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A Clockwork Orange

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A Clockwork Orange

Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, John Clive

Based on Anthony Burgess's disturbing novel about England in the totalitarian future, Malcolm McDowell portrays Alex, a Beethoven-loving, head-bashing punk who leads his gang of droogs on ultra-violen...( read more  read more... )t assaults--until he is captured by authorities and subjected to nasty behavior-modification therapy.

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  • mistershinobi
    September 20, 2009
    mistershinobi
    After a second viewing, I regret everything I said about it the first time. But, still, it's not my cup of tea.
  • nannalauren
    September 11, 2009
    nannalauren
    I wrote a paper on this in college. I don't remember what it was about. I also dont remember much about the movie. I know this is shameful, given that it's a classic and all. Whatever. I got an A, that was my main concern. I'll give it three stars for that.
  • SirPant
    September 4, 2009
    SirPant
    This film is a classic but maybe for all the wrong reasons. It's a contemporary warning in the style of Orwell but with out any of his credibility or reasoning. Still, you can't blame Kubrick for that, he adapted the story brilliantly and gave it its unique style that has never s...( read more)ince become unfashionable. McDowell is at his menacing best and the supporting cast is also strong. The film is only let down by its own notoriety, had it not been banned (or should I say, withdrawn) it probably wouldn't have reached the status it resides in. Anyone else think of Benny Hill/Confessions films during the sped up sex scene?
  • ohagankieran
    August 3, 2009
    ohagankieran
    I first saw this movie three years ago and I have been in love with it (and Stanley Kubrick) ever since. I never get tired of seeing this movie. Why it remains so underappreciated (at least by "casual" movie viewers) is beyond me. Everything is great; acting, direction, cinematog...( read more)raphy, the sets, everything. A Clockwork Orange is the finest film that has ever been made, in my view. Stanley Kubrick has made so many masterpieces, and is by far the best director that ever graced our world. A Clockwork Orange is simply his finest hour!

    The film grabs you and glues you to your seat from start to finish. Malcolm McDowell gives us a shining example of superior acting, and the movie is as perverted as any of Kubrick's masterpieces (and then some!). It contains horrifying violence, extreme emotions, perversity and weirdness at it's very worst. It all boils down to serve you a plethora of thoughts for you to take with you and contemplate, after the film ends.

    However, with all the perversity bursting out of this film, you will probably NOT like this film the first time you see it. I know I didn't. Fortunately, I gave it a second chance, and thought: Hey, it was actually not bad at all. After the third time, I was lost for words. After the fourth time, there was little doubt in my mind, that this was the finest film ever made, and regardless of how many great masterpieces I see, A Clockwork Orange still towers above them. I'm sure you'll agree, if you give it the chance it deserves, although it may require for you to see it more than once.
  • hobster1
    August 3, 2009
    hobster1
    Future society film about juvenile delinquency is adapted from the 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess. Stanley Kubrick's meditation on the use of use of classical conditioning to prevent a violent free will purports to be an alleged satire, but it unwittingly revels in our main chara...( read more)cter's sadistic nature at the same time. Malcolm McDowell is our anti-hero, Alex, an inhuman monster of a man. While his victims are dehumanized, we are oddly invited to feel pity when he gets his subsequent comeuppance. Although disturbing and still very potent today (A gang rape scene is especially difficult to watch) this technically impressive film is impossible to ignore. Despite being highly controversial when released, film still managed to receive 4 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture.
  • Jordan770
    December 22, 2009
    Jordan770
    Saw the previews for this on a tv show showing Americas top 10 movies. Scared the crap out of me!
  • SkywalkerJones
    December 22, 2009
    SkywalkerJones
    Appy-polly-loggies. I had something of a pain in the gulliver so had to sleep. I was not awakened when I gave orders for wakening.-Alex De Large

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    Director:Stanley Kubrick
    Cast:Malcom McDowell,Patrick Magee,Mihcael Bates,Warren Clark
    Genre:Science Fiction,Thriller
    Year of release:1971
    Running Time:130 minutes

