Product: A Clockwork Orange [VHS] (1972)
Rating: 5.0
Hello My Brother
Malcolm McDowell (Cat People, Pact With The Devil, Star Trek:Genterations) has never surpassed a performance like this even to this day in any of his films because it's impossible plus his career as an actor is fading since he's getting old. This is his best work and one of Kubrick's as well. The movie is a brusingly violent, darkly comic and sexually outrageous film in which that's why its masterful. there's too many memorable bits and pieces that its hard to name all of them. One being the part where McDowell whacks his buddies into water and the oher where McDowell endures the painful sounds of Beethoven's composition and leaps out the window to stop it. Opens with a weird but interesting little hangout where McDowell and his gang take a break from dehumanizing society to drink some milk (the milk comes out of the mannequeins breasts). Ends with McDowell fantasizing like he does mostly during the film but it's just a bizarre way to end a movie but hey, bizarre is Kubrick's fashion. I was trying to count how many times McDowell says the word "Brother" but I lost track after 30. Warning: Dont watch this with your mom and dad.