Product: A Clockwork Orange [VHS] (1972)
Rating: 4.0
Read the book before you see it......
Read the book first. That's the usual advice. We've seen cinematic decimations of literature in recent times. Hunter S. Thomsons' Fear & Loathing a prime example in that the film essentially insulted the book. Kubrick however, manages to offer a scintillating and extremely intelligent representation of Burgess' cold vision of future youth. Admittedly it appears dated (the vision of the future seemingly as 70's as ever), but the core of this masterpiece comes straight from the title itself....Clockwork Orange, the impostition of something mechanical upon a natural subject. A task that ultimately fails. The end is especially chilling, the implication of a rapidly degenerating society that seeks not a long-term solution but rather a quick-fix remedy. A topic so very relevent today.