fear and desire

Chandler 2022-06-28 17:43:33

There is fear, doubt and death unchanging shapes from our world you see these soldiers retain our language and age, but there is no country, only ideas.

Kubrick called Fear and Desire "an inappropriate and pretentious attempt". Some critics say it's the cinematography that makes Fear and Desire a good art film: "He artistically captures the eccentric attitude to death, the gobbling of hungry people and their bestiality, in one scene It shows how destructive desire can be for a poor young soldier."

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Fear and Desire quotes

  • Lieutenant Corby: We spend our lives running our fingers down the lists in directories, looking for our real names, our permanent addresses. No man is an island?

    [chuckles softly]

    Lieutenant Corby: Perhaps that was true a long time ago, before the Ice Age. The glaciers have melted away, and now we're all islands - parts of a world made of islands only...

  • [first lines]

    Narrator: There is war in this forest. Not a war that has been fought, or one that will be, but any war. And the enemies who struggle here do not exist, unless we call them into being. This forest, then, and all that happens now is outside history. Only the unchanging shapes of fear, and doubt, and death are from our world. These soldiers that you see keep our language and our time, but have no other country but the mind.