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Oriphiel · 03-31-2015, 07:14 AM

I didn't notice that. It's pretty freaky.

Anyway, do you think that the movie is partly a commentary on perspective? I mean, every character sees things that couldn't possibly have happened (like the unplugged television playing a show, the impossible windows, etc.), and yet you also get the feeling that none of the characters are outright lying (or meaning to, anyway), kind of like the movie Rashomon.

So, maybe the reason Kubrick keeps alluding to real life tragedies (like the holocaust) is that he's trying to explain why humans end up doing such things? I mean, nobody wakes up and thinks "I'm the bad guy. Today, i'm going to kill people", and yet groups (divided by fear, different perspectives, and the social/tribal nature of humanity) keep committing atrocities to other groups as history goes on. You also said that there are references to the moon landing, and that fits in with this theme as well, because it was the culmination of a race between two nations both that thought the other was evil. Also, it goes back to the theme of perspective in another way; though everyone saw the same footage of the moon landing, there were (and still are) people who believed it to be fake (kind of like how all the characters in the movie technically lived through the same events, but they all saw different things happening).

03-31-2015, 07:14 AM	#88 (permalink)
Oriphiel Ask me how! Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: The States Posts: 5,354	I didn't notice that. It's pretty freaky. Anyway, do you think that the movie is partly a commentary on perspective? I mean, every character sees things that couldn't possibly have happened (like the unplugged television playing a show, the impossible windows, etc.), and yet you also get the feeling that none of the characters are outright lying (or meaning to, anyway), kind of like the movie Rashomon. So, maybe the reason Kubrick keeps alluding to real life tragedies (like the holocaust) is that he's trying to explain why humans end up doing such things? I mean, nobody wakes up and thinks "I'm the bad guy. Today, i'm going to kill people", and yet groups (divided by fear, different perspectives, and the social/tribal nature of humanity) keep committing atrocities to other groups as history goes on. You also said that there are references to the moon landing, and that fits in with this theme as well, because it was the culmination of a race between two nations both that thought the other was evil. Also, it goes back to the theme of perspective in another way; though everyone saw the same footage of the moon landing, there were (and still are) people who believed it to be fake (kind of like how all the characters in the movie technically lived through the same events, but they all saw different things happening). __________________ ---------------------- \|---Mic's Albums---\| ---------------------- ----------------------------- \|---Deafbox Industries---\| ----------------------------- Last edited by Oriphiel; 03-31-2015 at 07:25 AM.