial intelligence. Ironically, 25 years later, Artifical intelligence is much more powerful now in 2024 than back then. A.I. now can make images, make music, fake sounds, and write long essays. The quantum computers have been here since the 1970's at least. We know that the government has secret technology decades ahead of the 2020s technology. This is why transhumanists today want to transfer consciousness to AI machines in a bizarre way. In the film, there is the Lady in the Red dress in The Matrix sent to distract. In real life, the global power's structure uses sex, fast food, various events, etc. to distract people. There is nothing wrong with sex done in the right way to be clear (human sexuality is natural), but life is more than about sex. The Matrix promotes the ideal of Know Thyself. That means you must know your own identity as a human being in order to be free indeed. The Matrix in the film is made up of computer codes. In real life, our reality is made up of energy codes filled with waves and atomic energy (proven by theoretical physicist Dr. James Gates Jr.). Our minds process this three-dimensional reality using electric signals too. So, The Matrix film was promoted by Hollywood to show much of the truth in plain site (mixed with heretical Gnostic, occult, and New Age views too). Evil is indeed found in the world, and evil people want humanity to be imprisoned mentally and spiritually. Yet not everything physical in the Universe is evil. There is greatness in DNA, trees, the human body, and other physical aspects of the world. It is just that we have a responsibility to reject the agenda of evil people (found not only in MAGA extremists, but corporate polluters, those who censor books, and other extremists) and build a better society. People have to know how the world works to eliminate unnecessary fear and insecurities. We believe in goodness and righteousness plainly speaking.
Since 1999 and after 25 years, Eyes Wide Shut has been debated for years and decades. It has been Stanley Kubrick's last directed film. It was meticulously designed, so it was created with real, specific intentions. Some people view the film as random and quaint, but it precisely has so many symbols and meanings to it. Stanley Kubrick wanted his audience to decipher his films to develop multiple interpretations of the movies' inherited messages. The film is an erotic mystery psychological drama film. Kubrick also produced and co-written the film too. It is based on the 1926 novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story) by Arthur Schnitzler, transferring the story's setting from early twentieth-century Vienna to 1990s New York City. The plot centers on a physician (Tom Cruise) who is shocked when his wife (Nicole Kidman) reveals that she had contemplated having an affair 12 months earlier. He then embarks on a night-long adventure, during which he infiltrates a masked orgy of an unnamed secret society.
Kubrick obtained the filming rights for Dream Story in the 1960s, considering it a perfect text for a film adaptation about sexual relations. He revived the project in the 1990s when he hired writer Frederic Raphael to help him with the adaptation. The film, which was mostly shot in England, apart from some exterior establishing shots, includes a detailed recreation of exterior Greenwich Village street scenes made at Pinewood Studios. The film's production, at 400 days, holds the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous film shoot. Kubrick died of a heart attack six days after showing the final cut of Eyes Wide Shut to Warner Bros., making it the final film he directed. He reportedly considered it his "greatest contribution to the art of cinema". To ensure a theatrical R rating in the United States, Warner Bros. digitally altered several sexually explicit scenes during post-production. This version was premiered on July 13, 1999, before being released on July 16, to generally positive reviews from critics. Box office receipts for the film worldwide were about $162 million, making it Kubrick's highest-grossing film. The uncut version has since been released in DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats. Eyes Wide Shut has been included in several lists of the greatest films of the 1990s.
The film acts like a dream sequence in many cases. Dr. William "Bill" Harford and his wife Alice live in New York City with their daughter Helena. At a Christmas party hosted by patient Victor Ziegler, Bill reunites with old medical school classmate Nick Nightingale, who now plays piano professionally. An older Hungarian guest attempts to seduce Alice, while two young models try to seduce Bill. Host Victor interrupts with news of an overdose by Mandy, a young woman Victor was having sex with. Bill aids in Mandy's recovery. During the next night, Alice and Bill smoke marijuana. They discuss their unfulfilled temptations. Bill is not jealous of other men's attraction to Alice, believing women to be naturally faithful (which is sexist nonsense from Bill). Alice admits to fantasizing about a naval officer she met on vacation and considered leaving Bill and Helena. Bill is disturbed before being called to a patient's house. The patient's daughter, Marion, tries to seduce Bill, but he resists.
