Welcome to "Conscious Movie Reviews." I'm your host Joy Davis and here to review the
sci-fi movie, "The 5th Wave."
Day-to-day life for high schooler Cassie Sullivan takes a dramatic turn when an alien Mothership
hovers over her hometown in Ohio. These visitors were named "The Other" with an intent to wreak
havoc by initiating 5 waves of global terrorism to exterminate all humans on Earth.
Aliens from other planets have visited Earth for many years. The most famous one was witnessed
by numerous observers in both Phoenix, Arizona and Sonora, Mexico on Thursday, March 13,
1997 - a phenomenon called "The Phoenix Lights." Moving slowly over both cities, the craft
had a V-shaped formation a mile wide with orange-amber lights. The strange craft remained
in flight for 106 minutes.
Other, more recent sightings of alien Motherships hovering over large populations were in Moscow,
Russia on January 15, 2013 and New Mexico on December 18, 2012.
The alien invasion began with the first wave: an electromagnetic pulse attack that knocked
out the power grids of the world. Second came massive tsunamis caused by dropping a large
metal rod on the Earth's fault lines to kill off the residents of coastal cities. Third
was a pandemic with millions of birds used as carriers of the avian flu. And the fourth
involved aliens inhabiting the bodies of human hosts.
There is a spiritual understanding that images drive the future. This is because the subconscious
mind of man acts as a sophisticated tape recorder with no filter to distinguish between what
it sees and hears on the outer and its own imaginative thoughts and feelings. Everything
is recorded without discrimination. It's especially unsettling when we operate mostly from our
subconscious beliefs that holds disturbing images from the news, in popular movies, and
our own primal fears.
The apocalyptic scenes in "The Fifth Wave" reflect what's within the collective consciousness
from mass programming, especially by the media and the internet creating "One Mind," but
not "One Heart." The overarching message is about mistrusting humanity because your personal
freedoms are at stake, so watch out for totalitarian control. Through these subconscious beliefs,
we can collectively dream a dystopian future into existence.
How can we change that? Dianne Collins, author of "Do You QuantumThink?" suggests that the
collective consciousness can resonate together to create a resonant field of intent. We can
choose a brighter existence.
Another way is by becoming lucid in real life, just like becoming lucid in a dream.
Cassie Sullivan and her young brother Sam became orphans after losing their mother first
to the avian flu and then their father in a massacre by the military at the refugee
camp in the woods.
As a tough but fragile teen, she had to keep her wits about her and kick into survival
mode fast with only a Colt 45 for self-protection.
Cassie, along with Ringer at the military base, are great representations of their Millennial
generation that were born between 1982 and 2000. Based on the generational studies of
Ann Fishman, these young women are characteristically, ultra confident from being empowered by their
families and physically strong to match their male counterparts. They are the living embodiment
of the goals by the feminist movement.
Cassie's younger brother Sam is of the 9-11 generation. Just like his vulnerable character
that needs looking after, these children who were born between 2001 to the present are
typically over-protected because of the global threat of terrorism, so they're likely to
grow up as conformists.
After getting shot in the leg by an unknown enemy on a highway, Cassie passed out. Her
rescuer was Evan Walker. Not trusting him at first, she realized that he really cares
for he and then solicits Evan's help to find her missing brother at the local military
base. They fall in love along the way.
Evan later admits that he is a sleeper agent for the aliens. He is both human and "other."
His feelings for Cassie helped to "flip a switch" to his more human self.
Based on the observations of Meg Blackburn Losey, ph.D., she is aware on a spiritual
level of the many children born into this lifetime for the evolution of humanity through
their gifts and knowing. They are known as Indigos, Crystalline Children, and Starseed
Children. Just like Evan, the Starseed Children are aware of other dimensional realities and
the beings, such as aliens, within them. They may exhibit telekinetic and telepathic abilities.
As a final attempt at wiping out humanity, the children trained for combat at military
bases were ordered to kill off remaining survivors. This was the Fifth Wave. Equipped with computerized
helmets, they could identify alien hosts through the optics. Fortunately, the squad headed
by Ben Parish and Ringer discovered that they were being duped into shooting innocent humans.
The optics were rigged to lie to them.
When medically scanned, the aliens look like huge parasites clinging to a human brain.
Unfortunately, many of our youths today are under brain attack like this. A large number
of them are born with Autism, ADD/ADHD, and mental illness like anxiety, depression and
bipolar disorder.
According to Dr. Michael Goldberg, author of "The Myth of Autism," he had discovered,
along with other doctors from around the world, that Autism is linked to a viral infection
of the brain that creates inflammation of the brain and the gut, called Encephalopathy.
Because it's a treatable viral infection, it can be reversed.
Based on a bestselling novel, "The 5th Wave" is one of many dystopian stories for young
adults about the non-conforming hero's journey in a dysfunctional, futuristic society.
Why are so many teens attracted to these post-apocalyptic worlds? One likely theory is that they resemble
high school life with its factions (or cliques) within a brutal, social hierarchy and governed
by oppressive parents and teachers preparing them for an uncertain future in a messed up
world they will inherit.
In the end, Cassie rescues her brother and foils the plans of the "others" by blowing
up their training facility. She offers a parting message that's common in dystopian stories
by saying, "Hope is what will drive humans to win one day and that it's our hope that
makes us human."