Not only a Stanley Kubrick masterpiece, a cinema masterpiece.

Rating: 8/10 (29 July 2004)

(SPOILERS) A Clockwork Orange. One of Stanley Kubrick's greatest films, and certainly one of cinema's greatest films. It is the story of a pretty disturbed young man named Alex DeLarge, who enjoys ultraviolence, sex, gang rape...and Ludwig Van Beethoven. He spends most of his time hanging out with his cronies, who are all disturbed themselves. Each night they decide to have some fun, so they will either resort to a violent beating, rape (As Alex puts it, "The Ole' In-Out, In-Out"), or both. They hang out at a bar, where spiked milk comes out of the nipples of naked female statues. One night, while Alex and his friends are wreaking havoc, Alex murders an old woman, and is sent to prison. Doctors decide to test a new formula on him, one which will cure him of his horrid habits. They inject him with a syrum, tie him to a chair with a straightjacket, prop his eyelids open with a clamping device, and expose him to horribly violent and sexual films. All of a sudden, he starts to feel a little queasy. His eyes are forced open, so he can't close them. The screen is too big for him to look away, so he has no choice but to watch these graphic films and get sick. Now that violence and sex nauseate Alex, he is released from prison...but when he attempts to kill himself, the government is blamed for what they did to him, and in the end, he is completely cured; violence and sex are again part of his life. This is definitely one of the strangest movies I've ever seen, but there is something about it that draws you into it and makes you want to watch it. This movie is wonderful, but not for people who are easily offended. 8/10.