the best film ever?

Rating: 10/10 (19 July 2006)

If one film delineates Stanley Kubrick's work ethic as a director it is "A Clockwork Orange". Each scene carries with it a vignette feeling that leaves the viewer mesmerized. Never before has a rebel been so captured in his thoughts or actions as is "Alex" in this movie. Mcdowell's character obviously was coached by Kubrick to the point of perfection. The viewer is able to live vicariously through Alex throughout the movie because we see from the beginning every part of his day. Between his relationship with his parents and his partnership with his friends one is never lost in the madness of the movie as one might suppose in a world never before seen. But when Alex and his droogs strike down upon the innocent people of their quaint English town the viewer is not disturbed but rather instilled with a sense of enjoyment. The unconscionable scenes should be horrifying, but Kubrick presents the mind of the teen rebel so vividly that the scenes are more informative and completing than grisly.