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... now that I've finally seen the supposed POS, I was knocked out by what must be a masterwork fugue by Kubrick.
Spooky, trivial yet heavy, vain yet captivating throughout.
EWS is significant. EWS has such powerful resonance that it recalls "Rosemary's Baby", for me.
Even this Kubrick's "worst" movie is leagues better than most others out there, such that I would rank it along side my favorites "Training Day" and "As Good As It Gets" for best of the '90's.
Also it is beautiful to watch, although the beginning Chris Izaak music choices felt cheap/wrong and caught me off guard.
See what others may have missed...
(Oh, it is not family fare.)
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but the truth is that it is a shame his last film is clearly misunderstood and puts him in the "dirty old man" category. If he was exploring marital trust he didn't have to include the Hellfire Club in the process.
BTW, the chief presider at the mansion was Leon Vitally who was Barry Lyndon's stepson whom Barry attacked and drove away.
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I was surprised that so many here disliked it and called it his worst film. I don't know if it's in the same league as his best, but it was certainly interesting on my first viewing (theater), and even more so on second at home on DVD. My wife and I got into a fairly intense argument over the film...something kind of unusual. I'd easily place it above Killer's Kiss and Full Metal Jacket. Not sure if I like it as much as The Shining, which I recently viewed and appreciated more than previously.
What I like most is the feeling at the end of EWS... that I really don't know what I just saw meant, or what had really happened.
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Edits: 02/27/18
One needn't have taken anymore time than the time it takes to view the film
to realize that that was enough time spent there.
And it weren't the naked chicks.
" Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination." -Michael McClure
... yet not quite to the point of vulgarity to need to look away.
Necrophilia and pagan Bacchanal are hard subjects to examine with any "taste", and in this film may represent symbolic suggestions of psyches extremely off course. The lost souls of "Helm".
I feel that Kubrick's EWS succeeded amazingly with a warning for OUR times, at a very personal level of the most intimate of relationships juxtaposed against that which is "illusionary" in one sense (spirit) yet VERY dangerous to the flesh as well.
Surely not for many sensibilities, and most certainly not a good "date flick". ; )
***So many others have casually dismissed it as a POS without having taken the time
"Casually" is a rather patronizing word towards those who were very familiar with Kubrick's work and waited impatiently for his new film, dreaming of being surprised.
Well... and surprised we were... :(
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Normally naked (or semi-naked) girls attract me, EWS was perhaps the first (and only) movie where their sight made me bored and wish for change of scenery.
Big artistic achievement, that? I will give you that much. The most boring sex scene in the industry - that doesn't happen by chance, it takes a genius.
I liked it too.
I liked it.
-Wendell
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