A Clockwork Orange

Can hoodlums be reformed??? will they ever learn the error of their ways???what are the drastic measures one can utilize in order to change them???Anthony Burgess published the novel in 1962...A Clockwork Orange answers all these questions...it is about Alex( Malcolm McDowell in his finest role) and his droogs whose main activities are beating up beggars,raping women and wreaking havoc on unsuspecting citizens...the movie is set in futuristic Britain where law and order are a thing of the past...we can say that this movie is a front runner to the cult classic Fight Club...Alex is a sadistic hoodlum ho derives pleasure after committing atrocious crimes...in a sense he is also an anti – hero...in fact Heath Ledger was inspired by this particular character when portraying The Joker in The Dark Knight... 

After Alex is captured by the police he is sent to a correctional facility where discipline is of the highest order...he is shown video footages of the same sins he committed and also from concentration camps...the most shocking thing was that his eyes where wide open...he was not allowed to shut them!!! once he is sent back to society after his stint in the prison he does not have an easy time...politicians use him for their own personal growth...the irony was that it is well known that he is a rapist and other things, after his treatment he is subjected to a naked woman and is forced to lick an individual's shoes!!!! i loved all the scenes which included music by Ludwig Van Beethoven...

A Clockwork Orange is a MASTERPIECE...you may either love it or hate it but you will never forget it that's for sure...visually stunning!!! highly controversial for its time,Kubrick did a clever thing by infusing western classical and electronic music...the climax is an unforgettable image with Alex frolicking in sex!!!! what an imagery!!!!forget what others think,you watch it and then you decide!!!