Genre: Crime / Drama / Sci-Fi
Length: 2h 17m 0s
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Tagline: Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven.
Plot outline: In a futuristic Britain, a gang of teenagers go on the rampage every night, beating and raping helpless victims. After one of the boys quells an uprising in the gang, they knock him out and leave him for the police to find. He agrees to try "aversion therapy" to shorten his jail sentence. When he is eventually let out, he hates violence, but the rest of his gang members are still after him. Summary written by Colin Tinto {cst@imdb.com} Alex, a teenage hooligan in a near-future Britain, gets jailed by the police. There he volunteers as guinea pig for a new aversion therapy proposed by the government to make room in prisons for political prisoners. "Cured" of his hooliganism and released, he is rejected by his friends and relatives. Eventually nearly dying, he becomes a major embarrassment for the government, who arrange to cure him of his cure. A pivotal moment is when he and his gang break into an author's home: the book he is writing (called "A Clockwork Orange") is a plea against the use of aversion therapy, on the grounds that it turns people into Clockwork Oranges (Ourang is Malay for "Man"): they are not being good from choice (sentiments later echoed by the prison chaplain). The film reflects this: many bad scenes in a Clockwork Orange are accompanied by jolly music; if we are to experience them as we should, we have to do it consciously, by realising they are bad, and not because the director tells us so through the use of music and images. Summary written by Steven Pemberton {Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl} Alex, a violent juvenile in the near future, is caught after a number of brutal rapes and murders. While imprisoned, he submits to a controversial experiment to make criminals ill at the mildest suggestion of violence or conflict. Now Alex's victims want to welcome him back into society with the same enthusiasm Alex had always exhibited when performing his crimes. Summary written by Tim Kretschmann {Tim.K@VirComm.com}
Comment: Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange is a great film. It looks into the human ways like never before (or never again) in the style that only Kubrick could do. Even though it has been banned from the UK and Australia, it makes it that much more controversial. The writing, direction and acting is at it's highest peak form and just when you think it couldn't get better, it gets to be the best. Also, the breakthrough performance of Malcolm McDowell gets him at the top of the British actors list in my book (this performance most likely got him noticed in the film world). And all the elements surrounding him makes it perfect. Finally, the themes are terrific. The way the film shows how the government screws a regular fiend over is great. The film is great, and is defenately Kubrick's best to date. A++
IMDB Rating: 8.3
Country: UK
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| Malcolm McDowell | as | Alex De Large |
| Patrick Magee (I) | as | Mr. Alexander |
| Michael Bates (I) | as | Chief Guard Barnes |
| Warren Clarke | as | Dim |