Novelists must choose between first-person and third-person point of view (unless they're Jay McInerney).

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Kubrick would reveal an affinity with that perspective as he developed his signature filmmaking style, an icily formal, deliberately paced approach that conveys a clinical, third-person-omniscient point of view.

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