It took me a while to get into it (maybe 'cause I've never read the book) but, once I did, it was good.
It wouldn't have helped to had read the book first. The slang is the same in both instances, and the movie made it easier to wrap my mind around what the words referred to than if I had tried to read the book in the first place. Definitely read the book, though, with the 21st chapter if you can find it.
theres nothing to say about this movie that hasnt already been said. but, its unnerving to me when i can relate to a character in such a fucking insanely brutal movie like this. oh, to beat someone with a giant statue of a cock.. the pleasures we normal folk will never know.. .. wait, what!?
It’s almost become part of the furniture and thus hard to disentangle from the hubris, but it is a truly remarkable dystopian cartoon, realised with methodical skill and invention. The metaphorical allusions may be simple, but the rush of baroque pop-art imagery and swaggering dialogue still thrills after repeated viewings. A comedy told with little sense of humour.
An amazing, stylish and inventive thrill ride with equal parts peculiarity, oddity and memorable characters, scenes and dialog. If you haven't read the original book you should, it is amazingly like a transcript of the film only in reverse -- well, you know what a mean. A classic in the most pragmatic way.
A Kubrickian overindulgence. Despite occasional moments of brilliance, the pop decor and unorthodox vision seem little more than novelty. Any depth this film might appear to have was taken directly from Burgess' novel. This film is a very pretty piece of very thin paper.
Kubrick's sardonic black comedy has aged gracefully through the years. Criticized for glorifying violence, the movie can now be seen as a disturbing social commentary. It raises the questions: is the cure better than the disease? Are we willing to accept free will from all men, even criminals? Is mechanical goodness worse than authentic wickedness? This movie will haunted long after you see it.
I'd forgotten how funny it is! That's the problem with affording something 'cult' status...
excelente Julio Riveros.. exelente comentario de la película... simplemente maravillosa
