Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Hi hi my little droogs


A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Directed by Stanley Kubrick this film based on the novel of the same name stars Malcolm McDowell, James Marcus and Warren Clarke. In the future the leader of a gang of young thugs gets caught and punished for his crimes.

Despite deviating a little from the source material this film does a great job of posing the questions of what is goodness and how our criminal system should work (punishment, revenge, reform). There is some great use of language which is a sort of mix of slang and Shakespeare that really brings the world alive. While there are some iconic sequences it does look like the film was made on a limited budget some of the locations and sets date the film.

5/5

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