A Terrific Masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (16 October 2000)

I can not express in words how artistic and captivating this film is. Almost 30 years old, and I only heard about it this year...that is such an embarrassing shame. Stanley Kubrick did an exemplary job with this film, it is a jewel. This movie is based on a book I have yet to read, but I will. I already have a fascination with the criminal mind, and this movie allows you to dive deep down into a true criminal's mind and be erotically frightened.
*SPOILERS* First I must say that Malcolm McDowell was the absolute perfect choice to play Alex. He was haunting, erotic, evil, and utterly bewildering. You can see from the beginning, that even though his friends are also violent, he gets more of an erotic pleasure from feeding off of the fear of others and hurting them. The use of Beethoven in this movie was genius and I personally love the Ninth. The music he loved was shown as a corresponding parallel to his love for violence. When he began to abhor the violence he so loved, he also began to hate the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven. The movie is completely unpredictable, so you do not get anything you have seen before, even in this decade. There are many movies about the criminal mind, but this one has to be the best.