Product: A Clockwork Orange [VHS] (1972)
Rating: 1.0
Kubrick's Worst
"A Clockwork Orange" has some very interesting messages about criminal punishment, like who's really the victim when the victim wants revenge on the criminal who harmed him(when Mr. Alexander tortures Alex with Beethoven music in the locked house near the end) and what kind of control the government really has over the indiviudal (occuring when the doctors "brainwash" Alex). But, I can't believe this film is considered a masterpiece. Filled with scene after scene of rape and assault, and later, endless scenes of the criminal, Alex, wanting to be reformed and getting it at a high price. I think people only celebrate this movie because Stanley Kubrick directed it. I'm a fan of Kubrick, but I really think he wasted his time on this gloomy, moody piece of nonsense.