A Clockwork Orange
by Stanley Kubrick
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Actor: Adrienne Corri, Malcolm McDowell, Michael Bates, Patrick Magee, Warren ClarkeDirector: Stanley Kubrick
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: John Alcott
Producer: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stanley Kubrick
Producer: Bernard Williams
Producer: Max L. Raab
Producer: Si Litvinoff
Writer: Anthony Burgess
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 136 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-06-12
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Product features:
- Kubrick Films
Movie Reviews of A Clockwork Orange
Movie Review: Stanley Kubrick's Disturbing Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
Released in 1971, there has never been a film quite like A Clockwork Orange. Set in the dystopian future of England, it is the story of Alex DeLarge, an unusual young man whose primary intrests in life are extreme violence and rape,sex,and classical music. Alex himself is a smart person, but simply takes pleasure in being bad instead of good. The film, which is over two hours long, is divided into three parts, each around 45 minutes long. In the first part, we are introduced to Alex, and his three " droogs ", Pete,Georgie,and Dim, all sitting at the infamous Korova milk-bar scene. They then begin their night, first beating up a homeless beggar for no particular reason, then getting into a fight with another gangleader named Billy Boy and his droogs. After hearing the police, they steal a car, running people off the road for fun. Finally, they randomly go to the house of a middle-aged writer to beat him and make him watch his wife be violently raped by Alex. This is basically what Alex and his gang typically do every night. Alex then goes home to his apartment, where he lives with his parents. To finish a perfect evening, Alex masturbates to Bethoveen while thinking of horrific images. The next day, Alex fools his parents of going to school by saying his sick. Although his parents have doubts, they are too afraid of him to say otherwise. Alex wakes up to find his parole officer in the house, warning Alex to stay out of trouble, and Alex pretends to agree. He then goes to a local shop, and convinces two young teenage girls to come home with him, where he violently has sex with them. While all is good with Alex, his fellow drooges are sick of Alex as the leader, being tired Alex's cruelness towards them, as demonstrated the previous night after the rape,and they should also think of some plans as well. This does not sit well to Alex when he finds out after having the sex with the girls, and beats up George and Dim for thinking of it. Now defeated, George and Dim set Alex up. George tells Alex of a rich lady all by herself out of town. Alex, feeling glad they for his opinion,agrees. However things get out of hand and Alex accidently murders the woman with one of her sculpters. Fleeing the house, his droogs hit him in the face with a milk glass, temporarily blinding Alex untill the police arrive. At the jail Alex is told by his parole officer that Alex is a murderer. Disgusted with trying so hard to help an uncaring Alex, he spits in his face. This is the end of the first part. Part two begins a few weeks later. Alex is sentenced to 14 years at a state prison. Once there he meets the uptight cheif guard and is asked to remove his things, including his clothes. Two years flash by. Alex has by now made friends with the prison chaplain with a supposed intrst in the Bible and ability to be good. Gaining his trust, he asks the chaplian to put him on the list of selection for a new treatment that gets people out of prison early. Although hesitant, the chaplian agrees. Soon afterward, the Minister of the Interior, who is the head of the treatment, arrives at the prison to select a subject for experimentation. As he walks by Alex, Alex shouts out to catch the minister's attention. Seeing him fit,young,healthy,and vicious, Alex is selected. Two days later he is taken to the lab where the treatment is done. The cheif guard,however, is not convinced it will work, and warns the lab staff of Alex. The next day Alex is given a drug by the nurses before going into a dark theater. Alex is put in a straight jacket, is connected to wires, and has his eyelids pred open towards the screen, making it impossible to look away. He is then shown films which contain nothing but the things he likes, random beating and violence,sex and rape, and torture. As Alex watches this, he begins to grow sick in the stomach due to the drug. He watches the films repeatedly again and again, each time he watches he grows more sick and scared of the violence. One night while watching, Bethoveen's 9th symphony is played in the background, making him not only sick of violence, but his other love