If Sex and Violence Make You Sick

Rating: 9/10 (17 March 2014)

Another Kubrick Film that is so Unique and Unsettling that it Invites, no Requires, Deep Analysis because it Stimulates so many Nerve Endings and Chakras that it Cannot and Will Not be Ignored.
After Forty Years it Still Manages to be Controversial with New Viewers. Excluding Porn, Snuff Films, and Underground Experimental Excesses for Shock Value, this may be, more than any other "Mainstream" Movie, the Most Controversial and Knee-Jerker Ever.
It Resonates and Disturbs, Fascinates and Repels, as it Elicits Laughter and Disgust Equally and Frequently at the Same Time. It was done Quickly and on the Cheap, Countering the Usual Extravagant Methods of the Director, but has Lost None of that Kubrick Exuberance. In Fact, it may be the Most Exuberant of All the Director's Movies. It Pulsates with Picturesque Rhythms Utilizing much Beethoven with Equal Amounts of the Synthesizer Fuzzy Warbles.
The Film cannot be Taken Lightly with its Philosophizing about Violence and Counter Violence to Control Violence and Other Jabs at Society, the Correctional Facilities, and the Home Environment. In the End there are No Easy Answers, after all. But We Knew that just like the Superficial B.F. Skinner Esque "Cure" was known by its Creators in the Movie as a Placebo to make Politicians and the Populace Feel Good.