A BRIEF COMMENTARY ON SIX FURTHER TEXTS, INVOLVING: CHANGELINGS, DOLLS, WITCHES, CULTS AND THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY—BY CRAIG STEVEN JOSEPH LACEY, 28 SEPTEMBER 2024.

§1.0 - Points 1.0–1.12: THIS BLOG'S CONTENTS:

1.1 - THIS BLOG'S TITLE:

1.2 - A BRIEF COMMENTARY ON SIX FURTHER TEXTS, INVOLVING: CHANGELINGS, DOLLS, WITCHES, CULTS AND THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY—BY CRAIG STEVEN JOSEPH LACEY, 28 SEPTEMBER 2024 /

1.3 - THIS BLOG'S LISTED SECTIONS AND NUMBERED POINTS:

1.4 - §2.0: Points 2.0–2.11: 

DISCLAIMER /

1.5 - §3.0: Points 3.0–3.5: DATES OF RESEARCH, WRITING AND PUBLICATION /

1.6 - §4.0: Points 4.0–4.7: PROBLEMS WITH THE QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT /

1.7 - §5.0: Points 5.0–5.10: TEXT 1: THE JAPANESE FILM: CURE / キュア / KYUA, 27 DECEMBER 1997, 112 MINUTES, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY KIYOSHI KUROSAWA /

1.8 - §6.0: Points 6.0–6.10:  TEXT 2: THE IRISH FILM: ODDITY, 8 MARCH 2024, 98 MINUTES, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY DAMIAN MCCARTHY /

1.9 - §7.0: Points 7.0 –7.4:  TEXT 3: THE CHANGELING, 13 JUNE 2017, BY VICTOR LAVALLE /

1.10 - §8.0: Points 8.0–8.4: TEXT 4: THE IRISH SHORT: CHANGELING, 15 OCTOBER 2021, 28 MINUTES, DIRECTED BY MARIE CLARE CUSHINAN AND RYAN O'NEILL /

1.11 - §9.0: Points 9.0–9.14: TEXT 5: ARI ASTER'S FILM: HEREDITARY, 21 JANUARY 2018, 127 MINUTES /

1.12 - §10.0: Points 10.0–10.4: TEXT 6: THE FILM: LONGLEGS, 12 JULY 2024, 101 MINUTES, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY OSGOOD PERKINS / 

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§2.0 - THE DISCLAIMER—Refer directly beneath to points 2.0–2.11.

2.1 - All rights reserved © Craig Steven Joseph Lacey, 4 December 1976–, Australia. 2.2 - Changing the content or re-publishing this blog is strictly prohibited. 2.3 - This blog is protected by the: 2.4 - Privacy Act 1988 of Australia, against unauthorized access to Craig Steven Joseph Lacey's Samsung Galaxy A05s, and Google account; 2.5 - Cybercrime Act 2001 of Australia, against computer fraud or internet fraud; 2.6 - Copyright Act 1968 of Australia, against intellectual property theft; 2.7 - Universal Copyright Convention, circa 1952; 2.8 - Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, 9 September 1886. 2.9 - Fines and/or prosecution will apply according to Australian and International law in reference to unauthorized access and use of this blog published through the Blogger app of Google.com and the author's storage device(s) with the data. 2.10 - A total of nine images have been used within this blog: 2.11 - At point 5.3 the official theatrical release poster for the film: Cure / キュア / Kyua, 27 December 1997, 112 minutes; 2.12 - at point 5.7 a film-still from Cure, of a converted stable used as a clinic; 2.13 - at point 5.8 a film-still of a portrait of a man with erased facial features, as seen in one of the clinic's plastic-wrapped rooms; 2.14 - at point 6.2 the theatrical film release poster of the film: Oddity, 8 March 2024, 98 minutes; 2.15 - at point 6.7 a film-still from: Oddity, that shows the stable, that is on the grounds of Bantry House County Cork, being renovated for home living by the evil psychiatrist; 2.16 - at point 6.8 a recent photograph of the stable and Bantry House, down-loaded from The Roaring Water Journal website, accessed 17:00, 29.09.2024, URL: <https://roaringwaterjournal.com/2016/06/12/capturing-the-view-belvederes-in-west-cork/bantry-house-1/>; 2.17 - at point 8.3 the theatrical release poster for the Irish short film: Changeling, 15 October 2021, 28 minutes; 2.18 - at point 9.11 the theatrical film release poster for Hereditary, 21 January 2018, 127 minutes; 2.19 - at point 10.11 the film-still of Alicia Witt as the Satanic nurse revealed in her Gothic glory from the film: Longlegs, 12 July 2024, 101 minutes.

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§3.0 - DATES OF RESEARCH, WRITING AND NEAR-PUBLICATION—Refer directly beneath to the points 3.0–3.5.