of the 9th as well. After days of therapy, Alex is brought up to the stage in front of the goverment officials, including the confident Minister, the scientists, including the treatment doctors, and the prison officials, which include the worried prison chaplain, and the cheif guard, who is still not confident of the treatment and is upset at letting a criminal go. Alex is put to two tests. In the first test, a man randomly slaps Alex. When asked why, he hits and knocks Alex to floor. Now sickened by even the thought of violence, Alex must lick the man's shoe to get up. The next scene is one of the most famous scenes from the movie, where for the second test, a beautiful topless woman wearing only panties walks calmly toward Alex. Alex, when trying to grab her ripe,juicy breasts, immediately proves to be sick again. The tratment a sucess, Alex will now be letten go, whether he likes it or not. This marks the end of part two. The final part begins the next day. Alex comes home to now find that his parents had rented his room to lodger. The lodger, named John, is utterly disgusted about hearing of Alex's abuse to his parents and believes Alex deserves a taste of his own medicine. His parents, halfway afraid of Alex,no matter how much they still love him, and half-way wishing he would leave them alone and become a better man, have no choice but to kick him out of the house. Alex has no choice anyway because he is incapable of fighting John. Once leaving, Alex walks along the boardwalk thinking of commiting suicide where he runs into the beggar he and his gang beat up before he went to prison. Taking revenge, the beggar and his fellow homeless friends flog Alex, who is helpless. Soon, two police break up the fight. When Alex looks up at them, he realizes they are none other than his old droogs, Georgie and Dim. Still angry at Alex, but also happy he is unable to beat them up, they take him out of town to an old bathtub, where Dim holds Alex's head down in water, while Georgie beats him with his police stick. After Alex has had enough, they leave him to die. Alex is now experiencing the revenge of those he'd hurt. He finally comes to the house of the old writer, unaware of where he is. The writer,now crippled from the attack is a widower, as his wife died from the beatings. He is now in the care of a muscular bodyguard. They find Alex drenched in the rain, and badly beaten. The writer dosen't realize it is the same man who beat him up and raped his wife, but realizes him as the man who recieved the treatment in the local news. Feeling sorry for him, Alex is given a nice,warm,bath. As he is taking the bath,however, the old man hears him singing " Singin' In The Rain", the same song Alex sang while beating him. Shocked and horrified, the writer later invites some guests over, where they learn from Alex, who is eating dinner, that the 9th symphony of Bethoveen tortures him. Alex is drugges from the wine he was drinking. Upon learning this, the writer now has his revenge. Alex wakes up to the sound of the 9th, locked in an upstairs bedroom, while the writer and his friends listen downstaris with giant speakers, the writer is especially enjoying it. Hurt and tortured, Alex decided to end his life by jumping out the upstairs window. He hits the rock pavement below. Alex, though not dead, but badly injured, is in the hospital now. He is welcomed back by his parnets, who believed it was the government that made their son so rebellious. Alex is soon tested by a psychologeist, and the test reveals Alex will soon be back to his evil self again. At the end, the Minister of the Interior comes to apoligeize to Alex. The treatment backfiring has made the government very unpopular and they want to make a deal with Alex. If he helps them win back support, he will have a cushy job and wealth. Agreeing, they fully reverse Alex's treatment, meaning Alex can also listen to Bethoveen again. The final shot of the film shows Alex now dreaming of having sex with a naked woman in the snow, with a crowd applauding him. Alex's voice then triumphantly replies, " I was cured all right. " In the end, it proves that Alex will now, although slightly more mature, will continue to be evil and violent, now with the government on his side, making it incapable of him to stop. This film, up untill the 2004 release of the Passion Of The Christ, was the most controversal film ever made. It originally recieved an X rating when first in theaters and was banned for nearly 30 years in Europe untill Kubrick's death in 1999. It is also considered, along with 2001 : A Space Odyssey, to be Stanley Kubrick's greatest film. A Clockwork Orange, now nearly forty years old, still continues to bring shock to the cinema and is considered to be one of the most disturbing and controversal, yet greatest films ever made.
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