A Clockwork Orange: Unfairly Judged

I am a frequent visitor of rottentomatoes.com and the other day I was talking to a friend about this review he read online about a clockwork orange. He said that it was very brash and uncalled for.  when i read it I instantly agreed.  The review almosts feels like she didn’t see the film and instead was forming her opinion of the film after what her baptist friends were telling her.  Give it a look. see what you think about.  If you have’t seen it, give it a shot, see what you think.

A Clockwork Orange
Capsule by Dave Kehr
From the Chicago Reader

A very bad film–snide, barely competent, and overdrawn–that enjoys a perennial popularity, perhaps because its confused moral position appeals to the secret Nietzscheans within us. It’s a movie that Leopold and Loeb would have loved, endorsing brutality in the name of nonconformism. At best, Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film suggests an Animal House with bogus intellectual trappings. But the trappings–the rationalizations and spurious arguments–are what make it genuinely irresponsible, genuinely abhorrent. With Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, and Michael Bates. R, 137 min.

~ by brettswanson on December 8, 2008.