3.1 - This blog was started during 18.09.2024, in researching the associated cultures, such as the State of Oregon, the country of Japan (its city: Tokyo) and the country of Ireland—the changeling mythos originated from Ireland. 3.2 - Composition has been done 28.09.2024: research and composition only by Craig Steven Joseph Lacey at Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia, 4000. 3.3 - Word count: 3029 and characters 18,170. 3.4 - Not for sale, now or the future. 3.5 - Last up-dated: 18:32, 30.09.2024 Australian Eastern Standard Time.

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§ 4.0 - PROBLEMS WITH THE QUEENSLAND GOVERNMENT—Refer directly beneath to the points 4.0 to 4.7.

4.1 - Owing to my embroilment in matters leveraged by the Queensland Courts and the Queensland Police Service at myself—that was initially under the Anna Palaszczuk Labor government, now Steven Miles—I am unable to write a probative assessment of the cultural texts I have recently engaged with and which I feel are relevant to the changeling / witch mythos and the persecution of Christians or Gentiles—the subjects at the core of my writing. 4.2 - I am instead making here a comment en passant as to the listed six texts beneath, before my time is consumed by legal work and caring for disabilities. 4.3 - Being an Australian of Irish ancestry, I did focus on Australian cultural texts as the basis of my initial study, but as can be imagined, the police not only get involved, all sorts "crawl out of the wood-work", feeling accused or taunted by myself—egocentrists that they are—when giving an account of this repressed history is needed and involves a number of different cultures, of which I am almost native. 4.4 - To write critically in Australia on Australian texts is unsafe. 4.5 - I feel very restricted. 4.6 - There are some Australian cultural texts on the changeling, but I cannot write on them. 4.7 - Some of the commentaries on witches and cults touch upon nerves it seems, still, and because it does, still, perhaps it goes on, still?

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§5.0 - TEXT 1: THE JAPANESE FILM: CURE / キュア / KYUA, 27 DECEMBER 1997, 112 MINUTES, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY KIYOSHI KUROSAWA—Refer directly beneath to the points 5.0 to 5.10.

5.1 - Cure / キュア / Kyua, 27 December 1997, 112 minutes, a Japanese neo-noir based, psychological, horror-thriller film written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, with cinematography by Tokushô Kikumura; edited by Kan Suzuki, music by Gary Ashiya; production company: Daiei Film; distributed by Shochiku-Fuji Company; actors: Kōji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki and Anna Nakagawa. 5.2 - The film was initially titled: 'Evangelist / 伝道師 / Dendoushi', but the film's title was changed in response to the Tokyo subway's "sarin attack" perpetrated by Aum Shinrikyo, killing 13 people, severely injuring 50 (some of whom later died), and causing temporary vision problems for nearly 1,000 others—a terrorist styled attack that occurred during the film's production—refer to the wiki article at: <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_subway_sarin_attack>. 5.3 - Refer directly beneath to the film theatrical release poster. 

5.4 - To avoid an association to a religious cult the film was re-titled: 'Cure', at the suggestion of one of the Daiei Film producers. 5.5 - For all the film's adept giallo stylizations, it offers a narrative based on the subject of the persecution of people, which misleadingly appear as serial killings. 5.6 - Hypnosis, hospitalization, fugue states of wandering and amnesia, are all central to the narrative—which are subjects I have discussed in my blogs here at: <thoughtsdisjectambra.blogspot.com>. 5.7 - Refer directly beneath to the film-still of a dilapidated wooden structure, stables, in which memory erasure is suggested to have occurred using the theories of the 18th-century physician: Franz Anton Mesmer, who published treatises on animal magnetism, known as mesmerism defined as: 'the method or power of gaining control over someone's personality or actions, as in hypnosis or suggestion; compare 'hypnosis'.

5.8 - Another film-still directly beneath portrays an erased portrait of a Japanese man.

5.10 - Franz Anton Mesmer, was the basis for the film: 5.9 - Black Magic, 19 August 1949, 105 minutes, directed by Gregory Ratoff and Orson Welles, production company: Edward Small Productions. 5.10 - In the film: Cure / キュア / Kyua, 27 December 1997, 112 minutes,  Franz Anton Mesmer's texts are shown in the hypnotist's apartment: suggested as a genuine science through which the attempt at systemized control of so-called changelings, otherwise known as religious converts: Jew ⟶ Christian (now: religious ⟶ irreligious / Satanic), such as through the use of memory erasure and enforced assimilation in to the established culture and politics of a tyrannical governance—such as involved in the Chinese Communist Party's "re-education" of Uyghurs, since circa 2017, noticeably within concentration camps.

