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A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Real Horrorshow
Review: One of the most powerful, thought provoking and disturbing movies of all time. Anyone who thinks that this movie glorifies or condones violence and rape just does not get it. Alex and his "droogs" are evil people. They are doing what comes naturally to them. This might not be right or moral, but the point is, they have to be able to choose between good and evil. The real horror of the movie is the technique used on Alex to render him a useless shade of a human being. You actually start to feel sorry for him even though he is a truly wicked person. Burgess' novel used a foreign language (Nadsat) to lessen the impact of the violence, but in the movie the violence must be shown for the full effect of the movie. I felt Kubrick chose well to leave out the last chapter of the BRITISH version because it would seem like such a tame way to end the movie after such a thrilling ride. You have to watch this movie with an open frame of mind or else you will only look at it superficially, which would be a big mistake my brothers.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Fascinating but not an all-time great
Review: The first 45 minutes of this movie are utterly compelling, quite shocking in many respects. But it proves difficult for the director and actors to sustain the pace and elements of surprise that galvanize the film at the start. Wonderful music, extraordinary performance by McDowell, and remarkably faithful to Burgess's book.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Scathing, Brilliant and Eerie
Review: This is a beautiful send-up of what has become the Future. Kubrick's deep sarcasm still haunts after 30 years, and the film's powerful imagery lingers.

I find it disingenuous that the prudish would chastise this movie for its 'excesses.' Really; what is more vulgar, a serious, literate divigation into the realm of violence and its aftermath, or the ultraviolent titillation of, say, your typical Schwarzenegger or Stallone or Van Damme flick? The desensitizing of violence in those kinds of movies is truly horrifying; what is found here is infinitely more interesting and compassionate.

In all regards, a masterpiece.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The masterpiece of the Master.
Review: I saw this video two times before I read the book, and I thought that I understand all; I don't speak about the realization because it's clearly the best I've ever seen (I think it's difficult that I will see one better). The book filled the gaps that the film left on my mind: after finishing it, you will understand the deep metaphor of the book. The story speaks of Alex, a 16 years old that chose to vote his life to evil. The films points the attention on the facts of the life of Alex, but under the surface we can easily understand the metaphor of the mdern society, in which no one is free, because we can't really choose between the good and the evil, because if you want to choose the evil you are considered an "outlow". For this reason the man is considered like a "clockwork orange", a natural creature that can works only in a mechanical one-way (of being good), without the real possibility of chosing freely between the two contrasting part of our soul. I've tried to explain it, but if you are interested in it, read the book !

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: splendid
Review: it was a great movie! it is very deep and hard to follow which i love in a movie

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Remarkably outstanding in the truest Kubrick fashion!
Review: Every aspect of this timeless and frightening classic holds up astonishingly well in what I perceive to be the quintessential work of Stanley Kubrick at his most unabashed and humorously cruel nature. It almost seems as though Anthony Burgess has befitted the entire storyline and theme of his most well-known work from which Kubrick has adapted into a more chilling rendition in the screenplay from the highly energetic and fantastic imagery to the actors' delivery of the lines,particularly on the most part by the sheer magnetism of Malcolm McDowell, who was indeed born to play the most notorious and sometimes witty screen character in modern British cinema. In light of Kubrick's untimely passing one wonders if A Clockwork Orange has proven to be the most revered film to this day and not the stigmatized vehicle it was set out to be upon its release nearly 28 years ago. I,myself, proclaim it to be the starkest interpretation of art "imitating" life and once one sees it,he/she will understand why and how.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Kubrick's Masterpiece and one of my Top 5
Review: If a less-than-glowing review of this film is owed to its extreme violence, the person condemning is missing the point. This film is _supposed_ to be hard to watch; you are _supposed_ to be repelled. Kubrick's genius here manifests in casting this ickiness against a breathtaking production...unparalleled art direction, simultaneously futuristic and gothic 1971, and a soundtrack that my parents played so much back in the '70s that it taught me to love Beethoven. The DVD version is very pretty!...a true "art film", this movie was ripe for re-digitizing. Time to retire my video....

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: BRILLIANT
Review: Brilliant satire of near-future society in which Stanley Kubrick has created what could've been his best film ever. DR. STRANGELOVE is better slightly and EYES WIDE SHUT is a little below this. Great direction, hilariously vivid with a remarkable script/adaption of Anthony Burgess's novel(almost exactly the same)!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the greatest and most vicious movies ever made.
Review: 'A Clockwork Orange' is undoubtedly Kubrick's finest and arguably one of the best films of all time. What's so impressive is the way in which it constructs a whole self-contained world which feels somewhat like a caricature of 1960s/1970s Britian but has a highly disturbing atmostphere of its own.

Malcolm McDowell proves he is one of the finest British actors of all time.

See this film.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hateful, Destructive, and Artsy.. A Kubrick fan must see!
Review: This movie is one the greatest films ever made. Not for the fearful or the weak, a master movie of insanity and "ultra-violence." Any Kubrick fan will agree. Buy it now...


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