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Summary: A Clockwork Orange
Review: Fantastic adaptation of the excellent Anthony Burgess Novel. The violence isn't as strong as in say goodfellas but it has twice the impact.The soundtrack is superb
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Summary: ALEX THE HOODLUM
Review: Adapted from the 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess, this movie takes place in a dreary, routinised England in which roving gangs of teenage thugs terrorise at night. A sadistic punk leads a gang on nightly rape and murder sprees, then is captured and becomes the subject of a grim experiment to eradicate his violent tendencies. Alex (Malcolm McDowell) is a the protangonist leader of the gang; he's a conscienceless, sadistic school-boy who enjoys stealing, raping and destroying; in this dehumanising society, there seems to be no way for the boys to release their energies except in vandalism and generally living a life of crime. The film is an exhilarating experience, with an outstanding performance from McDowell as the funny, fierce psychopath. Many memorable, disturbing sequences, including a rape conducted while assaliant McDowell belts out "Singing in the Rain" (!) Outstanding, provacative work from master filmmaker Kubric.
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Summary: one of the all time greats
Review: okay I understand that most of you who review this movie have seen it 14 billion times but I've only seen it about ten times. But enough of that. This movie is hands down one of the greatest movies of all time. You cannot catorgorize it. Is it horror, sci-fi, drama? There is, was and never will be another film like it. As a matter of fact I am watching the movie as I am writing this review. So if you've never seen this movie. Go to your video store and rent it. After you see it you'll want to buy it for sure. "Viddy well little brothers, Viddy well"
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Summary: GREAT MOVIE / HORRIBLE DVD (MONO!!)
Review: A terrible shame that one of the best movies of all time is released in such a rotten DVD transfer. BEWARE -- the description of this DVD hides that it is in MONO! I thought my DVD player was broken but eventually figured out this is a mono production -- using only the center speaker on most home theater systems. Even the mono has a lot of hissing.The original film depends on an awesome soundtrack that supports its tension and mood. I remember buying the soundtrack (one of the few times I've done this) when it first came out. The film's impact is all but lost with such poor mono sound. Don't buy this! Wait for a better DVD release.
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Summary: One of My Top Five Films of All Time
Review: One of the most disturbing images I've ever seen in a film is the opening shot -- the close-up of Alex's purely malevolent face. Malevolent doesn't even seem to compass the entirety of Alex's expression in that single shot. It's psychopathic and almost the look of pure evil, itself. It's an expression that I would never want to have directed at me. I'm not going to bother to talk about the plot because I'm sure pretty much the entire story has been given out through these reviews. I discovered this film about ten years ago on video and loved it from the first viewing. I read the book and felt that the adaptation from paper to celluloid was nearly perfect. True the film was modeled after the U.S. version of the book which had the final chapter exised at the time (a new pressing has restored the book to it's entirety within the last few years) so the final chapter is also missing from the movie plot. I've read the 'missing' chapter and I think it would have been interesting if that had been included in the movie but then the grim, sinister ending would have been replaced with something more positive which sort of negates the feel of the rest of the movie. Visually astounding and mesmerizing like all Kubrick films, the movie features his trademark scoring technic of using classical music to perfectly set the mood of the scene (or sometimes purposefully clash with it). I love the way that each scene is set-up like an elaborate painting -- no attention to detail was wasted or forgotten from the phallic symbols drawn over the paintings where Alex lives to the busts of Beethoven which show up a surprising amount of times in many unlikely houses. A Clockwork Orange was and still remains one of my all-time favorite films just as Kubrick is one of my all-time favorite directors (up there with Akira Kurosawa and Terry Gilliam).
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Summary: Great but misunderstood film
Review: Being a highschool student I know lots of people that consider A Clockwork Orange to be a great film. As a matter of fact they consider it to be #$%@$# awesome! Sadly this has to be one of the most misunderstood films of all time, along with Fight Club. Although not all teens are like this many unfortunately are. When a film that questions government control over people, and what it means to be good is known for the scene in which that "chick gets raped" or "that old guy gets beat up" there's something wrong. Kubrick does a great job of pulling off a story that would turn off many people. The directing is impeccable as is the rest of the film. The DVD for the film doesn't quite live up to expectations. The picture quality is subpar and the sound is decent. For a film of such cultural value you would expect better. Hopefully the upcoming rerelease will be a little better.
