The creepiest, most violent black-comedy ever.

Rating: 9/10 (9 September 1999)

Stanley Kubrick is without a doubt one of the best directors of all-time. His classic movies span from 1957 with "Paths of glory" up until today and his movies are still greatly appreciated. Among his classics are "Paths of glory", "2001: a space odyssey", "Full metal jacket", and my personal favorite, "Dr. Strangelove". In all of these movies, you can see the desire that Kubrick has to depict violence as it really is. Well in "A clockwork orange", he depicted it better than any director did in any other movie. In this true classic, you can see what Kubrick was all about: Showing events as violent as they really are.
The story revolves around a teenage boy named Alex (Malcolm McDowell) and his three "droogs" whose night-time pleasures are murder and rape. The movie begins with the four "droogs" drinking a drugged milk in some kind of a bar for milk. They then leave the bar and just for the fun of it, decide to kill an old beggar. They then rob a car, pull up to someone's house, and after having been able to enter, they rape and kill the woman and cripple her husband. After a second attempt at rape and murder, Alex's friends backstab him and turn him over to the cops. It is then that he is sent to prison where he will volunteer for a special treatment which consists in taking out all the taste of violence out of a person.
After having successfully passed the treatment, he is set free. But when he gets back into the world, everything has changed and Alex suddenly begins having great problems. Ultraviolent and a little sick, this futuristic black-comedy is probably the first movie people think of when they think of Kubrick. It may not be for all tastes, but it's still a classic and any movie-buff should imperatively watch it.