Cruise rather pathetically wields his medical ID in the faces of his social underclassmen, almost as if to say, "you can trust me, I'm better than you." There is some immediate material fruit to be bore from these interactions, but what is infinitely more important than that is that it affords him reassurance about his own person. He is a doctor of medicine in the world's greatest city; his wife and her fantasies cannot strip this away from him, he…

kubrick's indictment of the prison system as it relates to cruel and unusual punishment/absurd methodologies of "reform" isn't particularly interesting or even insightful (former prisoners are subject to a cyclical economy of false sympathies; society is Bad, Actually, etc., i've heard it all before) - i'm much more drawn to this because of its utilization of language. there's such a palpable adoration for the malleability of the english language here; it is recognized as the last bastion of freedom in…

The karmic impetus of the postcolonial and the Western architect's crumbling kingdom; countless building blocks of labor-capital irreparably deteriorating before your very eyes.

The Overlook Hotel's very being, its structural integrity, its everything is entirely contingent upon the lingering impacts of deftly executed, coldblooded imperialism. The fundamental principle of its existence, the dogma of its reality, directly pertains to the wanton barbarism of centuries past. It's very clearly delineated (even if done so with the sole means of the mechanism…