Brilliant in strange way!

Rating: 9/10 (9 December 2010)

Saw it about a week ago. Heard about it from a colleague who told me he almost wet himself from the get go. So I just bought it and saw it. First of I'd like to say it was a pretty good movie with an original idea considering when it was made. The movie is about a teenager whose soul passions are Beethoven and "Ultra violence". The movie starts off with Alex the main character and his companions in a milk bar. The movie can be divided in 3 parts from this point on. The first part, we are presented with the mischief that Alex and his gang do, like raping a woman and beating up her husband, getting in a gang fight and other nasty stuff. Because of some arguments Alex had with his gang members he got left at a crime scene so the Cops caught him. At this point we proceed with the second part, in which Alex is imprisoned and starts reassessing his life up to this moment. He behaves well and thus is recruited sort of speak for a new experiment that is meant to stop violent behavior. After the terrifying experiment (which involves showing violent images while playing Beethoven's fifth) Alex is unable to commit any violence acts so as a result he is released on parole. This marks the beginning of the third part. After being released Alex returns to his home where he soon learns that things change. He's parents rented out his room, the people who were abused by him get their revenge, and so on and so forth. The last person that gets its revenge is the man whose wife he killed and left him a cripple. The man locks him in a room and plays only Beethoven's fifth symphony which leads to Alex's meltdown and he's attempted suicide. The end of the movie like in all my other revisions I won't give away, you'll have to see it for yourself. So in the end just to summarize "Clockwork Orange" is a brilliantly thought out movie about violence, which everyone should see at least once in their life.