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Summary: Different from what I had expected.
Review: ... The movie was very colourful and sardonically made the violent scenes in the book, seem rather jubilant and bouncy (i.e. the raping and murder of women, Alex being tortured in the cinema where they showed him Nazi movies, him being kicked out of his house, etc.), which I thought was pretty brilliant, due to the fact that such a technique used to put this book was probably very unpredictable.
The style of the movie (and the book) may be something of an acquired taste, but I recommend viewing it at least once. For some people, once is enough, even if they liked the movie.
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Summary: If you remember...
Review: ...England in the 60's with the "Mods & Rockers" was, I think, a good model, and I never thought for one second that Kubricks' masterpierce (he couldn't help makng only masterpieces) was pure fiction, except maybe for the therapy part. I saw in Worthing -Sussex- in 1962 (the year Burgess wrote the novel, incidentally) a wino who was not so lucky (he was not an actor and it was not the result of stage make-up) as the one in the opening scene after what looked like a similar treatment.
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Summary: Started a Negative Trend in Film
Review: ...I know everybody loved this movie. The whole punk movement was influenced by it, and all the cool kids in high school dug it. Malcolm McDowell does an amazing job, and of course Stanley Kubrick leaves a very unique imprint on the vibe of the whole thing. But now EVERYBODY is doing the brutality/sex/shock thing, and the movie theater has become a pretty depressing place to go to. "Natural Born Killers," "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer," "Bad Lieutenant," "Pulp Fiction," "Boogie Nights," "Leaving Las Vegas," "Happiness," "American Beauty,"...they all seem like descendants of "Clockwork" to me, in that they all present cynicism, violence, rape, and/or generally depraved behavior in "hip" anti-hero ways that will certainly appeal to the alienated teenager. As far as I'm concerned, "Full Metal Jacket" and "Eyes Wide Shut" were just more of the same (conveying the same "aren't-human-beings-just-shameful-little-pigs" sort of message). And of course it has bled over into music as well, spawning all of our Trent Reznors and Marilyn Mansons and on and on. I shouldn't say that "Clockwork Orange" was the CAUSE of it all, but it did set the precedent, and now people seem to see "art" as an excuse to wallow in nihilism and nothing more.
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Summary: Still a classic...
Review: ...Maybe even a timeless classic. One thing for sure though. Make very sure you're getting the digitally re-mastered DVD version and not the mono-stereo version with faded image.
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Summary: "Come on me little Droogies...."
Review: ...This movie isn't so much about violence as it is about howsociety deals with it and how far it should go, ethically, to dealwith it. See it anyway, because Stanley Kubrick directed it and he doesn't churn out many flops that I know of...well, except for his latest with Tom & Nicole... END
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Summary: totally awesom
Review: A C O is definitely one of the best movies ever made (in my opinion) along with The Godfather trilogy. The method that was used to "cure" Alex (The Ludavido) method, was discussed at length in my Behavior Modification class in college. By the way I'm sure all of you droogies out there know that David Prowse, who played Julian, Frank's body guard; later when on to play Darth Vader in the Star Wars series. I've seen A C O dozens of times, and I still watch as if it were my first time. As I said, totally awesom. If you didn't like it, then you totally missed the point.
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Summary: Viddy Well Ill Brother, Viddy Well!
Review: A classic, some of the best lines ever concieved, great cinematography, and like 2001, timeless. In my book still has one of the most freaky openings, being Alex staring a hole into the audience.Classic for anyone that is a fan of fighting and the ol' in-out. I have never met anyone who said this wasn't a great movie.
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Summary: Thank God for Kubrick
Review: A clock work orange is something that appears to work on the outside but on the inside it is all muddled up. How many normal working time pieces have orange clockwork? Wee once again Kubrick does justice to the literature that inspired the movie. Kubrick reminds me of James Joyce the way he revolutionised his industry with every piece of art he put out. This movie is probibly one of the best ever and it might not even be Stanley's best. Or maybe it is that is up to you to decide. What he does with sight and sound, mixing them up to contort you emtions is beyond reproach. You will never feel the same about the song "singing in the rain" after seeing this film, it has that much power and terror. Many people see this film and feel apalled about it. Well that is a part of the point. Schindler's List was disturbing at times too and that was what gave it its power. To take the viewer to a virtual hell and then when things seem their bleakest dive a bit deeper. it is good story telling and movie making. Kubrick loved to dive into the extreme's which is a part of human nature. In this case he looked at the extremes of evil,crime and crime prevention. Very powerful topics that needed to be handled in a fashion that would allow the viewer to come to his own conclusion. If all you saw was violence then you were only watching the movie without seeing the story. Subtext is the most powerful tool in art and is so comonly overlooked. A lot of the viewers who miss the point remind me of Alex the way that they are programmed into accepting the mundane and mindlesss forms of entertainment like "Friends" or "Spiderman" and rejecting the deeper pieces of culture that society has to offer:"Babylon 5" or any Kubrick or David Lynch movie. Try not to watch this movie with your eyes wide shut and you might be able to appreciate this movie for what it is: one of the greatest pieces of art of all time.
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Summary: Remarkable
Review: A Clockwork Orange has been banned in the UK for the last 25 years (at Kubrick's behest) and only now has it been re-released here following his death. It is indeed a masterpiece and one of the most original and disturbing films I have ever seen; superbly acted and directed. My only quibble is that the rape scenes seem gratuitous and unpleasant; they are presented almost humorously by Kubrick which, despite the film's otherwise immense quality, is unforgivable. This does not really justify his withdrawal of it from British audiences for the last 2 and a half decades, however.
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Summary: Unforgettable story of ethics
Review: A Clockwork Orange in both its book and movie form is not aimed at glamorising violence. The message from Anthony Burgess' novel is all there in Stanley Kubrick's movie. Burgess once said that misery and suffering are the price of freedom. What he meant was, goodness is a virtue that is chosen. What if everyone in the world was good? Can people really appreciate goodness if they have no knowledge of evil? If there was no darkness, could people understand what light is? If everyone was good it wouldn't be something chosen by their own free will. If people can't choose then they're not really free. Gandhi wasn't born good, Hitler wasn't born evil. These men chose the way they led their lives and acted accordingly. The same applies with Alex. Alex doesn't commit crime because he needs money. He doesn't live in poverty. He is violent because he enjoys it. When he is arrested he is forced to be good. This treatment works, at the cost of Alex's freedom. Alex's acts of "goodness" are not done out of kindness or nobility, they are desparate reactions to nausea at the thought of violence. None of Burgess' message is lost in Kubrick's film, except for the ending. The film is full of irony and black humour, but the violence is only a superficial part of the story. The all- important message is freedom of choice. This movie won't be for every taste, but the morality of our lives and how we live them is something that concerns all of us.
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