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I joined this site to respond on this topic. Some of what I've read is perceptive, some not so much. But all of you must feel that this is an important film as I do. I spent 7 years making a documentary about POG. My research, which included interviews with Kirk Douglas, Jim Harris (producer of the film), Richard Anderson (supporting actor) and Kubrick's widow (the singing girl in the final scene) as well as various reviews and other documents lead me to the conclusion that the French, who are no better or worse than other peoples, are kind of sensitive about their "honor" which is tarnished by their bloodthirsty revolution, the Dreyfus affair and nazi capitulation. I will only say that Kubrick's work did not illuminate French nature or British nature or American nature but human nature which is what gives it universal significance. By the way, in the Kubrick archive in London I came across a letter that Truffaut wrote to SK, complimenting him on the film. Thank you all for your interest in this masterwork of cinema.
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