Talkie Zoo: A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

This is Stanley Kubrick's very strange film, made in 1971. A Clockwork Orange broke ground for a few reasons, one of which is the way the movie goes from the title straight to the story without showing credits. While we have a lot of movies like that today, 40 years ago it just wasn't done.

Another is the way this movie addresses social problems and crimes. Yes, it's a sci-fi film but also a social commentary, trying to answer the question "How can a society/government completely eliminate all crime and evil?"

I didn't actually find a film rating for this movie, but I'd give it an "R" rating due to the violent, language, drug use, and full frontal nudity of women.

The story follows Alex, a young criminal in a somewhat lawless society, and his gang, as they go about doing mayhem, raping, and just plain being bad fellows. They are killing, raping, taking milk laced with drugs, abusing diet pills...you name it. He is caught by what little police there are and sent to prison, where he volunteers to be part of an experiment designed to make criminals so abhor bad acts that they become physically ill if they even encounter the slightest urge to perform them. They accomplish this through a series of torturous activities designed to so break the criminal's own will that they will never return to crime again.

The scene changes are intentionally rough and somewhat skewed, helping the viewer to engage in a film that's not about true life as we know it, but more of a "trip".