Product: A Clockwork Orange [VHS] (1972)
Rating: 1.0
Disturbing and daring, but is it any good?
Disturbing, shocking, and daring are words that have been used to laud this film. But after so many years of "artists" trying so very hard to disturb and shock me, I would love to see someone use art to illumine or enlighten me. "A Clockwork Orange" is a product of its time, an ossified attempt to create profundity by merely disturbing and shocking the viewer. I would really like to think that the art world (not just film, but music, painting, and sculpture as well) is ready to get over its adolescent obsession with sex and violence and surrender itself to art's greatest strength -- to elevate humanity and celebrate all that is truly good and beautiful. I have seen many Kubrick films, and this is very close to being his worst.