Why Stories Like HIM, Squid Game, and Blink Twice Are the Myths of the Aquarius Age
Some movies feel less like entertainment and more like initiation. HIM is one of those films.
I watched it yesterday, and unlike many of the critics, I really loved it.Marlon Wayans is an absolute force, fierce and vulnerable at the same time. Julia Fox is hilariously unhinged, offering comic relief in a world that feels like it is one step away from hell. And Tyriq Withers as Cameron? He embodied that role.
But what struck me wasn’t just the acting. It was the story beneath the story — the whisper that this film was trying to tell us about the world we live in.
The Dream, The Grooming, The Devil’s Deal
HIM follows Cameron, a young football prodigy who grows up idolizing the game, and the man who plays it best, Isaiah White. He’s the golden boy, the son carrying the dream of a father who has already passed away. His shot at glory is here: the Big Break.
But right as the gates open, fate slams him to the ground. An assault, a head injury, the terrifying prospect that everything he’s worked for could be gone.
And then, the savior appears: Isaiah White himself, his idol, offering him a second chance, a personal training program, and a pathway to the top.
Except — this is where the dream starts to rot.
Cameron enters a world where winning comes at a price most of us will never understand. Behind the glamour, the press conferences, the rings and the trophies, there’s an economy of power that demands sacrifice. Literal sacrifice.
The “Saviors,” owners of the club, move like a secret society, one that doesn’t just demand your sweat and blood metaphorically.
No, here there are rituals. Blood transfusions of older stars, unlocking superhuman energy and performance. Deals that look a lot like contracts with the devil.
And Isaiah? He’s already on borrowed time.
He’s got 8 rings, 8, the number of infinity, the number of power, but also the number that flips to become the devil’s mask. He knows the deal he made. He knows the game is about to collect its price.
Cameron has to choose: sign his soul away for the promise of immortality or walk away from everything.
The Price of Glory
This is where HIM hits hard. We love a good underdog story. We love watching someone “make it.”
But HIM asks us: what are they actually making it into?
The plot twist is brutal: Cameron was groomed from a young age: molded, trained, and pushed not just for greatness, but for this very moment.
His destiny wasn’t just football greatness. It was to be fed into the machine.
And Cameron says no.
That choice costs him. The devil doesn’t leave without blood, and so his manager Tom becomes the offering.
This moment feels eerily connected to real-life athletes we’ve watched grow up in the spotlight: Tiger Woods, Simone Biles, LeBron James, and Tom Brady.
LeBron has carried the title “The Chosen One” since he was 17, living under relentless expectation to be superhuman, to deliver championships, to hold an entire city’s (and now the NBA’s) hopes on his back.
Tom Brady has been almost mythic: seven Super Bowl rings, an ageless career, a lifestyle so extreme it’s been described as monastic. Even he has admitted that football became an obsession that strained his marriage and sense of balance, almost as though the game itself refused to let him go.
HIM feels like a mirror of this exact tension:
the cost of being great, the spiritual contract hidden beneath the trophies and the highlight reels.
Art as Mirror and Warning
Some reviews called the movie demonic, but I think it’s the opposite — it’s prophetic.
We are living in a time when the veil is thin. Secrets don’t stay hidden anymore.
Squid Game, Blink Twice, and HIM are surfacing now because we are in the Age of Aquarius, the era of revelation, of systems being exposed, of shadows being dragged into the light.
These films are not simply “dark for the sake of being dark.” They’re showing us the cost of power, the systems we cheer for without asking what they consume. They are spiritual warnings dressed up as thrillers.
HIM reminded me of the rumors swirling around the entertainment and sports elite, whispers of secret societies, initiation rituals, billionaire games.
Whether you believe them or not, these stories exist because we feel them. On some level, we know there is a cost to the kind of power that can make you untouchable.
And maybe that’s why this story hits so hard.
What We Really Sacrifice
Movies like HIM are asking us to look inward.
What are we willing to give up to reach the top?
Our sleep? Our health? Our morals?Would we sign the metaphorical contract if it meant being remembered forever?
Cameron walks away, but it’s not without consequence. And maybe that’s the most haunting truth of the film.
You don’t leave the table without leaving a piece of yourself behind.
The Aesthetic, The Message
I found HIM aesthetically stunning: the lighting, the locations, the art direction. It had that eerie glow, that sense that beauty and danger were holding hands the entire time.
Yes, I wanted more depth. More of Isaiah’s backstory. More about his deal, about Julia Fox’s character, about the father’s dream. But maybe that’s the point, some things stay hidden, even in a story about revelation.
Because that’s what the Age of Aquarius is about. The slow, painful unveiling. Piece by piece.
And HIM is one of those pieces.
Love, Mara
