Fear and Desire (1953)
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
After their airplane 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 quickly become apparent.
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His death three years ago on the eve of Eyes Wide Shut's release secured his mythic status and his oeuvre is now complete -- or nearly complete, since his first feature, 1953's Fear and Desire, long suppressed by Kubrick, has yet to resurface.
Sidney goes crazy on the girl, foreshadowing Private Pyle in Full Metal Jacket , Hal 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey , and especially Jack Torrance in The Shining .
Hardly a shining example from Stanley Kubrick, who got it suppressed for years, it is nevertheless an amateurish ur-Paths of Glory and a sort of pre-sequel to Full Metal Jacket.
To get the dark blossoms of The Shining and Full Metal Jacket you need the seed, the very young Stanley Kubrick plants it in his lugubrious, arresting, disavowed debut.
"Fear and Desire" was Kubrick's debut feature film, and it could just as easily have served as the title of "Eyes Wide Shut."
His death three years ago on the eve of Eyes Wide Shut's release secured his mythic status and his oeuvre is now complete -- or nearly complete, since his first feature, 1953's Fear and Desire, long suppressed by Kubrick, has yet to resurface.
Stanley Kubrick had made some documentary shorts and a couple of barely feature-length films he considered juvenilia ("Fear and Desire" and "Killer's Kiss"), but "The Killing" is widely agreed to be the first real Kubrick film � archly stylized, sardonic, gimlet-eyed, and richly entertaining into the bargain.
The reason: in both of his earlier pictures, miniscule budgets meant limited ability to have a full staff on production, and in both instances he donned other on-the-job responsibilities to compensate (he was both the photographer and editor for his debut “Fear and Desire,” as an example).