Reviews of A Clockwork Orange

Deliciously deviant

Posted : 4 months ago on 19 March 2008 05:39 (A review of A Clockwork Orange)

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 play classical tunes; creating an air of uncertainty and malevolence throughout.

Such erotic symbols and unconventional portrayal of traditional scores are controversial alone, add this to the plot and you are left with a dip into a level of deviance beyond imagination.

Very few films are able to stir such levels of depravity; and for that reason alone, Clockwork is nothing short of a masterpiece.

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A Clockwork Orange review

Posted : 5 months, 3 weeks ago on 31 January 2008 04:57 (A review of A Clockwork Orange)

This movie has milk. Can you really fault it?

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Moving

Posted : 12 months ago on 27 July 2007 07:22 (A review of A Clockwork Orange)

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 weirdos and sickos (humans, after all) and I cannot help but detest each one of them. Yet, everything is interlaced so well.

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Who Tagged "black and white"?

Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago on 11 April 2007 06:33 (A review of A Clockwork Orange)

Who Tagged "black and white"?

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A unique masterpiece

Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago on 27 October 2006 06:34 (A review of A Clockwork Orange)

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.

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It's a cult classic because it sucks

Posted : 2 years, 3 months ago on 28 March 2006 04:08 (A review of A Clockwork Orange)

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.

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