"A Film for Two, Who Are Now of Film Age...."

Rating: 8/10 (23 February 2006)

I paraphrase DIM the new policeman from the film Pauline Kael found >Cold and repellent<: >A CLOCKWORK ORANGE<.... her review is here....http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0051.html .... if you cut and paste or just Google it; but the best I have read deals with this Stanley's swan song-marvel in some detail, here:....http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/revicontent_102.htm . . . (I just LOVE reviewer Tim Kreider's sad comic strip - thepaincomics dot com.) In light of the ironies subsequent to the film's release (Kubrick drops dead - foul play of business for the superrich as usual?) and the disintegration of "The Two" (My summary title), and Nicole's subsequent work for Pollack in "The Interpreter", I can't help imagining and dreaming that this is all the work after all of the Almighty God, maker of Heaven and Earth, and Himself the True Ultimate Ironist! Stanley Kubrick, no custodian of culture by any means, surely a clean-minded pornographer (Kael again), was an ironist; he now knows for sure and forever what the score is. I sure am glad he lived long enough to make EWS! Lord help us poor, servile clockwork folks keep our eyes open!