After Spartacus he seems to have abandoned the emotional element of his films.
Spartacus is one of the few films that can bring a tear to my eye in its final scene. This is strange, because all of his later films, while definitely fascinating and inspiring base emotions such as fear, disgust and lust, all seem exceedingly cold, clinical and impersonal. An exception, I guess, would be when Barry Lyndon's young son is dying, but honestly, when I watched that, it went beyond sadness to an almost parodic depiction of tragedy. It's like after Spartacus, he lost touch with human emotion.
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