What makes the unique is its tone. Kubrick famously instructed his actors to perform with the emotional stiffness of an 18th-century portrait. There are no grand monologues or weeping breakdowns. Instead, the tragedy unfolds in silence, through lingering shots of candlelit rooms and the cold, growing hatred in the eyes of Barry’s stepson, Lord Bullingdon.
Barry has obtained his title, but he has not earned the respect that comes with it. He enters high society with an "inflexible insolence," alienating the aristocracy and spending Lady Lyndon’s fortune at an alarming rate to maintain appearances. barry lyndon full film