A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Posted : 1 month ago at Oct 21 0:31

Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of the famous novel is a futuristic/retro film about violence, sex and our conditioning to these actions. I just wish he kept the final chapter of the international novel since it presents complexities and questions only hinted at in the film. In the film Alex stays a bad boy, but in the novel he goes back to being a good one. But how much of that is residual brainwashing? The ambiguities actually make for a deeper and darker ending than just leaving him evil. That doesn’t make it a bad movie, far from it actually. A Clockwork Orange is a great movie, and a great adaptation of the novel, even if they did change some character traits. Alex rapes two little ten-year-old girls, not two willing teenagers. These changes slightly dull the spiked edges of Alex...Read more

Posted : 1 month ago at Oct 19 7:20

Sometimes being a clusterfuck of ideas, visuals and music is not a bad thing. A Clockwork Orange contains a manic pace, and the content it delivers during it's running time is astounding. It is perhaps one of the more or less uneven films of all time, jumping back and forth between gritty realism and realms of fantasy. However it is always a controlled lunacy. Kubrick never lets go of the strings he holds as puppet master to this cruel play. The bizarrely theatrical dialogue is always a bit out there, but never too much. Alex's journey has events symbolically and visually bizarre, but that might just be true some day. McDowell as Alex is twisted and insane, but only because he seems to have abslolutely nothing else to be in this world, as is evidenced by his perpetual and general uselessne...Read more

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 2 months, 2 weeks ago at Sep 7 20:02

That I have ever watched in my entire life. I can't understand the idea, that violence should fight violence. I don't understand the hype around this movie either, because for me, there's nothing to love about it. I'm used to movies that scares me, on of my fave genre of movies and generally, it doesn't bother me getting scared and spooked. But this one really spooked the crap out of me, so much that I shiver when I think about it. This is the only movie of Stanley Kubrick I can't stand.

No rating, because we can't rate in the minus. If we could, I'd have it as high as I even could. Apologize to all lovers of this movie, supposedly cult, but to me it is an absolutely failure. It will forever be the worst movie I've ever encountered.

Posted : 7 months, 1 week ago at Apr 16 0:40

For me, this movie exemplifies everything that I like about all things Kubrick. IMO, he tends to make movies that are an inch away from being abstract beyond understanding, but yet keeps the flow of the film reeled in just enough to make it seem like it makes sense on some kind of creative level. And while I don't mind discussing what the underlying meaning(s) of ACO might be, I find that too much discussion on it tends to get in the way of the enjoyment that I get from noticing things like how colorfully crafted the art-direction is for a movie that doesn't bat a single lashed eye towards subjects like ultra-violence & the old in-&-out. Visually, a beautifully crafted film with such a bite in it's theme that it acts as a well-balanced counterweight against the brightly set designs. Seldo...Read more

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 11 months, 3 weeks ago at Dec 3 9:42

''Goodness is something to be chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.'' The story of Alex and his droogs,(gang members) how they terrorize, rape and cause trouble. Betrayal from his Droogs follows and Alex soon becomes chosen for an experimental brainwashing technique in a prison complex with disastrous consequences. Malcolm McDowell: Alex ''We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it being a night of no small expenditure.'' Malcolm McDowell plays Alex the main character who tells the story, his way of speaking was intriguing and his journey was something to contemplate on. I watched this for the first time a while ago and it being my 1st Kubrick film(2001 too!) i was apprehensive of seeing it. Was pleased with the narration and strang...Read more

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 1 year ago at Oct 31 8:25

I adore Alex's dandy, frolicking lines.
I adore Ludwig Van's symphonies.
And everything in between.
Enough said.

"What we were after now was the old surprise visit. That was a real kick and good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolent."
Brilliant!

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 1 year, 8 months ago at Mar 19 17:39

Kubrick was a master of the controversial. When Clockwork came out, mass hysteria ensued, bannings off the film took place left, right and centre; it was even banned in areas that didn’t have cinemas. Naturally themes such as rape, violence and youth gangs are going to be demonised; what is really scary about this film however, is how Kubrick finds a way to glorify them. Despite his actions, Alex DeLarge is still in essence a likeable character. McDowell plays Alex in a innocent and childlike manner that starkly contrasts his highly sexed and violent lifestyle. This film is work of an auteur, every part of it is a feast for the senses. Seductive statues, sweeping architecture, colour and patterns are everywhere. Rather than the piano, harsh electronic instruments are used to p...Read more

Rating : 10/10

Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago at Jan 31 16:57

This movie has milk. Can you really fault it?

Rating : 9/10

Posted : 2 years, 3 months ago at Jul 27 19:22

I like this movie. I know this statement will immediately make some people assume that I like it because it is cool to like it, because it makes so many lists of "essential movies". However, I like it because of what's in the movie in itself. It makes lists and gets a high rating because it's great. It's deeply disturbing because it has a disturbing theme. A person such as Alex has a behavior which we should not oversee. The movie is greatly done, with an excellent addition of music. The actors are also amazing. Malcolm McDowell's interpretation is nothing but brilliant. As for the story itself, we owe this to the book, of course, but I will allow myself to comment on its greatness. Alex might be twisted, but he certainly is not the only one. The entire movie is filled with wei...Read more

Posted : 3 years ago at Oct 27 18:34

The moment I heard the first lines of the film, I was hooked:

Alex: There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.

Rating : 8/10

Posted : 3 years, 7 months ago at Mar 28 16:08

Strange people like to fall in love with strange movies that suck but are really bizarre, that's like the definition of a cult classic.

Rating : 5/10