Product: A Clockwork Orange [VHS] (1972)
Rating: 5.0
Standing the Test of Time
Having seen this film at the cinema whilst a college undergrad in the 1970s, and later on a pirate video in the mid-90s I was struck by how those images had stayed with me. Kubrick did exactly the right thing in withdrawing the film from general release because he could quite easily, (as has later happened), created a copycat monster as has the Kung-Fu film era, the musclemen era, the gun-carrying gangsta era and lately the computer crime era. Would anyone want a gang of adolescent (Alex is only 15 in the book) accomplished thieves and rapists out on the loose preying on the weak and handicapped?? Perhaps in the USA the film will be viewed as 'tame' but it is a moral tale and not a series of events to be emulated, admired or accepted. It was supposed to be a timely warning which was duly ignored. The bowler hats, eye make-up and uniform white outfit where steroetypical and if the re is anyone out there able to say it never happened, may I make the statement 'Trenchcoat Mafia.?' I feel privileged to have seen it but lets not trust the judgement of the more impressionable among us. After all, I dressed up like Alex and his droogs and formed the Seaton Clockwork. I have an IQ of 126. We don't need another style of violence to emulate from films. The video game industry is doing a good job nicely thank-you.