Five bags of popcorn

Rating: 10/10 (7 August 2016)

In an onslaught of ultra-violence, including rape and murder, Alexander DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) is finally caught and "cured" by his authoritarian government.
It took Stanley Kubrick for a movie like A Clockwork Orange to be done right, and help film openly evolve through the years like it did. It took his classical music, and his bitingly humorous, bleak visual representation, for general audiences to even consider the content.
Kubrick's genius in A Clockwork Orange lies in his willingness to throw everything that few prefer to talk about onto the screen. A Clockwork Orange is disgusting, but wonderfully so. It lifts the cover on the dark part of human nature that people tend to sweep under the rug every day of the week. If "2001: A Space Odyssey" largely displays the beauty and wonder of human existence, then A Clockwork Orange is its counterpart. It shows what humanity seems to be unable to accept about themselves, and it is a domineering part of life on Earth. Clockwork reached across the screen and dared me, begged me to admit and see the darkness within me and around me. This his how self- understanding and acceptance can flourish. If not, those evil impulses will not only exist but operate. A Clockwork Orange is an exercise in human horror, and displays an insanely large part of my existence.