A thought on “Barry Lyndon” (1975)

Kubrick’s 1975  “Barry Lyndon” is a movie about an absolute rotter who does one good thing and is destroyed by it. An excellent case could be made that he should have shot Bullingdon instead of discharging his pistol in the air. I believe an even better case can be made that by losing the world, Barry gained an opportunity to save his soul. That losing his leg was the price for POTENTIALLY righting his life. The narrator only tells us that Barry immigrated and failed to match his former succ...