WOW!!!

Rating: 10/10 (17 July 1999)

WOW!!! This movie was...I can't even describe it adequately. It was bizarre, deep, thrilling, scary, profound, and just plain awesome. WOW!!! I REALLY liked it. I think it was too deep for some people. Lots of people left in the middle. Lots of others complained on the way out. But, WOW!!! It was a masterpiece. Like any truly great artist, Stanley Kubrick, the director, is sometimes hard to keep up with. The thing with the movie was that it was not very sexual. Yes, there were lots of naked people, and lots of sex in it. The majority of these scenes, though, were more scary then sexual. All the times when you would expect sexuality to emerge, namely all the sex scenes, fear emerged instead because of the way the scenes were set up. Even the one scene that might have been the closest to sexual was tainted with jealousy rather than sexuality. It was just amazing. I HAVE to see it again to catch those things I just didn't catch the first time. This film was, at first glance by a casual observer, EXTREMELY bizarre. On further digging the intelligence and insight the movie showed was INCREDIBLE. Another truly great Kubrick film.