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I agree. In full. And "Eyes Wide Shut" was excellent, too.

You only need to see it under the right perspective: it all happens inside Tom Cruise´s character´s mind. Just remember the title of the novel it comes from: Arthur Scnitzler´s "Traumnovel" (Novel of a Dream)...

And "Clockwork Orange" can´t be understood looking at it from nowadays..., but at that time I was working with a group of psychiatrists who were exploring that conditioning and deconditioning stuff, with the vane pretension of curing homosexuals! When I look back to those days, I feel a cold shiver all along my spine...

"Barry Lyndon" is fine, from a purely aesthetical perspective, while it is pretty empty of content, something fine for those projecting their own feelings on it..., and he chose Ryan O´Neal, just because he was the perfect empty actor, for an empty role, going from nowhere to no place at all...

And there are very few films so strongly anti-war, and so anti-militarist as "Paths of Glory", and "Full Metal Jacket" (Dalton Trumbo got it, too, with "Johnny took his Gun"), or so fiercely denouncing of the Cold War madness as "Dr. Strangelove"...

About "2001" I have given my opinion, in another thread, some time ago. And on it I stand.

Kubrick was simply great!

Regards

BF


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