woah i donāt even know where to begin. I guess Iāll have to rewatch to explain what i was thinking. (i didnāt watch the trailer or read up on the movie or anything. so I went in clean)
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the first thing i picked up was the thing about his mother, initially i thought she was doing her best for her son knew what exactly he wanted for his birthday but simply couldnāt then BOOM she got up and started to shame him through his father. saying āI canāt afford it, know how that makes me feel?ā "You father didnāt leave us well-off, he did leave us three months of unpaid rentā¦ a life insurance policy that lapsed before he died he left a rather large stack of unpaid bills. āwhich I managed to take care of.āā¦ āYour father never met an inside straight he didnāt likeā. I didnāt like that, make someone else feel shame and guilt for being an offspring of a man your son doesnāt remember or canāt verify these things with while at the same time painting yourself to be this perfect mother who has done it all with what she got.
once ted is introduced she is quickly judgmental of him. Ted is strange no doubt but insightful like heās experienced things and have seen things that the naked eye just canāt perceive at this point i started really paying attention. when he told Bobby to keep the library card said ābooks can be solid goldā if you rewind you see Bobby turned out to be a writer with multiple books of his own, Iām sure that particular moment in his life reinforced him to that path. Absolutely loved the advice of giving a writer an hour to hook you if they canāt move on.
The first sign of mystical / psychic came when he mentioned āif it works out, you might get that bikeā not sure if Ted intended making use of the information he knew or he slipped up and corrected himself by saying all kids want bikes.
āone feels them first at the back of oneās eyes.ā This stood out to me like a sore thumb. You see Iām not sure what he was referring to but based on what has happened before and other things i know of I instantly started to picture mind control/interrogators agents and other entities. They scan your mind and use anchors to extract information from you more advanced ones can simply see everything in your mind and things you arenāt even aware ofā¦ speak directly to you as if itās yourself speaking to yourself. Boom and there we go he starts speaking about ālowā men and how they move in herds like animals. extracting information from people without their consciousness being aware.
āassume that everybody you talk to can read your mindā
Once Bobby asked him what why they are after him, and he responds with āA certain something i have.ā this was a clear sign that Ted is a threat to them for his ability to see and things the masses arenāt aware of. They canāt have him trying to expose them and their methods. The way Ted describes them āthey wear dark clothes, dark hats, theyāre kind of anonymousāā¦ but the one i havenāt yet read into is āā¦and they cast long shadowsā to cast long shadows why would he bring that into the picture? could it be because of the way he described them to always be dressed in black or could it be that they bring up the worst shadows and give them power within ourselves when weāre their target so we do anything they seek. āThey cast long shadowsā not sureā¦
in the same scene Bobby askes him what heās wanted for and Ted said āIf they were library police, Iād be one of their 10 most wantedā he knows things that canāt be shared with the masses. confirmed when he said āwhat they want is me, back under their control.ā
he warned him of posters when they are closing in, I knew they would link themsleves to the posters so that whenever someone came in contact they get a glimpse of the personās mind.
just right before the scene ends the mother is home and calls Bobby he gets scared and Ted goes like āShe canāt know what youāre thinkingā as if heās telling Bobby sheās not aware of these sides of reality.
itās like everytime this kid speaks to his mother she is just shaming him more and more. āI do, and i wish i couldāve gotten it for youā (in response to Bobby now potentially getting that bike of his) ā¦ āBut your father didnāt exactly leave us well-off.ā
around 30 mins into the movie Bobby is showing that he doesnāt believe ted, hanging onto his version of reality as heās never seen anything outside of what he knows.
~34 mins: Ted seems to be in this Flow knowledge gathering, not in a meditative state not trying to control it. Just being an āinstrumentā the everything that comes through. Thatās how he knew āThey draw west now, but they may be backā before Bobby leaves we see him telling him ādonāt fall off anything nowā perhaps his touch gave him the connection to see through his world.
at the carnival scene i thought it was quite interesting to see how Bobby managed to know where the queen was in the shuffle. He wasnāt even really looking at the cards rather at the shuffler (whatever you call him) could it be that Ted was speaking to bobby during this or was Bobby starting to understand things? either way it seem like he was again reading his mind to find the true intention of what was happening.
āassume that everybody you talk to can read your mindā
i canāt keep going with each bit cause Iāll be here forever but why did ted bring him to the bar? coincidence or was it cause he knew the bartender was friends with his father so he brought him along as to help him with overcoming the guilt his mother placed on him. shortly after leaving the bar the ālow-menā appear Ted quickly rushes to mitigate the situation and instructs Bobby to think of Carol, what came to mind for me was āah i see.ā If they can read anyoneās mind and use your own thoughts against you there has to be something to assist in this attack and that was love. The Love that Bobby has for Carol is pure him thinking of her while the low men were around protected him mind in real time from all sorts of attack. Love is an intelligence far superior of the mind (structure, which it created).
There is more and i recommend others to also give it a view.
