A Clockwork Orange [HD DVD]

 

 

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This movie is a genuine classic. The picture quality on Blue-ray is outstanding. Amazing what these guys can do with old film. If you have never viewed this movie...what are you waiting for ? The sound track isn't going to blow anyone away, so this movie isn't going to show off that aspect of your home theatre, but the story and picture more than make up for it.This is a must have title for anyones collection. Also, there is a recent interview with Malcolm McDowell and his friends and family that id definately worth a watch.Many of the movies from this time period haven't aged well as far as the story lines go. But Kubrick was way ahead of his time when he put this movie out.

Received the DVD in good time the quality was new & sealed. Highly recommended, will buy from this seller again

Fresh from the success of 2001, Stanley Kubrick continues his forays into the future in this Orwellian tale of twenty first century dystopia. Written in 1962, released in theatres in 1970 and set in 1995, A Clockwork Orange delves into the strange fetishes and inclinations towards violence of a group of young drug addled street thugs who terrorize for the sheer visceral thrill and who rob and steal for the financial payoff of which they generate towards more drugs and more crime in a vicious repeating cycle. This dark futuresque vision was innovative in its time and won Stanley Kubrick some academy award nominations in 1970, the year it was released.
The movie starts with them at a local milk bar after having drunken milk laced with synthetic mescaline and adrenachrome. They then go on a few days of craziness through the streets and suburbs of London with all of this culminating in a final climactic act of horrific murder.
The hapless murderer is sent to a reform school and it is at this point that the real point of the movie is made.
The hero of the story, Alexander DeLarge is sent to H.M. Prison Parkmoor and volunteers for a controversial treatment intended to reform prisoners and to curb recidivism of the prison population.
The treatment involves the use of liberal doses of psychedelic and hallucinogenic drugs as well as the forced viewing of violent films. The level of enforcement of the viewing is so profound that eyelid clamps to keep the eyelids open is used as well as the frequent application of saline solution.

At this point, the author points out that the meaning of the title is that mankind is mostly a programmed animal going to work, the 9 to 5 ritualization but his innate essence is juicy and sweet like an orange, so that man is an exploited orange, a clockwork orange and perhaps with a catastrophic shock can man awaken to his true nature.

Through such treatments meant to induce an integral shock to the core of the system, Alexander is temporarily deprogrammed but with undesirable consequences.

At the end of the movie only with finding the balance between the civilized and the savage, the technological and the primeval is true happiness found.

Anthony Burgess also observes in this novel that the everyday speaking of the English language changes over time and new slang is constantly being formed as old slang steadily goes obsolete.

This is one of the finest movies ever made. Malcolm McDowell who starred in this movie moved on to even greater fame starring in Penthouse Magazine Bob Guccione's Caligula as the lurid and ill-fated Roman Emperor.

A Clockwork Orange also features Godfrey Quigley as the prison chaplain. He would also appear in the next Stanley Kubrick movie, Barry Lyndon as the Chevalier du Balibari.
Philip Stone is Alex's father in this movie. He would go on to appear in not one but two of the Stanley Kubrick movies. He would appear as the solicitor to the Lyndon estate in Barry Lyndon. And he would appear as Grady, the former caretaker of the Overlook Hotel.

The movie is very British and unlike other Stanley Kubrick movies in this one he makes no disguises or pretenses that he is filming in England, so there is a no restraint, no holds barred opening to the local atmosphere which supports and helps create this film.

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