One That Was Made Way Ahead of It's Time

Rating: 10/10 (23 December 2012)

Considering that this film is still considered intense even in times where The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Piranha are released, it shows how far Kubrick looked forward to in this film. Of course anyone who is a cinephile, (aka those who write reviews on here. haha) knows of Stanley Kubrick and his historically relevant habit of pushing the button (his filmography till the day he dies is Exhibit A). It didn't stop after 2001 and is in fact pushed to the point where it became a major X Factor in film (get it? haha). Yet as button pushing films come and go (Human Centipede just popped in my head as I'm writing this), one could asked why this one is Etch a Sketched in our brains. Answer: It's real. Whether it describes how cruel humans can be to one another to how they try to have absolute control on things they can't and when they fail how they try to pick things up. This film not only describes human nature, but it describes it in a way anyone who can handle the more sexually explicit and violent scenes can think and say "Yeah this has been done in real life before." If you can do that and still make a film solid through great acting, writing and directing. Then you have a winner, sadly the Academy didn't think so and the history of them getting things wrong continued (Sorry Gene Hackman, The French Connection didn't deserve to win.)