A Sociological study

Rating: 9/10 (8 July 2005)

It's weird how a movie can look so modern and fresh even tough it was made in 1971. Not many movies can do the same.
A Clockwork Orange tells a tale of a man, who isn't exactly a nice lad: He rapes, steals, fights and kills. No need to moralize, he's not a hero, there are no heroes or heroines in the film, the movie just tells about him and what happens to him in the society.
So Alex (Malcolm McDowell) leads his gang of droogs and spends time in a Milk Bar (not drinking exactly regular milk, mind you) plotting out for things to do. But so it happens, that Alex gets caught and is imprisoned. Soon he's taken for a guinea-pig in an experiment to brainwash criminal behavior out from his mind. Every time Alex is thinking anything criminal he's punished with pain.
But what happens to man, when his right to make decision, no matter how bad they would be, is taken from him? This is the question Stanley Kubrick so masterfully examines in his cinematic essay. To get in the end of this movie is actually surprisingly easy, because of the unique visuals and dialogue: Everything flows forward like a dream, but everything has a meaning and a purpose.
Watch it once, twice as many times you want, you'll always find something new from it.