Kubrick-- Gotta Love 'im

Rating: Null/10 (5 November 2004)

If you don't like (or understand) the "pregnant pause" you won't like or understand Kubrick. His movies set a stage. In YOUR head. Where things are SUPPOSED to be happening. If nothing happens, if no little light flickers on in your belfry while viewing one of his masterpieces, then you are going to be very, very bored indeed. You have to participate in a Kubrick film. It's on YOU. It's not what is said. It's what is not said. It's not what is shown. It's what is not shown. After viewing this film, I only hope that Kubrick may be reincarnated and make a film of "Death in Venice." Novels that unfold in splendid simplicity are difficult for Hollywood to fathom. Kubrick got into trouble with this movie since it cost a mint and did not immediately return the investment. Well, as Thoreau put it, "to be popular is to go down perpendicularly."