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Title: Among the Very Best Films Ever Made
Review: This is a horrifying and nearly perfect masterpiece about murder committed by stupid and brutal old men, enacted through the merciless, relentless apparatus of government and despite the revulsion of humans compelled to the service of that institution. But the subject is not the art.The brilliance of this film is Kubrick's refusal to edit. Three innocent men walk slowly with a priest to their deaths. One cries, one is silent and one is gravely wounded. There are no cut-scenes of cheesy grimaces, no falsely protracted or contracted time and there is no hope or mercy. The firing squad aims and shoots and the men are dead.The subject is murder. The art is so good that we are sickened.
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