Corpsey
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Watched it last night, admittedly not with my full attention after a certain point.
The acting in it is SO mannered (especially - actually, maybe exclusively - Nicole Kidman's) - obviously it's a deliberate choice but it's still quite irritating. I can see why some critics hated it at the time.
Do people talk about it in terms of its relationship to The Shining? The initial party scene, for example, is very reminiscent of the phantom ball in The Shining, and then of course there's the masked figure in the Shining that he glimpses through a door. The hidden corruption behind a luxuriant veneer. (Now I mention it, this is also something of a theme in Barry Lyndon.)
Kubrick was working on a holocaust film for many years. I think for anybody fascinated by the Nazis, there's this interesting 'paradox' (if it is) of this extremely civilised nation, the nation of Goethe and Beethoven et al, doing - or ignoring - some of the most evil things imaginable.
OH and Alex being a LVB nut in Clockwork Orange, of course!
The acting in it is SO mannered (especially - actually, maybe exclusively - Nicole Kidman's) - obviously it's a deliberate choice but it's still quite irritating. I can see why some critics hated it at the time.
Do people talk about it in terms of its relationship to The Shining? The initial party scene, for example, is very reminiscent of the phantom ball in The Shining, and then of course there's the masked figure in the Shining that he glimpses through a door. The hidden corruption behind a luxuriant veneer. (Now I mention it, this is also something of a theme in Barry Lyndon.)
Kubrick was working on a holocaust film for many years. I think for anybody fascinated by the Nazis, there's this interesting 'paradox' (if it is) of this extremely civilised nation, the nation of Goethe and Beethoven et al, doing - or ignoring - some of the most evil things imaginable.
OH and Alex being a LVB nut in Clockwork Orange, of course!