An Embarrassment

Rating: 2/10 (3 September 2001)

This contains partial spoilers, so be warned. ********************
My major problem with A Clockwork Orange, aside from it being pretentious and silly, was that Kubrick changed the ending from the novel. The film ends with Alex "reformed" in the hospital, but Burgess' novel continues on, with Alex eventually reforming on his own. That was the point of the novel: childhood antics are just a part of growing up, and everyone matures. Kubrick, on the other hand, of course couldn't have a positive ending in one of his movies, and thus lost the plot entirely.