Product: A Clockwork Orange [VHS] (1972)
Rating: 1.0
A massive dissapointment
Yet again a supposed great director as soiled an amazing novel. Before I watched the film I read the script, which wasnt impressive, in that it lacks the innate credibility of the novel. Kubrick didnt want this film to be seen, because of the effects it had i.e the influenced raping and violence, mimicing Alex etc. Kubrick appears to have completely missed out the point of the novel. The very fact that he annexed several important if not disturbing scenes from the original text, has led to Clockwork Orange being an immortalisation of a violent antihero, with a penchant for classical music. Perhaps if Alex's maturation at the end of the novel had been shown the film would have been more epic, and if the levels of depravity Alex sinks to such as child rape had been explored, maybe the film might have got across the point of the book. However it didnt so Clockwork Orange lapses into the plethora of fantastic books that modern "legendary" film makers have destroyed. Oh and Apocalypse Now is far, far superior to Full Metal Jacket.