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Summary: Great Sets, Very Colorful (esp. Orange), TOO MISANTHROPIC!!
Review: This is one of those movies I've wanted to check out for 30 years, and finally viewed it last night. I read its been banned in several countries,I think including Britain where it takes place. Honestly, I can see why. The McDowell character has to be the most vicious ever on the silver screen, or at least tied with Hannibal Lector...But maybe even more sadistic and bizarre. He must be in almost every scene, and after a while I got sick of watching him, even after he "reformed". The first hour of this is hard to stomach..Not only misanthropic but misogynistic too...No doubt brilliantly done, but too cynical. It seems everyone is manipulating everyone else ,be it gang of teenage killers, the government, the hospital, the police, Alex parents, even the victims. About the only sympathetic character here is the first rape victim..Yes, I realize this may be the point..Makes one long for the old days of the Hay Code and censorship...There have surely been sicker films since (defintely none prior to this though), and at least one can make a case that this is a work of art, outrageous as it is!
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Summary: A Masterpiece!!!! A Must-Own Movie
Review: A Clockwork Orange... I did not like this movie the first time that I saw it...I must admit that. I gave this movie another chance, however, and found it to be hypnotizingly stimulating. This movie is truly a work of art and a masterpice in itself. Kubrick is a genius.
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Summary: A Great Adaptation of an Excellent Book.
Review: I've seen my fair share of movies made from books. Not many of them hold up. A Clockwork Orange does. Of course, there are some discrepancies, as can be expected, and I'm still divided on whether or not it would have been better with the 21st chapter, which of course completely changes the end. However, this is definitely one of the best book to movie interpreteations I've ever seen. Aside from that, the acting is excellent, and the whole movie is intrigueing. Do yourself a favor: see the movie AND read the book. This is one where I don't think reading the book will ruin the movie for you, as is many times the case.
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Summary: A Clockwork Orange for a new gereation
Review: I have always wanted to rent this movie. However I was warned by many adults that is was a very violent and disterbing movie. While it is disterbing, I and my three friends did not find it that violent. We did however have to think about it for awhile after. This is not your run of the mill movie but if your in the mood for something different, I say go for it.
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Summary: Philosophy 101
Review: I really hate to rain on the parade, but feel moved to write a review as an "average viewer." That is, I saw the film during its theatrical release, when I was 19; and I was unaware of any controversy surrounding the film, as I lived far from any "cultural center." (I was in Arkansas, actually.) This was the Vietnam era. I was a war protester, cultural misfit, and acidhead. My reaction to the film was, and is, one of boredom. That's not to say that there aren't some good bits: McDowell's Alex is an engaging screen character. But to speak of "social commentary" or "philosophy" in this film is to reveal an ignorance of the perfectly common and ordinary statements of bygone literary figures introduced to my generation (and, hopefully, others) in high school at latest. The film looked cheaply made in 1972, and that look has only worsened with time. If you want pop philosophy with a (relatively) good look, try _Brazil_ instead.
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Summary: People that don't like it are missing the point
Review: This classic, brilliant film is not about ultra-violence. It is not a character study either. "A Clockwork Orange" is a satire on the government and themes such as capital punishment, brainwashing, media worship of criminals,the legal system, etc.
And in these elements it succeeds perfectly. Also, McDowell's performance is absolutely ingenious. He captures every facet of Alex's existence: evil, pathos, manipulation, helplesness, depression. This is one of Kubrick's best films, which don't count trash like "The Shining."
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Summary: Very Unique - In a Good Way!!!
