Shocking there’s no review for this yet here. My intention, then, was to do one of my “reviewing while watching” style reviews, but I think nothing speaks so well of this movie as the fact that I wrote just one line (that first sentence) before getting so hooked I for once found myself “away” from the computer.

From the very opening tones of Wendy Carlos’ score and the starkly saturated title cards, this movie screams subversion. The opening line, “There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milk Bar, trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening …” – these days, God forbid you should throw out a new word or phrase without explaining what it means about three times over and usually about an hour before it’s important – here we’re given all of Anthony Burgess’ language with only context and tone to interpret by, right from the outset: “Milk plus velocet, synthemesc or drencrom.” – who knows what that means? and yet we do.

The dialogue has so much rhythm to it. That’s what struck me so much about the movie on this viewing. Nevermind how a movie can be so funny, yet so shocking, and yet so intelligent – beyond intelligent – in addition to being one of a kind on the visual scale, chock full of performances, all of which again possess that crazy combo of hilarity and intelligence.

It’s just one of those movies where everything simply comes together. There’s no argument to this one, it is and always will be one of the greatest movies ever made, not to mention one of my favourites. Part of me feels like I should elaborate more in my reviewing of it, but most of me knows, it’s really not necessary. This is about as classic as it gets.

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