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§6.0 - TEXT 2: THE IRISH FILM: ODDITY, 8 MARCH 2024, 98 MINUTES, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY DAMIAN MCCARTHY—Refer directly beneath to the points 6.0 to 6.10.

6.1 - Oddity, premiered 8 March 2024 at South by Southwest, 98 minutes, written and directed by Damian McCarthy; produced by Laura Tunstall, Mette-Marie Kongsved, Katie Holly and Evan Horan; cinematography: Colm Hogan; edited by Brian Philip Davis; music by Richard G. Mitchell; production companies: Keeper Pictures, Nowhere, Shudder; distributed by Wildcard Distribution; actors: Gwilym Lee, Carolyn Bracken, Tadhg Murphy, Caroline Menton, Jonathan French and Steve Wall. 6.2 - Refer directly beneath to the film's theatrical release poster.

6.3 - This film is of intrigue because of its use of a doll or mannequin and its focus on the role of a disabled woman, a blind woman, and twin, who has psychic abilities, comes to know that the murder of her twin sister was committed by the husband and she seeks out justice by appearing at his door-step with the mannequin. 6.4 - The husband is a psychiatrist who organizes with his hospital warden to murder his wife, and to have his affair with the hospital's pharmaceutical sales representative become his main relationship: his reasoning is, because his wife really loves him she should be murdered. 6.5 - An innocent in-mate of the psychiatric ward is framed for the murder, by the two men and female sales representative. 6.6 - The film's setting is at Bantry House, specifically the converted stable, and in the film the stable is shown as a building isolated within rural County Cork. 6.7 - Refer directly beneath to the film still of a complete camera shot of the stable: the tree foliage has been computer imaged in to the camera's shot.

6.7 - I researched the location and found a photograph of the stable on the grounds of the Bantry House estate—refer to the website: <https://www.bantryhouse.com/>. 6.8 - Refer directly beneath to a photograph, 12 June 2016, of the estate with the Bantry manor neighbouring the stable on the photograph's left and storage building, right, burnt down when I was living at the manor as a young boy—many Moors and Northern Africans lived wildly in the surrounding trees and I allowed many to live in the storage building that their leader, "John", disallowed, and it was him who burnt the store house in reaction; but after all the "hoo-ha", the burnt people were really the enemies he wanted dead.

6.9 - I lived for a brief time at Bantry House as a young boy, about 3–4 years old, when everyone wore Victorian styled attire, despite it being circa 1980, and later, my mother lived at the house, having insisted she wanted to stay, though it is my real father's family who own it—they are all dead now, having been killed. 6.10 - My mother's relatives ripped out the interiors of the manor, but I organised for new decor later—I cannot remember when exactly, owing to my on-going amnesia such as caused by a memory erasure clinic as sort of narrated about in the film: Cure / キュア / Kyua, 27 December 1997, 112 minutes.

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§7.0 - TEXT 3: THE CHANGELING, 13 JUNE 2017, BY VICTOR LAVALLE—Refer directly beneath to the points 7.0 to 7.4.

7.0 - I occasionally frequent the Australian book-store retailer Dymocks—as I used to do whenever I was at Sydney during my adolescent years—here at The Queen Street Mall, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4000, and discovered a new text: 7.1 - The Changeling, 13 June 2017, by Victor Lavalle, 1st edition, United States Of America: Spiegel & Grau, hard-cover, 431 pages, ISBN: 9780812995947. 7.2 - A quite brief book summary is provided at The Guardian newspaper's website: <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/01/the-changeling-victor-lavalle-review>. 7.3 - The book was noticed by myself during 2019 and a similar blog note as this was written 5 years ago but taken off of myself by Queensland police, I believe acting under some sort of concocted authority of John's. 7.4 - A television series has been created by Kelly Marcel for Apple TV+, that premiered, 8 September 2023, with the first three episodes—8 episodes in total—refer to the website for The Changeling television series: <https://tv.apple.com/us/show/the-changeling/umc.cmc.161vwm570k49vsn7xjtzvnwex>.

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§8.0 - TEXT 4: THE IRISH SHORT: CHANGELING, 15 OCTOBER 2021, 28 MINUTES, DIRECTED BY MARIE CLARE CUSHINAN AND RYAN O'NEILL—Refer directly beneath to the points 8.0 to 8.5.

8.1 -  Changeling, 15 October 2021 at the HorrOrigins Film Festival, 28 minutes, directed by Marie Clare Cushinan and Ryan O'Neill; written by Marie Clare Cushinan; actors: Marie Clare Cushinan, Michael Mormecha and Jake O'Kane; film's languages: Gaelic Irish and English. 8.2 - The film short examines rural Ireland during 1879, a time of famine and isolation, and the superstition of the changeling grips a young family. 8.3 - Refer directly beneath to the film's theatrical release poster that portrays the traditional hand gesture the Irish locals used to signalize, that a woman's child-birth and new-born involved a changeling.

