A Clockwork Orange

“A bit of the old ultra violence”Since some time passed since I watched it I am gonna give it a longer review now. I went into watching this movie at night on a weekend. I already knew that many people love this movie but also many people hate it (which I can definitely understand). Btw it was my first ever movie from Stanley Kubrick. I was already fascinated by the opening scene of the iconic stare from Alex which I think everybody that kind of likes movies knows and from the soundtrack that repeats throughout the film.  The story kept me entertained the whole movie. I kind of love every movie with narrators and Alex is absolutely amazing. Even tho Alex is a complete asshole I still sympathize with him and I think this makes his character very good. The way Malcolm MacDowell delivers this performance is amazing and I now that many people think his acting in this movie is overrated but I’m a big fan of it. The way of his menacing and charismatic style, the way he moves and sings and also the way he eats at the end.  The movie is perfect divided into three parts that are almost the same length, being about 45 minutes long. The first third introduces us to Alex’s character. Him and his friends go out, play the in and out game and beat people up. Him and his friends speak in the Nadsat, which is I think a fake London youth slang with Russian words. Things are horrorshow and his friends are drooks. His life could go on for many years like that but after some troubles with his drooks they betrayed him and the police arrested him.  That’s were the second part stars. Alex gets taken to prison. He acts like a normal person and we or atleast me kind of thought he got better. The whole prison guards seem overreacting. Then we also get introduced to the Ludovico technique. Alex chooses to let them test the method on him. In another iconic scene we see how he watches this horrorshow movies and the technique works. Alex gets humiliated and is basically immune to hurting people.  In the final part we see the outcome of the first and second part. Alex meets his M and P and he can no longer stay at his old home and he even lost his pet snake 😞. Heartbroken he walks around and meets the homeless guy he almost killed in the beginning with his friends. He then also meets his old friends that are now by the police but they also beat Alex up. He gets everything he deserved from the fist part. It gets so far that he tries to kill himself but he ends up in the hospital and it ends with the iconic line “I was cured alright”.  When the movie ended and the credits rolled with Singin in the rain I was genuinely speechless. Not metaphorically or joke wise I had no words.  The whole movie is stunning. The cinematography is one of the best and the editing style is perfect. Not rushed or anything. I hope other Kubrick movies are also like this.  Another that that makes this movie unique is the sound design with the classical music of the good old Ludwig Van and also singing in the rain while brutal scenes are a brutal contrast. It brings the movie to another level.  There do is one thing I dislike about the movie. I already knew that there is a r*pe scene (I don’t know if I can spell it) but I thought that would be it. But almost every female character is topless and even tho I like topless women (that sounded right didn’t it?) I think it was a bit to much. I also hope not every Kubrick movie is like that. In my opinion they could have just did one sexual scene. Nevertheless I absolutely love this movie and think it’s a masterpiece. I still always think about it and I kind of started to say horrorshow usually. Maybe I just say I like this movie to be edgy. But in the end:  “Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”