Thrilling and Attracting

Rating: Null/10 (26 November 2006)

After having watched the film for several times, I must say that "A Clockwork Orange" is truly a masterpiece and has not lost any attraction ever since. Why? Because Kubrick managed to connect his "style" and the controversial topic of Anthony Burgess novel "A Clockwork Orange" and turned it into a nightmarish and futuristic thriller. When I watched it for the first time, I was completely stoked and could not believe that it was made back in the 1970s, because for me it could easily keep up with a lot of today's films.
Especially the language of "Alex and his droogs", "Nadsat", a mix of old Russian and English got me right from the first scene of the film and has not let loose ever since I have watched it for the first time either...
Some people argue that the violence used in "A Clockwork Orange" might be too "violent" and too graphic, but I think that the violence only contributes to Kubrick's main goal of connecting the strong language and strong violence, in order to create the notion of a strong apocalyptic future, where the individual is completely dispatched from any kind of values, confronted with a society based on the material status and only functions (especially in Alex' case) as society's cue ball.
Almost like our current world! Almost?