A Clockwork Orange

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Summary: The most perfect film ever
Review: This film is one of my favorites. Malcolm McDowell plays like a god a rapist, murderer and Betoween's music listener who is used as a laboratory rat for a weird experiment. This experiment has a good objective; stop McDowell's addiction to rape violence (and Betoween's music)...but it turns in a bad way when he realizes that everyone in his town hate him and beat him up(he then becomes sick for seeing violence in addition to the pain of the other's hits. He must hide somewhere, and he doesn't go at the right place....the atmosphere is so strange and pervert that you can't just call it a normal movie...the message is different from the message of the other movies about violence:Violence is not a good thing, that's sure, but there's always gonna be some violence and we can't do anything about that...the satire in this film is surely the strongest one I've seen, since I saw Dr.Strangelove (from the same director, Stanley''My God''Kubrick). This film is like having an overdose of strong and dissassociative drugs...incredibly excellent....a masterpiece!

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Summary: A Clockwork Orange
Review: A Clockwork Orange

Stanly Kubrick's bizaare film about the nature of justice and humanity has gone down in the history books as a classic of cinema, by how much of it's reputation is down to the film itself and how much of it is due to the media frenzy it casued and its subsequent withdrawel from the cinemas? While this certainly helped, A Clockwork Orange is a very good film in it's own right. It contains several scenes of graphic violence and nudity, by the media was wrong to claim that it glorifies violence, which it does not. In fact the majority of violence is over within the first 20 minutes or so. Despite it's long length and the fact hat it occassionanly drags a bit, Kubrick's brilliant eccentricity gives this film a fascinating edge, and the storyline is effective in showing the film's powerful moral.

8 out of 10.

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Summary: a clockwork orange
Review: this story is ultra violent and there's no clockwork orange in Singapore.

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Summary: Bring on the original version!
Review: Last year a local repertory theater in Minneapolis showed the original X-rated version of this film, which was the one released before a few cuts were made to garner the R version. The difference is not huge, but it is important: The scenes shown to Alex (by force) in the theater are more explicitly violent and, therefore, more repellant. That part of the X-rated version is more true to the book. The other scene affected (less crucially) by the R cut is the early encounter between Alex and his droogs with "Billyboy" and his gang. I hope that someone at Warner will see fit to release the uncensored versions of both "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Clockwork Orange".

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Summary: A Clockwork Orange
Review: The story is ULTRA-VIOLENT and in Singapore its very hard to get the story A Clockwork Orange.

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Summary: A Clockwork Orange
Review: Impeccable work! Stunning performance with ingenious role-play. A film no other to be compared with. Although it is violent and raw on occasions, I think this is the best form of expressing the truth, without compromising the meaning and depth of the intended message.

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Summary: A Masterpiece Misunderstood
Review: Kubrick's film, A Clockwork Orange is one of the most misunderstood in all of cinema history. It brilliantly prtrays the reasons of man's free will even to do wrong. The film also has several different viewpoints depending on what type of person you are. Some people see the characters of the government as being just and fair by their treatment to young Alex. Others feel sympathy for the poor young hedonist because of the opression brought on to him by a cruel unforgiving government. Many people who see this film without a comprehensive mind would see it as "sick". One of the most disturbing scenes in the film, a rape scene, is vastly misunderstood. In this scene Alex and his "droogs" pillage a house and rape the owner's wife while singing "Singin' in the Rain". The reason the scene happened like this was because the song had other significance later. Also people often believe the famous Ludovico treatment scene to be unecessary. It merely describes the ruthlessness of the government and their desperation to clean the streets of criminals. Classical music fans were upset by this film also. It showed that you can be a rapist, thief, and murderer but still like classical music. The contraversy over this film never ended. Therefore proving one of the film's more hidden themes that there is no such thing as a clockwork orange

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Summary: Violent, lyrical, psychological, beautiful, frightening
Review: This is film is terrific, but I just wanted to point out something i noticed in the scene when Alex is presented to an audience as being cured. The Chancellor stands in the left part of the screen, Alex slouches in the middle and the Padre stands in the right. I'm reading Freud in class now, and I just noticed that what you have with that composition is the ego, the id and the superego. Respectively, the chancellor, (ego, the responsibility of one to obey the rules, Alex (pure id, acts on animal instinct) and the Padre, (super-ego, does what is morally right). I just wanted to share this with anyone who doubts that Kubrick movies operate on many different levels.

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Summary: ''A master piece oh my brothers''
Review: Number one, some people seem argue this film is'sickening'. Well, if you actually understood the political andpersonal meaning behind the story then you would realise Burgess' intent in sickening the viewer/reader. (And despite the films age and its lack of superficial special effects it does, through dramatic close up's and masterful music)in order to get his argument of social freedom over political restraint. The original book is based on the rape of Anthony Burgess' wife, yet despite this Burgess and Kuberick manages to hypnotise the reader/viewer into feeling sympathy for Alex and hatred toward the oppressive government.

The second argument you hear is that of 'I cant understand it'. Welly welly welly, go and read the book then. The whole point of the invented teenage language and sereal dress is to mask the violence Alex and his droogs manifest. Ok this idea does not travel well onto screen but youve got to admit it is very well acted and anyone who has read the book will appreciate it.

Finally to anyone who is thinking of watching the film, do so it is brillaint especially in the cinema (The DVD version is also good). Although I would suggest you read the book first to appreciate the full meaning of the NASDAT language and fututistic setting. Not to mention the books ending is better by far and its violence more shocking. END

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Summary: Criticisms debunked
Review: Several varied criticisms have been expressed in the reviews below. Let me take them on one at a time. <i>A Clockwork Orange</i> is not an immoral movie. It is a movie that contains immoral actions, and since the movie is written and directed in Alex's mindset, these immoral actions are presented as a normal release. Of course, viewers are grounded in conventional morality by the supporting cast, but the haunting and brilliant part of the movie is the exploration of amorality. This, then, is the basis of the treatment of women in the film. It is not Kubrick, but rather, Alex, who sees women as objects. It is the same way in Burgess's novel. The film does not glorify violence, Alex does. The film points out merely that, while Alex's actions are horrible and inexcusable, he remains a human being, with the right to choose between good and evil. His inability to choose evil is also his inability to choose good. He has no choice. The issue is not that he is defenseless, it is rather that he has become an automaton, programmed with specific reactions (the clockwork orange of the title). He ceases to be human, and thus, ceases to be good or evil. Finally, I agree that Kubrick would not jam a DVD with pointless extras. His work stands alone. And for those naysayers of the format, know that this film was originally shown in the 1.66:1 format, with mono sound, as were most of Kubrick's movies. Those "widescreen" version you see on Encore are cropped to 2.35:1--things are taken out, not added. This is a brilliant movie, so much so that despite the outrage at its release, the Academy (not a notoriously liberal sect) nominated it for an Academy Award (in 1999, they refused to nominate <i>Boys Don't Cry</i>, replacing it with the lukewarm <i>Green Mile</i>).