When Orson Welles was around 24 he made Citizen Kane. When Kubrick was roughly the same age he made this. I wouldn't be surprised if his disparaging comments later on about the film were in some part coloured by this fact. By those standards "Fear and Desire" seems a terrible feature. As an first film by an independent director with a small budget and a smaller crew, it's quite remarkable in a lot of its shot compositions and some of…

The weakest of the four Hu film's I've seen. A bit long, a bit meandering, but with how well it is shot, and how beautiful the landscapes, not at all unwelcome for it.

There are some fantastic visual sequences here, and the use of practical effects and colour hits just the right mood for me. The almost avant-garde sequences of magical drummings were worth watching alone.

Story wise- simple, but fine. Nothing revelatory or shocking. it did it's job.

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