A Clockwork Orange

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This has been on tonight and hasn't been on ITV +1 for long.

I think its absolutley brilliant. Not into many Kubrick's films though!

The Welsh guy cracks me up :D

What are people's thoughts on it?
 
It didn't really click with me tbh. I kind of appreciate it's 'genius', but I didn't find it enjoyable as a movie. :o

I tried reading the book once too, but the weird made-up slang just proved too much. :D
 
It's very surreal as is most of Kubricks films. Love the film, love the music. One of the best films made tbh
 
I thought it was 'OK' but I was expecting to be horrified after what I'd heard about it and I wasn't really.

That's probably due to its age though, and the fact things like this don't bother me :p
 
I thought it was fantastic. I loved the way that when it was Alex being 'ultraviolent' I found it rather entertaining and fun, but when the tables were turned I felt much more upset by it... maybe to do with the narration helping me to feel connected to Alex?

Anyway, it was massively thought provoking for me, and my mind keeps going back to it and thinking of new 'hidden meanings' and stuff... I don't know whether that's because it truly is a thought provoking film, or because I started watching the film with expectations that it would be though provoking... but nonetheless I have really enjoyed thinking about bits of it afterwards.

Thoroughly enjoyable.
 
Its nothing special, its just overhyped because some of the scenes they show. But in all movies in the last 10 years or so you can find the same scenes happening.
 
Compared to modern films that have followed it, no it's no longer shocking or as thought provoking as perhaps it was when it was new. But this can be said of most masterpieces, time, analysis and other works copying it always waters down the impact any form of art has.

However, when considered for what it is, a film shot well before its time, it is rough masterpiece imo. I say rough as I think the story and its presentation are too cynical, it's thoroughly bleak. I know this was his intention, but i'm not totally convinced a more balanced version wouldn't have worked just as well and would have been less sympathetic towards anarchy, which no matter what anyone says, is a good thing imo.

It's an excellent film though, based on an excellent story, it's just not standard viewing, there's little obvious reflection with the real world, only veiled hints as to how its a reflection on parts of society. This means you have too think about it all from start to finish, that's not always something people want when watching a film or reading a story, which is fair enough!
 
I thought it was 'OK' but I was expecting to be horrified after what I'd heard about it and I wasn't really.

That's probably due to its age though, and the fact things like this don't bother me :p

Same.

Its a good film, but I wasn't shocked in anyway that I was expecting to be.
 
Same.

Its a good film, but I wasn't shocked in anyway that I was expecting to be.

You're rarely going to be though by any film of that age. People at the time were shocked, but then again people at the time thought seeing a bit too much leg on TV was shocking!

It's all relative.

I don't find it shocking in a "oh!" kind of way, but I find the story and its implications surprising and a bit shocking when I start to pick it apart. The shock for me isn't a visual thing, it's more how starkly the film portrays certain parts of society and more worryingly how I personally can recognise elements in my own psyche (and I'm no proponent of things like "ultra-violence" before anyone accuses me of being a psycho ;))
 
You're rarely going to be though by any film of that age. People at the time were shocked, but then again people at the time thought seeing a bit too much leg on TV was shocking!

It's all relative.

Not sure about that really. Older films, if anything, are much more disturbing than anything current or in the last 10-15 years. Films like The Exorcist, Psycho or even The Thing are, to me, more freaky both in story and visually.
 
All the outrage and shock at the time of it's release came from The Daily Mail and Express who were mainly concerned with the fact that the feral youth of the day may copy the exploits shown, even though the establishment win in the end. They were just as shocked that such wonderful music (Beethoven) could be linked to ultra violence.Their hypocrisy so annoyed Kubrick that he withdrew the film from any UK release and even banned the release of the film on video, you had to buy a French copy if you wanted to see it.
 
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