Stanley Kubrick does Psychopaths.

Rating: 10/10 (31 December 2019)

Controversy, controversy, controversy. When this movie was released back in 1971, this show was shot with criticism surrounding it's sexual and violence on screen. It was so bad that Stanley Kubrick even wanted to take this film out of cinemas in the UK. But the violence and sex is not the main part of this film.
The film follows Alex Delarge, and his droogs (who are just his partners in crime), terrorizing and doing some of the most inhumane and psychopathic things a human can do. Brutally raping women, starting gang wars, doing home invasions, you know, the "good old ultraviolence". For the first 30 minutes of the film, you are being thrown at with some of the most violent and perverse images ever put onto film and after more than 40 years, it is still difficult to watch it.
After being betrayed by his droogs, he was arrested, and this is when the film takes an interesting and thought provoking turn. He attempts to change himself by going for a new treatment called to ludovico treatment. This is basically a torture treatment which prevents the brain from doing violent or sexual thing, and maybe just add a Beethoven for good measure
After treatment, he was released and immediately gets rejected and even harmed by the people he use to work with and his victims. What happens in the end is that he cannot change, so the government revert him back to his original psycho form to save themselves and possibly even him.
The movie's message is both interesting but extremely unsettling, and that is to say that forcing someone to change from a psycho to a normal person is impossible, and we should leave them to be what they are. It is a generally provoking take on society back during the 1970s, with the crime rate increasing in the UK, it is no surprise that Stanley Kubrick will want to have a shot in portraying this based on the book.
After creating 2001, he wanted to scale back a bit by making this film, which turns out to be his most playful and disturbing movie to date. It is like when The Beatles created Sgt Pepper with the mentality of experimenting and in the end creating popular culture, and then going to make the white album as a big and not so digestable album with it's experimenting and different ways. It is a same with A Clockwork Orange.
Go ahead and watch this film, but be warned, it's message might be misinterpreted by different people.