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What Kubrick has made from Burgess's fantasy is a plush animated cartoon, with extraordinary color consistency (credit John Alcott's lights), one acceptable action setpiece (a gang battle, not the "Singin' in the Rain" sequence), and a cast of characters in no way as interesting and varied as that of Fritz the Cat. The Ludovico Treatment, not as indispensable to the book's development as Burgess's language and characters, not only dominates the film's outlook, but the way in which it works...
...weak, the ordinary and the feminine, in the exquisite tastelessness of that first brutal hour, the sensibility of A Clockwork Orange is pure Rolling Stones. Pop vulgarity in all its ambiguity. At one point, Alex, in the midst of rape and assault, breaks into the old Fred Astaire number "Singin in the Rain," and all the contradictions pour through. The scene is morally obscene, but technically masterful. It is appalling, as it should be, and exhilarating, as it should not. The film works in its pose, not its substance, and its emotional attraction has nothing to do with morality...
...Singin' the Blues
...Singin' the Blues
...Miss American pie, Drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye, Singin' 'This'll be the day that...