"For Burgess, and the character of the prison chaplain, it's a matter of liberty to choose between good and evil, wherever it takes us: the author claims to have sickened himself by having to depict such garish atrocities to forge his argument. Kubrick talked instead about how Alex 'represents the id, the savage repressed side of our nature which guiltlessly enjoys the pleasures of rape', a reading for which the director had to find rampant and joyful stylistic expression. This emphasis leaves the film open to attack on, above all, feminist grounds: it revels in what are ecstatic fantasies of the released id for men only, with women as titillating props."
In The Telegraph, Tim Robey marks the fortieth anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.
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