Directly influenced by Matsumoto's Funeral Procession of Roses, Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange is violent dark comedy that pushed the envelope on many levels—visual, social, political, and sexual—and is one of a very few films that remains as divisive today as when it was first released.  Kubrick, influenced by Matsumoto's split-second editing, youth gang imagery, and accelerated montage sequences, created a film that is rightly known as a masterpiece of visceral horror.