Weekly What are you watching thread #19

I finally watched A Clockwork Orange all the way through. I tried watching it before several times but was always put off by it feeling like I'm watching gratuitous misery porn. Well, I must say that on actually finishing it my opinion of the film has significantly improved. I somewhat enjoyed the story, and I can see that there was an attempt to convey some greater message, but to me it feels a bit vapid, like it makes a statement but then fails to explore it in any meaningful way. This made me feel like the movie is a bit empty- by the end the main character is barely different from the man he was in the beginning, and similarly I feel no wiser than when I started watching this film. I know that there was an entire chapter of the book cut out from the film, and I'm wondering if having it be left in would have given me a better sense of closure for this story.

I will say that the film is very memorable if anything, and the world in which it takes place stands out in being neither too foreign nor mundane which I liked.