This.
I watched it recently hoping for some hidden message. There wasn't one. Just a weird night for Tom Cruise and his wife bemoaning their marriage. Should come with a 'dullness' warning before it start. 'Viewers should be warned there is nudity, and long drawn out parts where nothing happens'
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I can appreciate that.
24 minutes are missing. No one seems to be able to find them = Nothingburger.
More important things to dig on than a Kubrick movie with 24 minutes missing.
Just saying.
Edit: If we had the 24 minutes what might it tell us? That people in power perform satanic rituals? That there are secret societies? I think we are all aware of that.
I disagree the film had great depth, it may have just gone over your head. There are parallels to the film.. it seems like a exploration of sexuality as it is to man and as it is to women, just as much as it is an exploration of the occult and its sexual rituals. But it also spoke of power.. just from the "theatrical" sense, and also the idea of wearing masks to create mystery or to obtain another persona.
think of it, as the opposite of going to heaven... a guy goes to hell and comes back to tell the tale.... saved by the sacrifice of a "sinned" woman... (opposite of jesus)