I'm curious if anyone here has some alternate theories/interpretations on classic films they have seen.

I'll start with an example

I was rewatching "Death of a Salesman" for the first time since I was in high school. Of course we know Arthur Miller wrote this about what he deemed as the death of the American dream. After re-watching it, I really cannot see it as anything other than a tale of someone struggling with early onset Alzheimer's. It was a poorly understood disease in 1949 when Miller wrote the script for the play, but Willy Loman almost certainly exhibits just about every symptom of the early stages of the disease. From confusing the past with the present, walking around the neighborhood in slippers, talking to people who aren't in the room (and are dead), etc.

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Lord of the Rings: Sauron and his people were the good guys, spreading industrialization and the accompanying rise in status for most people, whereas the Elves, Hobbits, and the Viking tribes represented monarchies and agrarian economies, which always have the highest amount of inequality. They also had Old Man Religion on their side.

(Not my interpretation, but an intriguing one. The Death of a Salesman one is interesting as well.)

there was a movie out there that explained THE SHINING and how kubrick used that to tell us in code how he helped fake the moon landings. Jay Weidner I think is the guys name.

Tolkien was not a fan of industrialization.

LOTR is really about the Battle of the Somme and Tolkien's painful realization that ambition and greed can never be harnessed for human good. Its what the ring really embodies. Isildur had it for like 5 minutes and Elrond was there begging him to throw it in the volcano but he refused. Boromir famously falls for its trappings.

This hypothesis more or less works for Roadhouse as well.

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and the doc Room 237 which is utter trash. just like Kubrick's version of the shining

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'Your AT&T Universal Card has arrived'? Oh God, Kick-fucking-ass, I got a Master Card! I don't believe it, man. Life is kinda cool sometimes.

George Bailey put his personal feelings above the path of progress for Bedford Falls making people cling to that no good Building & Loan and not getting the plastic factory like he was doing them a favor.

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