Strange futuristic story...

Rating: 8/10 (11 August 2002)

1st watched 8/10/2002 - 8 out of 10(Dir-Stanley Kubrick): Strange futuristic story of a "ultra" violent gang whose leader goes to jail and is rehabilitated by the government. His rehabilitation is basically just to make him sick whenever he is about to be violent or have sex. They also made a little mistake in making him sick as well whenever he hears his favorite piece of music(Beethoven's 9th). There is much controversy about the lewdness of the sexual perversions and the violent beatings that happen in the first half hour of the movie and this is about all we hear from the public, but the movie really becomes interesting after he's caught(at this point the perversion and most of the violence stops.) The rest of the movie is a sometimes funny, very sarcastic look at how criminals are treated and how our government and ourselves react to varied things like the media and the fate of those who have murdered. There is so much discussion that can follow after this movie ends and I believe that's where Kubrick is when he's at his best. Just like in "2001;A Space Odyssey" again he has pricked our minds and our senses to a strange, comic, dark, play on our soceity and given us much to think about and much to learn from as we look at our present human condition.