@apocratos lol...says that Yank who exported trans-activism, identity politics, and progressive toxicity to the rest of the world, who opened their borders to 200 million third worlders, and who are set to be a Spanish speaking majority in 50 years. You fucking clown, off yourself.
@@ck891 Isn't that well known? Even if it were an urban myth, I don't really understand why you'd automatically call bullshit? It's not that hard to believe, is it?
The novel also highlights options modern society has to deal with the tragedy of delinquent youth: "...how to turn a man into a piece of clockwork..." (ie, this [theme] is specifically from the novel.) Thus, it is possiblely still obscure that one of the options to deal with this issue (violence theme) is behaviour modification (Professor B.F. Skinner, et al). This 'behaviour therapy' connotation is also clear in the motion-picture. This approach (options) is more than just a remedy to something that is more than just moral panic: violent anti-social behaviour. Sociology dislikes this approach to social ills because 'there is no free-will' (Skinner). Apparently, the novel was inspired by some horrible real life events.
Every single scene in this entire masterpiece of a film is perfect, arresting, entertaining, and well-made. This is easily one of the greatest films in all of cinema history.
some scenes are extremely awkward and poorly produced. like the singing in the rain scene and the water trough scene and the alex beating his droogs scene. theyre all pretty cringy
Nah, it is just intimidation. Get into someone's personal space, make them uncomfortable. There can be a sense of sexual dominance involved but it not a 'lust' thing. Just think what happens in prisons! It is a power thing.
This was a great scene. Lot's of changing emotions at once for Alex. First, smugness. Then angry retaliation. Then fear and panic. Then finally back to his normal baseline. It was even better in the book.
The book left almost no impression on me except for NADSAT being linguistically interesting. I was more taken with another story by Burgess, about a guy who kills his wife.
@@mrnukes797 I think it was "One Hand Clapping", and I should amend that to being partially about a guy who thinks about doing in his wife and himself too.
@@Vesnicie One Hand Clapping is amazing. I've seen the stage adaptation in Manchester back in 2013. It has a lot in common with A Clockwork Orange. Like many early Burgess novels.
"You are now a murderer little Alex, a murderer" in a movie with lots of memorable scenes and quotes the glee in which that line is delivered has always stuck with me
Notice how politely they speak to each other "sir" "brother" "gentlemen," and in complete sentences. Even in brutality and death the British mind their manners.
"It's no good sitting there in hope, my little brothers, I won't say one single solitary слово unless I have my lawyer here. I know the law, you bastards."
The smile he gives to the principal when he spits on him pretty much says it all about their relationship. Alex used him just as much as the principal used him. Then the cycle repeats at the end of the movie.
I don't know. I think it was all a bit gay - look 0:40, pure sex. You get a few men in a dirty brick room with the faint von of cal and they all want to go at it.
1:58 is anyone gonna talk about this dynamic brilliant shot by Kubrick? It really begins to give you not just a sense of ‘being’ Alex but also this sense of claustrophobia and intensity of being in that position like if you were in it yourself. It takes a genius be ahead on that and pull it off cleverly. Damn.
It's a very interesting short scene, laden with imagery and meaning, viz: 1.Police officers and Alex. One sitting like Michaelangelo's bored cherub. Alex's crotch in foreground. 2.Fed up handsome police interrogator chewing gum, wondering what to try next. 3. Intimidatory posture of handsome police interrogator right next to Alex, smiling. Alex smiling back. Sneering contempt from both men. 4. Violence from interrogator. Alex retaliates. Violence by second officer. 5. Outside office policeman supping tea. English 'civilised' life goes on as normal. Fawning welcome to Mr Deltoid who affects a more 'upper class educated' accent to impress the officers. 6.Alex on floor covered in his own blood on white clothes. Christ on cross? Homoerotic image. Alex's crotch in foreground again. 7. Three police officers and Mr Deltoid standing over Alex, sneering at him. 8. Deltoid kneels down, sneering and smiling. Homosexual vibe. Handsome police officer snuggles next to Mr Deltoid to sneer at Alex. More gay vibe. 9. Deltoid spits at Alex. Alex smiles, knowingly.
The symbol of Mr Deltoid's spit is incredible. After he tried to sexually assault Alex in the bedroom scene, the spit symbolises both his 'climax' of seeing his prediction of Alex's fall come true, and of saying "I'm done with you. You were only ever a pawn, a tool to be used". Striking.
@@sameerchaudhary465 For Mr Deltoid in his career. In the conversation in the apartment, Mr Deltoid makes it clear that they considered every juvenile who was sent to corrective school was a black mark, an admission of failure, for the post-corrective advisor. Deltoid is making it clear that he doesn't actually care, that Alex and others like him are just a number to him, and if they failed and were sent to the 'barley place' (prison), then they were cast aside.