After leaving Marion's, Bill meets a prostitute named Domino. When Alice calls, he pays Domino for a non-sexual encounter and meets Nick at a jazz club. Nick describes a masked orgy in a mansion outside New York City at which he will play the piano blindfolded and gives Bill the password to enter the party. Bill goes to a costume store owned by a patient of his to buy an outfit to fit in at the masked orgy. Finding the costume store now owned by a man named Milich, he offers money to rent a costume from the shop, where he and Milich find Milich's young daughter with two men. Bill goes to the mansion and gives the password, discovering a sexual ritual in progress. A masked woman warns him he is in danger. He is brought before the master of ceremonies who demands to know a second password for the house, revealing that the password Bill has is only to enter the grounds. Bill removes his mask at the demand of the master of ceremonies, but the woman who warned him intervenes. She insists on redeeming him, at a personal cost. Bill is let off with a warning to keep quiet. Bill goes home. He feels guilty and confused. He finds Alice laughing in her sleep. He wakes her up. She tearfully tells him about a dream where she was having sex with the naval officer and many other men and laughing at the idea of Bill watching. The next day, Bill goes to Nick's hotel, but the desk clerk tells him that Nick left with two dangerous-looking men. Bill returns the costume but realizes he has misplaced the mask and learns that Milich has sold his teenage daughter into sex slavery. Milich implies that Bill can pay to have sex with his daughter if he likes. In the afternoon, consumed by thoughts of his wife's infidelity, Bill leaves work early and returns to the site of the orgy. At the front gate, he is handed an envelope with a warning to stay away. That evening, Bill tries to call Marion, but hangs up when her fiancé answers. He decides to go to Domino's apartment to consummate their affair, but is met by her roommate, Sally. Although there is sexual tension between them, Sally informs Bill that Domino has just received news that she is HIV-positive. Bill leaves.
After leaving the apartment, Bill is followed by a mysterious figure. He discovers that an ex-beauty queen has died from an overdose and identifies her as Mandy at the morgue. Later, Ziegler summons him and admits to being a guest at the orgy. Ziegler reveals that there was no second password at all, and failing to know this is what outed Bill as an outsider. Ziegler assures Bill that the secret society only aims to intimidate him into silence but implies that they are capable of taking action if necessary. Bill is concerned about Nick's disappearance and Mandy's death, whom he correctly identifies as the masked orgy participant who sacrificed herself for him. Ziegler claims Nick is safe and that Mandy died from an accidental overdose due to drug addiction. Bill returns home to find the rented mask on his pillow and confides in his wife, Alice, about the past two days. The next day they go Christmas shopping with their daughter and Bill apologizes to Alice. She suggests they do something "as soon as possible," to which Bill asks what she means and Alice simply responds with one word. That word is the f word. Tom Cruise plays Dr. Bill Hartford, Nicole Kidman plays Alice Hartford, Sydney Pollack plays Victor Ziegler, etc. The movie is influenced by Arthur Schnitzler's 1926 novella Dream Story is set around Vienna after the turn of the century. The main characters are a couple named Fridolin and Albertina. The couple's home is a typical suburban middle-class home. Like the protagonist of the novel, Schnitzler was Jewish, lived in Vienna, and was a doctor, although he left medicine to write. Kubrick gets rid of references of the Jewishness of characters in the novels that he adapted. Filming for the movie ended in June 1998. The film was set in many places like Mentmore Towers in England. Classical music was shown heavily in the film including its soundtrack. Pook was hired after choreographer Yolande Snaith rehearsed the masked ball orgy scene using Pook's composition "Backwards Priests" – which features a Romanian Orthodox Divine Liturgy recorded in a church in Baia Mare, played backward – as a reference track. Another track in the orgy, "Migrations", features a Tamil song sung by Manickam Yogeswaran, a Carnatic singer. The original cut featured a scriptural recitation from the Bhagavad Gita, which Pook took from a previous Yogeswaran recording. South African Hindu Mahasabha, a Hindu group, protested against the scripture being used, Warner Bros. issued a public apology and hired the singer to record a similar track to replace the chant. Eyes Wide Shut has many themes about marriage, sexuality, secret meetings, secret societies, and other subjects. Historians, travel guide authors, novelists, and merchants of Venetian masks have noted that these have a long history of being worn during promiscuous activities. Authors Tim Kreider and Thomas Nelson have linked the film's usage of these to Venice's reputation as a center of both eroticism and mercantilism. Many sources show that Stanley Kubrick loved the film.
