A Clockwork Orange Reviews

This movie has milk. Can you really fault it?

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.

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.

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.