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Summary: Brilliant, satirical, dramatic.. this movie is amazing
Review: A Clockwork Orange is a brilliant movie. It chronicles the travails of Alex DeLarge, skilfully played by Malcolm McDowell. He goes about robbing, beating and hurting innocent people with his band of 'Droogs' until he finds himself in jail, where he undergoes an experimental 'rehabilitation' process that turns him into a zombie incapable of making rational choices, regardless of how violent or warped they may be. Ultimately, A Clockwork Orange is Kubrick at his best: it's satirical, dramatic, hilarious and scathingly cynical. McDowell is brilliant - it's the best thing he's ever done. And, for all of those under the impression that this movie is ultra-violent and sick, rest easy. A Clockwork Orange is, by today's standards, relatively standard fare. The most chilling part about it is how accurate and razor sharp its social satire is.
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Summary: Kubrick's Finest and Darkest Masterpiece
Review: a Clockwork Orange is a dark, shocking look into a future world of inhuman forms of rehibilitation for violent acts. Based on Anthony Burgess's infamous novel from 1963, Kubrick takes the viewer on a rollercoaster ride of insanity, brutality, sexuality, and horror. The movie stars Malcolm McDowell as the vicious and seemingly heartless Alex, and his three droogs Georgie, Pete, and Dim. Their nights revolve around brutal violence and senseless rape, that leads to the groups demise when Alex is hauled off to prision. While in prision, Alex turns over a new leaf when helping the cell preacher with his Biblical teachings. After spending two years in the prision, Alex takes part in an experiment which gets people out of prision and makes them welll again. After the operation, Alex is released but destroyed as a human being and turned into a frightened, conformed and weak citizen. The film is a dark look into the mind of a psychopathic man, and also a look into what the loss of free will and confidence. It's a very disturbing film, but it still shows how we could go so far as to taking away a person's free will and mind, just to make society better. The film has been an influence to punk bands, social activists, and movie fans all over the globe. This is deffinately a must see.
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Summary: A Clockwork Orange is simply the best movie of the 70's.
Review: A Clockwork Orange is a film which shows the views and frustrations of the 70's. It is brutal and compelling,darkly funny and tragic. It shows that in trying to change the awful people you have created, you just wind up creatng a different kind of monster.
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Summary: A great classic..recieved 47th all time.Deserves higher.
Review: A Clockwork Orange is a haunting, disturbing, sick, twisted and really funny view of the 'not so distant future'.. or some would say now... actually they drove a stolen 95' Durango so I'd say it would be about now. In the end our 'humble narrarator' gets just what de deserved... a spoon feeding.
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Summary: Viddy this film right at once, oh my brothers
Review: A clockwork Orange is a masterpiece. Anthony Burgess's story of reform was a masterpiece years before Kubrick made it a legend. For those who have read it, it much more of a satire of an overpowering government, than a horror story about a gang of boys who go out every night and rape, beat, and steal. When Kubrick made the movie (tied with 2001 as his best, he made it to retain it's satirical views. If any other director would have tried to adapt it, they would have most likely exploited it's violence, and sex, and scrap the underlying meaning of the story. Most people who view this film don't get the real meanig of it because they disgusted by the first forty minutes. yes, it is disturbing, but it builds us up for the real story. A clockwork Orange is not about Ultra-violence, it's about how reform does not work on an evil mind, and How the goverenment thinks they can change us all.
Of course this movie would not be the same without Malcolm Mcdowell. His stunning portrail of Alex the droog lives in cinema history as (by far and away) the best charactor adaptation ever. As a matter of fact i believe this movie, along with 1984, are the best noval to movie adaptaions ever made.
This movie is Kubrick's masterpiece. Ever single thing about Kubrick is inthis movie. First, the face. The Kubrick face which graces ever single movie of his (the sadistic, evil looking grin which graces alex's face in the very first scene, Private piles face when he shoots the DI, and Jack torrances face, all through the shining, for examples). Second, the camera work. The slow camera work which shows every scene in it's entirty to show the full majesty of it. Thirdly, the music. With out the classical score, this movie would be nothing. And fourth (and most important) is the inclusion of Burgess's made up slang, Nadast. This gives the charactors there own identity (and good lingo to talk to other kubrick fans with).
A clockwork orange is a masterpiece.
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Summary: exellently crafted Kubrick-masterpiece.
Review: A Clockwork Orange is a movie that has you rooting for few people and few things and almost glorifies the supposed villon. While your conscious mind reminds you that the acts of Alex and his droogs (rape, violence, robbery) are grotesque and immoral, your unconscious mind delights in the sarcastic portrail of rape and violence. It is the kind of film that leaves the decision of morals and who's the good guy up to the viewer.
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Summary: about a clockwork orange
Review: A clockwork orange is a very disturbing yet amusing movie this movie will really make you think on what is happening to this world. From the begining to the end this movie will take you into its own little world. At first glance you may look at the reviews and say why whould anyone make this movie let alone what to watch it. But a clockwork orange is in a class of its own. If your a mature viewer then I say you should watch it.
