Fear and Desire

 

            The Stanley Kubrick watching experience continues and this time like Killer's Kiss this was the shortest Stanley Kubrick film I've ever seen, though in all fairness this is Stanley Kubrick's first ever movie and like Killer's Kiss this is Kubrick's first ever project where he's blooming int the filmmaker we all come to know and love. Though it was way before he may have kept the Korova milk bar statues and the phallic statue in A Clockwork Orange, boy I'd feel bad for the people who visited his house if you know what I mean.

            After their aero plane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to find a way back to their battalion. However, when they come across a local peasant girl the horrors of war become apparent. 

             Now you can look at this film compared to Kubrick's other films, and I would say that this at least is better than Eyes Wide Shut, MAYBE? Better than The Shining or 2001: A Space Odyssey though I'm going to pass that bridge later this year before I decide on which is better than. And so in order to judge a movie like this I have to take out the perfectness that people tend to criticize as well as the quality of the movie, and for a first time director this is actually not bad considering in terms of what limited resources he had to work with, furthermore Kubrick would later on denounce this film from his filmography, for which sure, you can do that I mean it's your own right but you really shouldn't criticize your own first-two films and appreciate them for what they were and watching this movie all the way through I can see what story he was trying to tell with the limited budget he had to work with and the way he was able to accomplish that is pretty cool and more importantly exploring the debts of war and horror moreover what that does to a soldier fighting in World War II and I like the way he shot the film with what he had. And sure some of the acting is a bit strange and a little over the top but you have to see that one of the soldiers are crazy and that's the best craziness he can portray, either way I believe this film is the best first film genre since Robert Rodriguez's El Mariachi, and watching Kubrick develop more into a filmmaker is pretty cool to watch as a film fan. Now, there ways to watch this film and you can watch the film on Tubi, though I would vote against it because the film on Tubi is in color and the color version is just awful to even watch and my first attempt to watch the film was pretty bad though I tried to ignore the ugliness to but fifteen minutes in I just couldn't do it anymore. But luckily I found the B&W version on YouTube so, I would HIGHLY, recommend watching Fear and Desire on YouTube and not on Tubi and I think that's one of the many reasons why I would never watch films like It's a Wonderful Life on color because it's just flat out disgusting and I doubt the color is accurate to what they were actually wearing behind the scenes, though there people out there that don't like B&W so people have their own ways in watching classic films I guess. Defiantly better than Eyes Wide Shut, though I would choose Killer's Kiss over Fear and Desire but I think both of them are really good films in showing Kubrick developing himself into a legendary filmmaker and showing why he's such a great cinematographer as well, and for a first time film I would still recommend watching this for anyone trying to develop a movie from scratch.