Day: May 26, 2010

This week I am going to review “A Clockwork Orange” based on the book of the same name and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The movie stars Malcolm McDowell, as Alex, who also narrators the story, which adds great commentary throughout the movie.
The movie starts off with Alex and his 3 Droogs, Russian for friends, beating up a homeless man and fighting a small gang who are attempting to have a “good” time with a woman. The 4 of them travel out into the country and manage to convince a man to let them in his house and they have a “good” time with his wife. They end up in the Korova Milk Bar, where milk is served with drugs, where Alex hears a woman singing Beethoven. Dim, one of the Droogs, interupts her and Alex hits Dim for doing that.
The next part is the night after, Dim and Georgie tried to create a “new way” but failed, so they go to a woman house for a “good” time. While there Alex and the woman fight and Alex kills her. Before leaving Alex gets hit by his droogs with a milk bottle, temporally blinding him causing him to get caught by to police.
Alex is sentenced to jail for 14 years, 2 years into it Alex is a model prisoner and in turn is selected for an experimental treatment that will cure him of all of his violent tendencies for good. He does the treatment where the doctors show videos of extreme violence while he has a drug injected into him that makes him sick. During the treatment the doctors play Beethoven causing him to have the same feeling as he now does with violence.
Alex is now released and his parents have rented out his room to a man that believes he is a better soon than Alex ever was, now making him homeless. While walking in the city he is about to get beaten up by the homeless man he initially beat up, but is saved by the police, his old droogs Dim and Georgie. The two of them bring him out into the country and beat him nearly to death. I am not going to ruin the ending so I am going to leave you with that.
In the end this is a great movie and a must see. You will love it and it is for sure a classic. So I say watch it!
-5 out of 5 on the bigberry scale