Product: A Clockwork Orange [VHS] (1972)
Rating: 5.0
The BEST film of 1971, and one of the best of the decade.
Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of "A Clockwork Orange" is an intriguing look at a very corrupt and violent future. The violence has been deemed innappropriate but is absolutely neccessary to tell the story. The story is that of a future where teenagers roam the streets commiting violent acts. However, this is under a government which seems to be a totalitarian one. Alex Delarge, the main character, becomes imprisoned for murder, then becomes the first person to be remade into the perfect law abiding citizen. This is the moral dillema which Kubrick creates brilliantly. Although Alex's choices in real life are haineous, he still has the choice to make them. When the government takes this away from him he becomes sick and depressed, and, finally used by both sides for and against it the treatment. The film is one that can create many different opinions and debates but it is clearly an original, unique, and brilliant film that should have an influence for quite some time.