Brilliant imagery!

Rating: Null/10 (15 March 2002)

I saw this recently, it was the first time I had seen it in years. I was blown away. I hadn't absorbed much from the earlier viewings, other than the graphic violence. But it is a movie dense with imagery, and now one of my favorite kubrickers.
In my eyes, the critical scene of the movie is just before he commits the murder for which he is imprisoned. The woman gets irritated with him, and grabs a bust of Beethoven (I'm not sure if it's Ludwig van, it may be Mozart or somebody, but for argument's sake) and attacks him with it. He then grabs the sculpture of an over-sized penis to fend her off. The imagery! The society woman attacks him with Beethoven, he defends himself with a penis! Brilliant!
I also like the maternal imagery of the 'milk bar'. Where else would they get their strength but from a nursing, yet vulgar statue? The baptism by his 2 judases is good too.
Watch this movie.