This is an anti-patriarchal movie. With the so-called reason, morality, ethics, responsibility, work, future (this can be clearly seen from the male protagonist's language), etc. against women, children and other races (black people who were hacked to death), such a person who was shaped like this. Men have become synonymous with horror in movies. But these alone are not scary enough, the real horror is when the patriarchy is dismantled, you will find they are nothing, All work and no play make Jack a dull boy, repeat this 36,000 times in different forms and bind The book is their work. So far, this kind of anger that has been exposed has truly completed the terrorization of patriarchy. The Lookout Hotel (the name of the hotel is also full of male power) is essentially a patriarchal concentration camp, that is, the various male scenes that the wife sees in the second half of the film.
In the Western tradition, women and children are considered to be different from men, and they are not human enough. For example, it has long been believed that the female soul is inferior, that women are fragile, emotional, and intellectually deficient, and that children are considered incomplete. Especially when they are connected with aliens. They won't be seen as separate people, which is already murder in a patriarchal society - the boy is already killed once in the movie. Red rum is synonymous with patriarchy. Considering that the male protagonist is prone to alcoholism (both murders happened after his drinking of patriarchal wine), and his alcohol is requested by the upper class, he does not have to pay the bill, think about it , his male-dominated soul was given by the upper echelons, and he was grateful for it without paying for it. In addition, the English word for red rum is "murder" when viewed backward in the mirror. There is a similar name in China, which is what Lu Xun called "cannibalism".
The mad murderer in the labyrinth becomes the last symbol of patriarchy, and he ends up as a frozen sculpture. It still seems to be available for white patriarchs to look up to. This is the end of Kubrick's empowerment of men.
Finally, the film's freeze frame is a photo of a dance party at the Lookout Hotel on July 4, 1921. Kubrick's understanding of high society is the horror of patriarchy, although it appears here as a cocktail party, in a beautiful way.
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