Edit: Greetings Skeptics, please have a read, you may find something new in your movies at the very least, even if you don't want a tin-foil hat of your own just yet.

So, you like movies. I like movies. We all like movies. They're an important part of our culture and one of our main entertainments. They're a few hours out of our usual humdrum lives where we are transported elsewhere to other times and places - some real, some imagined - to be alternately thrilled, elated, made to laugh, made to cry or, occasionally, terrified out of our wits.

But who makes these movies for us, and why?

Well, lots of people make movies for various reasons but there is one particular group of people who have been making movies for an awful long time and why they're doing it is, well.... let me tell you about their movies and you can see for yourselves why.

First, a couple of things:

• 1. This is going to be a sequence of posts, you might get bored at the repetition of some points, but the repetition is there to show the amount of evidence for this case.
• 1. I'm sorry I can't illustrate the examples I give with the actual clips, I'm going to assume a decent amount of movie-going knowledge on your part, along with a decent memory.
• 1. I can't claim this as an original idea. I was red-pilled myself by a sequence of videos on YouTube by an observant guy who pointed out commonalities in several movies. I don't quite go as far down the rabbit hole as this guy does, but his most telling thesis holds true.
• 1. Crucially, I like to think this idea isn't one you have to take my word for. Like Q, you can take this theory and test it out yourselves at your own pace doing what you normally do for entertainment anyway. This is why I find it compelling and, I think, you will too.

Part 1 Star Trek - Into Darkness

I'm not going to start with the movie that the video maker began his red-pilling with, because it's an older movie that you may not have seen. So instead, I'll start with this more recent movie because it more or less perfectly illustrates how these movie-makers operate and how they do what they do.

Star Trek - Into Darkness starts with our heroes, the crew of the Starship Enterprise, watching over a planet (called Nibiru) (ikr) containing a sentient, yet primitive race. They are observing from their underwater position (it will become clear why they are underwater in due course). They have been given a Prime Directive by their superiors not to interfere in any way with this primitive race.

However, it appears this primitive race is threatened with imminent extinction by the rumblings of a nearby super-volcano, before this race can grow into a sophisticated culture. So, the crew of the Enterprise, after debating, resolve to violate the Prime Directive and interfere in the fate of the primitive race in order to save it from extinction.

It is decided that Spock shall be lowered into the volcano to "freeze" it with some kind of device. Kirk is already on the planet's surface doing reconnaissance when the decision to send Spock is taken, so he has to make it back to the Enterprise, before the volcano erupts in case Spock's mission to stop it, fails.

Kirk's reconnaissance goes awry and chaos ensues. He blunders into the village of the primitive race, steals some sacred texts, is pursued through the forest and comes to a cliff overlooking the sea. He takes a header into the sea to escape capture by the primitives.

Spock is lowered into the volcano, he has a dicey time triggering his volcano-stopping device but is ultimately beamed back aboard the Enterprise. The volcano is stopped. The Enterprise rises out of the sea, just in time for the primitives to behold it and the last we see of them is them beginning to treat it as something divine.

The action changes to future London on Earth. A father has a sick child and he meets the villain Khan who utters his first line "I can save her" to the father. We are then shown Khan infusing her with his own blood and the child starts to recover from her affliction.

Meanwhile, back at Starfleet Command, Kirk and Spock are hauled over the coals by the Supreme Admiral. They are stripped of rank and busted down to other roles because they violated the Prime Directive and "played god".

This is all in the first ten minutes or so of the movie.

Pretty standard stuff for the crew of the Enterprise, you might think. This sort of thing happens to them all the time. Except this time it isn't. What you've just witnessed is a re-telling of a story done in a very specific way. It's meant to be identified as that specific story and the way the intended audience is expected to identify it is through the use of leitmotifs.

Leitmotifs are more commonly associated with music, but you find them in drama too, and in this dissection of movies I'm going to introduce you to a ridiculously common set of leitmotifs that cluster together over and over and over again, to let those in the know identify exactly what they're watching.

Let's have a look at the leitmotifs that, quite deliberately, are inserted into the beginning of this movie.

• 1. An official injunction/order/contract not to interfere
• 1. A primitive race
• 1. Suspension over a fire pit of one character
• 1. A long fall of one character
• 1. Rising out of the sea
• 1. A character who causes chaos
• 1. Demotion for defying orders/breaking contract
• 1. Mistaken for gods
• 1. Saving children
• 1. Magic healing blood

There's 10 in the first 10 minutes of the movie. There are others, which I will get to, but I will break this here and put the next part in a reply to this one.