Product: A Clockwork Orange (1972)
Rating: 5.0
A near masterpiece
To try and summarise this film in a few lines, or not repeat what has already been said many times before, is almost impossible. This movie shows a true master craftman at the height of his powers, threading so many different scenes together in a way that the whole is far beyond the sum of its parts.The use of music is exceptional, the acting superb (clearly McDowell's best performance) and the direction simply peerless. As a typical Kubrick film, the first viewing may leave you feeling alittle unsure of what to think, but go back and watch again, for as Speilberg put it 'the more you watch Kubrick's films, the better they become and that is the mark of a true talent'. Or, perhaps in this case, more appropriately, as Alex puts it 'Viddy well, thy brother, viddy well'.