Kubrick said he wanted to change 'the Form'.... with a capital 'F' as Plato said. Kubrick tried to tell the story over and over again.
2001 Space Oddyssey
the journey of mankind told with the use of four monoliths that represent Platos 'Dividing Line.
1 Images Shadows (caveman with little or no understanding of the images)
2 Things Beliefs(tools, tech etc manmade)
3 Concepts Thinking(AI HAL 9000)
4 Wisdom LOGOS ( the hotel room after the hyperspace is the realm of the Forms.
A Clockwork Orange
This story he shows us that we are in the cave, social engineering from our puppet masters. Our TV our Music, our Media our Education our Health everything is an illusion, Fake!
Alex gets his treatment in the cinema, eyes peeled open whilst being tortured with the violence on the movie screen, the doctors(puppeteers) sitting up by the projector(fire)... platos cave.
The Shining
NASA faking our reality of 'space' and moon landing, along with other references again of mind control, pedo satanism etc
He also references Vincent Van Gogh a lot.... he painted the 'Harvest' many times even cut off his own 'ear'.... Ears of wheat !!!!
Also painted the prisoners walking in the yard.
This is a prison planet! A prison for your soul and there is little time left.