The problem with stupid people is that they don't
know
they're stupid. They need to be told.

yes need

No need to be so nasty ErnestHemingstein.

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So that is something to take into consideration.
I'm somewhat reminded of the quote from FMJ: the dead know only one thing - it is better to be alive.
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Yes, the narrator.

Who is making that assessment - the narrator?
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I also don't know why people have to be so sarcastic here. Yours was a good question and I was also interested in the confirmation. His wife must be giving him grief at home.

Exactly People get so caught up in it being a "Period Piece" that they miss out on the Core Principles of the Film. What has, or in many cases, HASN'T changed.

The funny quote at the end is rich in meaning and points to a central theme of the film.
Of course they are equal now because they are dead,
but the more interesting observation would be: Why were they unequal in life ?
"Barry Lyndon" is about class and social stratification in societies then and now.

The quote reminded me of something that Charles de Gaulle once said after the death of his Down syndrome daughter Anne. General De Gaulle, who loved his daughter very much, stood next to his wife at her grave and intoned, "Now she is like all of the other children."
I suppose the quote means that we shouldn't place so much emphasis on class, money, beauty and power, because after death none of it means a whit.

That was exactly what I thought the first time around, but then I read this question from a Kubrick interview and I thought 'oh maybe it means something else, who knows':
The last sentence which says that all the characters are now equal can be taken as a nihilistic or religious statement. From your films, one has the feeling that you are a nihilist who would like to believe.
I think you'll find that it is merely an ironic postscript taken from the novel. Its meaning seems quite clear to me and, as far as I'm concerned, it has nothing to do with nihilism or religion.
I was just doubtful, alright? Jesus Christ, you don't have to be such a bitch about it.
Could the freak be any more vague?
-David Mills

Stop everything we got a genius over hereyes you all, they are all equal because they are dead. Jesus Christ.