Based on 56 votes and 2 reviews.
I went to my religion class in Grade 12 at St. Paul's High School in Winnipeg. Our religion teacher was Father John Pungente who was on the Manitoba FIlm Censor Board. Fr. Pungente said that a movie would open today and then it would be closed down by the police so that if we wanted to see it then we better go that afternoon. A bunch of us students skipped school and caught A Clockwork Orange that afternoon and as predicted the police shut down the movie later that day. Fast forward about 30 years and I was in Toronto and saw that the movie was going to be shown on the tube so I thought I would check it out again. That is when I had a Twilight Zone experience because Dr. John Pungente was introducing the movie on Bravo. Great movie with great story, music and message about "free will" and what can come with it.
Science fiction masterwork about an amoral youth in a recognizable future, the future of coddled society. Alex is a psychopath who loves rape, Beethoven, and ultraviolence. Ultraviolence, ultrabeethoven, ultrarape. Nothing in half-measure, except for the ignorance of a society that thinks it has everything figured out. We still can't accept human nature. Kubrick knew this.