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A Clockwork Orange [Blu-ray]
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Genre | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
Format | Blu-ray |
Contributor | John Clive, Michael Bates, Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri, Anthony Burgess, Si Litvinoff, Max L. Raab, Miriam Karlin, Stanley Kubrick, Warren Clarke, Carl Duering, Malcolm McDowell See more |
Initial release date | 2007-10-23 |
Language | English |
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Clockwork Orange, A: Special Edition (BD)
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Stanley Kubrick's striking visual interpretation of Anthony Burgess's famous novel is a masterpiece. Malcolm McDowell delivers a clever, tongue-in-cheek performance as Alex, the leader of a quartet of droogs, a vicious group of young hoodlums who spend their nights stealing cars, fighting rival gangs, breaking into people's homes, and raping women. While other directors would simply exploit the violent elements of such a film without subtext, Kubrick maintains Burgess's dark, satirical social commentary. We watch Alex transform from a free-roaming miscreant into a convict used in a government experiment that attempts to reform criminals through an unorthodox new medical treatment. The catch, of course, is that this therapy may be nothing better than a quick cure-all for a society plagued by rampant crime. A Clockwork Orange works on many levels--visual, social, political, and sexual--and is one of the few films that hold up under repeated viewings. Kubrick not only presents colorfully arresting images, he also stylizes the film by utilizing classical music (and Wendy Carlos's electronic classical work) to underscore the violent scenes, which even today are disturbing in their display of sheer nihilism. Ironically, many fans of the film have missed that point, sadly being entertained by its brutality rather than being repulsed by it. --Bryan Reesman
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.66:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 6.75 x 5.25 x 0.5 inches; 2.4 ounces
- Item model number : 3350295
- Director : Stanley Kubrick
- Media Format : Blu-ray
- Run time : 2 hours and 17 minutes
- Release date : October 23, 2007
- Actors : Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri, Miriam Karlin, Michael Bates
- Dubbed: : French
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish, French
- Producers : Max L. Raab, Stanley Kubrick, Si Litvinoff
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby TrueHD 5.1)
- Studio : Studio Distribution Services
- ASIN : B000Q678OO
- Writers : Stanley Kubrick
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #33,754 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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"A Clockwork Orange" is a complex, thoughtful film that deserves the attention that Andersen's book gives it.. The movie is set in England of the future and features a young hoodlum named Alex who also narrates much of the film for the audience through a voice over technique.. The movie is filled with graphic sex and violence particularly ins opening scenes. The film has and retains a large shock value and was banned in its native England for many years. A lover of Beethoven, Alex is a ruthless, sadistic criminal who beats, rapes, robs and ultimately kills with his small gang. His exploits are on display in the first third of the movie. In the middle third of the film, Alex is sent to prison for 14 years for murder but is able to secure early release by subjecting himself to a new therapeutic technique, the Ludovico technique, which is designed to make wrongdoing physically and emotionally repulsive to those undergoing the therapy. The climactic scenes of the film occur with Alex strapped in a chair watching vicious acts of violence and rape similar the types of acts that landed Alex in prison. Among the many problems raised by use of the Ludovico technique and among the many issues suggested by the film is the nature of free will. The film suggests that Alex becomes an automaton as a result of the treatment. The psychiatrists and others using the treatment argue that they are not taking a position on "higher ethical" questions but are instead taking a "pragmatic" approach in that the treatment "works" and will stop antisocial behavior of criminals such as Alex. The final third of the film includes many twists as Alex is released into society again only to confront and to be victimized by many of the people whom he had wronged grievously before he went to jail.
The book I read explores philosophical questions, such as the nature of freedom and the nature of goodness, suggested by the film as well as broad questions about the nature of reality using Plato and his allegory of the cave as a guide. The book also gets inside the film by trying to examine the interaction between the events shown on the screen and the response of the viewers to show how the film is provocative and thoughtful. The film works not merely through the presentation of ideas but though its cinematography, including the use of music, photography, timing, facial expressions, and the many techniques cinema has developed over the years to express feeling and action.
Professor Andersen's book gave me the motivation to see the film and helped shape my response to it. Still, there was an immediacy and a sharpness to this movie that analysis can't fully capture. There is a panache and a brio with the dark humor, the music, and some of the sheer inanity of the situation that give the film a unique and a disturbing character. It held my attention, but I found some of the film more sophomoric than deep. I found it odd to laugh at and to sympathize with a character such as Alex. In addition, I thought the film definitely a product of the America and Britain of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It has the mocking tone of the day. Authority figures including government figures at all levels are lampooned and skewered as are psychiatrists, clergy and parents. America seems to me to be still paying for the attitudes of these days. I don't see much of Plato in them.
"A Clockwork Orange" is a multi-layered provocative film that is a product of its time. It is thoughtful but deserves to be criticized and thought through and thought beyond. It can be watched without over-intellectualization, but I am glad to have seen it in the company of Professor Andersen's book.
Robin Friedman
Get this, the UPS man just delivered my Blue Ray copy of "A Clockwork Orange" while I was writing this review. Not hard to figure what I going to do after I finish this review eh ?
I imagine that younger viewers of this film will wonder what all the fuss was about the violence it portrays having seen films like "Saw" and "Silence of the Lambs" but they didn't grow up in a time where censorship and public mores were much more conservative than they are now. About a month after I first saw the film I ran into a gang of youths dressed like Alex and his Droogs down to the fake eyelashes, codpieces and Bowler hats and beret. Needless to say I gave them a wide berth. The Film gave me an appreciation of Beethoven and Rossini that persists today.
For viewers who liked Malcolm McDowell in the film I suggest:
O' lucky Man
Time after Time
IF
All Malcolm McDowell films where he is the star.
Addendum: I just started watching the Blu Ray and will inform purchasers that the Blu Ray starts the movie without any menu being presented to the viewer. The menu is available by pressing the menu button but it is a menu for special features only and has no chapter function. This is mollified by the fact that this Blu Ray restarts where it left off when you press stop. I wish all Blu rays would do this.
Further Addendum: The Blu Ray has chapters which can be accessed with the chapter forward and back keys on the remote. It just has no chapter menu function.
Now I have just finished watching the film and all of the superb extra features. I can recommend this films extras as this is one of the few times I bothered to watch the extras and they are very informative and entertaining.
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