A Clockwork Orange for the first time.
I liked it very much. Even though it's such an old movie I had managed to be surprisingly unspoiled about the plot of this movie. I had seen that classic picture of them in the white clothes and sitting in the milk bar, and I've seen some brief clips of them being horrible people. That's all I had seen, so that's what I thought the entire movie would be. I was very surprised when the second act I suppose began and the whole prison bit came. Had no idea. And what happens next was really powerful.
Kubrick is of course a great director. His visual style is very different. Not flawless to me though, as I was distracted at a few moments by some strange choices.
And there are some terrible cases of overacting in there, especially Alex's mentor or whatever in the beginning, and of course the writer towards the end. I thought that was just bad, didn't like that.
What surprised me most about the movie was definetely the character of Alex himself. Over the years I had formed this mental image of that character as this weird and ruthless criminal anarchist, but that was about it. When that first night was over and he comes home and I understood that he was just a kid, still in school, it really surprised me. Alex as a character really became a person and was truly what ultimately made this movie great.
But, sometimes when he talked he sounded like Eric Idle, and the prison guard sounded like John Cleese, so sometimes I got a feeling I was watching Monty Python
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