A STRANGE AND TERRIBLE GLIMPSE INTO THE DEEP STATE

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I'm pretty skeptical of the whole notion that Kubrick has deeply encoded references in his work. Sometimes a container of Calumet baking powder is just a container of Calumet baking powder. I also can't see any feasible reason why, if Kubrick wanted to imply that there was some connection between the twin girls and the crone(s), he wouldn't have just shown us two crones standing side by side. At any rate, it doesn't make much sense for two murdered little girls, who already have a perfectly ghostly incarnation in their own form, to reappear as ghosts in the form of two crones, given that they never lived to become old crones.

And that whole running the film forwards and backwards simultaneously, and synchronizing the images, seems like something almost impossible for a director to plan - given the complexity of the editing process, and the knowledge that virtually no one watching the film would even think of doing this, or know how to do it.

What's most surprising to me is that anyone feels they have to toss in this contrived "evidence" to justify what seems to be a very reasonable interpretation: that there'a s connection between the bad dads - Grady and Jack, or the abused kids  - the twins and Danny.

I think a similar interpretation could be made of Eyes Wide Shut. There are three father-daughter relationships presented: The man who dies, whose death seems to release the sexuality of his repressed daughter; the father who's prostituting his daughter; and the protagonist, who barely interacts with his daughter until the final scene - implying maybe that he's been frightened into being a good father? Or some other scenario, entirely unrelated to Project Monarch.

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
>Sent: Jul 27, 2014 7:47 PM
>To: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
>Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: A STRANGE AND TERRIBLE GLIMPSE INTO THE DEEP STATE
>
>Again, from my recently kicked-off blog KubrickU.blogspot.com (forgive
>the plug, you needn't go there, I'm reprinting everything relevant in
>this email):
>
>In the coming weeks and months, I'll probably have more to say about
>the surprise hit documentary film Room 237 - things about it that I
>like and agree with, and things about it that I most definitely do NOT
>like or agree with. Having said that, I'm always up for "deep
>readings" of my favorite artworks, even if and when said deep readings
>veer off into goofier territory. Roughly half of Room 237 is spent in
>that goofy zone. Those of you who've seen it will know what I mean.
>
>Now we have a new interpretation of The Shining, by Darren Foley of
>Must See Films Vimeo channel. The whole thing lasts less than 10
>minutes, but it has more interesting things to say than the entirety
>of Room 237's 90-plus minute run time. I am particularly intrigued by
>the point he raises about connecting the ghostly twin girls with the
>bathroom crone... or is that crones? Watch the video and decide for
>yourself!
>
>http://vimeo.com/101113745
>
>Cheers,
>YOPJ
>
>PS - That video is REALLY worth your time, trust me!

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