Kubrick Paints A Picture

Rating: 8/10 (19 April 2014)

You would not be doing Anyone a Favor if You Introduce Newbie Film Lovers to the Great Director Stanley Kubrick by Starting Them off with Barry Lyndon. They may Never Recover and it might even Sour Their Taste for the Cinema. Because this is Unconventional and Detached Filmmaking.
Film is a Visual Medium First and Kubrick takes that Template to the Extreme much like He did in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). There is Very Little Substantial Dialog in this Picturesque Picture. it is Composed with Little Camera Movement and even Less Editing. it is the Images that Resonate, on Display in Long Shots and Long Takes.
If it was Possible to Zip Back, or more Appropriately Slowly Retreat to the Period on Display here and be a Bird on a Perch, this is what it would Look Like. Things wouldn't Appear as they do in Most Films in Short Quick Cuts with the Eye Darting About Like some kind of Shaky Camera. So for Better or Worse that is Kubrick's Vision.
A Warm Environment Populated by Cold People. The Film is Three Hours Long and will Test Current Attention Spans, but if You can Embrace the Pace and Assimilate the Astounding Surroundings, this just might be a Movie that Massages the Spirit while Telling a Story that is more Painted then Profound and more Visual than Literary.