Review of A Clockwork Orange (1971) by Josh S — 14 Oct 2017

Kubrick mixed genres and made a crossbred picture in 'A Clockwork Orange', and I can't really find the meaning that he tries to give to it, and it's probably better that way. Kubrick's movie has a great composition though, being fascinating to the eye, but also elaborately vulgar and sadistic.

Viewing 'A Clockwork Orange' is like viewing a kaleidoscope while listening Beethoven, it is an appeal to the eye and the ear, but also spotted with disgust and 'ultraviolence' (psychological above all) and shaded with its director's relentless irony and perversity, who intentionally delivers no clear moral in his adaptation of Burgess's novel.

It's an interesting reflection on the connection between entertainment and violence as well.