A Parable for the Sinister Reason of Man

Rating: 8/10 (10 January 2000)

[WARNING: This May Contain Spoilers.]
This film looks to the future in all of its '70's splendor. Of course the future in the eyes of the artists of the '70's was sufficiently bleaker than actual events would allow. This is kind of a common ground from forward looking films of the time. It doesn't take away from the moral of the story.
The narrator is indeed a very bad boy. It is hard to have any positive feelings for him. However, Kubrick does an interesting thing halfway through the film. By illustrating the regimen of the supposed benevolence of society, Kubrick rehabilitates the main character just enough to challenge society itself.
The evil of the individual is replaced by the blind evil of misguided social experimentation on the perpetrator. The viewer is left disgusted with both entities. This is a clever film and a controversial one at the same time. I find it slightly overrated and give it an 8 out of 10 for its brashness.