Film Theory: Do Not Believe His Lies (The Mandela Catalogue)

Hello Internet, welcome to Film Theory, the show that is contractually obligated to never sleep again. Fortunately, I know exactly what I can help with that. The Mandela Catalog is a terrifying series of six videos here on YouTube guaranteed to give you nightmare fuel for weeks. Produced by Alex. kister the

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catalog is the latest and greatest example of the increasingly popular world of analogue horror think local 58 gemini home entertainment the walton files apparently there was something about the 1980s that was absolutely terrifying oh no, those shoulder pads over there are so big is that thing a cell phone or a brick, kill it, kill it with fire, former president ronald reagan, no, no, come back, come back, anyway, I can't handle your trickle down economics, all in jest, the catalog of Mandela tells his terrifying story through a series. of VHS tapes from the 1980s and 1990s, all originating in the mysterious Mandela County, where children have begun to disappear and a mysterious intruder is breaking into local homes, but what begins as a few simple home videos quickly descends into a story of kidnapping, body swapping, religious conspiracy. and metaphysics, this one will have dark friends, so buckle up as we try to decipher the unholy horrors that exist within Mandela's

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It's hard to say exactly where we should start this series considering the first video posted is not the one the creator suggests watching first, but this overthrown upload sets up our key theme, so I think starting here still makes more sense, as we're presented with an animated version of the birth of jesus that comes specifically from a video series called the bible for beginners and yes, it gives you the classic story of an angel gabriel who comes down from heaven to tell mary that she will give birth to the savior jesus christ who will give us will bless with love and joy and amazing Black Friday deals for everyone on our Christmas list.

It's so nice to remember what the season is about, except this time the Nativity story is a little different. Our angel's name is redacted and his face has been censored for a brief moment, although we take a look behind the sensor bar to see what it looks like. being a blue alien comes straight from james cameron's avatar as he speaks fails in the word angel i am the angel gabriel you can already see something is wrong here a suspicion that only grows once gabriel starts speaking in binary apparently the angels We've heard who in the heights are very competent with their ones and zeros activating the subtitles.

We see the whispers translate into a code that says: I am the one true savior. I must reverse the deception. Joseph is next and, in fact, Joseph, Jesus' stepfather, is next. He sleeps, the angel speaks to fear him, this is like the worst ASMR video. Lastly, we see the shepherds in the field meeting our angel, who once again declares himself as the only true savior. He cuts to black before red text appears saying I fooled you. Such weak minds Yeah, we're in that part of YouTube again folks, sweet dreams, everyone's fine, but first let's check on everything we're watching here, whatever it is, it's not an angel, notice that only then does it say I know.

Does everything about what makes you human reveal a human face? This thing changes shape and its true form is the one we saw at the beginning before the sensor bar went up, that strange blue alien face. Notice also that he stumbles over the word angel. stuck in the lyrics almost like he was trying to say "I'm the alien" and then corrected himself. All of this is very reminiscent of the ancient alien

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, the idea that some intelligent aliens visited Earth in prehistoric days and in the process. it spawned all human conceptions of gods and religions, as humans were unable to comprehend what they had just witnessed, but let me be perfectly clear: I am not married to that

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There is also much evidence to suggest that this angel is, in fact, the devil himself. satan again with the subtitles on we get a special secret while the screen is black hidden in the subtitles is this message quotes how frozen I was and how helpless so don't ask the reader why I don't write it because all the language would be insufficient. I did not do it. Die and I live, don't think for yourself now, should you have wit? This quote, quite poetic, is actually a direct excerpt from a classic work of literature called Dante's Inferno, specifically a part near the end of Kanto 34.

For those who don't know. Dante's Inferno is basically just one guy's journey through the various circles of double toothpicks and this quote comes from the end of his journey when Dante is at the frozen center of it all and there he encounters satan himself chewing to some sinners. In fact, this line is his reaction to seeing the giant that is satan and he is not only chewing up sinners, but he is chewing up some liars and frauds, Judas who lied and betrayed Jesus, as well as Brutus and Cassius, the two men who betrayed and murdered Julius Caesar.

We see that fraud is the greatest sin as defined by hell. The same kind of fraud we see our angel committing to marry Joseph and the shepherds in Mandela's

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. Could our angel potentially be Satan himself? It seems likely in the final load of titled exposition of the first season, we have another quote hidden in the subtitles this time a Bible verse Corinthians 11 14. Isn't it obvious that it is shameful for a man to have long hair? Oh wait, sorry, sorry, wrong Corinthians, that's one Corinthian, not two Corinthians, sorry. but the cheese bible really pushes everyone to follow their sick destiny, huh, anyway, after a long section talking about whether girls can pray with their heads bare or if they just need to shave their hair, here's the quote correct for you and no wonder for satan costumes. himself as an angel of light, I mean that seems pretty explicit right there and just to drive home the point in another video that warns about how people in this universe are losing their minds due to a disorder called insanity, we're told to quote , let's avoid religious practices that Again it seems that this is a world where satan or that alien blue avatar of your choice has deceived the masses and taken control of the world's religions by manipulating their minds and making them go crazy, so it would seem that satan has come to deceive the world.

But why is he waiting until the '80s to do something with it and what exactly is his plan? Well, is satan a big Bon Jovi fan or does he have something to do with the analog part of analog horror, the television you see in the 80s. It was perhaps the golden age of television was when cable suddenly became popular instead of three channels there were dozens it was when the video recorder allowed viewers to record their favorite programs it was when the television remote control allowed people to lounge on the couch and simply In short, television rose to fame during this decade and with it the ability to reach the masses almost anytime, anywhere, something a brainwashed fake angel would probably love to exploit.

