I can't let you guys off the hook this time. There is a tendency to sanitize an unpalatable truth. I am forced to nuclear bomb once again.
This film is packed with Occult symbols and I think a message from Stanley Kubrick. Mirrors are occult and have been for hundreds of years. For example,
Students of the occult use mirrors to look into the world of spirits. Gazing into one supposedly reveals visions of spirit guides and helps one gain auric sight, the ability to see the aura. Some believe that the face changes seen by staring into a mirror are images of past lives.
Why do you think bitch had a magic mirror?
The mirror may have a dual meaning as I have discussed with
@Tufts in this thread. IF, IF that's right, two IF's, the film was about a couple who had intimacy issues I would go along with the idea that the mirror imagery was simply narcissism but its not. This film is deeply about secret societies and pagan worship. You can't minimize that to a background idea. As
@Tufts pointed out the cover art is of Alice looking outside the marriage and Bill looking only at Alice but its also one eye symbology, undeniably. So, IMO, a dual meaning on this cover art is absolutely genius. The photo encompasses both the reality of Bill and Alice's marriage but also a secret society.
I'll cover this at the bottom.
I'll concede The Shining comment but say that "dream-logic" is almost no different than me saying Alice had The Shining, which is simply she was a little psychic which is how she dreamed what Bill experienced. Either way its a very difficult to explain situaution. At least with "the shining" its a part of the Kubrick universe.
I'm not muddying the water, Kubrick muddied the water! He leaves me no outs. Stanley Kubrick implicates everyone in this film.
I don't know, I'll have to get back to you on that. I've always heard 24 minutes were cut but its a point of contention. For example here is a Reddit thread talking about it.
Ok,
@europe1 here is what I'm claiming in this thread, boiled down as much as I can in 6 easy to understand points.
1. That the film is about conducting magic sex rituals, not simply a film about wealthy people that like to have sex.
2. That the secret society in this film worships Ishtar/Venus. Ziegler has 8 pointed Stars of Ishtar all over his party, Stars of Ishtar are also known as Stars of Venus.
3. That Venus worship included the following.
The planet Venus was known to the ancients as the “Light Bearer” because Venus appears in the sky each morning before the sun rises. In ancient Greco-Roman mythology Venus was the goddess of love, sexuality, and procreation. The goddess Venus, the “Light Bearer” was called Luc-ferre, or Lucifer in Latin.
When Bill enters the party we see 2 statues of Venus bearing the light above their heads. I wouldn't normally be this convicted but in combination with the Stars of Venus, and the fact Venus is the light bearer as well as the god of sex, I don't think you can deny it. This cult worships Lucifer.
4. That Kubrick implicated a wide variety of elite in this film beyond just the Illuminati which is part of the cover art. The Yale-like frat boys implicate Skull and Bones which is political, two Bush presidents for example.
The Royal family was implicated by Nuala's last name being Windsor and by the sculpture known as Dangerous Liaisons. The sculpture was done by Philip Jackson the Royal sculptor for Queen Elizabeth.
Hollywood and specifically Bob Hope was implicated by the man wearing the Bob Hope mask. nobody else was wearing a mask of a specific person. BTW, Venus statues everywhere.
The Rothschild's almost certainly were implicated by the location and set up of the mansion and black mass. Their 1972 costume party at Mentmore Towers is incredibly similar both in style and setting. They lit the mansion that evening to look as if it was on fire.
5. That I have proven what this cult is all about with everything presented plus the following.
The sculpture of Dangerous Liaisons that implicates the Royal family is located in Buckinghamshire, England.
Mentmore Towers, the party that implicates the Rothschild's is located in Buckinghamshire, England.
And finally, the secret society known as the Hellfire Club, A.K.A. The Brotherhood of St. Francis of Wycome, is located in Buckinghamshire, England. The Hellfire Club, which intially wasn't called that, was known for pagan rituals, the worshiping of Venus, secret parties, and also had a leader that dressed in red.
According to Horace Walpole, the members' "practice was rigorously pagan: Bacchus and Venus were the deities to whom they almost publicly sacrificed; and the nymphs and the hogsheads that were laid in against the festivals of this new church, sufficiently informed the neighborhood of the complexion of those hermits." Dashwood's garden at West Wycombe contained numerous statues and shrines to different gods; Daphne and Flora, Priapus and the previously mentioned Venus and Dionysus.[34]
Meetings occurred twice a month, with an AGM lasting a week or more in June or September.[35] The members addressed each other as "Brothers" and the leader, which changed regularly, as "Abbot". During meetings members supposedly wore ritual clothing: white trousers, jacket and cap, while the "Abbot" wore a red ensemble of the same style.[36] Legends of Black Masses and Satan or demon worship have subsequently become attached to the club, beginning in the late Nineteenth Century. Rumours saw female "guests" (a euphemism for prostitutes) referred to as "Nuns". Dashwood's Club meetings often included mock rituals, items of a pornographic nature, much drinking, wenching and banqueting.[37]
As far as your comment above about being anti-religious, absolutely 100% correct. This was a black mass, they worship Lucifer/Venus, which is why Kubrick plays the music backwards, a popular technique by satanists. The Hellfire Club held their parties in the basement of a church and were known to be extremely anti-religion to the point of mockery.
6. That Ziegler tried to tell Bill that these were not normal people, they are, based on the evidence, politicians, the wealthy, royalty, and celebrity.
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7. Additional points would be about Nick Nightingale's name, his purpose, as well as the Rainbow Wizard of Oz symbols which I will leave out for this post.