@@sameerchaudhary465 I forgot to add also the sexual aspect symbology of the spit itself. Deltoid was trying to molest Alex on the bed, grabbing him, getting him to lay down and finally trying to grab his crotch. The white spit also represents... Well, I'm sure you can imagine. Considering Alex's offence was sexual, it is a double metaphor. Deltoid has completed his exploitation and dumped Alex like a whore, just as Alex abused and left his victim to die.
@@GuzziHeroV50 haha interesting! I've read the book too but never really picked up on these little details. Guess it was just implied and left open for interpretations
Knowing what a perfectionist S. Kubrick was I wonder how many times McDowell had to get spat on until Kubrick felt he had just the right shot. It is rumored that Kubrick died 865 times until he felt the doctors performance was believable.
i love how he just smiles at the other officers for a second at 1:20 acting as if he is doing nothing wrong while trying to crush a mans testicles...best movie ever
Kubrick originally wanted to cast Mick Jagger in the role, but Jagger turned it down. He got lucky when he found Malcolm McDowell, he's utterly brilliant.
I bet cops all over the world , both still on the job and retired, recognize that look the seated detective is giving Alex in the beginning of the scene.
Most British actors get their start in the stage theatre and generally a lot of the older plays like Shakespeare's have the roles breaking the fourth wall, hence Aubrey Morris being from the Old Vic had no problems mugging the camera
It's hard to believe Malcolm McDowell went all the way from a killer in a clockwork Orange to playing the good Doctor Loomis in Rob zombie's Halloween films.
Love the camera angles. Also, the older man that Alex is afraid of in other scenes. He's great. While disturbing the movie has a campy quality to it. The Alex character is done so well by Malcolm McDowell. He was so cute in his younger days, too. I wasn't allowed to see this movie when it came out by my mother. Not that I would ever have seen it then, lol. I was too young. That and the Exorcist so you know which movies I couldn't wait to see later on. I think she was right about both although both were great, but definitely not for kids.
Another funny part that no one caught: The blood on the wall and floor wasn't there at first, Alex most likely added that so the ones walking in the room would feel bad for him.
This scene causes me serious pain. Like, I can't even watch the hole thing. *shivers* Also, theory; the officer (I dunno his name, read the book quite a while ago) acted quite a lot like Mr. Deltoid near the beginning of the film. Now, I subscribe to the theory that Alex was sexually abused by Deltoid and possible 1 or more of his parents, so Alex may have felt very threatened in this situation, having experience physical contact like this leading to something unpleasant. So he lashed out as a way to protect himself. ... Or he could just be a cheeky lil shit. I guess we'll never know for sure. :D
Geovanny Gonzalez I left this comment 5 years ago, I’ve since read the book a few times, and you’re totally right. I’ve done some research and sexual abuse is pretty heavily suggested in the movie, though, which is pretty interesting imo.
I love that pop sound that was used for when Alex gets clocked by the 2nd cop. Leaves you feeling really satisfied that he connected a solid one right on his chin
Scale is the most pivotal aspect in the sequence - the notion of these ‘superiors’ towering above a beaten Alex conveys his insecure persona in his act of resilience
jutubaeh Why lol for? The 1984 Act & 1986 Crown Prosecution Act were designed to regulate brutality like this, because this happened for real before 1 1984 & 1986.
Friedrich Schopenhauer yes it’s supposed to take place after both times but it was actually filmed in 1971 but no one actually knew what the future would be like
It wasn't in the movie, but I read that the police took all of Alex's money and sold all of his belongings, and gave it all to the cat lady's cats. Nice to know they were well taken care of.
man..that loogey to the face..cinematically was awesome and had so much more meaning than any punch to the face or gut would do...I think it gave new meaning to "demoralizing someone"...this movie frikn rules...Kubricks best work here and The Shining...
John Doe especially since he ratted his accomplices out. At least maybe a reduced sentence, makes send to try and put 3 behinds bars instead of only one.
@@JohnDoe-gk7ok 14 years was his sentence. I understand that's the standard time for accidental homicide in the UK (I might be wrong and I'm any case this dystopian version of the UK might have different laws). Alex spent two years of his sentence in jail and had the rest of it commuted when he received the Ludovico treatment.
was about to say the same thing.... but to me i don't think they look alike maybe somewhat similar but enough to know it isn't the same or to even get them mixed up if you'd have saw both of them side by side.
The cop who grabs Alex's nose is actor Steven Berkoff, who would go on to play the villain in "Octopussy" and "Beverly Hills Cop," as well as Adolf Hitler in the "War and Remembrance" tv miniseries.
Respectfully, yes, however: 1) The novel itself was partly inspired by a journalist colleague with Marxist views, 2) Yes, the tone of the dystopian work is satirical, lampooning behaviour modification policy, 3) Though there are views on the extent of the art in the novel, including the author, post modernist theory indicates that the novel is an artistic work. (Some sources for this is Wikipedia).
Yep same here, I only realize it when watching an episode of The Avengers (John Steed) and he basically looked the same without the sideburns and the credits said "Steven Berkoff" basically when he still had a full set of hair his forehead mold was less pronounced since people seem to be inherently less trained on minor details of the forehead and more on the hair,
