Not a great adaptation of the book

Rating: 3/10 (26 February 2006)

Clockwork Orange is a great book. I love the language of the book and I think the topics that Burgess is trying to address are interesting.
When I heard there was a movie of the book, I thought I should go see it. Kubric forgot one very essential thing to the movie that just turns it into a movie about a hoodlum. We never get to peer into Alex's head-space. Without being able to "see" the world as Alex see's the world, we miss the real points of the story. Alex doesn't get to grow, and he never becomes a person that one can empathize with. We also miss the arguments about whether or not society has the right to fundamentally alter a person. Kubric has inflicted a monumental disservice to this book.