amazing...

Rating: 7/10 (6 May 2003)

I remember I was somewhat younger then. A more mature friend told me that there was a great film on one of the arthouse cinema and I had no clue what the hell it was. I saw it. I thought it was strange and there was 'something' there but that was what I left it to be: weird.

Fast forward five years later, many things had changed. I took an interest in films and started watching many great films and I stummbled upon a director named Kubrick. I saw many of his other films by then and I was curious what I would think now about Clockwork Orange five years later from my first viewing.
And I was glad that I watched it again because so many things had changed for me the second time round. Apart from all the directing, camera works etc..., what I loved most are the comments on certain issues. Most people had already commented that the film critizises on social choice and individual freedom, however, I think there is another side of the coin which some of us had missed; which makes this movie even more of a masterpiece. As I see it, Alex (or many of us for that matter), is a victim that holds little freedom. But not just from social limitations but also from nature. From the beginning I could see this 'animalistic' conditioning and the movie progresses to social conditionings and later towards the end back to nature conditionings. It is just like the 9th symthony.
EVEN IF SOCIETY SOMEHOW MANAGES TO PROVIDE INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM, WE STILL NEED PERMISSION FROM NATURE