Godart

"When we talk about Barry Lyndon, we particularly praise the aesthetic value of its cinematography. And not without good reason: its immaculate visuals resemble authentic Rococo paintings. If Gainsborough and Boucher used canvas and oil to portray the pastoral and courtly life of 18th-century Europe, Kubrick, two hundred years later, used celluloid.

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Barry Lyndon is an allegory about the impotence of Man as a species. A tragic discernment between deterministic cosmogonies: is compatibilism true, and therefore, do we have free will – whether we consciously use it or not – or were the fatalists right, and humans are devoid of agency, subject to whatever destiny dictates?"

Read my full analysis in English here.