Spastic Porn?

Rating: Null/10 (15 October 2002)

After watching the network premier on Channel 4, I was pretty much left wondering what all the fuss was about. As is the case in many Kubrick films, nothing is left to the imagination in this futuristic "shocker". The special vernacular used by the movie's juvenile delinquents puts me in mind, however, of the "computer-nerd" language used by teenagers at the start of the new millenium as a way of setting themselves apart from their 'square' and 'pedestrian' elders. A future society that revells in extreme violence was also more than touched upon in the 1976 film "Rollerball", but thankfully these dire predictions have not yet been realised. A much better film (based on a protracted adventures of a young man, at odds with the world around him) would have been "O, Lucky Man" (also with Malcom McDowal), two years later. As a film of prophecy, one has to say that "Clockwork Orange, A", like "2001: A Space Odyssey", pretty much fails in every respect. So the question has to be asked - "What was all the fuss about?"