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  • Kubrick has a cold eye and his movies tend to revolve around people whose agency is sapped by inimical systems (I think that covers Dr Strangelove, Barry Lyndon, Clockwork Orange , The Shining, Paths of Glory, Full Metal Jacket, and to some extent 2001 although there it is balanced out by Clarke's optimism).
    • Given Kubrick’s comments in rare but revealing interviews throughout his career, it would be fair to say that he dwells upon the nihilistic condition of contemporary culture in order to point beyond such a condition, in the spirit of Nietzsche’s active nihilism. In good dialectical fashion, he highlights the negative in order to indicate our positive capacity for creative and individualistic selfcreation.
    • In Weird Studies/Courses/Kubrick JFM lays out an alternative theory of Kubrick, more like he is showing entrapping systems but also the ways in which individuals or outside forces disrtupt the system.

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