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Topic	The SephG Top 250 [movies] - Topic II: the top 75
Nelson_Mandela 07/15/19 3:08:11 PM #279:	#3. A Clockwork Orange https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/A_Clockwork_Orange_%281971%29.png Dir: Stanley Kubrick Genre: Suspense/Thriller, Crime Year: 1971 *SephG Superlative: The greatest suspense/thriller ever; the greatest adaptation ever; the greatest British movie ever; the greatest European movie ever; the greatest movie of the 1970s* Watching A Clockwork Orange is like a masochist getting smacked in the face for the first time. At first youre shocked, kind of disturbed at what just happened. But as the sting settles in, you start to realize, against all sense of logic and human evolution, that you really enjoyed it, and you want more. I must have been like 12 or 13 when I watched A Clockwork Orange for the first time. It left me feeling pretty weird and bad at what I just watched--as it would make most people that age feel. But as the final note of Beethovens Ninth kept lingering in my head, I knew that I had to have more. And my journey into Kubrick and into arthouse cinema began. A Clockwork Orange is a rare instance of an adaptation of a literary classic done right--precisely because Kubrick made it his own. Everything from the colors to the costumes to the eerie electronic soundtrack is just brimming with originality and creativity. To this day, there has been nothing quite like that opening pan across the Korova Milk Bar with Alex and his droogs sitting upon the colorful nude mannequins. It evokes a feeling thats incomparable and hard to describe. But thats A Clockwork Orange in a nutshell. A Clockwork Orange is sometimes criticized for being exploitative--violence for the sake of violence, with no real purpose. However, this is a lazy misreading of the film, in my opinion. Perhaps more than any of Kurbicks major films, A Clockwork Orange has a real moral truth to it: that humans can be inherently evil, and societys attempt at blanket rehabilitation is an ultimately fruitless and dangerous endeavor. All of this is telegraphed in one look, one stare from the inimitable Malcolm McDowell at the very end, as Beethovens Ninth reaches a climax and that lingering note sticks in your brain--when you realize you liked the feeling of that smack across the face, and you want more. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso <cite>Nelson_Mandela posted [p:924723564] in The SephG ... [t:77811548]...</cite> <quote>#3. A Clockwork Orange https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/A_Clockwork_Orange_%281971%29.png Dir: Stanley Kubrick Genre: Suspense/Thriller, Crime Year: 1971 SephG Superlative: The greatest suspense/thriller ever; the greatest adaptation ever; the greatest British movie ever; the greatest European movie ever; the greatest movie of the 1970s Watching A Clockwork Orange is like a masochist getting smacked in the face for the first time. At first youre shocked, kind of disturbed at what just happened. But as the sting settles in, you start to realize, against all sense of logic and human evolution, that you really enjoyed it, and you want more. I must have been like 12 or 13 when I watched A Clockwork Orange for the first time. It left me feeling pretty weird and bad at what I just watched--as it would make most people that age feel. But as the final note of Beethovens Ninth kept lingering in my head, I knew that I had to have more. And my journey into Kubrick and into arthouse cinema began. A Clockwork Orange is a rare instance of an adaptation of a literary classic done right--precisely because Kubrick made it his own. Everything from the colors to the costumes to the eerie electronic soundtrack is just brimming with originality and creativity. To this day, there has been nothing quite like that opening pan across the Korova Milk Bar with Alex and his droogs sitting upon the colorful nude mannequins. It evokes a feeling thats incomparable and hard to describe. But thats A Clockwork Orange in a nutshell. A Clockwork Orange is sometimes criticized for being exploitative--violence for the sake of violence, with no real purpose. However, this is a lazy misreading of the film, in my opinion. Perhaps more than any of Kurbicks major films, A Clockwork Orange has a real moral truth to it: that humans can be inherently evil, and societys attempt at blanket rehabilitation is an ultimately fruitless and dangerous endeavor. All of this is telegraphed in one look, one stare from the inimitable Malcolm McDowell at the very end, as Beethovens Ninth reaches a climax and that lingering note sticks in your brain--when you realize you liked the feeling of that smack across the face, and you want more. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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