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Summary: "...he ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice"
Review: A Clockwork Orange is among Stanley Kubrick's most analyzed films. In a way, it is a sort of political Rorschach test. An essay in a major newspaper contemporaneous with its release proclaimed that Liberals should be outraged with the film and make a point of staying away from it. Other reviews claim to find evidence that it clearly slams right-wing Conservatives. So which side is correct? After many, many viewings, I would say both. Stanley Kubrick, although he seemed basically left of center (as are most artists), was, above all, intellectually honest. He seemed to understand that extremes in political thought, regardless of ideology, end up taking us to the same, unpleasant territory - one where freedom evaporates and a ruling elite controls everything. In the film, a young street punk named Alex (Malcom McDowell) and his "droogs" (friends) systematically victimize a number of people in graphically horrible ways. He is caught, sent to prison, and "reformed" with a horrific (and plausible) bit of operant conditioning (known as the Ludovico Treatment) that makes him physically sick at even the thought of committing a violent act - even in self-defense. This, of course, opens an opportunity for those he victimized to get their revenge in the third act, without fear of reprisal by the "reformed" Alex. Conservatives who like the film claim that the Minister of the Interior who champions the Ludovico Treatment must be a flaming Liberal, trying to "turn the bad into good" by "converting" Alex into a model citizen. He is clearly opposed by more Right-wing "establishment" types - the prison Chaplain, and the prison Governor. Yet - if this is so, then Mr. Alexander (who exacts near-fatal revenge on Alex while furthering his own political causes) would have to be a conservative, too, and clearly, he is not. Liberals who claim the film as their own point to the Fascistic undercurrents of the Very New Broom - the just-elected government that hires young hoodlums into the police force, practices brainwashing, and then tries to cover it all up by manipulating the press. In truth, Kubrick was very careful not to indicate very clearly what side was being skewered by his satirical rapier at any given time. Both Left and Right have periodically taken up "reform" or "law and order" or "personal liberty" as causes. What I take from the film is that brainless adherence to any particular ideology is foolish at best, no matter how well intentioned. The key to understanding A Clockwork Orange is a speech given by an unlikely character, the prison Chaplain. He is, until this scene in the film, portrayed as a bit of a buffoon, and not someone we should take seriously. He becomes the moral voice of the story, saying, simply, that when a person can no longer choose between right and wrong, he or she ceases to be a person in any meaningful sense of the word. Robbing someone of moral choice is a grave sin - at least as bad for society to commit against the criminal as whatever sins the criminal may have committed against society. Really, people who call themselves Liberals OR Conservatives could find reason to be offended by A Clockwork Orange. People who try to think for themselves, regardless of their political leanings, will find something of value in it. The new digital video transfer and remastered Dolby 5.1 audio are welcome improvements over previous video releases. The film may never have looked or sounded better. There are, however, no extras on the disc, save a theatrical trailer and the expected alternate languages and subtitles. In all, it is a perfect companion to Anthony Burgess' novel ' itself a brilliant piece of political and social satire.
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Summary: my clockwork orange reveiw
Review: A clockwork orange is my all time favorite movie and to my opinion it's the greatest movie of all time too even though with some flaws 1.left out numerous scenes from the book that could have obviously have been done and easily too. 2.left out the most important thing... the ending(the real ending)sanley(r.i.p) doing that to the movie I think totally disrespected burgess(r.i.p) and his genious book. To me I think if those seen were created then the movie would have been more put together than it already was. But I geuss me wining over not gonna do anything on account of they're both dead and so I qoute burgess "life is terrible" best book ever created a clockwork orange by ant. burgess (r.i.p)
best movie ever created a clockwork orange directed by stan. krubick (r.i.p) I hope somebody reads this and agrees with me and this review I wrote. xxx
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Summary: A Clockwork Orange is top notch!
Review: A Clockwork Orange is nothing short of one of the most fantastic movies of all time. Its premise is dark, brooding, yet all too realistic. A gang of thugs out of control, led by Alex (the main character), is warped by visions of rape and violence by which they rule the streets. Suddenly, the leader is under State arrest and there is a plan to "cure" him of his dementia. The plan involves psychoanalytic therapy, a "good 'ol dose of his own medicine", so to speak. Forced to view movies depicting the same violence he brought upon others, young Alex seems cured.. but is he?? That's where the fun begins in ACO, a raucous, shocking, intelligent, vibrant, and potent film that leaves you with more questions than answers. Never have I seen a film so original and so unnerving at the same time. This is definitely a classic, even if it remains to be "unknown" by the general movie population (snubbed at the Oscars in '71). I saw this when I was 9 years old, read the original novel at age 10, and have yet to see a movie come close to its impact (some 15 years later and counting...)
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