“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”

George Orwell

“The victim of mind manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.”

Aldous Huxley

“Thou shalt be free
As mountain winds: but then
exactly do
All points of my command.”

The Tempest

I finally got round to watching The Master which I’d somehow missed and yes, it is a masterpiece. On the face of it, a WWII veteran with PTSD struggles with the transition to civvy street, drifting from job to job and succumbing to serious alcoholism, before being taken in by a manipulative cult leader who examines people’s past lives. (Loosely based on the infamous L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology.)