MichaelJacksonPollock — 10 years ago(February 14, 2016 04:55 AM)

The one recurrent theme that can be found in all of Kubrick's films and is perhaps the central question his cinema is obsessed with is, I think, best captured in the scene where Lord Bullingdon interrupts Lady Lyndon's recital with little Bryan (literally walking in his shoes) to publicly confront his mother and Barry.
It starts with seemingly civilised, sophisticated people socially enjoying a refined artefact of human culture (a concerto for violin and oboe in C minor by Bach) when an unforeseen disruptive factor that has its source in man's irrationality (Bullingdon's intervention out of an unresolved Oedipus complex and contempt/fear/jealousy of Barry) leads to the disintegration of order and irruption of chaos and violence (Barry violently attacks Bullingdon and a giant scrum ensues).
I feel like you have all of Kubrick's cinema condensed in this one scene of what I think is his greatest film.
Here's the full scene:
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