From Gander to Greer

I have now read the book, Dream Story, upon which the movie is based, and as I sort of expected Kubrick has cunningly "made the transition" OVER the "feminist takeover" of 1970 of so called Western cultures.  The book is set in Vienna in about 1900 and the movie in New York in 1990s.

I am not too sure if "Germanic countries" succumbed to feminism as fully [or if at all] as did America [and Australia, where it essentially originated] but Kubrick seems to have acted with caution by transposing the situation from Europe to America [remember Lolita was NOT transposed in any way].  Besides it seems the main issue of pedophilia [deleted, along with Kubrick himself] dictated that the decaying situation in Austria that spawned child abuse by the elite in 1900 [please read all about that in the book] needed to be replicated in the "decay into American Beauty" of new millennium America.

So we may never know the answer but I was not at all suprised to find that in the book The Gander Principle applied and BOTH wife and husband admitted to being tempted by a member of the opposite sex, and any "animosity" became "understood, noted and put to bed" before the good doctor is called away.

In fact in the book the only thing the wife admonishes the husband for is NOT "rolling her over in the clover" before they got married.

But in the movie Kubrick sets up the exact no-win situation of The Greer Principle for poor Bill where whatever he says gets twisted by Alice in her Female Eunuch [Barbie Doll] costume [see my other threads] into a bash-a-thon against males in general in keeping with the famous song of the sisterhood "I am woman hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore", leaving Bill to walk out "Losing his religion".

That is to say Kubrick could well have simply been inspired for this "script adaption" by the REM song from 1991:

Life is bigger
It's bigger than you
And you are not me
The lengths that I will go to
The distance in your eyes
Oh no, I've said too much
I set it up

That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight
Losing my religion
Trying to keep up with you
And I don't know if I can do it
Oh no I've said too much
I haven't said enough

I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try

Every whisper
Of every waking hour
I'm choosing my confessions
Trying to keep an eye on you
Like a hurt lost and blinded fool, fool
Oh no, I've said too much
I set it up

Consider this
The hint of the century
Consider this
The slip that brought me
To my knees failed
What if all these fantasies
Come flailing around
Now I've said too much

I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try

But that was just a dream
That was just a dream

That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight
Losing my religion
Trying to keep up with you
And I don't know if I can do it
Oh no I've said too much
I haven't said enough

I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try

But that was just a dream, try, cry, why, try
That was just a dream, just a dream, just a dream
Dream