The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. — Stanley Kubrick. American filmmaker and photographer (1928–1999) Government
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
People can misinterpret almost anything so that it coincides with views they already hold. They take from art what they already believe.