Power, Corruption and Lies

New Statesman › August 24, 2009

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Discussing scale without mentioning Stanley Kubrick is tantamount to perfidy, so I should point out that the picture strongly evokes that director's work - the long opening sequence, wordless but for primal grunting and clanging, recalls the beginning of 2001: a Space Odyssey, while the perversely anti-climactic pay-off is straight out of Eyes Wide Shut.

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Power, Corruption and Lies

Power, corruption and lies

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