What a colossal waste of time!
This is the biggest load of *beep* ever committed to film about Stanley Kubrick. Some of the theories about dialogue are things straight from King's book, the nonsense about the 'geometry' of the layout of the interior sets and exterior built OVER the sound-stages in England to match as best they could are just that, limitations of set design. Continuity errors in Kubrick films become big deals to fantasists. Why Kubrick attracts such fantasists is a mystery to me. Maybe because he gave so few interviews and especially now that he's dead they feel that they can just spew anything without fear of contradiction.
Look! Here's an "impossible" window! It couldn't be that maybe Kubrick just wanted the room to have a window and didn't think anyone would ever be this obsessive to notice they were cramming a set into a sound-stage smaller than the hotel they depicting?
Look! Calumet cans mean something about American Indians and some nut figures out the TANG cans are Kubrick admitting he faked the Moon landing and only we whack-jobs are more clever than you to see all this stuff! Really? All the thousands of people that worked for NASA and subcontractors and they were all fooled? They ALL kept these sorts of secrets?
Witches! Hansel & Gretel! The numbers! Seven! Forty-two! Let's superimpose the film forward and backward at the same time, something that would have been all but impossible for Kubrick to have done at the time the film was made - but this too must mean something! Somehow this all went into our brains, or rather their brains at an unconscious level and made them more clever than us. The garish carpet is a comment on sex and beehives - an allegory about - something!
"I admit perhaps I'm grasping a straws" one commenter says and that's the most poignant thing said in this whole mess...
"I'm not saying we didn't go to the Moon, I'm just saying what we saw was fake..." Does this guy need to say more? "I'm probably going to be audited" he says. Yeah, we need to round these guys up because god-forbid we have one more conspiracy loon with a website on the net! The TRUTH might leak out!
"One can always argue that Kubrick had only some or even none of these things in mind. But we all know from postmodern film criticism that author intent is only part of the story of any work of art. And these meanings are there regardless of whether the creator of the work was conscious of them."
Was there ever a more self-serving thing said in the mess? Well hell! You "post-modern" critics can just pull things out of your asses, much the same way you can say with certainty that the Moon landings are fake, that Elvis faked his death and aliens diddle rednecks in house-trailers. Yes, "post-modern" film critic, you can say ANYTHING and it must be considered.
Isn't it way past time we had a post-post-post-post-Modern something or other at this point?
I consider this a breath-taking work of astonishing wankery.