Genius, two thumbs up!!

Rating: 10/10 (4 October 2004)

This film is probably the best ever made. Its superb use of music, scenery and wardrobe is one of the great highlights of modern cinema. The exploration of human psychology as much as the moral implications of free will are quintessential in Kubrick's work. Kubrick has the amusing particularity that at the end of his films, one feels like in a state of ecstasy, awaiting something else to happen. They seem to end in a "To be continued" mood, which leaves the viewer with profound philosophical questions. The topic of insanity which constantly arises in Kubrick's films, is nowhere best treated that in this work of art, clearly the greatest achievement by any director, dead or alive(maybe in the same rank as Fellini, Chaplin, Truffaut and the great European masters).