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2024 discussion threads
In 2024, a Reddit user named Connor Plunkett used a facial recognition tool to try and identify the man at the front of the crowd. It returned a match: Santos Casani, a famous ballroom dancer in 1920s London.
The photo, it turns out, was taken at a Valentine's Day dance on February 14, 1921, in the Empress Ballroom at the Royal Palace Hotel in London.
You missed the man's real name, though:
They found and looked at many other photos of Casani and discovered that his real name was John Golman.
I was so close
"Others said he was Edmund Platt, governor of the Federal Reserve in 1921, and the people around him were bankers, so the photo was proof that Kubrick secretly wanted to expose the financial elite," he recalled.
Some people read way too deep into stuff, trying to find intention when there is just dumb chance