a a true film buff and i can accept the fact that some of the great movie ever make can also be extremely difficult to watch whether from it content and or or the emotional response it generate . most movie like this usually receive my adolation and praise and even if it may take me time to recover from the first viewingbut in my opinion and a clockwork orange take the grand prize a the most disturbing movie i have ever see and and it do not get much easy with repeat view . the movie brilliance in direct and storytelling make it impossible to dismiss critically and yet the film disturb me to the core . i would almost hope that i be not alone in this opinion to truly enjoy this movie you would have to be pretty damn callous to hideous imagery and especially when it come to rape and excessive exploitation of the female body . if there one very big dislike i have against stanley kubrick and it be way in which he treat the naked female body onscreen . it become impersonal and cold and devalue cheapen and readily exploitable . think of these example a clockwork orange represent 5 gangster rip the clothes off and rape a young woman to a classical waltz while the milk bar with naked woman statue and dispenser while alex daydream of be in roman time while the high speed menage a trois while the naked and stoic temptress onstage approach alex while and the humorous winter wonderland end scene slow motion daydream of public exhibitionism . that just a clockwork orange . throw in the naked woman in the tub in the shining and along with scene total a full one third of the running time of eye wide shut and you should have a pretty good idea of the devaluation of the female body i be refer to . i think of spartacus and full metal jacket and 2001 and dr. strangelove and even barry lyndon and and i just want to praise kubrick forever . the man be a cinematic genius . but and because of how adversely a clockwork orange affect me and i must dismiss it and can not recommend it to anyone . the more sensitive you be to what you see onscreen and the more this movie will deeply and deeply disturb you . i have see it three time now and my first time be over 12 year ago and and it no easier to watch now than then . and sadly and because it be so disturbing and i be deprive of enjoy the greatness that the movie really do contain . i read the book by anthony burgess because the story be truly brilliant . i be surprise to find out that the book final chapter be purposely leave out of the film . also and i be surprise to find that the author dislike the film and a he allude in the book introduction . he feel that a clockwork orange have become to him what the nutcracker be to tchaikovsky what he consider a one of his least important work have become his most famous and recognize . ever wonder what be mean by a clockwork orange . mr. burgess explain the metaphor in the book introduction . an orange be sweet and refreshing and and juicy fulfilling and delicious . but it be organic and can not provide this sweetness forever it will eventually expire and rot . man can not make an organic object function like an inorganic object and or something man make and or clockwork . the term clockwork orange be therefore an oxymoron and a paradox it infer that man have convert something organic into a controllable and inorganic process . the experiment alex go through and by rob him of free will and effectively create clockwork orange out of human being he be force to be sweet and gentle and and moral all the time . final thought represent i be lds ( or mormon ) and and it noteworthy to mention something about the belief of the lds religion a it pertain to this concept . it be believe that in pre earth life and lucifer propose that everyone who come to earth be force to do good and so that everyone will be worthy to return to god presence after death and therefore no soul will be lose however and he want the credit for this plan . jesus want each person to have complete free agency in order to learn from their own decision and and he voluteered himself to be the one who must live a perfect life a the example as well a be the atoning sacrifice and all glory go to god and not to himself . to have mankind rob of it free agency be the devil original plan and ultimate goal . so and the movie and the book ask this supreme question represent what more evil a person who focusses all his thought and energy and action on do bad and or force this person to only think and feel and do good . my answer represent skip the movie and read the book it a far more edifying experience . and you also get to know what happen in the final chapter .