Product: A Clockwork Orange (1972)
Rating: 5.0
Scathing, Brilliant and Eerie
This is a beautiful send-up of what has become the Future. Kubrick's deep sarcasm still haunts after 30 years, and the film's powerful imagery lingers.I find it disingenuous that the prudish would chastise this movie for its 'excesses.' Really; what is more vulgar, a serious, literate divigation into the realm of violence and its aftermath, or the ultraviolent titillation of, say, your typical Schwarzenegger or Stallone or Van Damme flick? The desensitizing of violence in those kinds of movies is truly horrifying; what is found here is infinitely more interesting and compassionate.In all regards, a masterpiece.