It's a film full of those liminal spaces Linebaugh was on about.
Weird, I was just writing about Cruise in the thread about Unreservedly Recommended films (page 169) - I hadn't specifically mentioned that film by name but I was actually thinking it about it as arguably the purest demonstration of example of this tendency of his:Friend of mine told me to watch the last samurai
Tells me it's "top drawer cruise"
Do i trust him or nah
Just perfect timing to flick over to this thread and see it here. That's not to say it's a bad film as such, just that I recall it as one of the most over the top HEROIC films of his whole oeuvre.there are lots of actors who normally play the goodies - and the nature of the hollywood action film beast is that the goody is an improbably super human hero - but Tom Cruise does seem to have this thing going on which is even more pronounced than with other actors in that he has to play the hardest nicest most superhumanest person imaginable who must battle against the most incredibly unimaginable odds, normally after being beaten down and destroyed in the middle of the film, humiliated and stripped of everything, broken and with his arms, legs and head cut off, yet by the end, sheer force of will allied with his incorruptible morality and enormous towering height means that somehow he wins through at the last moment in the most supremely triumphant and heroic way.
There are scenes, for instance, in which Danny wears a sweater showing the Apollo 11 rocket. This becomes part of the faked-moon-landing theory, as articulated by Jay Weidner, an author and independent filmmaker.
“That was knitted by a friend of Milena Canonero,” the costume designer, Mr. Vitali said. “Stanley wanted something that looked handmade, and Milena arrived on the set one day and said, ‘How about this?’ It was just the sort of thing that a kid that age would have liked.”
The information can arrange itself into all sorts of different patterns. You don't want to be thinking either in terms of Kubricks ultimate intentions or of any definitive master explanation.
Yeah, I never really come down on specific interpretations of stuff. I can't. They exist simultaneously. And that's kind of the point. The effect and sensation of having to contend with conflicting information.The information can arrange itself into all sorts of different patterns. You don't want to be thinking either in terms of Kubricks ultimate intentions or of any definitive master explanation.
those arent real people theyre holograms