If someone were to point out my favorite thing(s) to read, even more than a great novel, it would be essays about something that affected them so deeply that they felt compelled to write about it. It can be short, or it can be 20 pages long. A great author of this approach would be Lester Bangs, who wrote beautifully indulgent music reviews in such an intensely personal way that were so resonant, that for the right reader, you might…

I love this more and more every time I watch it. However, I don't recommend reading too many interpretations on this. I'm beginning to conjure a conspiracy theory as a result of reading an essay and then rewatching it. There are a lot of references to the Illuminati and a lot of visual symbolism that is in the background that I never noticed before. Hypotheses aside, I love everything about this movie just as much as Kubrick's early work. That…