clockwork orange a tour-force of acting, images, and originality in the fullest sense of the word

Rating: 10/10 (14 September 2004)

A Clockwork Orange is not even a movie, this is pure art, what film should achieve to be. from the ill-at-ease juxtapositioning of high-art classical music with scenes of gratuitous violence, to the many-layered themes of this film, it should be considered in the group of his other flawless film, 2001:a space odyssey.
In the film, the question is posed "How does society deal with criminals, how do you rehabilitate the obvious psychopathic mind?", which Stanley Kubrick could not have shown a more triumphant critique of people in society, and how you can not just "fix" humanity like a clock. The greater evil isn't Alex, its the government that "cured" Alex from his disease by making him a "clockwork orange", a human whose choice and "goodness" stems from being rigged like a clock to not be able to endure his own psychopathic mind, not by having a conscience, but by making him violently sick when he desires to act violently or immorally. By the end of the film you find that this film is undoubtedly (as space odyssey does with science fiction films)one of the greatest meditations on humanity in society.