Something Mechanical That Appears to be Organic.

Rating: 10/10 (8 May 2005)

Without question this is Malcolm McDowell's great performance of a lifetime and should have won a Best Actor at the Academy Awards. His incredible facial smirks run the gamut from viciousness to sarcasm to sexual enticement to pathos - ALL with superb humor. I've viddied this movie often and me glassies never get tired of watching the comedy which gave me a warm feeling all through me guttywuts. "The Durango 95 purred away real horrorshow." Kharosho is Russian for good. And this movie is real horrorshow. There is a mixture of Russian, English slang and just made up words but easy to understand because of the contents in each sentence as the author Anthony Burgess was a linguist and must have had a ton of fun writing this masterpiece. McDowell's Character Alex is a murderous thug of a malchick (young man) and a rapist who likes a bit of Ludwig van - especially the glorious 9th Symphony - with which to "get off" on. In the book he masturbated to Beethoven's 5th Symphony but in this movie he was turned on by the 9th. Alex liked to have sex and with two young devochke he seduced he seemed organic yet it was to a very fast William Tell Overture that was very mechanical. He was also a rapist who indeed only went through the motions of sex mechanically. Alex was mechanical in his idea of sex yet appeared to be organic as any normal man would enjoy sex hence he was a clockwork orange. This movie has so much more violence than I realized upon the second time I viddied it (the weepy devochke that I viddied it with slid down her chair and closed her glassies during all of the ultra violence as my rasoodoc understood how much violence there really was) however the comedy just made me giggle through most of it after a while. The prison chief's (Michael Bates who played Field Marshal Montgomery in Patton) expressions and histrionics had me rolling in the aisles from laughter. Every scene if you can get by the violence is so funny that you will get a hernia from laughter. It's very weird that way like when Alex is kicking Patrick Magee he is singing Singing in the Rain just before he gets set to perform the old in/out in/out on a weepy devochke or his "It's a sin!" speech while his eyelids are clamped open or while he and his droogs (friends) are rumbling with Billy Boy and his droogs the rumble is choreographed to Rossini's The Thieving Magpie - ultra-violent but will tickle your guttywuts. After Alex pretends to smash some eggiwegs yet wasn't affected by the Ludoviko technique in that outburst you start to realize that just after he was unsuccessful at "snuffing it" he was on the road to recovery. I could write a book on A Clockwork Orange about all the myelenky (small) things that went into this movie that took Stanley Kubric at least two years to make. Suffice it to say that in its way it is every bit as good as 2001: A Space Odyssey and in some ways a little better though it's hard to compare. This movie received the most votes from an award that is arguably more prestigious than the Academy Awards - The New York Film Critics Award - ten out of fifteen votes makes it real savage!! Make up your rasoodoc now to viddie A Clockwork Orange. Viddie well oh my brothers. Viddie well.