Not only Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, but one of the greatest films of all-time. It's beauty, stark and cold, is what keeps you watching: that, and a brilliant choice to minimize sound. Kubrick gives you just enough data to follow along, but not enough to know what is really happening. So the abstractness of the film, like all great abstract poetry and plastic art, prompts you to invest a large portion of yourself in understanding the plot and it's meaning; essentially you construct them yourself. A cinematic tour de force.
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