This must be the beautifully weird and totally insane movie I’ve ever seen. Directed by the masterful Stanley Kubrick, I had been looking forward to seeing it ever since I read a review of it by Terje, and it surely didn’t disappoint.

“A Clockwork Orange” is based on a classic SF novel and must be one of the best movie-adaptations ever made. Everything from the opening scene to the psychotically interesting language had me in turns grinning madly to staring bewildered at something that I got the feeling I didn’t quite get but still loved regardlessly. The language was the thing that I liked the most about the story. Imagine if you will, a cross between somewhat normal, modern English mixed with really old sentence structure and Shakespearian verbs and spiced up with totally new expressions like “it was total horrorshow” instead of “it was really cool” and sprinkled with words that may either have been imported from other languages or may also have been totally fictional. Anyways; it was pure genius.

While I won’t begin to profess that I got all the subtleties of this movie, I will however remark upon the plot and morality, which wasn’t that hard to get. It’s always funny to watch a bit older SF movies, as the thematic of them are very different from today’s focus on problems like “global warming”. This isn’t a movie you watch for excitements sake, so the plot isn’t naturally structured that way.

All in all this was one of the best movies I’ve seen in some time. It won’t be a favourite of mine or anything like that, but I certainly thought it better than Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket”. But I’m weird that way (too). 9,0 /10.