BLINK

BLINK:  A PSEUDO-DOCUMENTARY

DEALS WITH PHONY GOVERNMENT PROGRAM THAT IS SET UP TO ALTER THE MINDS OF THE SUBJECTS. 

Fade in:  

A camera fades in and a man walks around the camera and sets down in front of it.  He starts to explain who is and what he is about to film.  

"I'm Jason Kilpatrick and I'm a independent film maker.   Mostly, I have worked in the field of documentary to document historical events and people.  Most of the time, I choose a subject and then I investigate it and then go film it, the edit it and put it together and then release it to film festivals or on line.  This film, I have been asked to do but a family member of the subject of the film.  I was told by the person who called me that there grandfather was dying and that he wanted to tell a story to a filmmaker who would be willing to film it.  They told me they thought there grandfather's mind had slipped over the years but he had been a great man and would like to fulfill this wish of his.  They offered me money to do the interview, but I declined.  I'm about to head off to do the interview and I'm not sure what I'm getting into or if this will be anything interesting to include on my resume of films.  What I will tell you before we begin is I was told that the story there grandfather wants to tell deals with a government conspiracy and that we cannot use his real name.  So before I begin let me say, I cannot verify the veracity of what is being told in this film or if in fact the people we are discussing and events even existed.  I warn the viewer to use their own cognitive abilities to determine that on their own."  

Jason then gets up and walks back around the camera and turns it off.  

Cut in.  

The camera comes on and it is pointing at Jason who is driving a car.  

"Oh shit,"  Jason says.  "What are you doing?" 

"Documenting our documentary film." the camera woman says.  "tell us how you got into making this film again?'  

Jason looks at the camera and tell the girl "I was told that I can't go giving out names and places.  I'm just there to get the story there grandfather wants to tell us that's it."  

"And that's it and that's why we about to waste a whole day."  

"They said he worked for Army Intelligence in the 1970s and 80s.  He was supposed to have worked under a General Mason F. Liebitz.  I did look up this General Liebitz and he in fact did exist.  There's not a lot on him .But working in intelligence, which is highly secretive, I did not expect a lot."  Jason tells her.  

"Sounds intriguing."   

"Now turn it off and save the battery power for the interview."  

The camera goes black.   

Fade back in. 

Jason is adjusting the subject as he sets up in bed. "You are comfortable."  

The subject is an old man whose name we cannot use int he film and so he will be called Richard.  

"Yes.  As comfortable as I'm going to get.  It's not fun getting old,"  Richard tells Jason.  "But its beats the other option."  Richard smiles.  

"I'm sure it is,"  Jason tells him.   

Cut in to Richard

Richard is setting in his bed, he is a very old man, he is having a cup of coffee.  

Richard "what I'm about to tell you is unbelieveable but it happened,"  he began to tell his story.  

This isn't fictional story made up by a writer living in his mother's basement for the sake of making up a government conspiracy.  This actually happened at Tulane University's Psychological Department in New Orleans.  The experiment was funded by the U.S. Government who hired Dr. Sergei Moneta to conduct experiments on college students to see if he could modify a memory.  The memory Dr. Moneta chose was the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, an event in 1986 that every college student would have viewed on their televisions sets.  

Dr. Moneta experimented on one hundred students before the program was shut down or moved to a more secretive location once that studies showed promise.   Out of the hundred students that volunteered for the experiment about twenty percent of the students minds could not be altered by visual and audio suggestions conducted by the doctor.  Another forty percent showed potential of having their minds altered.  The last thirty percent had evidence of minor memory modification.  The last ten percent, showed promise that memory's could be altered.  Five of them had their memories altered that they were convinced that Regan shot Hinkley, three of them had been among the people who were in harm when the shooting occurred.  One of them was convinced that they had help Hinkley shoot the President but the last volunteer, the smartest of the group, yet with the weakest mind, had been convinced that he and not Hinkley had shot President Reagan.   

This student, we will call him Dick, was tortured.  Mentally tortured.  And I was the witness to the whole thing.  

First Dr. Moneta would bring Dick in and show him the footage of the shooting of Ronald Reagan by Hinkley.  Then he would get Dick to tell him "What did you see."  

Dick would recall the shooting as he remembered it.  Then Dr. Montta would stand in front of Dick and hold up a pin in betwen his eyes, pen was pointing toward the floor and he would tell him "don't blink,"  and Dick would not blink or try not to blind.  He did this over and over until dick would not blink.  Then he would tell him that his description of the event was wrong and that he missed certain aspects of the shooting.   

Dick had a beautiful girlfriend at Tulane who loved him very much.  Will will call her Lisa.  She was a pretty blonde girl who noticed that Dick was changing over the semester and she was curious what was happening to him.  His eyes were getting black like he wasn't getting any sleep.  She was concerned about him.  She begin to dig into his business to much and we had to deal with her.  

She was brought in and we showed her to Dick and Dick expressed grief until we modified his memory until he could look at her and he couldn't even see her anymore.  Lisa's mind was modified as best we could, and she was tortured and sent to a mental institution for a year until she got out, resumed her college career. 

"I observed Dick passing Lisa in a grocery store a few years afterwards.  It broke my heart.  Dick never married and stopped participating in life all together after our experiements.  He was shopping alone and he passed this pretty little blonde lady with two kids and a handsome husband walking past them.  She and he looked at each other for a moment.  Dick didn't even recorgnize her but she stopped for a moment and looked back at him and tried to recall something.  Her husband urged her on and that was the last time I know that Lisa and Dick ever saw each other.  

Final Scene:  Dick staring at the camera crying as he watched the News Footage of Reagan's assassination and the arrest of John Hinkley.  "Don't blink,"  Dick murmured.  "Don't blink," or it'll all change"  

The End.