Barry Lyndon is a story following the rise of social climber Redmond Barry. While bearing the deliberate pacing which marks many of Kubrick’s efforts, the movie never feels slow because of the constant humor (Kubrick’s funniest outside Dr. Strangelove) and changes of settings.
On second watch, the theme that jumps out the most and can be seen across much of Kubrick’s work is the ways humans make violence palatable through rituals and manners. We can see this throughout the narrative…
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Characters are pretty thin but the later sequences are phenomenal and bring a lot of life to an already enjoyable ride
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Joker is a vacuous shell of a film. Part of the issue, as noted by many, is its derivative copying of better movies. The main one, however, is that whenever the movie is given the attention it wants (and it is begging for it), it continues to show how dumb it is. First off, almost everybody outside of Arthur is given the character of a cardboard cutout. Any semblance of politics is boiled down to a point that can't be…
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