Simply the greatest film ever made

Rating: 10/10 (17 June 2009)

I am a Stan fan, just putting it out there first. From "A Clockwork Orange" to "Full Metal Jacket" and "The Shining" and so on. So forgive me if I embellish on Mr. Kubrick's past works. This is not just Kubrick's best work, but also the greatest film ever made. This film works and does well on so many levels. Upon my first viewing, "I said to myself 'this is all-right' not too good and not too bad. My next viewing I had seen many things that I had not noticed before." The day after the second viewing, I went out and bought it and it was worth every penny.
The primary goal of the film, I believe, was to show futile our efforts are to change people because of the way they "tick." I learned from this films that people don't "really" change. The films embraces these thoughts with dark humor and disturbing actions. In one word the film is: SATIRICAL. On another level, the words to describe the film are: "THE TIMES ARE A-CHANGIN." These wise words of Bob Dylan apply to this film as well as others and are every bit true in real life, like "No Country for Old Men." For example, as a slight spoiler, Alex, towards the beginning of the film; Alex is shown to not wanting things to change like his "droogie" Georgie had briefly mentioned. This and the poorly-sought ambition to change certain characters in the film WITHOUT any side effects are both inevitable and the central ideas in the film. A few characters had mentioned how they wished things were still the same in terms of anything, like in terms of Alex's punishments for his crimes. When Alex changes his ways, the others become hypocrites and oppose to what they once believed. For example, the people wanting to change Alex in a non-violent way find that at the end of the film, this is utterly impossible. Certain conversations between characters symbolize a world's readiness to change from one belief to the next and then back again, hence the title which also applies to Alex himself. In the film, half of the characters started as being the "ultra-violent" and wanting a change in their ways or vice-versa (good people becoming violent). I'm going to leave it at that because I am getting overwhelmed with just how much this film covers.
I cannot even fully write out how deep this movie is. For those who haven't seen it, go rent it now if you are not easily disturbed. The film was robbed of several deserving Oscars including some I thought the film also should have gotten, but didn't even get an Oscar nod (ex. Best Original Score). The only film that I believe comes close to this masterpiece is Eastwood's "Unforgiven" Once again, in a nutshell, go see this, but is not obviously not recommended for kids to watch.