Someone pointed this out in another video I watched years ago; there’s a shot of soldiers breaking into a house is basically what Alex & his Droogs have done.
Would it be too cruel to say that Alex deserved everything that happened to him after this? I mean as a victim of SA myself, it was pretty cathartic to see the character go through Hell, just as he did to others. You've got to admit he had this coming.
Hes not really the type of character you empathise with but rather someone you see for what they really are: a child, and theres nothing more cruel and unfeeling than a child
No, the film has a villain as the main character. Not an antihero, not a flawed person, he doesn’t have a tragic story, his actions don’t fall in some gray area of morality. He’s a rotten, malicious, vile, irredeemable, and downright terrible person.
The music in concert with the historical imagery is so powerful. This scene gets stuck in my head often. So does Dr, Strangelove’s “stay on the bomb run” scene. Master filmmaking.
The first time I saw that scene I cried about it when I drank some Pennsylvania Dutch and got slightly drunk and yelled at my grandma, saying "WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?! SEND ME TO CONVERSION THERAPY?! i don't want to go to conversion therapy..."
Fyi, It's not an innuendo for giving Pennsylvanian-Dutch farmers blowies, it's a booze name Edit: wouldn't mind helping my fellow man... wink wink, nudge nudge
Damn i remember when this vid had like only 4 comments lol, also this scene is such a "horrorshow" and yet disturbing, it stills give me chills around my whole body.
This scene is so so important, yet I am afraid you do not understand what it means. This scene shows how the public in the world is completely controlled by media. When you are exposed to so much killing, suffer, death and so on, you become a controllable species, as your body shows an instantaneous reaction. This is the root of brainwashing, and deactivating the human potential. I do not support the violence that thus guy was showing in the beginning part of the movie. But I am more against killing potential of people by exposing them to sensual information. I do not know you see my point. This scene is an example, how people are controlled. Not by discipline in the army (as shown in the movie, it may not work as it is not a full mental control) but by exposing sensual information and making them controllable. (Deep mental control) This movie is a masterpiece
Also this scene is very sad to see how a human can be changed and his potential can be destroyed.. really sad scene too when you watch the whole movie..
@@NateCraven318 No. That is still not right and an approach that brings a result of no value. That pastor was right. And not only from theological point of view. Creating a form of zombie is not a sensible payback.
I've often wondered why it's so hard to find the original cinematic cuts of the soundtrack. Like after all this time I still have to watch the movie to appreciate the original score.
I haven’t seen the movie in it’s entirety since I was 19 (2014) By the end of the clip I thought, “My God! That’s an amazing movie, I wanna watch it again.” lol:3
For the longest time I assumed Alex was saying "Horror show" as if he naturally associated horror with something good. Then I learned about the word Kharasho.
Actually he is saying horrorshow, but the intention is obviously as slang for kharasho. Burgess mixed Russian with Cockey when he created the dialect for this novel, nadstat
@@Natasha-tu5qs when I was 12 or 13, my mom gave me a super old copy of the book that had a glossary in the back with all the slang and which Russian words they were based on.
I still love the theory that this therapy / technique is just a big scam and Alex is in on it. Hence why he’s asking all the questions pretending he doesn’t know what is going on.
The first time I watched this movie I got scared, but I understood a lot of Simpsons references and by the 9th or 100 times I have watched it, it goes beyond the masterpiece and the book is at the same level.
I never understood why he had to be restrained with his eyelids forced open. Wouldn't it be simpler just to say "You have to fully cooperate by watching the videos or else the deal is off and you go back to prison?"
Because his inner nature was rebelling against the therapy. As his mind rebelled, so did his body. Imagine the thing that you hate being forcibly impressed upon your mind. Wouldn't you be trying to physically withdraw from the therapy too?
@@pixlbit-designs-vfx Yes, thank you - you seem to have nailed it. Asking Alex to voluntarily absorb the treatment would be like asking someone to hold their own breath until they pass out; or perhaps remain perfectly still when being tickled. Sometimes reflex totally overrides voluntary action. But one question still troubles me: What's to stop him either going cross-eyed or making his eyes roll back in his head?
because they’re more interested in actually testing the technique than giving some delinquent the chance to redemption. And because as the uploader said above all it wouldn’t be good cinema
@@TallSilentGuyI doubt that would’ve worked. The amount of strain your eyes from being forced open, I doubt it’d be easy enough to do something like that
sooo many people not even realizing this is real and scientists have used methods similar to what kubrick portrays to try to understand life and the universe as well as how it works
@@zigzgshodzixhoxohxh3800 First time I had a scratched retina, I freaked. I thought my left eye would be legally blinded for life. The eye doctor laughed, and gave me some drops, patches (Rrrrrrrr!!! I insisted on the black pirate type) and it healed back to normal in a week
@@zigzgshodzixhoxohxh3800 I have to say shame on Kubrick for even doing this to someone and good on McDowell for taking it like a champ. I would never agree to do this. Doesn't it go against human rights?
