A Clockwork Orange
“Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven.”
In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?
Stanley Kubrick
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specimenb
1mo ago
*A Clockwork Orange* was garbage to me: a smug, ugly film that mistakes shock value for depth. It spends so much time glamorizing Alex’s cruelty that its supposed message about violence, free will, and state control feels muddled rather than meaningful. Yes, the movie is visually distinctive, and Malcolm McDowell is committed, but neither made the experience enjoyable. The artificial slang, col...
Niemand
3y ago
The film is based on Anthony Burgess‘ novel about young Alex Delarge and his droogs who go around tolchocking people and partaking of the ultraviolence and the old in-out-in-out. Yes, the language is a futuristic mix of Russian, slang and made-up words that Burgess employed so that the futuristic language employed would never sound dated. He called it Nadsat. By the end of the film, for better ...
Geronimo1967
3y ago
This is a truly challenging film that routinely glorifies violence - especially towards women, and offers us a terrifying appraisal of the effects of unfettered government and science working in cahoots with each other. Fifty years on from it's groundbreaking release, it's great to watch this on a big screen again - and though the imagery is much less potent that it was in 1971, the performance fr...
