Melton1 — 4 months ago(November 20, 2025 07:10 AM)

Interesting that a film all about marital fidelity has nothing to say about marriage vows.
The spiritual aspect of marriage is conspicuously absent, and yet, the various sexual misadventures and stresses on faithfulness could be solved by remembering that marriage is a vow of behaviour.
The vow is arrived at through emotions and a connection, but those things are ever changing. In the end all you have is the promise you have made ‘before God’.
Is Bill and Alice’s problem their godless marriage?
Was Kubrick making a case for the spiritual by showing what happens when you abandon it (the Somerton orgy ritual being about as un-Christian as you can get)?