An intelligent political satire that's still relevant today.

Rating: Null/10 (19 July 1999)

The story of a menace to society who is rightly jailed. While in jail his human rights are violated when they brainwash him against violence. In an attempt to make amends for violating the criminal's rights he's eventually treated like a king, while the rights of his victims are ignored (the victim poses a threat to the criminal and is put away where he can do no harm to the criminal who's now free because his rights were violated).

I suspect the original tale was meant to take place in a future somewhat distant from our own, but it sounds suspiciously like the way criminals are treated now.
The brilliance of the move is the contrast between graphic violence and absurd outrageous humour, along with a superb soundtrack that almost gives the film a farcical Monty Python quality. Only Stanley Kubrick could find humour in such disturbing events.