Truly Amazing

Rating: 10/10 (5 August 2006)

Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" is a truly amazing film. Alex is a young man who lives a life of ease. He skips school, parties hardy, and has a good night out with his "droogies" causing mayhem. Alex loves a good night that involves rape, ultra-violence, and Beethoven. He and his entourage, eventually, cause so much mayhem that in the process of having fun, Alex murders a woman. On the way out his posse leaves him behind and he goes to jail for murder. When an inspector comes to the jail he chooses Alex for a test of a new project that can cure criminals of their crime and leave them free of crime for the rest of their days and can do it within a year. Alex is very excited and eager to begin the project.
The project involves Alex strapped to a chair with his eyes forced open watching films of extreme ultra-violence, including disturbing WWII violence, and films of terror, including graphic rape. Alex is stunned and sickened by the footage and is cured. Or is he? Returning home, he has the hope of returning to his home but when he finds someone else renting out his room he tries to pick a fight but the thought of violence almost makes him vomit and he runs away to find himself get caught with people who he has tortured in the past when he was king of the streets. He seeks refuge in a rich writers home who, unknown to Alex, is a man who's wife was raped by Alex and died a few days later. Alex later realizes it when he calls government people over to "help Alex" but the end up helping the man get his revenge by playing Alex's favorite-turned-least-favorite artist, Ludwig van Beethoven. The song drives Alex mad and leads him to attempt suicide. He, somehow, doesn't die and and put in a public hospital where the best caretakers nurse him back to health.