Clockwork Orange./1971/136 minutes
directed by Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick's randomly ultra-violent, over-indulgent, graphically-stylized film, Clockwork Orange, is a terrifying, gaudy film adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s 1962 satiric, futuristic novel of the same name. It is a disturbing movie about England in the totalitarian future, Malcolm McDowell portrays Alex, a Beethoven-loving, head-bashing punk who leads his gang of ‘droogs’ [friends] on ultra-violent assaults--until he is captured by authorities and subjected to nasty behavior-modification therapy. The treatment makes him less than human. He has been conditioned against classical music, his love of which was his one human feature, and apparently all of his sex drive is gone.
Kubrick is widely acknowledged as one of the most accomplished, innovative, and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Even though most of his films were adapted from novels or short stories, his works are noted as some of the "most original, provocative, and visionary motion pictures ever made".
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