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Kubrick started his career as a photo-journalist. His films reflect this particular viewpoint.
I like the scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey, when Heywood Floyd is talking (skyping) to his daughter from the orbital space station. He asks her what she would like for a birthday present. She asks for a bush baby.
No coincidence, I'm sure, that Kubrick's daughter Vivian plays is the little girl and that Kubrick himself has bulging eyes like a bush baby's.
Even the backdrop of planet Earth seen in constant rotation gives the space-station a contradiction of terms.
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