Kubrick's films often feature wide-angle shots but extreme-close ups of the characters going through deeply emotional conflict are distinctive Kubrick technique. These characters tilt their head down and stare towards the camera. this technique is even called 'the Kubrick stare'. Kubrick uses this shot in order to both make the audience uncomfortable and also to help the viewers to identify with the characters' emotions. It is also to draw the audience into the film by breaking the 'fourth wall'. Just as Shakespear's characters can address the audience directly such as the chorus line in 'Romeo and Juliet', Kubrick's can entice, or rather force, viewers to become part of the film. They cannot just watch passively as the characters can see them personally.
Many other directors use close-ups as an establishing sequence as the shot suggests as main character or a sequence of shots establishes a point of view, as well as reaction. But Kubrick has made this camera technique his own.
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