Review: First off, this is not your typical movie; it's not the type of movie you would go to and eat popcorn and gummy bears, because there's just too much to absorb.At first, I had a problem with its usual classification as science fiction (which is liberally applied in this case) - because the movie didn't really have any of the 'typical' scifi qualities about it. After seeing the movie many many times [and, trust me, you'll have to], it started to become evident why it gets that classification - because everything from the slightly-off late 60s/early 70s London setting, to a completely fabricated slang language (NADSAT, which, although I'm not sure, seems to have elements of Shakespeare, but with Russian words mixed in) and a entirely unique visual and audial sense, create such an alien and unfamiliar setting that 'scifi' becomes the closest thing to a genre as any other. I don't want to dissuade anyone from seeing "a Clockwork Orange' by referring to it as an art film, but it definately is to a degree; As with any Kubrick film, it is extremely detail-oriented and visually ornate, but unlike some of his other movies [IMHO], plot doesn't suffer in this one; in fact an intelligible storyline is probably more identifiable in 'A Clockwork Orange' than some other Kubrick films (i.e. 2001). I can't get into the details of this movie because there are just too many of them, but expect to be bombarded with lots of symbols and metaphors and plenty of good stuff to write your term paper on. Lastly, in response to Mike Mitchell's review: Who's more the 'poser'? - people who enjoy this movie or people who use words like 'pabulum'. I'm one person who genuinely enjoys this movie; and among my other top 50 favorite films is 'Pee-Wee's Big Adventure', so there!
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Summary: One of Kubrik's finest
Review: Clockwork Orange
The movie Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick was one of his best. In this movie Stanley Kubrick displays a dystopia in which the government allows people to run wild in order to later imprison them and use the situation to their advantage. This is a place in which the government cares most for it's political survival then of anything else. In this movie, placed in the future from when it was made, our main character and narrator Alex is a criminal who goes out on the street with his gang droogs and terrorizes the local citizens. After his group members try to over power him and then he later regains control, tension is built up in the group. His group of friends led him to a place where he could cause some mischief in where he accidentally kills a person. His men then beat him till he was helpless and left him for the police. He is then sentenced to forty years in prison, which would be alleviated if he goes through a program, which the government designed so that people become completely harmless to society. He was then subjected to several experiments, which left him completely incapable of harming any one in any way and not by choice but by the simple fact that they injected him with a fluid that would make sick if the thought ever arose in him. This experiment in tern left him helpless to defend himself. Finally he is locked into a room and tortured through the discomfort injected in him by the government so much that he ends up attempting suicide, but fails.
These events were made in order for Stanley Kubrick to convey to the viewer at the time the horrible things that could might come to be if the government that was present at the time continued it's ways. He displays the point that it is better for someone to be willfully evil then slavishly good and that if one is exposed to plenty of free will then one would also be exposed to evil but to reduce evil by reducing free will is not worth the price. His thought that the government is getting too much power over the people and in tern harming them in it's never ending attempt to create an overall better society is displayed very well through the main character and narrator Alex who looses all ability to do wrong and suffers from it. In collaboration with Walter (later Wendy) Carlos's soundtrack, Kubrick does a great job at illustrating mood and events through music and scenery together.
Over all I would place this movie very highly in a scale of great movies and justly so. If one hasn't yet seen this movie then I would suggest that one highly considers it in the near future for this is one of the greatest movies of all time.
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Summary: Great movie, buy the newwer disk
Review: Great movie, but buy the newwer disk. The version I ordered is in mono, I'd prefer to listen to the Wendy Carlos in surround.
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Summary: Vastly Overrated...
Review: I have never entered a theater or turned on a video machine intending to hate a Stanley Kubrick film, but invariably that's the reaction I leave with, particularly for this waste of time and film. "Ultra-Violence?" I've seen more disturbing scenes in Spider-Man comic books. Since nothing I can write is likely to tarnish the undeserved reputation afforded to this so-called "classic," I'll be brief: "A Clockwork Orange". (...)Not to disparage everyone who likes this movie, but this is the sort of pabulum that posers and pseudo intellectuals enjoy pontificating about. Of course, I have noted that the people who are truly passionate this movie tended to have seen it as a teenager, so perhaps there is something about it that resonates within the callow minds of (particularly) young men? I neither know nor care.
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