A Masterpiece for All Time

Rating: 10/10 (17 February 2011)

Others have written very detailed responses to this film. I simply need to state that this is like no other mainstream studio film ever made. It has been truly said (I'm sorry I can't remember by whom) that Kubrick here created the first true "motion picture" in the most literal sense of those words. You don't "watch" this one the way you would watch any other movie. You have to immerse yourself in it, open your mind completely to the visual images, and forget about following the plot or the banal dialogue. Almost all the truly important information and even more, ideas, come through the visuals. I've watched this film in excess of 100 times, and still find more and more in it with every viewing. Very few films can ever claim to be that intense, that deep, that rewarding.