One of a Kind, Top of the World, Ma!

Rating: 10/10 (20 February 2019)

The most demanding movie ever made by an American director, and the most unique since Griffith's Intolerance. Impossible to imagine anyone having a mixed reaction to this one, it seems to polarize audiences like no other. If you totally flip for it, you might choose to give up your friends who hated it. Unpleasant thought, but such is this movie's power. Even its first young "hippie" audiences needed weed to get them through it, though the movie itself provides its own hallucinations if you give it the chance. It expands cinema and makes true movie lovers see how small most other films are. Kubrick and Clarke show us how we got to be who we are and where we might be heading, and it's quite a trip, man, quite a trip.