Product: A Clockwork Orange (1972)
Rating: 5.0
Classic satire
Despite comments to the contrary, the version of Clockwork Orange on DVD is the original version. The differences in the ratings have more to do with revisions to the original MPAA codes and the passage of time more than anything else.Kubrick's adaption of Burgess' novel is a sort of inverted Pygmalion. As brilliant as Burgess' novel (Burgess himself acknowledged the brilliance of Kubrick's film. He stated that Kubrick's film was a "radical remaking of my own novel" that was every bit as much Kubrick's as the source material was Burgess)is, the film brings some of the best sequences in the novel to life with stunning, brutal clarity and satiric wit.Kubrick's most controversial film ( perhaps even more so than Lolita), this is a classic film that is a radical as mainstream cinema gets.