jgcorrea
Joined Oct 1999
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An extremely slow yet highly compelling film about a space virus with a 99.9% death rate in minutes. The computer tech is ancient though extremely convincing for its age and the movie makes the tech and procedures as real as possible which just increases the effectiveness.
The set design is 70s minimal but very cool and feels futuristic and cutting edge.
And of course the main culprit is the government and its quest for wartime supremacy which is super realistic.
This could have been really boring. Robert Wise was a hell of a director to pull this off. Almost as good as I Want To Live or The Set Up.
The set design is 70s minimal but very cool and feels futuristic and cutting edge.
And of course the main culprit is the government and its quest for wartime supremacy which is super realistic.
This could have been really boring. Robert Wise was a hell of a director to pull this off. Almost as good as I Want To Live or The Set Up.
What surprised me among the comments made by viewers on this page was the fact that none of them (!) even understood that - just like in M. Night SHyamalan's classic film, "The Sixth Sense", all the characters who testify in interviews are dead and therefore questioned by Our Lord, who pronounces the final words in the last scene. Konchalovsky also directed Tango & Cash (1989) - very bad - The Odyssey (1997 TV miniseries ) - ditto, The Inner Circle: An Inside View of Soviet Life Under Stalin (1991) - his most admirable work , Runaway Train (1985) quite good, The Lion in Winter (2003) etc. Etc.
It has been called snide, overdrawn, Nietzschean, talky , tasteless, ¨the first punk tragicomedy,¨ ¨a chain-whipped cartoon meditation on Good, Evil, and Free Will.¨ In fact, it is a brilliant nightmare employing outrageous vulgarity, stark brutality and a little sophisticated comedy.
Overall a chilling classic, a scabrous satire about deviance, brutality, and social conditioning that eventually remained a visible part of the ongoing debate on violence as well as movie violence.
Kubrick's litteral reading of Burgess's very Catholic allegorical novel may be morally confused but tremendously powerful. And, for that reason, A Clockwork Orange must be considered a landmark of modern cinema. Kubrick created a disorienting human comedy, a terrible sum-up of where the world is.
Overall a chilling classic, a scabrous satire about deviance, brutality, and social conditioning that eventually remained a visible part of the ongoing debate on violence as well as movie violence.
Kubrick's litteral reading of Burgess's very Catholic allegorical novel may be morally confused but tremendously powerful. And, for that reason, A Clockwork Orange must be considered a landmark of modern cinema. Kubrick created a disorienting human comedy, a terrible sum-up of where the world is.