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| | Stanley Kubrick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Kubrick was not concerned with trite parades of easy sentimentality but rather with the holding up of a mirror to the realities of the human experience: our brutal, violent tendencies, our unexpressed or repressed desires, our lusts, rages and multiple vanities. |
 | | Kubrick wished to challenge the very form of cinema itself, and in 2001: A Space Odyssey, he achieved this, producing something entirely new: a mood picture, an impressionistic waltz which was made almost ten years before Star Wars and yet is far more impressive as a technological achievement. |
 | | Kubrick exalts in the vast beauty of his spacescapes, using music, as he always did, to quite extraordinary effect, and in doing so providing us with a completely convincing picture of the stillness and quiet calm of the universe, putting our own world, quite literally, into a very humble perspective. |
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