Product: A Clockwork Orange [VHS] (1972)
Rating: 5.0
Righty right
Stanley Kubrick's movies are so potent, confrontational and filled with caustic visions of human morality gone sour-- they will be talking about his films 200 years in the future-- after U and I are long dead.That aside--If you've ever read Anthony Burgess' diatribe against modern society and the young tribal monsters it produces, then you know all about the Crips and the Bloods and gang culture, its costumes, its claws and the inhumanity they foist upon themselves and us.In Kubrick's and Burgess' study into societal amorality-- there are no happy endings...Just a hint that --technology's triumph over the criminal mind will never work.Not taking away from Kubrick's brilliant portentous direction-but-just a note--Malcolm McDowelle's portrayal of a handsome amoral teen brute-(spouting Rusko- Shakespearean teenage gangster lingo)-Walter/Wendy Carlos' indicative score and John Alcott's beautiful cinematography- lend to the fact that "A Clockwork Orange"-- as a film-- may never be topped.This flick is still stunning, shocking and funny-after all these years.