just fucking pirate it. Kubrick is dead and he'd prefer you appreciated the art.
Though I highly recommend his films in general as physical content so you can share it with others.
Once you learn his movies are made to be rewatched with different lenses you will get your money's worth and have great conversations with any friends you may have.
Ok now that we've politely put out a SPOILER warning.
This scene ties directly into the the last scene with Ziegler (sp?) where there's the red billiards table and he keeps slamming the cue ball down as he talks to Bill or whatever the fuck his name is (it's been a bit).
Now there's a lot of room for interpretation here, but it's strongly indicated that Ziegler is metaphorically a real manifestation of the man in the red cloak, who may not have been real.
I think it's a way of Kubrick saying that men like Ziegler pull the strings in both worlds. The masked and unmasked. He knew everything the entire time and, imo, helped orchestrate some of the events. He's shown as rich, degenerate, and charismatic in the very first scene, after all.
The whole film depicts occultism throughout and has strong ties to colors representing various things. I've yet to really nail down what each means but I'm sure there are answers people have come up with out there.
You'll notice 4 colors very blatantly placed throughout every single frame of the movie.
Red, blue, yellow, green.
Secondary colors include purple (with the hooker especially)
Bears are there and there's something up with tigers but I don't quite understand it. His daughter had some interesting drawings to tie in some of the imagery, not including the blatant red cloak drawing.
Yes, but this has been a hard film to really get the meaning of everything and I've only seen it 3 times, not counting slow reworkings 2/3 times.
Everything in this film is symbolic, the gestures, wordplay, the background, the foreground, the angle, the lighting. It's amazing work.
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