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>i know the film's source material (not to say i've read it, mind you),
>but i still and always have seen it as a version of nathaniel
>hawthorne's "young goodman brown." i don't know if hawthorne sat
>behind the source novella or not, but i doubt it. cruise thinks
>himself purer than he is, inhumanly pure, and certainly more so than
>his fallen wife.
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Wo there. The source is Schnitzler's Traumnovelle.
I would have found the movie far more interested if Kubric had kept the original setting in fin de siecle Vienna -- or if he had done a little more with the transposition to make the fin-de-siecle stuff clearer. But neither happened.
No, really, this was a very failed Marienbad.
Joanna