by professorpan » Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:49 pm
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Pan, I have been pretty surprised by your stubbornness lately. How is it you can boldly state that "art is just art" when it comes to Kubrick? Every single one of his movies has many layers. I personally think they are prophetic. We are currently about to see manifestations of many, if not all of his movies. 2001 and Project Stardust with it's alien stardust from 500 million miles away, which, incidentally, just landed this morning in Utah. (Andromeda Strain anyone?) Clockwork Orange is about to manifest with roving gangs of youths terrorizing citizens, etc.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>rocco,<br><br>I don't think I'm being stubborn. It's fine to speculate about Kubrick putting some sort of MK-ULTRA/MONARCH message in "The Shining." I just don't see it. I read the book, saw the movie, and I think the movie is an adaptation, with some stylistic flourishes, of King's basic premise -- which has nothing to do with MONARCH.<br><br>I agree that art often presages reality, and that Kubrick paid exquisite atttention to every detail of his films. And it's fine to speculate about an underlying message -- but I think many people who post here filter things through a very limited viewpoint -- i.e. anything remotely suggestive of ritual abuse, pedophilia, a ruling elite, or mind control is assumed to be a disguised "message" or a depiction of what the artist considers "real." <p></p><i></i>