A good movie....if you can handle it

Rating: 9/10 (1 July 2005)

Stanley Kubrick has created what some may call a masterpiece, and others may simply call trash with A Clockwork Orange. Personally, I thought that it was a good movie, but certainly only for mature audiences. It was originally rated "X", and I honestly don't know how even the re-edit that I saw got down to an "R" rating. The movie is about a group of young hoodlums whose main sources of fun are Beethoven, rape, and murder. After drinking some apparently drug-laced milk at a milk-bar the four men go out for a "bit of the ultra violence" as they put it, as they beat an old bum, and rape a few women. After one particular altercation where he had to break into a home (He usually knocks on the door saying that his friend was in a horrible car accident and gains entrance that way) he kills a woman with a statue of a penis (yes you read correctly) and as he tries to escape from the police, his friends, and fellow gang members break a bottle off of his head and take off, leaving him there to be caught. He is taken to jail but learns of a new experimental treatment that will release him from jail sooner, and also cure him of his addiction to murder and rape. He goes through the procedure (I wont give away details but it certainly isn't for the faint of heart)and is released from prison. After getting kicked out of his parents house he wonders the streets until he finds a house that will let him in and let's just say that he has seen the house owner before. I'm not going to give away any more of the movie, that is for you to watch and find out.
Overall, I gave this movie a 9/10 it is a very good movie, but only if you like this type of movie and can stomach the ultra violence, blatant nudity, and other adult themes.
Some of the best parts of the movie are just listening to their slang... some of it is hilarious.