The Future Is Friendly (For Raping, White-Trash, Sociopaths, That Is)

Rating: 4/10 (17 October 2014)

In regards to 1971's "A Clockwork Orange" - When I seriously consider Kubrick's previous movie-project (the triumphant, outer space, extravaganza - 2001: A Space Odyssey), I can't help but scratch my head and wonder what the heck prompted said film-maker to take such a violent U-Turn as he did with this film.
With "A Clockwork Orange", Kubrick clearly offered the viewer a motion picture of very questionable entertainment value. Here we are handed a truly demented tale that gleefully showcased white-trash, juvenile delinquency at its most vicious, vile and corruptible.
If "A Clockwork Orange" was meant to be some sort of a twisted & perverse moral lesson, then it clearly missed its mark. If it was meant to be viewed as a scathing social commentary, then its message definitely told me that (as a society of human beings) we are, indeed, utterly and hopelessly doomed.
I certainly found it very difficult to look upon this film's hypocritical stance, as well as its hatefulness and its brutality, as being really worthwhile entertainment.
Considered one of the absolute, most controversial films of the 1970s - You can be sure that even today, 43 years later, "A Clockwork Orange" still remains something of a bona-fide shocker.
I certainly can't imagine anyone (in their right mind, of course) ever wanting to watch "A Clockwork Orange" more than once. But, hey, with that said - Isn't one man's pain (sometimes) another man's pleasure?