Great movie. Has aged like fine wine

Rating: 10/10 (26 October 2006)

I prefer escapism but I do occasionally enjoy a movie that has a a point to make and A Clockwork Orange is one of my all-time favorites.
I am not a big fan of 20001, but love Dr Strangelove, and even one of the few people that appreciated Eyes Wide Shut.
The story is narrated by Malcom McDowell as a young thug who him and his cronies like to terrorize, mug, rape, and abuse people for their sadistic entertainment.
One of Alex's rape victim dies and he is put in jail.
Alex volunteers for a "brainwashing" experiment which will have him back in society in no time.
The brainwashing requires his eyes to be help open by metal pins and for him to watch constant violence while being given drugs to be make him ill. The operant conditioning works and Alex is not capable of harming his fellow man.
However, once he is released from Prsion, many people including his only cronies do harm Alex who is defenseless to protect himself.
The movies asks the question "What measures are considered moral in order to make society safe." The movie has done a great job of turning Alex into a hate villain from the first Act into a sympathetic character that people can relate to by the third act.
The leaves out the last chapter of the book and shows that Alex has reverted back to his old self after bring tortured by his previous victims and pals. In the book, the final chapter showed him becoming a productive member of society. I like the ending of the movie better because it is a bit more cynical and basically shows that you cannot change what person is inside.
The movie is loaded with Sex and Violence but nothing to the point of artless garbage such as Hostel. This movie was made for adults and for people who want to think about the theme's presented.
The movie was filmed in an a not often used 1.66 to 1 ratio and objects in the center of the picture look perfect while objects on the edges look distorted. This is a interesting technique used by Kubrick.
I will admit the one part I don't understand is that Alex's mother has a different hair color in every scene of the movie. She has orange hair, green hair, blonde hair, etc. It is not critical to the plot but there must me something I am is-sing on that part.
This is one of two movies (out of 1000s) that I have rated 10/10.
Dean