This movie is a masterpiece! I watched it for the first time when I was 6 and I loved it then. The nudity, violence, and cursing weren't too much for me because the movie is not glorifying it. I knew that it was a bad thing that they were doing. That didn't make me want to do it. If you're a parent, you know that your children aren't dumb. They will be able to understand the mature themes if you let them watch it. You can tell your children what is in it and ask them if they are ready. Let them pick the right time for this movie. Just be confidant in your child's maturity. The violence and rape all contribute to the story and avoiding it in movies won't teach your children that it is wrong. Nobody would ever really want to be Alex so don't worry about bad role models. Just be prepared to answer your children's questions.

I would say that the movie is really a gem of an art piece. The use of excellent imagery coupled with pretty out-of-the-place background score tells us about the uniqueness of this movie. Stanley Kubrick has really applied a lot of thought into this. The director wants the audience to feel something as bad not because he is showing it as bad but because it really is bad. The background music accompanying the ultra violent scenes is comical, and not dramatic or anything else that is commonly associated with such scenes. This gives the viewer an opportunity to feel the bitterness not because the music hints so but because he himself feels so. Viewer's emotions should arise irrespective of what the director is trying to show, and this is one of the greatest successes of the movie. Another glorifying feature is the central idea of the movie. If a human is striped of the choice to choose from good and evil, he no longer remains a human, he becomes a clockwork. When Alex is brain-washed and "programmed" to choose only good, he wasn't accepted by the society and this shows the irony in the objectives of the British Government. The word Orange from the title presumably comes from the word "Ourange" that loosely means man. And hence the title is so appropriate to the movie. The artificiality in dialogues and sets give the movie a unique feature and enhance the grip on it. This also means that the viewer has to get more involved. This is definitely one of the best technically shot movies, another masterpiece of Kubrick like the Space Oddessey. For the uninitiated, set in near future Britain, the movie shows Malcom MacDowell as the head of a group of youngsters involved in sexual violence. Turn of the events leave the protagonist in the hands of the police. Worried by the growing number of prisoners the British Government devises a method of "programming" them so that they always choose the good. Alex is chosen as one of those on which the new system is to be tested. The rest unfolds as a saga of the very human characteristic. Lastly, I would like to say that you may be compelled to leave the movie in between, but if you are watching it for art and cinematic experience, I recommend you to sit through.

The first half is mature but the second half is tame.

This is an amazing and yet terrifying film. The book is one of my faves, and its a fantastic movie... This shows that film can be an extremely powerful medium, especially in the hands of a director such as Kubrick. This film shows rape, murder, torture/brainwashing, etc. on screen. Dont let young kids watch this.

its explicit sex scenes and violent and nudity way innapropriate

I first read the book for my school's literature club my junior year and fell in love with it. Sure, it's extremely violent and very sexual, especially once 'viddied' in the film, but that shouldn't make anyone dismiss it because it really is an amazing film. Obviously most parents would not want their children watching such acts of violence and definitely not the rape and nudity, but for teenagers and adults who have seen plenty of that in real life and other movies, it's fine... if you don't have a problem with it, of course. All I'm saying is that the movie is a masterpiece (hello, look at all the awards it won/was nominated for) and has a great philosophical message about the importance of choice in life (one of my favourite quotes ever: ?"When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man."). Like most great works of art that include many things that may be considered taboo to certain groups, A Clockwork Orange surely pushes boundaries as a film and as a piece of modern literature (and social commentary). The violence and sexuality are central to the plot and therefore indispensable in a film like this. For teenagers especially, like myself and my peers, the movie is best watched from a subjective and artistic point of view as obviously we shouldn't go around dispensing the old 'in-and-out' or 'ultra-violence' to random people. It's a great movie for those who appreciate literature and good old cult classics with a message, like I do. Oh, but there is a problem with the film that differs it from the novella and might just tip the minds of those who say that it doesn't have a good message: the last chapter. Kubrick's adaptation leaves out Burgess' final chapter in which Alex meets up with his former droog Pete who is married, which makes him rethink his goal in life. If this is taken into account, the whole message of the story is definitely positive as it tells us that not only do we, as humans, require autonomy to live properly, but that we should always be looking to improve ourselves because even those who were once bad (and were brainwashed to be good and then allowed to choose to be bad again) may end up deciding (on their own) to become better citizens. (And don't forget the social/political commentary on totalitarianism and how governments should deal with crime)

This films sucks, I don't understand how any one could like it. It has disturbing violence, bad language, sex, rape, drugs all involving teens. These teens are literally obsessed with this stuff, and they enjoy doing it. They beat people up, and brutally rape women. A young lad kills an innocent woman horribly, smashing her face in. They all just do everything they shouldn't be doing. They all take drugs, in milk. There are 2 uses of f**k, infrequent uses of s**t, but frequent uses of bas****. I hate it, and considering it was made in the 70's, it's is so, so violent and disturbing

absolutely not for kids :-(

Excellent movie, one of the best ever made. The only thing inappropriate about this film was the nudity, teens know what people of both genders look like so I do not consider that a problem. Anybody who has seen saw, hostel etc has seen something 50 times more violent/graphic than this movie. It is a movie that everyone should see in their life time. The first time I saw this I was 10 and it didn't bother me in the least bit. It is extremely thought provoking and unique/bizarre. I would recommend it to everyone.