Chula Vista

Kubrick put those in there on purpose. There's not a single aspect of any of his movies that he didn't meticulously plan out.

Note the number on Danny's shirt early in the movie. 42. Wendy swings the bat at Jack exactly 42 times. The movie that Danny and Wendy are watching (on a TV that has no plug or wire BTW) is the summer of 42.

1942 was the year of the Nazi "Final Solution".

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Oriphiel

Yeah, there's obviously a connection to the year, but is there anything in the movie that actively provides a commentary of the events that happened during it? I guess what i'm asking is, what do you think Kubrick was trying to say by including the year in multiple places?

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Chula Vista

He's just f*cking with people. The 42 connection wasn't made until many years after the film was released. The same with the Playgirl magazine.

Here's a doozy. You know the two hacked up dead girls lying in the hallway? They weren't dead. The were not only breathing but breathing very heavily. If Kubrick had wanted them dead he would have asked them to hold their breath for those few seconds. Instead he had them breath real heavy.

He also knew that this wouldn't be discovered for decades later until the advent of digital technology that allowed for viewing the frames one at a time.

Download these 4 pics and then view them quickly as a slideshow to see the girls breathing.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”