It's brilliant. Kubrick shot it several years after Anthony
Burgess published the book "a Clockwork Orange" and made the book
famous. It has remained the book Burgess is most remembered
for.
Kubrick is simply a genuis director. I found the images from the
movie very stylish and absolutely unforgettable. The violence in
the movie caused quite a scandal when CWO was released (early 70s,
I believe), but from today's point of view, it is not particularly
explicit - it's the atmosphere, the sound, the wonderfully chosen
actors and above all Kubrick's work with the camera make it highly
intense and provocative. The language is cool, too: Burgess
invented a sort of artificial language called nadsat which consists
of 'englishized' Russian words. The way he makes use of it through
the characters is almost poetic! Kubrick chose plenty of phrases
from and has them narrated by Alex, who is also the protagonis of
the story. I felt that after watching the movie, I heard those
funny terms reverberating in my head for several days, and after
having read the book, I was astonished how much of the beauty of
the language of the book Kubrick managed to put into this 2h or so
movie.
To make it short: Viddy the movie, droog! I's worth it!
