One of the most controversial films of all time...but one of the best.

Rating: Null/10 (19 March 2000)

Clockwork Orange is a perfect film in many ways. I guess it has the best overall a movie can have. It is about 4 guys who have three hobbies: beating up people, raping girls and listening to Betowen's music. This gang has a leader, played by Malcolm MacDowell, who goes to prison after the rape and murder of an old millionnaire's wife. But he is used as a ''laboratory rat''. Scientists make weird experiments on him. The goal of these experiments is to stop Malcolm MasDowell's addiction to violence, rape, coarse language and Betowen's music. But when MacDowell realizes that he gets sick when he sees violence or when he listens to Betowen's music, he knows he can easily get in deep trouble. And people who saw him on the newspapers for the rape and murder of the young girl remember him and know his new handicap. They beat him up, and he has to hide if he doesn't want to get killed. The closest place to hide is the millionnaire's house, where he killed the millionnaire's wife. This film is different from other movies about violence. It shows violence in an almost funny way, and the meaning of it is that there would be no world if there was no violence, we simply don't have to abuse...The satire is even bigger in this film than the huge one in Dr.Strangelove. I don't know if this is Kubrick's best, but it is surely a movie to remember and to put in my favorites' list. I give it 93%.