Could it be all a nod to Alice In Wonderland Programming?
Hello everyone it's been a while. I'm here with something a little different this time.To be honest I wanted to write about this one for a while and was a little between if i should but here we are.
I will be going between different subjects for the beginning, but they're necessary for you to understand.It will all come together so dw hehe
First let's look at what MKULTRA is and some related terms:
"MKUltra was an illegal human experimentation program designed and undertaken by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to develop procedures and identify drugs that could be used to weaken individuals and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture."
Is what our dear friend wiki says and that it was stopped, but as some of you may already know it is still being actively used.
Btw let me say this parenthetically to those who might think this a bit too dark topic for a kids show,there are lots of media referencing these kind of topics,some of them especially targeting younger audiences.And for this show, i think we can see almost everything in definition being depicted, in a PG way of course.
Now lets get back to the MKULTRA and some related terms.Through some "methods", it's possible even for a healthy person to have split personality, therefore having alter egos.
I'm sure most of you already know or heard what alter ego is.For this context; Alter egos are manifestation of a person's different qualities and their subconscious.The purpose of this process is, once someone has split (or multiple) personalities it's easier to control their actions.
The Trigger(s)/Symbols: MKULTRA has different sub-programmings with different purposes and each has their own symbols. The subject is eventually conditioned to switch to their alter egos/do what their Handler(the one who's in charge of the mind controll process) wants whenever they're triggered.
The sub-programs in MKULTRA such as Wizard of Oz and Alice In Wonderland (AIW) are two of the most known and referenced ones in media.The rainbow (colors) and mirrors hold special part in both.
Wizard of Oz:The light going through the prism and scattering to the rainbow represents entering through a different dimension = the program starts.In the movie we see this the moment Dorothy steps in The Oz, the film transforms from being sepia/black&white to the colored
Now let's start with the name Alice and make a comparison:
Here's Alice's intermission screen:
I think everyone knows this an AIW reference.But was this reference just a little joke because her name was Alice?
Or could it be other way around?
Why was even her name even Alice? Why not going with a more common Russian name instead?
Going back the picture; could it be that they've meant
The Bunny + The "Colors" highlighted = she's ALICE?
I will elaborate on this further and you will see why it could be possible but before, i will give an another example for the comparison for the name issue
Have you ever watched Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut?
It's known to be one of the first media pieces that addresses such cases like mind control and the Elites.Though he did it in a rather subtle way by using symbols.The rainbow is an important theme you will be keep seeing in the movie.He also changed characters names(it was an adaptation from a book called Traumnovelle) and made FL's name Alice.I think what we have is a little similar with this one.
Going back to the intermission screen+ about the colors: This was supposedly from the time before she was Hydra's master as Alice, so one may argue the colors just represent she had no alignment.
But have you realize when and which character we see the most colors the most?
Alice->Masquerade, Masquerade, Masquerade->Alice are when we see this happen the most in whole season.It's like that's her signature.
The thing is we see this iridescent colors rarely during other places and those are like "going through an another dimension" (duh) or a "gate card opening", but it's still not consistent with them. We often see those happening with uni colors like white or green.But if it's Masquerade using his teleport card like in here:
You will definitely see it.
I think the punchline here is: Alice and Michael being affected by the negative core was metaphor for the MKULTRA programming.
After she's affected by the core, she gets a split personality.
I think it's also worth to note the design of her mask.Unlike other villains Masquerade's mask was rather unique with how it looked like it was made of glass.
Now let's check again the Oz pic and the description again and compare it to the Alice's transformation.
The moment she puts the mask on (it's made of glass) and we see the colors, the program starts, meaning she's entered to a different dimension.Once it starts and Masquerade comes out she has no consent over her actions, she doesn't even remember what she's done.
There's even a shot where we see her looking totally out of it like she's hypnotized:
I got a blank stare baby🎤🎶
Another interesting representation with the colors:
Look at the background and Mic-Hal-G's distorted voice, she was about to be pulled in (I can only put one video so i had to gif this.If you want to check his voice, its ep.39)
But with Dan's interference it all shatters and she comes back to reality again
There's also the part in MKULTRA's definition that mentions about subject dealing with physical and psychological pain.
Do you remember Masquerade's secret base?
It's looks more like a catacomp than a lair with how claustrophobic it is. Confiment in small and dark places is also common in MKULTRA.Keep in mind this is where Alice was spending most of her time as Masquerade.
We also get a glimpse of the psychological effects.Trauma has an important part in that and we get to see this during ep 40.
Negative energy=metaphor for the MKULTRA; This is how she ended up with split personality
I mentioned earlier in the post that the purpose of this process was because it's easier to control a person
And she was doing all the work as Masquerade without even realizing anything
The stories like AIW and Oz use mirrors,colors,entering different spaces a lot together so the common symbols for these stories are linked to the same named MKULTRA programs
Alice<-->Masquerade transformations, her actions as Masquerade(like keep traveling through different spaces like the AIW Alice),and her hallucinations having this specific colorful representation is related to the trigger/symbolism topic.
For the subject it's what starts the programming,they are conditioned to switch to their alter egos. It's also convenient to let the audience know; whenever we see those scenes, we can link up things and get a better understanding.
Whew this got longer than i expected.Of course i can't speak for sure about a media piece, art is subjective afterall.But what i've told about MKULTRA and how often it's referenced in media are real.If that was really what they were going for,i would say they'd done a very decent job by depicting it in a PG way.
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