Today I've watched A CLOCKWORK ORANGE for the very first time. I had already seen other films from Kubrick as SHINING or EYES WIDE SHUT but I had never picked up this one, which is called to be one of his greatest masterpieces. Today I did it and I didn't regret as it is in fact a very good film! It stills not my favourite from this director since I liked those I did refer better, but it's a great movie with a great message.
It's not the best film ever made as some people say but I would not mind to call it a masterpiece because it really has some brilliant scenes, messing up with the "standards of modern society", religion, politics, and some of them are done with great sense of humor! One scene I recall, to be against the "correct standards" - and it should have been a "shock" back in 1971 - was that one when the leading character, by reading the bible, imagines himself whipping Christ on his way to the Calvary, wearing a Roman centurion uniform! It's done in such a way that it's even a bit humorous!
On the other hand I did appreciate the final message of the movie (at least what I understood from it...), which is either you play right or wrong, you do good or evil, you are always protected if you are with the mighty ones... Not that I agree or follow this, but it's in fact what happens in real life, and I see this film and this message as a way to criticize our "modern societies" and the way they are ruled nowadays. 1971 or 2015, at this issue the difference isn't that much...
The soundtrack is superb, it's based on classical music, but they put some "futuristic" electro-synthesized pieces of Beethoven in the most improvable scenes (violence, WWII...)
A great movie from a master called Stanley Kubrick!
It's not the best film ever made as some people say but I would not mind to call it a masterpiece because it really has some brilliant scenes, messing up with the "standards of modern society", religion, politics, and some of them are done with great sense of humor! One scene I recall, to be against the "correct standards" - and it should have been a "shock" back in 1971 - was that one when the leading character, by reading the bible, imagines himself whipping Christ on his way to the Calvary, wearing a Roman centurion uniform! It's done in such a way that it's even a bit humorous!
On the other hand I did appreciate the final message of the movie (at least what I understood from it...), which is either you play right or wrong, you do good or evil, you are always protected if you are with the mighty ones... Not that I agree or follow this, but it's in fact what happens in real life, and I see this film and this message as a way to criticize our "modern societies" and the way they are ruled nowadays. 1971 or 2015, at this issue the difference isn't that much...
The soundtrack is superb, it's based on classical music, but they put some "futuristic" electro-synthesized pieces of Beethoven in the most improvable scenes (violence, WWII...)
A great movie from a master called Stanley Kubrick!