15 Cult Movie Gems You Can Watch On Netflix

8. A Clockwork Orange

A cold, austere, challenging film, Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (again adapted from another cult novel, this time Anthony Burgess' of the same name) is one of the most cult all of all time. A film which helped ease the control of violence in the cinema (see also: Bonnie and Clyde and The Wild Bunch), Orange was stark in its depictions of brutal beatings and savage rape, the latter occurring to the tune of Singin' in the Rain to thrust upon cinema an irreverent, controversial new approach to screen violence. Praised by some and absolutely despised by others, the film remains one of the most polarising of all time, with those in Camp A heralding Kubrick's biting take on modern society and its desensitised delinquents, and those in Camp B seeing nothing more than cheap pornography, with influential New Yorker critic, Pauline Kael, calling Kubrick a "bad pornographer" with an "arctic spirit". It's true that the film has dated, and it's even stale in parts, not quite as clever as it thinks it is. But there's still no taking away from its power or influence, which at the time was so great that Kubrick himself withdrew the film from release in the United Kingdom, the director making the moral decision to do so out of growing concern against the copycat nature of a series of crimes which succeeded the film's release. (The film is not, then, as legend has it, one of Britain's infamous Video Nasties; the decision was made by Kubrick and Kubrick alone).
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