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Summary: Kubrick's Finest
Review: Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange is the best film in his eclectic career. Malcolm McDowell stars as Alex, the leader of a bunch of droogs, living in futuristic England. The droogs are a bunch of vicious, unrepentant hoodlums who take joy in merciless beating people and in living a life of crime and ill repute. Alex's favorite pastimes are drinking milk laced with drugs and listening to Beethoven. One of the more disturbing scenes is when Alex and his droogs rape and kill a woman in her own house while her husband watches. Through it all Alex joyful sings "Singin' In The Rain". He is eventually arrested and sent to jail for his crimes. As part of a new governmental program, he is put through a process that will no longer make him a menace to society. By having him watch gruesome films with his eyes pried open and being shot up with drugs, he is "cured". The cure involves anytime that he starts to become violent or has sexual thoughts, he becomes violently ill. He is released back into society. His parents have rented a room to another person, whom they now treat more like a son. He meets his droogs, who are now cops and they beat him. One side effect is that during the movies they played his beloved Beethoven and now the sound of his music drives him to pain. He ironically ends up at the home of his rape victim's and is at first treated nicely as the husband doesn't know who he is. This all changes when he starts singing "Singin' In The Rain" in the tub. He eventually snaps and tries to kill himself. The film is visually stunning and Mr. McDowell gives the performance of his life as Alex. A Clockwork Orange is a disturbing morality tale that has an ambiguous ending that leaves you thinking.
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Summary: Simply the best
Review: Stanley Kubricks A Clockwork Orange must surely rate up there with the likes of Star Wars and the Godfather when historians come to name the most influential motion picture of all time. It simply excels and appeals to everyone who ever sees it. Speaking as a resident of the UK, it has been annoying having to make do with grainy NTSC copies of this film and more recently the DVD in disappointing mono. It is worth boasting though that we in the UK had Clockwork Orange back in our cinemas last year, to triumphant reviews, and Warner have thrilled us all with a sparklingly clean DVD transfer on Region 2, which beats the Region 1 transfer hands down (I have both) but far more importantly the Region 2 DVD has been mastered into 5.1 digital. Nice to see Region 2 get the better deal now and again!!!! For all you Clockwork Orange fanatics out there, import the Region 2 copy and sit right in the middle of all that ultraviolence, slooshy the sounds of the gang fight in the old opera house as if you are actually there. Fantastic. A timeless film that will live forever. (ps. we get a 5.1 version of 2001 too!!!)
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Summary: Stanley Kubrick at his best!
Review: Being the adventures of a young man whose principle interests are rape, ultra-violence and beetoven. Violating, Alex and his band of merry friends run a spree of ultra-violence in Stanley Kubricks' most shocking motion picture of A Clockwork Orange. This movie is not for the people who are looking for a nice movie to view with the family. No, not at all. Alex and his band of merry men run through the town stealing,and killing people, and having a good time while doing it. So starts A Clockwork Orange, a journey through a world of decaying cities, and amoral punks,and brain washed people that form the dynamic ark that is one of the greatest motion pictures ever released. Shocking and forever remembered by everyone, the power of this movie will grab you and brainwash you into viewing this a second time to realize the beauty of this film. I'm not giving away any of the plot and although you might wish i would, viewing this motion picture for your self, you will find out that it is hugely controversial, and is still talked about today. View this movie, you'll see why A CLOCKWORK ORANGE is one of the greatest films out there, and will never be forgotten by anyone(even if you didn't even like it!)
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Summary: Music is a multifarious world of ultraviolence!
Review: This film is banned or at least has been banned for many years in Great Britain because it cuts deep into the political fabric of British society. It shows what ultraviolence is for some young teenagers in England : an entertainment in a society where being entertained is necessarily realizing deep and not so unconscious impulses and drives. These young people all seem to carry some Shakespearian Richard III in them. But the main, object of the film is to show how the political system of the country uses this violence and these violent teenagers to promote their power, to win their elections, to impose their visions and manipulate public opinion. It is true that they can easily use the family structure that is both permissive and cold, and even rejects the young. They can easily use the social services that are supposed to help and protect young people but who are a nest of perverts and ambitious mediocre social-climbers who prefer playing with their fantasms to solving the problems they are supposed to solve. They can count on the prison system who has only one objective : to humiliate the prisoners and to live in a dream of domination and power over helpless inmates. They can also count on the press and the media that do not look for truth, or do not assume their mind-building duty or mission, but only look for sensational news to sell as many copies as possible, to attract as many viewers as possible. So politicians can easily manipulate this press and these media and hence public opinion, provided the news they provide them with are pungent and hefty enough to shock benevolence and indifference. This film is a caustic satire of modern English society. But furthermore, it is the most beautiful and powerful musical film since the whole film is entirely accompanied by classical music showing how strongly this classical music speaks to young people, and to us, and how it conveys and means so many violent feelings and frustrations in them. We may think Ludwig van Beethoven is a little old-fashioned in that line. But yet it gets such a marvellous new life in the film by the association of the last movement of the ninth symphony with every moment of the film, giving to that music at least ten or a dozen different meanings. Classical music is first of all and before all a music that can take any meaning we want provided we invest it into the situation that will bring this meaning into the picture. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Paris Universities II and IX.
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