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Sorry. Got so into the discussion of the different endings of novel vs film I forgot there may be some folks here who may not be aware of this.

It's the circular form of the film that makes me feel that deep in my bones, not so much its content. I find the film brilliant formally and photographically, but also claustrophobic and deeply depressing, because of that formal brilliance. And I've watched it 5 times over 50 years, and still...

That may have been Kubrick's intention, to be "damning of a toxic society", but, because of the way the film is structured, edited and shot, with an insistent sense of circularity and repetition, even using reverse angle shots to imply a sense of closure, also reverse angle shots that imply a...

And I of course, completely disagree. Because from my perspective, Kubrick's ending is cyclical as well as cynical, and deeply flawed, which renders the entire film, for all its visual brilliance, false and inhuman. It demonstrates that the human capacity for violence is never sated, that...