One Of The Most Dangerous Films Ever Made

Rating: 10/10 (9 May 2011)

All of this can be said of "A Clockwork Orange": controversial in all possible ways, shocking, jaw dropping, wild yet beautiful, artistic, elucidative, cinematically impressive, unique. Stanley Kubrick reveals the world as it is, horrible things we do not want to see melded with a disturbing sense of humor. Here's an striking film that dares us to watch, disturb our senses and perceptions, and in the end most of us we'll be failing in seeing what one of the greatest directors of all time tried to say to us about a violent futuristic society that reflect many problems of all the forms of societies in all the times, past, present and future.
It is a dangerous film because it challenges its viewers to open their eyes to violent acts presented in a almost jolly, pleasurable way (of course, the ones who are committing acts like beating a old man and raping his wife to the sound of 'Singin' in the Rain') and most people will probably think Kubrick is a sadistic man for filming such things. Not the case! Here's a director aware of its time, who probably saw how things were running down in the world like extreme violence, bad politics, totalitarianism, moral failure of society and decided to make his own statement on the issue (not only he, in fact, this is based on Anthony Burgess book). We see this ultraviolence in the film as a distant future but now, many years later, things haven't changed much and there'll always some twaddler out there to blame amoral behavior in society because of films like these which leads me to another aspect of why this is a really dangerous film.
It is the most misinterpreted film of all time, hailed by the wrong reasons (and most of the time by the wrong kind of viewers, the ones who love Alex mannerisms and violence), and the wrong kinds of ideologies who are led to believe Alex is a hero, the government is the oppressive system that institues wrong forms of rehabilitation and all. I can't be a hypocrite, I also got the wrong idea of what this film is about several times, always believing that this was some sort of morality tale about not doing to others what you wouldn't wish was done to you. It's way more than this.
The paradox is amazing since we have the most dubious character ever created on film, greatly played by Malcolm McDowell. You can hate Alex DeLarge, you can like him and you might have mixed feelings about his way of seeing the world, using complicated expressions to express himself or express violence, hatred, and we also have the "corrected" Alex, the one sent to a drug experiment where he started to hate everything he liked in his previous rebel life: violence, sex crimes, and he can't even listen to Beethoven anymore without feeling sick.
Some films have not the obligation to answer our questions or to lead us into some one path or the other; they're exist to be watched, to be debated, to make us think about new perspectives on a provoking and controversial theme. "A Clockwork Orange" is a mandatory film for those who dare to see how powerful movies are and how cinema is powerful, visceral, contradictory, an wonderful media at its highest best status: being art and a deep look into a reality, much more than just entertainment. Love it or hate it but it's a real Horrorshow! 10/10