Product: A Clockwork Orange [VHS] (1972)
Rating: 5.0
One of Kubrick's great masterpieces.
This is one of the few movies that is visual theater. Just sit back and let all the images and sounds spill over you. Kubrick uses violent scenes that should revolt you, while playing light ballet music in contrast. John Anthony Burgess Wilson wrote the novel in a hybrid slang language that is great fun to wade through and learn. This movie only touches on that but that's ok, because it is one of the great classics of the big screen. The third time you watch this, look at all the paintings and scenery that you don't usually notice. Everything is coreographed, like 2001 was. Perfect. When the DVD comes out, I'll buy it, but I will have to watch it alone, because of the graphic violence - and I NEVER like violent movies. This is just that good. Six stars - with a warning.