Trump and Kubrick
Oh yes, perhaps Trump did master the Kubrick Stare, the so-called cinematic pose made famous by Jack Nicholson and Malcolm McDowell. So what? Now I've been wondering for years when it will ever end. After all a Kubrick movie would have ended by now already, even if you didn't get the plot or even the correct message behind the movie. When will it end, and what will be the message behind Trump for the ages to come?
Well, I think that what will condemn Trump is how he'll meet his end. Only this afternoon I noticed that the title of Paths of Glory isn't about the glory of soldiers dying on the battlefield (nor even about the senselessness of war) but what about evil men in charge can do. The character of the Trump-like General Mireau in the movie knows that the assault against the German stronghold of the Anthill will be both suicidal and pointless, but he's willing to sacrifice his men to enhance his own reputation nevertheless.
The second part is even more gripping because it's about how anyone should meet his or her end, including Trump that is. Not tied down, not down on ones knees, but upright in the knowledge that everything will be right. Shakespeare's Hamlet discusses how painful and miserable human life is, and how death (specifically suicide) would be preferable, would it not be for the fearful uncertainty of what comes after death. In the final sequences of Paths of Glory, however, Kubrick uses the character of the much more righteous Colonel Dax to restore one's faith in humanity. It should be thus; have faith, for a person without that is a clear danger
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Well, I think that what will condemn Trump is how he'll meet his end. Only this afternoon I noticed that the title of Paths of Glory isn't about the glory of soldiers dying on the battlefield (nor even about the senselessness of war) but what about evil men in charge can do. The character of the Trump-like General Mireau in the movie knows that the assault against the German stronghold of the Anthill will be both suicidal and pointless, but he's willing to sacrifice his men to enhance his own reputation nevertheless.
The second part is even more gripping because it's about how anyone should meet his or her end, including Trump that is. Not tied down, not down on ones knees, but upright in the knowledge that everything will be right. Shakespeare's Hamlet discusses how painful and miserable human life is, and how death (specifically suicide) would be preferable, would it not be for the fearful uncertainty of what comes after death. In the final sequences of Paths of Glory, however, Kubrick uses the character of the much more righteous Colonel Dax to restore one's faith in humanity. It should be thus; have faith, for a person without that is a clear danger
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