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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 17 Apr 2020

    Like Nabokov, Kubrick was a great moralist who many people mistakenly thought was a nihilist because he portrayed the cruelty of the world with unflinching honesty.

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      2. vorbis‏ @vorbis 17 Apr 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        his adapting Traumnovelle is the clincher for this. a celebration of marital fidelity, and by extension civilized life

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      3. Stupidity Patrol‏ @mnemosyneous 17 Apr 2020
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        🤔

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      1. Breno Renno Grilo‏ @brenorgrilo 17 Apr 2020
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        🎯

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      2. Gregory Brew‏ @gbrew24 17 Apr 2020
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        I'm going on a limb here, but I always read Barry Lyndon as a parable revealing the emptiness, fraud and self-destruction inherent to the American Dream and the cycle of violence perpetuating the American Empire (with the 7-Years War standing in for Vietnam)

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      3. Communists for John Kerry 2024‏ @commies4kerry 17 Apr 2020
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        The central themes of BL are fate and luck, which are also themes of empires.

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      1. Louis Proyect‏ @LouisProyect1 17 Apr 2020
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        Love to see such pronunciamentos on Twitter. This one is really much more profound than any article in Cineaste I've ever seen.

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      1. Nancy Jamieson‏ @nljco 17 Apr 2020
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        Agree with your larger point but doubt that anyone - least of all Nabokov - would describe him as a nihilist

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      1. Eric Medlin‏ @MedlinWrites 17 Apr 2020
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        There's still a lot of hope in Kubrick too, especially in 2001 and Eyes Wide Shut. They even have (borderline?) happy endings.

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      2. hambone‏ @HamboneMH 17 Apr 2020
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        It’s funny to watch something like Paths of Glory and imagine what side so many people who believe they have good politics would have chosen in the conflict depicted

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      3. hambone‏ @HamboneMH 17 Apr 2020
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        Dr Strangelove similarly depicts a world where the limitation of choices leads to a flattening of morality

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