09/11/2005 Just like Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange starts in the air, with brilliant helicopter shots. The following build up is pretty tense, but the explosion gets straightout boring. Kubrick is clearly no horror director. Faces and camerawork are outstanding in the better part, but in the second half the madness seems overdesigned and undertold, sterile perfection. The shameless stereotyping of the black cook being the most disturbing element.
A disrespectful view this is: the master gets boring every time he let's moral come into play.
Same for Barry Lyndon.
And what a joyful exception Dr. Strangelove is to this rule, where indeed it seems the director himself stopped worrying for a moment, giving over to the insane humor.
