Do You Believe Stanley Kubrick's "Mysterious Messages"?

So Kubrick believed in New World Order/QAnon/Pizzagate/etc before it was a thing? I did not know that.

I imagine he had read C. Wright Mills’ old book called the Power Elite, one of the earlier post war books about an elite ruling class made up of high level generals, politicians and families of high ranking stature (the Kennedy’s for example). It wouldn’t surprise me. No orgies took place in the book, but a more or less secret cabal running a dominant country and the ordinary citizen having little influence seems to fit well with Eyes Wide Shut in particular. I believe there is an article from Newsweek that links EWS with Jeffrey Epstein and influence peddlers in high places.

Kubrick was a genius, deep thinker, and among the greatest artists of all time, but I think many people who obsess over his attention to detail are mostly overthinking but only at an inch deepness. I don't believe he filmed the moon landing, but I do think he was given unprecendented access to NASA while filming 2001 and it left a lasting fascination with him, and that fascination led to an Apollo 11 sweater appearing in The Shining. I think Eyes Wide Shut is a movie about sex and the deceit, danger and elitism that comes in pursuit of sex, and as a result those things came together in the orgy scene. Do I believe it's possible this scene was inspired by an actual orgy Kubrick witnessed? Yeah, probably. He was a hit filmmaker, of course he was going to rub shoulders with rich people with their guard down. But that doesn't mean he was exposing some murderous secret society. It was probably just an experience that fascinated him and he knew he always wanted to include in a movie. My chief criticism of conspiracy theorists is they only seem care about the ridiculously high murder, rape, drug, child sex trafficking, etc- rate in the United States when they can attach a sexy elite fantasy scenario to it. This is a dangerous country and with the high rates in all those categories, you are lucky if you're life remains untouched, and if you weren't lucky, you have my full sympathy and understanding, but it had nothing to do with rich people in Venetian masks.

No, it's just painfully dull, self-indulgent crap.

It's possible. He was an extremely precise film-maker. He commanded absolute control of the visual imagery in his movies. While I won't go as far as saying that I actually believe he included that type of subtle symbolism in his movies, it wouldn't shock me to learn that he did (assuming he truly held those kinds of views).

As far as those beliefs are concerned, history (indeed, recent history) has shown us that elites can never be fully trusted. They are often corrupt - sometimes criminally so - and self-serving. Power attracts certain types like moths to a flame and powerful people are not necessarily ethical people, even if they portray themselves as such. Even being a member of elite segments of society - or the process of getting there - can corrupt some who might otherwise have lived harmless lives.

I find the idea that the moon landing was faked silly, and Kubrick being the director and throwing clues into The Shining sillier. I do think the Native American stuff may have been intentional, though.

As far as Eyes Wide Shut goes, isn't the most unrealistic part that the classy orgy isn't on an island?

You have to know what I'm referring to.