A triumph in artistic vision and poetic meaning

Rating: 10/10 (5 September 1998)

I'm still very young in my film career, but as far as it stands now, A Clockwork Orange is the best example to me of what a live action film can accomplish. It sets standards that haven't been touched ever since. The film establishes a rhythmic style carried through the whole film. The director is as the top of his form, Stanley Kubrick, the only live action director I call a genius anymore. In wake of most people not understanding the complexity of its art, I'm still after over a dozen viewings in awe of his achievement (and Burgesse's...I'm a huge fan of the novel as well.) We have entertainment, beauty, direction, music, choreography, acting, writing , ideas, and all together art working in unison throughout this incredibly fast paced two hour movie. I lost faith in Hollywood for the most part. There is a very small margin of art being produced (or having been produced for that matter) but A Clockwork Orange (and the philosophical-poetic virtuoso 2001) reaffirms that watching the movies is worth sifting through all this popcorn trash and finding life affirming beauty and art. Let us rejoice in the glory that is A Clockwork Orange bellowing in the face of all that is tyrannical, commercial, exploitative, dumb, pretentious, meaningless waste. Amen, good night.