Wait until you mature and see it again

Rating: Null/10 (15 February 2001)

Most of the negative comments this film has received have apparently been from young people. I saw CK for the first time when I was 19 and hated it. I then saw it a year and a half later and loved it. What happened? Well, my tastes matured a bit, and I had the benefit of having seen it before.
Now, more than a decade later, I've seen the film on video perhaps 20 times, and three or four times on screen. (Alas, and inexplicably, CK has yet to be released to DVD!). It is, I have no doubt, the greatest American film ever made. What is good about it has nothing to do with camera, lighting, technique, or any such nonsense. It is perfect the way a piece of music can be perfect--and, as with music, it is impossible to say in words just what it is that makes it so great.
Wait a few years, my young friends, and see this movie again. Do people still mature or is that old-fashioned?