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Actually, you get a, "Bingo!" for that grab.i admit these endeavours smack of the "bible code" but its fun!
His photographic perspective before he started making films shows how his mind and eye were shaped in the 40's and 50's. His career was made on a photo reflecting the word of the death of US President Franklin Roosevelt in print surrounding a newspaper salesman. Followed by photo series of boxers, New York jazz clubs, showgirls, actors, circuses, zoos, baseball games, dentist offices, and horse race tracks shot on assignment for Look Magazine. In these settings he took pictures of people watching the performers or animals often without their knowledge, he knew more about large groups of people than he let on. Those photos show the real world he was soaking up to put in his films.
From: No Kubrick Movie Is Just A Movie: 10 Years After Eyes Wide Shut. | RVA Magazine | Richmond, VA
After all, EWS is a film about looking, but not being seen while you look, and in the dark theatre we are looking at Stanley, looking. Maybe EWS is Stanley showing his deep cynicism again as if to say, " I know what you all want. You just want to see beautiful people screwing each other, or screwing each other over! Well here's who you think are the prettiest of them all. Is that all you came here for?"
Cinema, it's just a big peep show, where you always leave unsatisfied.
Oh, and speaking of Kubrick Konspiracies: Stanley Kubrick and The Saturn Death Cult | Saturn Death Cult