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Weirdest damn thing I ever did saw.
Feel a little disappointed that I never took the opportunity to watch this before. Watched it in bed last night as a last resort type of thing and was transfixed by it. Hard to describe what it was I found so compelling, perhaps just that it was such a break from the usual dramatic cinematic nonsense. Kubrick always was a few cans short of a six pack, but gifted in the art of film-making.
The effects were clearly dated but outstanding for the time. Having never seen it I had assumed that it was made around the mid-eighties, but for 1968 it's impressive to say the least. What got me I think was the silence - no music or sound effects for long periods, which really draws you in and gives the whole thing a surreal quality I've never experienced before.
The ending just turned into psychedelia and had I been inebriated, I'd have wondered as to whether I imagined the whole thing.
Madness really, but cinema at its most inventive, imaginative and compelling. I doubt we'll see anything like this again in modern film.
Feel a little disappointed that I never took the opportunity to watch this before. Watched it in bed last night as a last resort type of thing and was transfixed by it. Hard to describe what it was I found so compelling, perhaps just that it was such a break from the usual dramatic cinematic nonsense. Kubrick always was a few cans short of a six pack, but gifted in the art of film-making.
The effects were clearly dated but outstanding for the time. Having never seen it I had assumed that it was made around the mid-eighties, but for 1968 it's impressive to say the least. What got me I think was the silence - no music or sound effects for long periods, which really draws you in and gives the whole thing a surreal quality I've never experienced before.
The ending just turned into psychedelia and had I been inebriated, I'd have wondered as to whether I imagined the whole thing.
Madness really, but cinema at its most inventive, imaginative and compelling. I doubt we'll see anything like this again in modern film.
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Weirdest damn thing I ever did saw.
Feel a little disappointed that I never took the opportunity to watch this before. Watched it in bed last night as a last resort type of thing and was transfixed by it. Hard to describe what it was I found so compelling, perhaps just that it was such a break from the usual dramatic cinematic nonsense. Kubrick always was a few cans short of a six pack, but gifted in the art of film-making.
The effects were clearly dated but outstanding for the time. Having never seen it I had assumed that it was made around the mid-eighties, but for 1968 it's impressive to say the least. What got me I think was the silence - no music or sound effects for long periods, which really draws you in and gives the whole thing a surreal quality I've never experienced before.
The ending just turned into psychedelia and had I been inebriated, I'd have wondered as to whether I imagined the whole thing.
Madness really, but cinema at its most inventive, imaginative and compelling. I doubt we'll see anything like this again in modern film.
Feel a little disappointed that I never took the opportunity to watch this before. Watched it in bed last night as a last resort type of thing and was transfixed by it. Hard to describe what it was I found so compelling, perhaps just that it was such a break from the usual dramatic cinematic nonsense. Kubrick always was a few cans short of a six pack, but gifted in the art of film-making.
The effects were clearly dated but outstanding for the time. Having never seen it I had assumed that it was made around the mid-eighties, but for 1968 it's impressive to say the least. What got me I think was the silence - no music or sound effects for long periods, which really draws you in and gives the whole thing a surreal quality I've never experienced before.
The ending just turned into psychedelia and had I been inebriated, I'd have wondered as to whether I imagined the whole thing.
Madness really, but cinema at its most inventive, imaginative and compelling. I doubt we'll see anything like this again in modern film.
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