Predictive Programming: How a 1998 Nicolas Cage Movie Scripted the Death of Charlie Kirk

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From “thepeoplesvoice.tv”

The 1998 Nicolas Cage action movie Snake Eyes is suddenly back in the conversation because of a string of eerie similarities people are pointing to between the movie and the shooting of Charlie Kirk.

In the movie a character named Charles Kirkland is killed by a single shot to the left front side of the neck. The movie’s marketing shows Nicolas Cage making a tight triangular hand gesture on the poster. The central plot hinges on a corrupt arms deal that involves Israeli intermediaries. The lead investigator who pokes into the mess is named Tyler.

For many, the most unsettling detail is the movie’s own tagline: “Believe everything except your eyes.” It reads today less like marketing and more like a warning — a line that seems to mock the viewer, hinting that the truth is hidden in plain sight.

Conspiracy forums and social feeds are connecting that Israeli arms-deal thread from the movie to claims that Israel was behind Kirk’s real-world killing. The language is blunt: the film shows the deal, the investigator, and the method of silencing a witness — so, the theory goes, the movie functions as a dry run or signal.

Supporters of the theory point to the poster’s triangle gesture as a visual signature that ties the whole narrative together. Detractors call it random overlap and typical Hollywood shorthand: strong symbols, political subplots, and a dramatic death.

That framing fits squarely into what conspiracy communities call “predictive programming.” The basic idea is simple: plant specific images and plot points in popular media to normalize an idea or prepare the public for an event before it happens.

The logic behind predictive programming is straightforward: repeat an image or storyline often enough in fiction, and when it finally plays out in reality, it feels less shocking, almost expected. The public has already been “primed,” softened to accept what once would have seemed unthinkable.

Supporters of the theory point to a long list of examples. The Simpsons has become legendary for episodes that later seemed to echo real-world events with uncanny accuracy.

The pilot of The Lone Gunmen in 2001 showed a hijacked plane being flown toward the World Trade Center months before 9/11.

Series like 24 conditioned audiences for torture, surveillance, and endless counter-terror wars. Even music videos, fashion shoots, and global ad campaigns repeatedly lean on occult imagery — pyramids, all-seeing eyes, ritual masks — as if to weave the symbols into the cultural subconscious.

To believers, none of this is random. Each example is part of a larger pattern — fiction preparing reality, entertainment serving as rehearsal. That’s why Snake Eyes has struck such a nerve. Its pyramid hand sign, its Israeli arms-deal subplot, and the execution of Charles Kirkland by a neck shot all seem less like movie flourishes and more like a script written in advance.

The question people are asking is no longer whether this is coincidence, but whether Hollywood has been signaling all along.

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