A magnificent study of human nature

Rating: 10/10 (12 March 2001)

A Clockwork Orange chronicles the adventures of Alex, a young man obsessed with"ultraviolence" and Ludwig von Beethoven. Alex rapes, steals, and vadalizes. Alex is eventually caught and brought to jail, then subjected to brainwashing. Alex is released into the world and proclaimed rehabilitated. But is he really? Can you ever cure someone of the disease that plagues us all: human nature?
This movie is wonderfully directed by Stanley Kubrick, and is arguably his best work (equalled only by 2001: A Space Odyssey and perhaps Full Metal Jacket). Visually stunning, surreal, and disturbing, this movie is not one that you will soon forget.