his adapting Traumnovelle is the clincher for this. a celebration of marital fidelity, and by extension civilized life
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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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The central themes of BL are fate and luck, which are also themes of empires.
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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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Agree with your larger point but doubt that anyone - least of all Nabokov - would describe him as a nihilist
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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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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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Dr Strangelove similarly depicts a world where the limitation of choices leads to a flattening of morality
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