Kubrick Manipulates the Audience

Rating: 9/10 (10 January 2000)

This film should be noted as one of Kubrick's masterpieces not only because of its great performances, fantastic script, and intriguing camera angles, but also because Kubrick is able to manipulate the minds of the audience who view the film. Stanley Kubrick shows us a young criminal committing various acts of horrendous crime. However, rather than show the young lad as a monster, Kubrick goes to great lengths to let us inside the character's head, and feel sympathetic towards him. Kubrick has a great power of being able to present a murderer as a character we feel sorry for. This is a great film.