Review of Barry Lyndon (1975) by David H — 12 Feb 2016

This film feels like a comedy (in a similar nature to four musketeers) in the actors faces and movements... but when looked at what is happening is seems very much not a comedy. Redmond Barry at the end seems like an opportunist, not really following a path, sure of his feelings, and almost randomly selecting what to do.

.. perhaps guided by providence... The second part of the film seems very different from the first, through some set of circumstances he has found himself set up in a sort-of upper class living, which influences and directs him, but still he appears disinterested in what paths he takes.

.. The wandering of live that seems typical in Victoria novels but played out amusingly by kubrick.