Read the book.

Rating: Null/10 (6 October 1999)

I always liked this film, but everything I liked about it really comes from the book...and MUCH more besides. As a noted critic pointed out many years ago, how pretentious is it to make a film called "A Clockwork Orange" without ever revealing just what the title refers to? What IS a clockwork orange? Well, as it turns out, it's the central metaphor of the work, though evidently Kubrick didn't consider it important. That, and the fact that the film was based on the truncated first American edition of the novel (the omission of the final chapter changes the tone of the book completely) render it seriously flawed when considered alongside its source.