Product: A Clockwork Orange [VHS] (1972)
Rating: 5.0
It's your social responsibility to watch A Clockwork Orange.
I'm one fan who is entertained by the artistry of Kubrick's portrayal of brutality. Again, as in Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick gets the subject matter into the viewer's head. In this case, enough to give you a headache. This movie is so disturbing (originally rated X for violence) that one viewing is never enough. You have to see this movie many times to desensitize yourself to violence, allowing more subtle aspects of the work to shine through. For example, underlying the violence is a dark comedy of extremely funny proportions. Making thugs into cops, using the theme song from Singing in the Rain during a brutal beating, then having that song later be the reason Alex is arrested, all have hilarious overtones for societies that would prefer to turn a deaf ear to society's ills.Scott Supak supak.com