Stanley Kubrick was on drugs

After watching The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut back to back you can obviously tell that our boy was on something. The visuals are so visceral it digs at the soul. Set design looking like something out of AI, I’m impressed by his visual style. A big budget definitely helped. But the moral here is despite how amazing these movies are and the ones in the rest of his body of work, this guy was not in his right mind. If your mind can go to the dark abyss for the purposes of inspiration we know something is broken. But that something is what gave us these lovely movies and I recommend them if you need some mental gymnastics and your worldview has being too cozy for comfort. Watch this.

The Shining 8/10

Eyes Wide Shut 9/10

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