A captivating glimpse into parts of the US history. The choice of songs and images was wonderful.

when you read ''starring: Rock Hudson, Saddam Hussein'' in the opening credits you just know it's gonna be an awesome movie

There are a lot of extremely disturbing images in this, but also some fascinating nuggets of information, and, of course, the juxtaposition of sound and footage is inspired.

great music, cool footage, and though there supposedly is a point there is no real focus and it's really just a clusterfuck of incredibly loosely connected topics

Bunch of images with music. I'm not sure if I like it that much. It does have some interesting stuff, but not enough to blow me away

An entrancing 54 minute infomercial on America's rise to power noting a lot of their screw ups aided by a pop music soundtrack that adapts itself perfectly. Wondrously made and completely captivating.

Difficult to make a final judgment, given that this was an element of a larger work I have not seen. Nevertheless, this is certainly a captivating attempt to convey the weave of history, and the individual and collective madness and stupidity that underlay so much of American history in the last fifty years. While containing less information than his documentary series, this is an attempt to find new ways to use cinema as an instrument of documentation, analysis and critique. 54 minutes.

A while ago, I was thinking that there should be a movie that breaks cinema down to its two basic components: Images and sound. I had plans in my head for how I'd do it and how such a minimalist concept could flourish. Then I saw "It Felt Like a Kiss." I no longer intend to one day make my movie because I know that Adam Curtis has already taken the same idea and created something incredible. Bravo.

With It Felt Like a Kiss, Curtis reimagines recent American history as a tempestuous fever dream -- an angry, psychedelic rebuke to the old maxim "history is written by the winners." Not so much a narrative as a narrative being torn at the seams, its shredded reconstitution: This is what the crumbling of an empire looks and sounds like.

1st minute: OK, this is kinda weird. Not sure if this is going to be any good... 30th minute: The experiment works, this is awesome.

Plays like a greatest hits of previous work and ideas of Curtis'.

Rock Hudson Doris Day Lee Harvey Oswald Sirhan Sirhan Saddam Hussein Osama bin Laden Fidel Castro Patrice Lumumba Joseph Mobutu Enos the chimp Richard Nixon JFK RFK CIA KGB HIV Velvet Underground Andy Warhol The Crystals Brian Wilson Lou Reed Phil Spector Tina Turner Bonanza the Manson Family My Lai mass marketing beauty salons electroconvulsive treatment self-immolation guns the Bomb psychotherapy sex appeal child pageants easy credit Texas School Book Depository World Trade Center = America

Being American I grew up with notions of our rise to power and effect on our world being related to me in a wholly positive light. As I grew my preconceived notions were shaken through my own studies of the time period, though I still regard America's rise as largely positive. Curtis shows us a side we rarely see in our history. While it is a mostly negative view on our path toward individualistic values, I find it no less important for the uninformed about our faults during the time period.