Stanley Kubrick

American film director, screenwriter, producer and photographer, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers; known for films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Dr. Strangelove, and Full Metal Jacket.

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  1. 1. Clockwork Orange

    A first-person account of a charismatic but brutal teenager who leads a gang in a near-future dystopia, committing acts of “ultraviolence” until arrested and subjected to an experimental state-sponsored aversion therapy that strips him of the capacity to choose, turning questions of punishment, control, and moral responsibility into a public spectacle; the story probes whether true reform can be imposed or must come from within, and critiques the use of power by both individuals and the state.