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A Clockwork Orange is one of the single most disturbing films I have ever seen. Many times I have heard even when I was at school that both the film and novel are really scary. When I watched A Clockwork Orange it wasn't so much a scary film but it was a film that will just stay on your mind for a long time and it is totally mind blowing. A Clockwork Orange truly is one of the most powerful psychological thrillers of all time. Personally, it was the story that made me deeply interested in this film more than it was a film from Stanley Kubrick. It was very tense as well because as the film went on I was suspecting that there will be a huge twist around the corner. I don't completely get why people refer this as a classic science fiction film because, yes, it is a technology that is invented refered as a 'cure' but it isn't an impossible invention for the future seeing that nothing is impossible. I only saw it for the first time in January 2008 and it was a bit obvious to me that I was going to love this film a lot.
Malcolm McDowell's performance as Alex DeLarge was bloody awesome with a scary, weird and even quite funny performance. Malcolm is quite a scary looking man anyway which makes him an absolutely outstanding choice for Alex. It wasn't only Malcolm's appearance as Alex that made him terrifying but it was his voice as well. Why he wasn't nominated for Best Leading Actor at the 44th Academy Awards I have no clue. Alex is a very twisted young man who is the leader of a gang called Droogs. Alex's pleasures include classical music particularly Beethoven, rape and ultra violence. His three companions are called Pete, Dim and Georgie. When Alex is at home with his parents he behaves but skives off school. His parents probably refer his as an angel until he is arrested. The scene that truly shows Alex is twisted is when him and his Droogs break into a writer called Mr. Frank Alexander's house and they are both ambushed. Alex is cutting his wife's clothes off with scissors and beating Mr. Alexander up while he is singing to "Singin' In The Rain" which makes it worse because it is a very delightful song. That song was chosen for the film because apparently that was the only song Malcolm McDowell knew all of the words to. Mr. Alexander was being forced to watch his wife getting brutally raped. Despite how cold Alex really is he is a very interesting character to watch because he is rather mysterious of why he is the way he is. As far as Alex's "cure" is concerned, the ending leaves you with questions and because of that I feel it is a light twist.
Stanley Kubrick has directed this film absolutely amazingly. Kubrick has always been really clever as far as camera angles are concerned. There is one scene that freaked me out was at the very start of the film where Alex gives that evil look directly at the camera and then very slowly zooms out while Alex is still giving that look. Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange is very weird which does make this film absolutely typical of Kubrick to direct. The script was really awesome with very powerful and effective scenes and with very well written lines from each of the characters.
A Clockwork Orange is one of Kubrick's best works. A Clockwork Orange is definitely his most famous film. This film features one of the best psychological thrillers that have ever hit the screen. It is probably my favourite film of the 1970s and is my favourite Kubrick film. I love them both equally. It would probably be The Shining. A Clockwork Orange is a fine example of a disturbing film that leaves you to think about various things and reflect on deep thoughts about how tense and often quite terrifying (not in a scary way) this film really is.
10/10