@@YPAReviewsKubrick doesn't deserve any respect as a film maker imo. Largely due to the fact that he would just straight up torture the actors he worked with with scenes like this. He was a miserable person to work with according to most accounts. Just not a good guy.
@@themidnighttavern6784this is completely a myth, the man was a perfectionist introvert who micromanaged actors. Because of this, crew members and actors have made up stuff about him because they didn’t like how he directed and his general “vibe.” All of the stuff out of the shining is genuinely made up and is basically urban legend at this point. Funny thing is with McDowells eyes being scratched, Kubrick made him take time out for them to heal, probably cause it’d be a union nightmare to bring someone in who’s pretty much injured.
When you listen to Ode to Joy by Beethoven, do you think of the Nakatomi vault opening in Die Hard, when I hear Ode to Joy by Beethoven, I think of this scene, we are not the same
Production Companies: MGM (current owner) United Artists Studios (Distributor and Presentation) Polaris Productions (Presentation) Burgess Worldwide, LLC (copyright holder) Hawk Films (production) British Film Producers (financement)
Reminder that in the book this worked and Alex became a normal, well adjusted person but because Kubrick is, to be a bit hyperbolic for effect, allergic to endings that are not as miserable as possible, he chose not to have this happen. THe fact is as sometimes people need to be taught somethings are bad weather they want to or not
I'm sorry, but in the book this doesn't work at all. They end up manipulating his brain in order to undo what they had done. In the very last chapter, however, he decides to leave the droogy lifestyle in order to settle down. It is this chapter, which deals with the consequences of maturity, that Kubrick decided to leave out.
That ending is too Disney like. You don’t simply grow out of being ignoble and savage. It’s still there inside of you. A bit pessimistic, sure, but it paints us in a light that is true and honest. Kubrick wasn’t keen on Rousseau’s thesis on man being good and civil.
OMG YOU MUST BE FUN AT PARTIES! Alex is at least classy enough to kill an old lady with a massive ceramic penis (kinda on accident I think), whilst Igor and his droogies were a little less crafty and visited mass torture upon their victims.
Kubrick? Burgess was always the s##t . If more people read him , they would know that. A good middle ground would be Tom Hollander's narration of the book. Oh its Gorgeousness and Gorgeosity combined. After seeing the film several times and reading the book twice ,its now my favorite approach to the novel. I think Kubricks film was both a blessing and a curse for Burgess. It Was pretty slimey the way Kubrick didn't address the bashing Burgess was taking over his film at the time. Quite weasely.
Come to think of it, the only positive thing about the criminally violent Alex, was his love for Beethoven's music. It was so cruelly inappropriate to make him feel sick to hear it. Besides, if they had to have music to accompany the nazi war propaganda film, playing Wagner should be the logical choice.
Granted that movie Alex isn’t as bad as book Alex he is still a monster though. However, what they are doing to him is still wrong. Taking away somebody’s ability to choose pretty much Robbs them of what it means to be human and that is a fate I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy no matter what they did to me.
@@PolishGod1234 I liked a lot of longer media, but Lotr my man... it's just so boring for me, there's no mistery, there's no twist, it's dragged out... it looks like an ad placement movie to show you all the cool places in Mordor to pass an holiday. The main theme repeats forever, the ending takes literal hours, the villain dies instantly and the woman who kills him says a cringe ass line, it conditioned all fantasy settings after it to be the the exact same... That's just what i remember on the spot. I don't know man, tell me what you like about it
This is just an interpretation I came up watching this last, but the ending in particular is a great analogy for homosexuality at the time. they take, in the name of his greater good, his passion and love - one of the few things not connected to his psychotic violence, his love for music and ludwig van's 9th. Just like a gay person with their genuine, romantic feelings being "converted", they take the best, most innocent and noble parts of ourselves and turn them against us. As someone who too sees Beethoven's 9th as the best piece of music ever written, the idea of having it twisted into something you find sickening and revolting is horrific.
I wonder if Dr Jordan Peterson ever imagines that one day techniques like this would be reimagined to be used against nonconformists who spoke out against dangerous political zealots to silence and numb the minds of thinkers.
You are aware this is fundamentally against Fascism right? This is the type of thing the elite would have Europe's defenders subjected to if they ever had the power.
