A Clockwork Orange
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Movie Reviews of A Clockwork Orange
Movie Review: U need to see the movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is amazing. I have not seen many Kubrick films but this movie convinced me to try to see all. The guy is a genius. This was a perfect adaption of a brilliant book with a few changes that dont destroy the story but rather enhance it. The first 30 minutes are particurally the best, the scenes of Alex and his droogs causing mayhem are amazing. Not to say the rest of the movie is not brilliant cause it is. It makes u think just like the book did about the essential delema it presents: is free will more important then being good? this movie will be talked about for many years still. Also has a few nice bits of humor thrown in from time to time. THe guy who played alex captured him brilliantly. Kubrick is genius. WATCH THIS MOVIE, THEN READ THE BOOK.Movie Review: a film unlike no other
Summary: 5 Stars
I am not praising this film because Kubrick made it. But how can one ignore the cinematic qualities of this masterful film. A Clockwork Orange achieves what no other film has ever done and that's to get as close as possible to telling a story in a motion picture entirely in the subjective first person point of view. Now whether it achieved it or not, is not the point here. What is the point is that Kubrick succeeded in gracing us with a cinematic point of view so intimate and subjective to the main character, that all else really doesn't matter. Through a cinematic view point, A Clockwork Orange is simply a Masterpiece. As an aspiring filmmaker, I only hope to contribute to cinema with at least half of what Stanley Kubrick has.Movie Review: Brilliant
Summary: 5 Stars
CO is, in my opinion, Kubrick's best work. I have not seen Dr. Strangelove so maybe my opinion is a little biased. 2001 was great for it's originality and the gates that it opened, but I think the story just wasn't as good as Clockwork Orange. I love seeing the reaction simple-minded folk that like everything to be concrete and calculated have to this movie. My mother (an avid fan of trash movies like "Con Air") walked out during the rape scene. CO not only makes you *think* but it's also downright funny in parts, too. Definately recommended to any open-minded person who's sick of paper thin movies put out for morons who can't distinguish "entertainment" from "art".Movie Review: A design masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
Narratively, Clockwork Orange is a design masterpiece. Perfectly symmetrical in structure, the scenes in the first half of the movie echo scenes in the second:Alex and his droogs's attack on the beggar is reversed in the second half as the beggar exacts his revenge with the help of his friends; Alex's attack on his droogs is echoed in the second half as they attack him; Alex arrives on the doorstep of the writer F.Alexander's house, this time as a helpless victim and not an aggressor.In the second half, the tables are cinematically turned on the protagonist.As a result, however morally repulsive we might find the film's c violent content, the aesthetic "packaging" draws us in as accomplices.Movie Review: Bring on the original version!
Summary: 5 Stars
Last year a local repertory theater in Minneapolis showed the original X-rated version of this film, which was the one released before a few cuts were made to garner the R version. The difference is not huge, but it is important: The scenes shown to Alex (by force) in the theater are more explicitly violent and, therefore, more repellant. That part of the X-rated version is more true to the book. The other scene affected (less crucially) by the R cut is the early encounter between Alex and his droogs with "Billyboy" and his gang. I hope that someone at Warner will see fit to release the uncensored versions of both "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Clockwork Orange".