Transcript
Distorted (2018)
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All suites have access to our 24-hour surveillance of all key venues.
Okay. Please follow me.
Wireless lighting, QED window shades with sun control fabric...and a fully integrated telecommunications cabling package.
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Have you noticed anything, uh, unusual about your apartment?
I just... I keep hearing this strange hissing sound, like...like something's been left on.
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And either way that wouldn't explain the electronic hiss...the voices, the images.
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So, what are you trying to say?
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I know how this is gonna sound, but...what if someone is using this building as, um...kind of an experiment?
The Pinnacle is owned by a man named Henning Dallquist.
He has extensive holdings in...
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I wish you wouldn't look at me like that.
With respect to subliminal imagery, Vicary was interesting.
He had been using a high-speed projector...to flash the slogans "drink Coke" and "eat popcorn..." at one three-thousandths of a second, at five second intervals.
Now, according to Mr. Vicary, popcorn sales went up about 60%...
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- ...and Coke sales about 20%.
- So it's been proven effective?
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Well, that particular study was never subjected to a, um...proper scientific review...and from what I gather the evidence of success has been greatly exaggerated.
Makes for good copy more than anything.
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Did your father ever use subliminal advertising in any of his early campaigns?
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From what I understand, a few of his competitors did test the waters...but the FCC quickly stepped in.
Ruling due process contrary to public interest, effectively outlawing it.
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- And that law's enforced?
- As far as I understand.
Although, as urban myth would have it, you still have your odd department store...slipping anti-theft warning through their muzak systems, or...or a heavy metal band masking satanic messages.
And of course, nowadays with your buzz agents, product feeders, viral marketers...everyone plugged in 24/7...the Federal Communications Commission need hardly have bothered.
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Have you heard of, uh...pulsed electromagnetic fields, or, uh, covert hypnosis?
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Okay.
Let me ask you this. Why... why you?
Why can't I hear any of these sounds?
Why can't I see any of these images?
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I think it has something to do with my medication.
I think it acts as some sort of buffer.
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Or it could be the manic depression itself.
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I'm wired differently than you.
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Conspiracy theories, delusions of persecution...messages being sent through the TV.
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The CIA caught up...in a mind control arms race with the Russians and the Chinese.
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But, uh, what does that...well, isn't that ancient history?
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Well, it's by definition an idea ahead of its time.
The digital technologies advance, so theory and practice finally and tragically meet.
What are you experiencing?
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Coercive flash images, I think, and, uh...some kind of binaural sounds.
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- I'll send you more documents.
- Okay.
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You're not paranoid.
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Who are you?
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Nobody. Hacker, journalist.
I spend my time writing a book about all this dark tech sh|t.
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You watch procedurals?
Common motif, everything is conjecture or hearsay or straight-up paranoia...until you get physical evidence.
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The new tech has revolutionized the world.
Everything's moving at quantum speeds.
Politics, commerce, and coordinated criminal activity.
You can walk into any coffee shop in the civilized world and you can see...our virtual consumption has us ripe for a psychotronic takeover.
So it's not that much of a stretch...to think of competing multinationals putting up smart buildings in Tokyo...London, Chicago.
There's a whole world of wealthy...cybernated marionettes just waiting for their strings to get pulled.
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You do understand that, when everything is brought to light...you'll be charged with first degree murder.
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Does this concern you?
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I've done exactly what was asked of me.
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You cannot begin to fathom the...extraordinary contribution you have made here today.
Psychotechnology...the battle for the mind.
It's the new arms race.
The holy grail of global sovereignty.
And with your help...we've just managed to leave our competitors in the proverbial dust.
As with any war...victory can only be achieved with certain sacrifices.
And history will bear out that none of this...none of this has been done in vain.
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