Fear and Desire Comments

  • Blaze 2023-09-28 15:20:41

    Compared with the previous three short films, the debut feature film is in a fog, but the control of the war theme is beginning to...

  • Amelie 2023-09-22 23:06:41

    The Blu-ray restoration version has a new look, a rough experimental war film, which seems to be a fusion of Bergman's philosophical thinking, Renoir's poetry, and Fuller's roughness, but the moral awareness and photography style in it can still predict Kubrick. Shadows of the future. Paul Mazursky as an actor also did...

  • Roxane 2023-09-15 04:06:06

    How can the picture quality be so poor, it is simply a woodblock print of activity! The sound is also terrible, like a strange sound when it is only played at 0.1x speed. Is there a better version of this...

  • Elmer 2023-09-14 00:18:20

    2.5 stars, the Blu-ray repaired version fixes many problems on the film of the year. The picture quality is not bad, and the film is not as bad as the director thought, but there are still some bright spots, especially the scene of rushing in and killing a few soldiers drinking soup. Great and visually striking. The carrier of war films is about the surly and absurd after the distortion of human nature. Although the actors' military uniforms are very funny, it is difficult to find faults...

  • America 2023-08-27 09:03:44

    70/100, 1. The first Cookbury film in June is more than halfway through the progress of Cookbury's single patch. In fact, it can be seen from his early films that he is a director with style. 2. My favorite is still the scene of grabbing a gun. It is fierce and violent, and the scene is full of cult flavor. The dialogue like verses is already his third movie about war, and he thinks about war from different...

  • Isac 2023-08-05 17:29:46

    I have been pressing and not looking at it to make up for the badge. As a debut feature film, I can still see a lot of elements in the later works, but there are many places that are not so...

  • Name 2023-08-01 15:26:10

    The anti-war theme that has been consistent throughout his career has come out, the narrative is still a bit confusing, and the characters are written very badly. Several characters are the kind of tool people with a style. In the second half of the confrontation, the inner monologue montage of the two sides is a bit interesting. The only highlight of the...

  • Jules 2023-07-07 04:58:24

    Although this film is Kubrick's debut, and the plot is very boring and concise, the artistic attainments are superficial compared to Kubrick's other works, and the photography and editing are a little rough in some places, and many places still need acting to support, but I I think that psychoanalysis and plot promote the story to achieve a balance, and there is no shortage of excellent techniques. It can't be said to be almost perfect, but it can also be said to be good enough. This is not a...

  • Polly 2023-07-04 18:04:41

    Leaving aside the somewhat blunt editing, there are several impressive pictures and composition angles that are worth studying over and over again. Influenced by the poet's playwright, each has a large number of inner monologues: "No man is an island. This sentence was true a long time ago, before the Ice Age. After the glaciers melted, we all became islands, and the world is made of islands. Yes." "You try door after door with the voice in your head, but there is no handle on the door. They...

  • Andrew 2023-06-22 11:31:50

    Fear eats the soul: whether it's the soldier who imagines desire and hallucinations and then shoots the girl with a pistol, the murmuring of the unstoppable trembling of death with a glass of wine, or the hound staring at everything without saying a word. The cruelty of war and the annihilation of humanity have lost the boundaries of justice and evil under the image. Cuts and shots of the killing of German soldiers in the hut highlight the rudiments of Kubrick's road to...

Extended Reading

Fear and Desire quotes

  • Private Sidney: It wasn't my fault! The magician did it. Honest! Prospero the Magician. First we're a bird, and then we're an island. Before I was a general, and now I'm a fish! Hoorah for the magician! (laughs insanely, then stops) The river... it's blood, Mac! Cold... cold... I'm going for a swim. Come on in, Mac! Listen to them... (starts to laugh) it's blood! (laughs insanely again, then runs off)

  • Sergeant Mac: It's better to roll up your life into one night and one man and one gun.