Radio Free Albemuth

This is a brilliant adaptation of the novel. There had never been an even remotely successful translation of Philip K. Dick's genius writing onto the big screen...but finally, we have the REAL DEAL. Giblet-heads cannot possibly understand this film, so it's obviously going to get 'mixed reviews'. But for anyone who has read the Sci-Fi prophet, they cannot be disappointed by this excellent film. However, even fans of PKD won't truly understand what this film is really about. For that, you need me. I'm johnellizz and I investigate the real-life 'BioDigital' conspiracy that Dick was fictionalizing in the 1960's and 70's. (I make a YouTube channel about the phenomenon called: johnellizz) Let me explain how some of PKD's novels were astonishingly insightful into the actual nature of our planet and the conspiracies that go on here...In "The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch", Dick shows us a bizarre alien invasion that assimilates all of Humanity progressively...the method is to psychologically invade the minds of humans and to infuse a copy of the alien (who masquerades as a space explorer named 'Palmer Eldritch'. The humans become host-bodies for the alien and they display 'stigmata' - superimposed alien features which appear over their human visages. THE TRUTH: This conspiracy is entirely real...The alien entity is called "The All-Seeing Eye", and it does exactly what is described in the novel: It mentally invades the human mind and psychologically overpowers the human subject. It then projects a digital Reptilian entity into the human - converting them into host-bodies that carry-out the conspiracy of 'The Eye'. These folks are known as 'Reptilian Shapeshifters' because they subliminally display the 'stigmata' of the Reptilian alien masquerading inside of them: These shapeshifts super-impose over the human's eyes and appear as 'clown slits' - meaning Reptilian slitted pupils which extend ABOVE and outside of the human's eyelids. These 'BioDigitals' occasionally display Reptilian fangs in the same subliminal fashion. The shapeshifts happen within mere fractions of a second, and can only be perceived by the subconscious minds of ordinary humans. In "Do Andriods Dream Of Electric Sheep", Dick shows us a world where all the celebrities and entertainers are not what they seem...although the unsuspecting humans who watch television and movies have no idea, these famous actors are actually androids masquerading as ordinary human beings. This secret population of android entertainers use film and television to promote cold, unfeeling concepts and values to Humanity and to denounce 'empathy' and love. THE TRUTH: Our world is exactly like this in real-life. The 'BioDigitals' who host the Reptilian entity control Hollywood and the music industry. Every actor you see in movies is a Reptilian Shapeshifter, and they display subliminal shapeshifts during their acting performances. (I document an endless and irrefutable catalog of this visual evidence on my YouTube channel.) The movies and television shows are a relentless form of propaganda that seeks to destroy the viewer's sense of 'empathy' by depicting cold-blooded, Nazi-like heroes who mercilessly execute defenseless and unarmed people who plead for their lives even as the film's 'good guy' coldly murders them without remorse or empathy. In "Radio Free Albemuth" Dick fictionalizes his own experiences as a host-body. Like so many before him, Dick experienced the mind-invasion of "The All-Seeing Eye" and felt that he had become part of a vast conspiracy. In personal tape recordings, Dick claims, "It's in me" and he knows that the alien intelligence of 'The Eye' is working within a vast network of human-hosts. In the novel, he splits himself into two distinct characters: Nicholas Brady and Philip K. Dick...but in Dick's real life, ALL of the fictional Brady's visions and communions with the ET intelligence were actually happening to Dick. The novel represents the oppressive Earth tyranny as 'Ferris F. Fremont' - which is a way of identifying this global conspiracy as '666' (because three letter F's are the repetition if the sixth letter of the alphabet...for example, in "Donnie Darko", 'Frank The Bunny' describes himself as the third 'Frank' when he explains that Frank is "The name of my father and his father before me.") The reason that the oppressive world conspiracy is called '666' by Dick is because the "All-Seeing Eye" projects copies of DIFFERENT alien entities into the vast population of human host-bodies that it utilizes on Earth. This seems to be so that the aliens can use the bodies to play a GAME. Each game-player is identified as a single digit number. 'Number 6' seems to be the renegade player who exerts control over the Earth at this time. The multiplicity of human-hosts, or 'meat-puppets' used by Number 6 is why the conspiracy is referred to as '666' - as in 'here a 6, there a 6...EVERYWHERE a 6'. Yet another game player is 'Number 7' and, of course, this conspiracy is called '777'. (For example, in "Star Trek" we meet an alien called 'Gary Seven' who operates a secretive conspiracy on Earth.) In the Occult, there is a constant theme of Nine ET intelligences from deep space who interact with the planet Earth (for example, both the Mayan and Egyptian pantheon of 'gods' were Nine in number). So it seems possible that there are nine game players in all. The 'Illuminati' is famously know for its 'chessboard' symbolism because this indicates that Earth is a 'game' being played. In "The Cosmic Puppets" and "The Game Players Of Titan", Dick shows us worlds in which mysterious aliens use humans as pawns in a cosmic game. The 'Titan' mentioned in the title refers to a moon of Saturn. (Interestingly, many people now speculate that Saturn is actually the home base for many of the aliens that manipulate our planet Earth. For example, in "Starman" a mothership comes down to pick up Jeff Bridges which resembles the planet Saturn.) I'm johnellizz, and I'm one of the humans that was targeted for the possession technique of the "All Seeing Eye"...however, the entity wasn't able to take over my mind - which is why I explain the 'Eye' to humans (something the assimilated cannot do). To learn more about the 'BioDigital' conspiracies, read all of my Amazon reviews and visit my channel. -Johnny Read more

I had read this film was made in 2007, and stuck in development limbo until 2013+ when it was finally released, but that doesn’t explain how bad it looks. The worst part is that it wasn’t that low of a budget, they managed to secure a decently known cast, but it looked like it was filmed with a camera from the 1970’s. Beyond the production qualities, it’s just such a cheesy film. The paranoia about a US President run amok who wants to be president for life oddly rings true nowadays, but the overall delivery of the film goes from cheesy to preposterous. I’ve read comparisons to Blade Runner, which is beyond ridiculous. And...then Alanis Morissette shows up. My sentence seems random, about as random as her appearance in the film. “Jarring” would be the word to describe a scene in which she first appears, and makes me think the director was a 8th grade drama teacher who was given the direction that a scene should look “dreamy”. Beyond those issues, overall the dialogue actually isn’t terrible, and there’s a cast member who’s attractiveness sticks out like a sore thumb compared to everyone else in this mess, but beyond those highlights watching 10 minutes of this film and you’ll be able to plainly tell why it was stuck in limbo for 6+ years. Read more

Radio Free Albemuth is an outstanding film on many, many levels. The story, the cinematography, the lighting, the sound, and the acting are all far above par. Shea Whigham's performance as Phil was utterly compelling, and so too was the performance of Scott Wilson as President Fremont. The story itself was prophetic when first written in the 1970's, and now stands as a cautionary tale for our times. It is the story of a democracy slipping into totalitarianism, almost unnoticed by a public driven by fear and distracted the demands of everyday life. In passing, it also well illustrates the logic and practices of police states everywhere. Radio Free Albemuth rates exceptionally high in terms of its entertainment and educational value. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a compelling and often gripping film experience. Read more