This is Crime-Drama-Sci Fi film, directed by Stanley Kubrick, in the cast, Malcolm McDowell as main character.
The film is based in the same name novel, written by Anthony Burgess.
It tells us the story of Alex DeLarge, a young british who lives in the future Britain, with his parents in a poor suburban neighbourhood. Alex is a charismatic, psychopathic delinquent whose pleasures are classical music (especially Beethoven), rape, and ultra-violence. He spend the time raiding houses, raping women and fighting in the streets, with his friends, the droogs (this is the way that Alex uses to call his friends, they all participate in a gang). Alex narrates most of the film in Nadsat, a language based in a mix of russian and english.
The film tells the horrific crimes of his gang, his capture, and attempted rehabilitation via a controversial technique.
One day, at night, Alex and his droogs invade the mansion of a woman. Alex hits the woman with a phallic statue, and when he hears the police sirens approaching the house, he tries to run away, but is attacked by his droogs, who leave him stunned and bleeding. Alex is captured by the police, they says his that the woman has died, making him a murderer. Alex is sentenced to 14 years in jail.
Two years into the sentence, the Minister of the Interior arrives at the prison looking for volunteers for the Ludovico technique, an experimental aversion therapy for rehabilitating criminals. The process involves drugging Alex while strapping him to a chair, forcing his eyelids to stay open, and subjecting him to watch violent movies. Alex, initially pleased by the violent images, starts to become repulsed due to the drugs; he soon realises that the films soundtracks are by his favourite composer Ludwing van Beethoven, and that the Ludovico technique will make him averse to that and tries to end the treatment to no avail.
I really like this film because it shows us the way how politicians and states can use people to achieve their objectives. Also the film in its time (1972) was really controversial, even in many countries it was censured, and I think that this makes it more interesting. And for finished, Blur (the britpop band) made a video based in A Clockwork Orange, for the song The Universal.
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y favourite movie is A Clockwork Orange.
This is Crime-Drama-Sci Fi film, directed by Stanley Kubrick, in the cast, Malcolm McDowell as main character.
The film is based in the same name novel, written by Anthony Burgess.
It tells us the story of Alex DeLarge, a young british who lives in the future Britain, with his parents in a poor suburban neighbourhood. Alex is a charismatic, psychopathic delinquent whose pleasures are classical music (especially Beethoven), rape, and ultra-violence. He SVA spend the time raiding houses, raping women and fighting in the streets, with his friends, the droogs (this is the way that Alex uses to call his friends, they all participate in a gang). Alex narrates most of the film in Nadsat, a language based in a mix of CAPS russian and english.
The film tells the horrific crimes of his gang, his capture, and attempted rehabilitation via a controversial technique.
One day, at night, Alex and his droogs invade the mansion of a woman. Alex hits the woman with a phallic statue, and when he hears the police sirens approaching the house, he tries to run away, but is attacked by his droogs, who leave him stunned and bleeding. Alex is captured by the police, they says his that the woman has died, making him a murderer. Alex is sentenced to 14 years in jail.
Two years into the sentence, the Minister of the Interior arrives at the prison looking for volunteers for the Ludovico technique, an experimental aversion therapy for rehabilitating criminals. The process involves drugging Alex while strapping him to a chair, forcing his eyelids to stay open, and subjecting him to watch violent movies. Alex, initially pleased by the violent images, starts to become repulsed due to the drugs; he soon realises that the films soundtracks are by his favourite composer Ludwing van Beethoven, and that the Ludovico technique will make him averse to that and tries to end the treatment to no avail.
I really like this film because it shows us the way how politicians and states can use people to achieve their objectives. Also the film in its time (1972) was really controversial, even in many countries it was censured, and I think that this makes it more interesting. And for finished, Blur (the britpop band) made a video based in A Clockwork Orange, for the song The Universal.
Francisco,
wel done!! I actually happen to like that movie as well!
miss
I haven't seen it completly yet, I've watched parts of this movie. The one when he is, who can I say it... in mental rehabilitation and they put this little thing in his eye when he watches a movie is a classic.
Never forget this movie. I first saw when I was 15 years in the home of a classmate who unfortunately died some time ago....
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