In the finale of Season 1, we see that the government has issued something called the Television and Mirror Destruction Order saying that if a loved one comes into contact with one of these items, they should contact local authorities immediately; In other words, televisions are dangerous in this universe and so are mirrors, so let's reflect on that one thing that keeps appearing in Mandela's catalog is fear Gabriel talks about how he wants to know the fear of José and the shepherds in another video A training tape for first responders is expressly told not to talk to victims on the phone because they could accidentally reveal your fear, there is something absolutely chilling when you watch an emergency services training video that tells the only people who can help in a terrible situation cower in fear and let the innocent die and in another video we see an emergency alert about a missing children attack warning parents to keep their children away from televisions because they could project terrifying images , then it would seem that some entity satan or whoever is using televisions to broadcast fears into people's minds and into their homes, this again seems to coincide with the 1980s.

In the context of this and specifically the birth of the cycle of 24-hour news in 1980, the CNN cable channel launched and in the process pioneered news as 24-hour programming, suddenly it was no longer just a brief one-hour update at the end of Instead, every night was like sports live and updated with the latest and worst headlines humanity had to offer at any hour of any day, a trend that is only accelerating with the Internet and things like Twitter now, obviously, I'm just doing Here's an analogy, a comparison with what's happening in the series, but it seems like something that's happening here in Mandela's catalogue.

In the first season finale, we get a series of home videos of a young man named Mark Heathcliff, to whom it is important. other reasons that we will talk about later throughout his tapes, although not much happens, some images of the church, a door that opens and closes mysteriously in the darkness, but then we see this, a figure approaching him Through a television at night, we receive this evaluation from the police officers who are watching the footage quote. Heathcliff has been paranoid for an extended period. To me, it seems to suggest that television was what was causing his paranoia, either literally bringing in a shadow monster to taunt him or symbolically making him succumb to his darker form.

In fact, we fear that television appears to offer a physical portal into people's homes. Intruder alert number four shows us this man who is more than happy to whisper to us, well, that's a comforting thought. Can you feed the cat while you are there? Also notice that the whispered voice sounds a lot like our angel friend. Anyway, throughout this video we see him repeatedly appear on televisions, which would be terrifying on its own, but he also appears to be stealing children from their beds halfway through the video. get a psa about the importance of taking care of your children the psa presents us with a crying baby who when his mother checks on him the only person who was in the room has disappeared from his crib the intruder from the television and we know that he can come and go from the house presumably through television, as we see later in the same video, our intruder wandering around the missing child's house hidden in the shadows.

We're told 3,426 children have gone missing in the last few weeks, it seems. like our friend here has been pretty busy, why what is he doing with all these kids and how is he doing it? It's just science fiction. Can he just teleport between television screens? Well, yes, it seems that the video tells us that quote. They exist on different spectrums, suggesting that this person, this intruder, may have the ability to appear and disappear from different spectrums, perhaps one that allows him to be physically transmitted to a home or at least exist on a different plane of reality. and appear and disappear. at will, as we see in the short crazy disorder video, an entity is invisible, it fades away to say something to its victim and then fades away as if it is going in and out of reality and if this intruder is somehow related to satan . angel or is he himself satan, then the ability to do that to appear and disappear at will is not so far-fetched, which brings us to what is really being whispered here in the crazy disorder video: we are told that anything that is say drives the The victim is crazy, which causes him to end his own life in 97 cases, but what information is really being disseminated here?

What is causing all this fear? Well, the video title in this case might be our biggest crazy clue in the context of Mandela's catalogue. short for something called disorder of metaphysical consciousness, although we are never told what this is, only the deadly results of what suffering from it entails based on the words alone, I think we can have a pretty solid guess as to what metaphysics means. everything about the nature of reality what exists how there is basically a subject that is beyond our physical world and the five basic senses and the word consciousness is simply that you suddenly become aware of something so what we have here is that This intruder or these otherworldly beings are telling their targets the nature of reality or perhaps a lie about it, which in turn causes the victim to lose their mind and ultimately end their own life.

It's actually very reminiscent of the opening lines of HP Lovecraft's Call of Cthulhu, which is also aboutreality of our existence and how we can never truly understand the nature of that existence I quote the most merciful thing in the world I

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is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents we live on a placid island of ignorance in the middle of the dark seas of infinity and it was not intended that we should travel far; each of the sciences heading in their own direction has so far done us little harm, but some day the union of dissociated knowledge will open such terrifying perspectives of reality and our frightful position in it that O will go mad from the revelation. or you will flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

In short, this is what I think is going on with the crazy mess in Mandela's catalogue. Other worldly beings tell people about their place in reality and about us. humans simply cannot understand it, leading to a sudden and tragic end to our lives, as the video says that only three percent can be cured of this and if these quote-unquote angels are in fact some kind of demon or extraterrestrial, those are the exact type of creatures that could talk about something like the topic of reality, so in short, we have satan or some extraterrestrial, but probably satan disguises himself as a human to shape religions of the world.

He is spreading fear through the newest and newest technology. 80's television and also spreading words about the true nature of reality to squash the

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of anyone who tells. Meanwhile, we have another intruder who may or may not be the same character who uses the spectrum of television to break into homes and steal . Thousands of kids talk about their feel-good horror stories during the Christmas season and I'm not even done, there's still a lot more to this story in the form of alternate unstoppable double mutants as well as a mysterious society that is trying to rebuild everything. with the help of a dead man and here's the friends twist that this guy may not be as evil as he first appears but all that and more in the next installment because let me tell you there's a lot to cover here so Meanwhile you want to learn a mind-blowing metaphysical truth about the world that won't make you go away.

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