8.5 - The history of the changeling goes well in to Ireland's history, such as discussed by the text: Gaelic Otherworld—John Gregorson Campbell's Superstitions Of The Highlands And The Islands Of Scotland And Witchcraft And Second Sight In The Highlands And Islands, 12 June 2009, Edited by Ronald Black, Indiana University, Digitized, 769 pages, ISBN 1841587338, 9781841587332.

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§9.0 - TEXT 5: ARI ASTER'S FILM: HEREDITARY, 21 JANUARY 2018, 127 MINUTES—Refer directly beneath to the points 9.0 to 9.14.

9.1 - Hereditary, 21 January 2018 premiered at Sundance film festival, 127 minutes; written and directed by Ari Aster; produced by Kevin Frakes, Lars Knudsen, Buddy Patrick; cinematography by Pawel Pogorzelski edited by Jennifer Lame and Lucian Johnston music by Colin Stetson; production companies: A24, PalmStar Media, Finch Entertainment, Windy Hill Pictures; distributed by A24; actors: Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd and Gabriel Byrne. 9.2 - I had watched this film previously, but owing to subsequent events, my arrest and being stripped of my property by police, circa 2019, I thought I will do no further work: and I did not until 3 years later, circa 2021, and my commentaries have led myself back around to write similar blogs, if not the same, as circa 2019—I am like a homing pigeon! 9.3 - Hereditary, 21 January 2018, 127 minutes, examines contemporary concerns in the family environment of what is real or unreal: matters have become that confusing. 9.4 - When the youngest daughter is killed in a driving accident by her older brother, that is, shortly after the death of the family's grand-mother, a curse erupts upon the remaining family members, incurred by a dæmonic spirit: Paimon, the King of the Eighth Circle of Hell. 9.5 - The family members and a few others form a cult of Paimon—not to be confused with the Japanese school-girl character Paimon—who "really exists" in reference to grimoires. 9.6 - The Satanic always intermingles the Christian and the Christian intermingles the Satanic. 9.7 - The desire to form a cult is not based on social conditioning it would seem, but is a matter of hereditary, engrained patterns of behaviour. 9.8 - Nor is it to do with a mystified concealment of the Chinese Communist Party's social means of regional destabilization, such as at the film's location of Summit County, Utah, the United States Of America—nor regarding its continued Phun / Han Chinese defined global domination, as it shores up its own stability at home in China where life is really cherry blossoms and lotus flowers. 9.9 - That reminds myself I must watch the recent film regarding Ted Bundy: 9.10 - No Man of God, 11 June 2021 premiered at Tribeca, 100 minutes, an American mystery film directed by Amber Sealey and written by C. Robert Cargill.  9.11 - Refer directly beneath to the film theatrical poster.

9.12 - The film's portrayals of decapitation are slightly reminiscent of the narrative of Salomé, such as celebrated by the film: 9.13 - Salomé, 31 December 1922, 74 minutes, an American silent drama film, directed by Charles Bryant and Alla Nazimova—based on the play: 9.14 - Salomé, 11 February 1896, by Oscar Wilde, ‎64 pages, ISBN-10: ‎0460041525 and ISBN-13: 978-0460041522.

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§10.0 - TEXT 6: THE FILM: LONGLEGS, 12 JULY 2024, 101 MINUTES, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY OSGOOD PERKINS—Refer directly beneath to the points 10.0 to 10.4.

10.1 - Longlegs, 12 July 2024, 101 minutes, written and directed by Osgood Perkins;

produced by Dan Kagan, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Nicolas Cage, Dave Caplan, Chris Ferguson; cinematography Andrés Arochi Tinajero; edited by Greg Ng and Graham Fortin; music by Zilgi; production companies C2 Motion Picture Group, Traffic, Range, Oddfellows and Saturn Films; distributed by Neon; actors: Maika Monroe, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt and Nicolas Cage. 10.2 - Refer to the IMDb.com record for the film: <https://m.imdb.com/title/tt23468450/>. 10.3 - I wrote extensively on this film and I will be distracted from completing the existing notes due to the aforementioned Queensland government's interruptions: but I will mention here, the allusions to the Laerna Hydra are a symbol of Babylon and the Anti-Christ, as per the sea beast from Revelation, which with my earlier blogs' discussion of Phoenicia being the culture in which worship of Dagon is celebrated, the Phoenician language letters from LongLegs appear to verify these earlier observations. 10.4 - Refer directly beneath to the film still of Ruth Harker, the Mum and nurse, acted by Alicia Witt, who delivers the effigies of the birthday girls.

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