An excellent movie

Rating: 10/10 (2 June 2005)

What can be added about this movie that hasn't been said already? Here I am, making a comment about a movie I first see after 50 years from its making. But there is so much to say that I can't really help it.
This movie is a dark irony. I cannot in good conscience call it a comedy, for the laughter that it causes is not a funny one, but one of sadness. You see this beautiful movie, so recent feeling half a century after it was shot, with extraordinary casting, acting, directing and attention to detail, and you recognize in it all the ugliness that resides in all humans and humanity as a whole. This movie is to be watched, seen, partially understood, then watched again and again.
OK, Petter Sellers is "the man" in this movie. Not just a man, but at least three, as I am not sure of the soldiers that were shot from behind (by the cameras :) ). George C. Scott is great as a silly general, the rest of the cast performs great, too, although for a movie that shows so much attention to minutiae, I guess they couldn't have acted bad if they wanted to. Kubrick would not have let them.
The humor is terrifying and present in almost every scene. You just have to watch this one. Just have to. One of the few movies I gave a 10 to.