Product: A Clockwork Orange [VHS] (1972)
Rating: 5.0
A travesty of decent fiction
Well, based on the contrast of my rating and my titile for this, you must be thinking by now that I'm an idiot, but give me my 15 seconds of your attention to explain what I did and why. This is a rating of the movie, not the entire work. As is proven in almost all fiction, the book is better than the movie. First off, the slang used in the book MAKES you become involved with the reading of the story. After that, the way the story unfolds in the book is much more believable and easier to see than in the movie. The greatest fault of the movie comes at the end, when our Honorable Narrator simply states that he is cured and the credits roll. This is horrible. It destroys any concept of what the intention of the story really was. At the end of the book, Alex is cured, then assimilates back into society, becoming a mean, cold-hearted, private person. But he is no longer violent, but he has been given back the choice to not be violent. Also, there is no old drunk in the tunnel after the first scene in the Moloko Korova. It was originally an old man carrying rare books with soft-core pictures interspersed between the pages. That is what sickens Alex and his droogs, not the burp-burp between the phrases of an otherwise beautiful song. But by now I am losing your attention, or, if you can read this far, you already know everything I've said, meaning there is no point in me continuing on with this. So, in review, while this is an excellent movie, the printed readable version is far superior. I recommend having both in your collection.