A Clockwork Orange

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    A Clockwork Orange
    1971

    Synopsis

    In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?

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    Cast

    • Malcolm McDowellAlex DeLarge
    • Patrick MageeFrank Alexander
    • Michael BatesChief Guard Barnes
    • Carl DueringDr. Brodsky
    • Warren ClarkeDim
    • James MarcusGeorgie
    • Michael TarnPete
    • Miriam Karlin"Catlady" Weathers
    • Adrienne CorriMary Alexander
    • Sheila RaynorMum

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Austin Chronicle

      A chilling classic, the movie is a scabrous satire about human deviance, brutality, and social conditioning that has remained a visible part of the ongoing public debate about violence and the movies.
    • 100

      TV Guide Magazine

      Kubrick's liberal, anti-authoritarian reading of Anthony Burgess's very Catholic allegorical novel is morally confused but tremendously powerful... No serious moviegoer can afford to ignore it.
    • 100

      ReelViews

      It demands thought, compels the attention, and refuses to be dismissed. And, for that reason, A Clockwork Orange must be considered a landmark of modern cinema.
    • 100

      Chicago Tribune

      Kubrick's contributions are his wit and his eye. The wit, too much at times, is as biting as in "Dr. Strangelove," and the production, while of another order, is as spectacular as in "2001." [11 Feb 1972]
    • 100

      Empire

      A much-maligned and misunderstood classic, this is one of Kubrick's finest movies.
    • 90

      The New York Times

      It seems to me that by describing horror with such elegance and beauty, Kubrick has created a very disorienting but human comedy, not warm and lovable, but a terrible sum- up of where the world is at... Because it refuses to use the emotions conventionally, demanding instead that we keep a constant, intellectual grip on things, it's a most unusual--and disorienting--movie experience.
    • 80

      Variety

      A brilliant nightmare... The film employs outrageous vulgarity, stark brutality and some sophisticated comedy to make an opaque argument for the preservation of respect for man's free will - even to do wrong.
    • 80

      Village Voice

      The first punk tragicomedy, a chain-whipped cartoon meditation on Good, Evil, and Free Will that is as seductive as it is tasteless. That Kubrick misjudged the distance between comedy and cruelty seems to be unarguable.

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