Kubrick's Best Film!

Rating: 10/10 (29 January 2006)

A Clockwork Orange is the film that represents the film-making prowess of Stanley Kubrick better than any of his other works. The film uses every film-making trick in the book to great effect, and Kubrick manipulates the emotions of the audience like no other filmmaker. The film is cold and detached, yet humanistic. Detractors will say it's a heartless, cruel, overrated piece of subversive porn. In actuality, Kubrick has made one of the greatest films dealing with the right to free- will, and the power of individuality, for better or worse. Wendy Carlos delivers a piercing score. McDowell is a hoot as sadistic, nut case protagonist Alex. Along with Psycho(1960), Bonnie and Clyde(1967), and The Wild Bunch(1969), it stands as one of the most revolutionary films of the Modern Cinema. Worth watching even if you hate it. Viddy well.