A great adaptation of the book and the movie

Rating: 10/10 (14 November 2019)

A Clockwork Orange stars Malcolm McDowell and is directed by Stanley Kubrick. The film revolves around Alex who's favorite hobbies include rape, stealing, and violence. When I first watched this I was shocked by how graphic it was, but I couldn't take my eyes off. And then I watched it again it started to turn into one or my top five favorite movies. I'm a big fan of A Clockwork Orange that I decided to pick up the book as well. And between the book or the movie I choose the movie. I choose the movie because the movie lets the audience decide what Clockwork Orange means to them. But the major difference between the two is the ending because the movie tricks us into thinking is Alex cured or not whereas the book he is cured, but he starts to grow up that in the end feels like a cop-out. I've seen people laugh at this, or look utterly confused because they don't understand the plot and that leaves me with two ideas. To the people who laugh at the movie mean that you either have a twisted sense of humor or there's a little bit of Alex inside all of us. And to the people who are confused with the plot I say watch this again so you have a better understanding of what the plot is trying to show you. And if you can't grasp the plot than you are part of society or refuse to accept of what are society is slowly becoming. And if you don't believe me, Stanley Kubrick and Warner Bros decided to pull this film in the United Kingdom. And it wasn't until Stanley Kubrick's death in 1999, that the studio decided to release it in the United Kingdom. And the end result was that people in Britain consider his a national treasure. But really fascinates me is the complex character Alex who we despise at first because of his violent activities, but later on in the film, we feel sorry for him, that he wasn't such a bad character. So in the end, this movie made my top five movies because this offers such complex and graphic themes that I became hypnotized by it that made me explore films that aren't cookie cutters you see today.