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David Mamet--who, coincidentally, wrote Connery's marvelous dialogue in that movie--gave the American theater a brusque shove out of the romantic realm of disillusioned lefties such as Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller into a brutal capitalist realism, wherein every encounter was reduced to an attempt by one party to hoodwink, psych out, or otherwise overpower another.
The unease Kubrick generates is a little like Mamet's: You can't tell if everyone sounds so phony because they're all part of a scheme to hoodwink the protagonists or because Kubrick has forgotten how human beings talk.
Even so, his Delphic statement of principles might hoodwink conservatives and moderates.
Wolff relishes the many deceits and indiscretions he commits in his pursuit of Internet riches and, after this brief hiatus, he redoubles his efforts to hoodwink the financier-partners he believes are out to swindle him.