There are a lot of themes and symbolism in Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick is the type of person who loves to show attention to detail. The movie deals with a relationship between a man and a woman in an evolving world filled with secrecy, amorality, and other evils like sex trafficking. It is no secret that much of the modern world has distractions and much of society is decadent. The sexual orgies are very akin to the parties of the global elite in real life (like the 1970's Rothschild mask party in the UK), the Bohemian Grove (filled with prostitutes as admitted by many sources), the Epstein sex ring, and other real-life events. Another theme about Eyes Wide Shut is that it shows an occult secret society that threatens and even eliminates people who cross it. The film has the surface-level initial image of the perfect couple, but between the surface, there are insecurities, arguments, and accusations of infidelity among both sides. Dr. Bill is a rich doctor and Alice was once in art but now is supported by her husband financially. Alice is bored as a stay-at-home mother. Alice and Bill show masks in public to hide their imperfections at social events. Victor Ziegler acts as a member of the super-rich elite. At Ziegler's party, there is an 8-point star in the house at the Christmas Party. Christmas relates to many themes from paganism, and the 8-pointed star is similar to the star of Ishtar (which is the Babylonian goddess of fertility, love, war, and sexuality). The Ishtar cult is involved in prostitution and ritual acts as found in Eyes Wide Shut. During the party, both Bill and Alice experience temptation. Alice meets a man named Sandor Szavost who asks her about Ovid’s Art of Love (which promotes cheating in relationships). Rainbows are everywhere in the film. 2 models ask Bill to take them to "where the rainbow ends." There are multicolored Christmas lights on trees. The Somerton palace is where the secret society ritual takes place. These models act brainwashed and controlled like the stories of Monarch mind control victims including Beta Programming victims too. Ziegler wants Bill to keep his actions a secret when a woman (not his wife) wakes up from being unconscious.
Bill meets his friend Nick Nightingdale. The password to enter the ritual is “Fidelio”, which means “faithfulness”, a main theme of the movie. More importantly, as Nightingale points out, “Fidelio” is the name of an opera written by Beethoven about a wife who sacrifices herself to free her husband from death as a political prisoner. This password actually foreshadows what will happen during that ritual. The Mentmore Towers in UK (where the film was recorded) was built in the 19th century as a country house for a member of the most prominent and powerful elite family in the world: The Rothschilds. In 1972, there was a masked party in the UK given by Marie-Helene de Rothschild in real life. The Venetian masks are used in elite circles for centuries now beyond Venice. The situatla had Nick Nightingale being blindfolder playing the song Backwards Priests. Such rituals are done in paganism and other rituals. The High Priest in the ritual sits on a throne with a double-headed- eagle on top is found in 33rd Degree Freemasonry and other groups representing equilibrium). The identity of the High Priest is not found. Amanda died. The film makes it known that many in the fashion and entertainment industry exploit fashion models constantly. When Bill is uncovered by the High Priest, he gets told that he and his family will pay for any transgression. The next day, he realizes that he is being followed by strange people and becomes paranoid. Ziegler tells Bill that the people in the ritual are high-level, powerful people. Kubrick is overtly mentioning that the richest, most powerful people on Earth do these rituals (akin to the rituals that the Hell Fire Club, the O.T.O. did) in real life. So, Stanley Kubrick's Eye Wide Shut film is about a journey that deals with an uncertain couple (seeking the total union of masculine and feminine principles into one). Kubrick's film shows the underworld of secret forces doing rituals and committing depravity. The film has a pessimistic vibe in its cosmology as no one in the film is held accountable to the murder of Amanda or the secret rituals taking place. Much of society has its eyes wide shut to what goes on in the real world (which seeks to pervert true love and true sexuality). As for us, we have to maintain core principles of love, honor, respect, and dignity, so we can exist filled with goodness and righteousness.
