“Shoot me”
“Shoot me”
“Shoot me”
“Shoot me”
“Shoot me”
“Shoot me”
88/100 🔫🪖🧥
First Kubrick film
This is disgustingly beautiful. Human nature in true honesty. This film is not how it may look, it’s not another “Saving Private Ryan” save the hero/day war film. This is an “ugly modern day masterpiece”. It’s Kubrick’s unique take on war, especially focused on this particular war rather than the concept of “war” but both are key touched-on concepts.
This film is goddamn…
Just a simple black and white screening, it really changes the film, and in this, it creates beauty.
I feel so strongly that on the rewatch, I’m going to absolutely adore this film. The irony in all of this makes me quite energetic and just solely impressed. I don’t want to spoil anhthint for any newcomers, so I won’t go into the great spectacles that make this so suprising, it has to be unknown before a watch.
This is a…
“You and me chief”
Just, an 8.
Oh my god, what a beautiful beautiful ending
There is so incredibly much intricacy and thought put into this. To be able to contain characters in a tight space and keep a constant amount of blasting creativity and engagement is so amazing, and a very “Sidney Lumet” technique/scripture to follow.
As you would expect from a story about a mental institution, it’s avidly focused on its characters, and it’s characters are great. But…
Event after event, the pacing is just racing, whole way through
I don’t fancy this myself, I can understand how some might, but it just would feel like a cheap blockbuster at times almost, a Tarantino without the engagement and exposition of character.
Understanding:
The protagonist is Connie, almost the entire way through our eyes are focused on him. We follow him after he commits a bank robbery, quite literally a few minutes in. From there there is no break,…
