It's always excellent to watch Kubrick stretch out and show off, as he does in this gorgeously shot, slightly ponderous but overall clever and poignant period piece.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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