Is this fiction?

Rating: Null/10 (1 February 2001)

Anyone who hasn´t seen "A Clockwork Orange" misses one of the greatest movies of all times. It´s almost a gap in your education if you don´t know Stanley Kubrick´s masterpiece. This film is like something you´ve never seen before. Made in a pop art style "A Clockwork Orange" gives a strange and bizarre impression of the near future: criminals are not punished anymore, they will be healed by killing their violent instincts. In the case of Alex these people became victims themselves, exiles from society...that creates their own monsters and let´s them drop... It has got something of Darwinism, which says, that only the strong can survive. How could they, if them were taken all their abilities? Otherwise Alex is also a victim of his own destiny: he causes violence...and gets back what he deserves!
Alex is played impressively by Malcolm McDowell, who had the role of his life with this. After this one he hadn´t made anything that could be compared with Kubrick´s film (I call it the Dennis-Hopper-Syndrome). He tried to repeat his success with films like "Caligula", but... In the 90s his most important roles were playing the bad guys in a "Star Trek"-movie and in the filming of the comic adaptation to "Tank Girl". It´s a pity that you can see this charismatic actor nowadays only in meaningless B- and C- movies and video premiers. Instead of that, let´s watch "A Clockwork Orange" for one more time, an immortal classic, that everybody has to be seen! (10/10)