A CLOCKWORK ORANGE Review On "Violent Maniac's Cage"

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

(1977, UK)

DIRECTED BY: Stanley Kubrick

STARRING: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael bates, Warren Clarke, John Clive, Adrienne Corri, Carl Duering, Paul Farrell, Clive Francis, Michael Gover, Miriam Karlin, James Marcus, Aubrey Morris, Godfrey Quigley.

An ultraviolent classic which is quite different from your usual run of the mill film. It's bizarre but this doesn't mean that it is not enjoyable. We are given a look into future Britan where things have definetly changed along with the people. The film focusses on a young ol jolly chap named Alex (played brillantly by a young Malcolm Macdowell) who is a petty hoodlum. Alex and his drogs roam the city robbing, beating and raping or in his words indulging in a bit of the old ultraviolence and In-out, In-out.

Alex and his gang hang out in a cool bar with statues of nude chicks bonding. They pour their drinks from the statues nipples. Alex must soon show his gang who is the leader but this backfires later as they betray him and he's caught then put in jail. Alex is then signed up for a crimminal re-ablilitation program. This project has Alex injected with a drug and forced to watch gruesome (entertaining?) videos. Soon Alex can't throw a punch or touch a women's naughty parts without feeling extremely ill.

Alex is soon released and he starts retracing his footsteps as a hoodlum without knowing it running into lots of trouble from past victims and friends. Alex gets the full treatment form one of his past victims winding himself up in the hospital. Once there he is cured of his precious treatment and promised a great future. All I can say is watch this film. The second time around it's even more screwed up. Alex's vocabulary consists of such words like righty right, malchick, gulliver along with lots of other uncomprehensible stuff. Tarantino definetly used the drogs walking scene in Reservoir Dogs, its evident.

What else do you have to a say for a film which has a lady bludgeoned to death in the head by a giant ceramic cock. Classic stuff indeed, we need more ceramic cock killing in films.

Rating: 5 Skulls

Review by: Richard J. Taylor

Email: rtaylor@roadrunner.nf.net

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