A Piece of Art, If you look at the film the right way.

Rating: 10/10 (4 March 2008)

A masterpiece, a piece of art, a gem in film making are only a few ways to describe Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange. This film is sick, twisted and sadistic. Is that to say that the director is, no, it is just to say that the director is so daring that he made a film very different in which explores, the very dark side to human nature.
When I went to see this film's premiere at my local NY Cinema just after I finished High School, many of the people in the theater walked out after the first half hour. I didn't, I looked deeper and saw that this may be a great film. Once it ended, I wasn't sure what I had just seen, I was so blown away, I came back a couple of months later and saw it again and realised what a masterpiece it is.
When you watch this film, it feels like the movie is talking to you, The opening scene with Alex's face tells you that you are in for a wild ride in Alex's life, the rape scene tells you that it won't be pleasant and the ending really makes you think about your life and how lucky you are to be able to choose how to live your life.
The basic plot is the life of Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowall) and his everyday life as a normal 15 year old by day and a maniac rapist who hangs out with a gang of people like him called 'Droogs' by night. His principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven. One day he gets arrested on behalf of his Droogs. He is sent to jail, but he gets out after volunteering for an experiment that is made to traumatise you from ultra-violence and all his main interests. He goes back to the real world outside and is traumatised of all his interests and is never able to choose his way of life. I won't tell you much more.
The acting in this film is excellent, I couldn't believe Malcolm McDowall didn't receive an Oscar Nomination, not many actors can play a brutal character and still manage to make you feel sorry for them. The screenplay was one of the best, from the dialogue all the way to every camera movement in this film. The direction should have won the Oscar, some of the best Direction I have ever seen. However don't waste this movie if you only look at it as a sick, twisted and sadistic movie, you need to look deeper and further into it. Yes this film is very perverse and violent, I say wait till you're at least 16 to see this film. Don't waste it.