    Plot:
    Alex, a teenage hooligan in a near-future Britain, gets jailed by the police. There he volunteers as guinea pig for a new aversion therapy proposed by the government to make room in prisons for political prisoners. "Cured" of his hooliganism and released, he is rejected by his friends and relatives. Eventually nearly dying, he becomes a major embarrassment for the government, who arrange to cure him of his cure. A pivotal moment is when he and his gang break into an author's home: the book he is writing (called "A Clockwork Orange") is a plea against the use of aversion therapy, on the grounds that it turns people into Clockwork Oranges (Orang is Malay for "Man"): they are not being good from choice (sentiments later echoed by the prison chaplain). The film reflects this: many bad scenes in a Clockwork Orange are accompanied by jolly music; if we are to experience them as we should, we have to do it consciously, by realising they are bad, and not because the director tells us so through the use of music and images.

    Review:
    I didn t know what to expect about A Clockwork Orange because it looked such a violent and disturbing movie that bothered me at the beggining but as a Stanley Kubrick,i decided to watch this movie on TV and boy,this movie is absolutely stunning and it blew me away big time.A Clockwork Orange is one of the most shocking,disturbing,contorversial and definetly brilliant films of all time,showing a shocking vision of a futuristic and dystopic Britain.I really enjoyed this movie and i knew that A Clockwork Orange is a stunning masterpiece.

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    Malcom McDowell delvers a stunning,disturbing but briilaint perfomance as Alex De Large.Alex is a young delinquent who loves to create havoc with his friends in the streets of Britain but he went too far when he accidentaly kills a woman with,well,a penis statue.He gets arrested and he is subimted into a behavior modification therapy that changes his personality and makes him a peacefull person but the modification will make a impact in his own life and existence.McDowell s perfomance is absolutely brilliant because he looks so damn scary but at the same time very vulnerable and realistic aswell.This is probably Malcom McDowell s most memorable and popular role yet.

    Stanley Kubrick is one of the greatest directors of all time and i have no shame to say that.Kubrick shows all his brilliance and talent no making this amazing movie.The camera work is definetly one of the bests i ver ever seen in a movie that makes a Clockwork Orange such a enjoyable movie.

    A Clockwork Orange is a stunning masterpiece and definetly Kubrick s most contorversial and shocking movie but is such a great movie and deserves the title of one of the greatest movies of all time.Masterpiece.
  • MovieGuruDude72
    December 17, 2009
    MovieGuruDude72
    I can never make up my mind which movie was Kubrick's best work; this or 2001: A Space Odyssey. I want to lean toward Clockwork because I simply have a dark twisted mind and get off on certain dark and twisted things. Call me a weirdo. Malcolm McDowell was superb and in the same ...( read more)zone he occupied in Caligula -- dark, utterly corrupt and fun to watch. The story was relevant and the execution was precise and exceptionally well done. Kubrick weilded the camera like Rembrandt did an oil painting. His trademark camera angles and use of bright colors was delightful. It's just shocking enough to get your attention, just edgy enough to make it different from anything else out there and just violent enough to make it cool as hell. Worth multiple viewings. IF you can handle the violence. This movie was originally marketed as X-Rated. Not because of sex but because of the violence and rape scenes. But despite all the criminal brutality and general debauchery this movie is highly intelligent with its social commentary. I am also eternally grateful Kubrick elected not to use that strange language the characters spoke with in the original novel. That stuff was just too confusing. One trivia note, the bodybuilder bodyguard that carries the old man in the wheel chair? David Prowse (aka the actor who wore the Darth Vader suit during the filming of the original three Star Wars movies).
  • aleksandarskywalker
    December 16, 2009
    aleksandarskywalker
    I've just expected more, though I'm not disappointed at all.
  • Codrutz
    December 16, 2009
    Codrutz
    A very interesting movie, with an original story and a great acting from Malcolm McDowell. The action went smooth but I think they spoiled a bit the end. It wasn't nothing spectacular about it.
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