In the current mania of the small f feminist bully-girls to to lock up as many men as possible based on "kiddie porn", there is a new word pronked called grooming, and that's exactly what Kubrick was getting at with the nail painting bit up front.
as with him predicting 2001 gig in A Space Odyssey [Floyd = Rumsfeld] we once again see Kubrick's genius in being able to see deep into the Fall of america as the decades tick by.
http://www.kindleflippages.com/ablog/
Grooming is far from a new word in this context.
shareLester,
I agree that there is wordplay involved however I don’t believe Kubrick used it to simply criticize the small f movement. Like Nabokov wrote in Lolita’s afterword; “I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction, and, despite John Ray’s assertion, Lolita has no moral in tow.”[1] Personally, I see it as a sort of riddle or puzzle.[2][3]
IMHO, it asks:
Is Kubrick showing us the grooming of an innocent child or the pedo-cure [sic] of a psychosexually frustrated man?
Obviously, our sympathy and criticism depends on which side of the nail polish we view it from.
Minor Footnotes:
1 – Bonus pun; Tow/toe
2 - Vladimir Nabokov, 1962 BBC television interview, He explained the composition of his work in terms of games and problems: “I’ve no general ideas to exploit; I just like composing riddles with elegant solutions”
3 - Vladimir Nabokov, 1964 Playboy interview, “She [His novel ‘Lolita’] was like the composition of a beautiful puzzle – its composition and its solution at the same time, since one is mirror view of the other, depending on the way you look.”
Epilog: Humbert Humbert died of coronary thrombosis in prison awaiting trial for the murder of the IMDb message board.
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shareI think this novel/film is a case of who is really grooming who?!
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