scary, depraved, extreme and beautiful

Rating: 10/10 (2 October 2001)

i dont care what anybody else says, this has to be one of the most visually beautiful movies ever. i know. i know. its shocking. its disturbing. its scary. but stanley kubrick shows it in such visual beauty, that its hard to resist. one of the most disturbing aspects about the movie is that you actually sympathise with the protagonist, and this is why it is so disturbing. the audience feels guilty about sympathising with that loony, ultra-violent youth.
Nevertheless, the movie is compelling in its free-will theory. the story is disturbing in the same way that george orwell's 1984 is. what happens when "free will" is taken away. its an interesting premise and clockwork orange focusses on one extreme. the movie does not tread a middle path, which is another reason why so many people are horrified by the movie.

but stanley kubrick intends to make a hard-hitting movie and succeeds like nobody else. malclm mcdowell is brilliant as alex in the movie. an interesting piece of trivia is that malcolm is mortally scared of snakes, which is why kubrick actually introduced his pet in the movie - there is no pet in the book.
the dialogs are very hard to follow - especially in the beginning, but as we go along, they become clerer and we soon see ourselves talking the language. pretty scary.
anyway - a most disturbing movie, and alongwith apocalypse now, remain the most hard-hitting movies of alltime in my opinion.
A shocking 10.