∞In the last scene he finds himself in a strange room, furnished in eighteenth-century style. He ages quickly.
The higher men are doomed in both Nietzsche and Kubrick. They are doomed to become what Nietzsche calls the “last men.” As Gilles Deleuze puts it in Pure Immanence: “Following the higher men there arises the last man, the one who says: all is vain, better to fade away passively!”
