A piece of Art

Rating: 10/10 (27 September 2005)

It's difficult to write something about Stanley Kubrick and about this film in general. Kubrick made only a small number of film in 46 years of career, but every picture is a masterpiece in its genre.
"A Clockwork Orange" is not an exception. Based on the Anthony Burgess book, the film is a story about violence. In a future society Alex only loves violence and Beethoven music. The government arrest him and tries to cure him in planting in himself a disgusting feeling for violence... But this therapy has its limits.
The film is visually perfect, we can enjoy Kubrick's sarcasm and his taste for music -the score collects several pieces of different composers and different periods.
Everything works very well, and the film is still shocking 34 years later after its release -although at the time "A Clockwork Orange" was a huge scandal because it was one of the most violent films ever made, today its effect is partially diluted.
Just one thing -but it's a small detail, compared to the importance and the full achievement of the film. The film was made in 1970, two years after the release "2001". Although that, from a purely visual point of view, "A Clockwork Orange" looks older than the previous one. Set designing belongs to early Seventies idea of the future, whereas "2001" still looks as a new film.