Kubrick's style is lasting and consistent

Rating: 8/10 (11 December 2006)

I have watched 6 of Kubrick' s production so far, his style kept unchanged except for AI which was not completed by him.
The films of Stanley mostly reflect his philosophy to community and humanity. So most of the films will not have very abundant story content. He abandoned to develop the script in a way that our of audience's expectation(or what I feel unexpected is that those movies having an ending in such way). If you don't concern the showing time, you won't think that the story has just be completed in such a way. Instead, he portrayed in details about Tom Curise's psychological contradiction.
The career and appearance of Tom Curise acted made him to be very appreciated by females. The banquet was arranged to be shown in the beginning highly reflected the live of the couple. Suspect was also initiated in it, even the opening dialogue revealed the lurk of this couple who seems to have a perfect family.
Afterwards, once Tom knew that Kiman was almost cheated him, his self-struggle became stronger and the tension of the movie increased gradually, where the peak was reached by Tom attending the potential dangerous odyssey. But he still couldn't take the revenge to his wife as what he try to do was actually based on his jealousy (even he have never met the sailor, the flashback of his imagination about the sexual behavior between that guy with Kiman). He had noting to do and that's why such nightmare couldn't let him overcome his sincere to his wife. That's why he told everything to her as he couldn't play the game of cheating his wife by wearing the mask.
In addition, I am especially impressed by the continuous dissolving editing in the scene of Tom going to the sexual party. The taxi across from the crowded city to the silence area. With a dissolved way that made audience also fell into the dream around, as well as the mystery.Kubrick played the similar action to it by keeping the place be secret all the time including at the end of the film. It is unimportant to know the secret behind anymore(although many people like to know the truth of it:curiosity for all). That is what the master ability of achieving this.
By doing such action, the film won't be too long and the main message will be shown clearly rather than the audience changing the focus on that incident.Next,it made the crossover between reality and dream: one of the philosophical argument in the world. People usually confused and mix real world and dream, they may even don't know which one is real. Probably what we think our daily live is real one but the fact may still be hidden(Martix reflected more about this topic).