There are a lot of new family tree information that is discovered in early January of 2024. My 4th cousin is Basil George Peterson III as we share the same ancestors who are Johnson Brickhouse (b. 1826) and Julia Perkins (who are my 3rd great grandparents). Johnson Brickhouse and Julia Perkins had a child named Ann Eliza Brickhouse (1857-1921). Ann Eliza Brickhouse's child is Juliet Brickhouse (1876-1917). Juliet's child is Kelsey Annie Upshur (1906-2002). Kelsey Annie Upshur's child was Basil George Peterson Jr. (1926-1995). Basil George Peterson Jr. was married to Margareta Peterson (1936-2021). Basil George Peterson III's sibling is Reena M. Peterson (b. 1957. Reena lives in Las Vegas). Basil George Peterson III married Karen L. Dixon with their child of Matthew R. Peterson (b. 1981. He is married to Shanna Lee Hennink).
I found out that my 4th cousin is Olando H. Upshur (b. 1966) as we share the same ancestors as Johnson Brickhouse (b. 1826) and Julia Perkins (b. 1835). Olando H. Upshur has three children who are Malik, Nazhani, and Syamir Upshur. Olando's siblings are Terence E. Upshur, Romana C. Upshur Thorne (b. 1970), and Geraldo B. Upshur (b. 1973). Their parents are Alfred Emerson Upshur (1942-2011) and Alma Jean Cephus (b. 1947). Alfred Emerson Upshur's parents are Melvin Howard Upshur Sr. (1907-2006) and Christeal Johnson (1904-1997). Many members of the Upshur family live in Jamaica, Queens, NYC. Melvin Upshur and Christeal Johnson's children are Ramona Upshur (1929-1939), Melvin C. Upshur Jr. (1939-1998), Alfred Emerson Upshur, and Lyvonne Upshur (b. 1950). Melvin Howard Upshur Sr.'s parents are Alfred Seymour Upshur (1874-1935) and Juliet Brickhouse (1876-1971). One of Alfred Seymour Upshur and Juliet Brickhouse's children was Langston Dunbar Upshur Sr. (1912-1991. He married Cora L. Chandler born in 1920 and had the following children of Theresa Upshur born in 1946, Lanston Dunbar Upshur Jr. born in 1947, and Adrienne Ann Upshur being in 1948). Adrienne Ann Upshur, my 3rd cousin, married George Garfield Wilson (b. 1947) and their daughter is Kristina R. Wilson Free (b. 1980). Juliet Brickhouse's parents were James Burton (1848-1931) and Ann Eliza Brickhouse (1857-1921). Ann Eliza Brickhouse's parents were Johnson Brickhouse (b. 1826) and Julia Perkins (b. 1835).
Cassandra R. Harmon is a human being who I found out is my 4th cousin born in 1974. Her parents are George H. Harmon (1937-1987) and Carolyn Ann Upshur (b. 1942). We share the same ancestors of George and Esther Perkins. Carolyn Ann Upshur's father was Charles Edward Upshur (1917-1964). Charles Edward Upshur married Annie Virginia Sample (1920-2009) at Belle Haven, Virginia on February 14, 1939. Charles Edward Upshur's mother was Messina Upshur (b. 1884). Messina Upshur married Charles Henry Upshur on October 29, 1905, in Northampton County, Virginia. Messina Upshur's mother was Caroline Perkins (1862-1927). Caroline Perkins's parents were George and Esther Perkins.
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