The prison teachers in the film certainly represent the doglegs of this oppressive system. The director portrays them as sham, sadism, pedophile, and they represent This oppressive system came to be violent against the students, but as the representative of this oppressive system, the principal, he took an indifferent attitude. Of course, this is very understandable. You can imagine that Bush will do Do the Iraqi people who were invaded by him say sorry!? When the students headed by the protagonist Malcolm McDowell (who represented the youth of the time, confused, yearning for the so-called revolution, with a strong spirit of resistance in the movie) were unwilling to be oppressed and rose up to resist, rule The class showed strange weakness. The principal just cleaned the school warehouse as punishment. Perhaps he should have responded to Mao Zedong’s words: All reactionaries are paper tigers. At this time, a surrealist lens, or a symbolic lens, appeared in the movie. The wounded bishop lay in the principal’s drawer, which symbolized that religion was only a tool played by the ruling class.
Rebelling students did not stop resisting under the retreat of the ruling class, but chose stronger resistance, or revolution. At this time, another symbol appeared. When the students were cleaning the school warehouse, they found a deformed fetus specimen in a container. This symbolized that under the social system at the time, there would be something like these rebellious students." Freak".
In the church, when the World War II veterans who spoke on behalf of the ruling class talked about order and obeyed orders, the people in the audience listened very religiously. At this time, the veteran asked everyone to obey the gentleman's manner and let the children and women go out first. People who were very pious to the veteran just now did not care about the gentleman's manner at all. It was a wonderful irony to run away!
The film ends in a gun battle between rebellious students and school teachers and parents. (Or it ended in the death of the principal, the representative of the ruling class)
Now I will talk about some small details in the movie. There are homosexual plots among students in the movie. I think this reflects the sexual liberation movement at that time. In the movie, there is a lingering scene between the actor and the barmaid in the bar. (If you think that is lingering), I think this represents a certain kind of physical and mental liberation in the movie.
Finally, let me talk about the protagonist of this movie, Malcolm McDowell. Maybe because his face is too "out of the ordinary", so many alternative movies have asked him to be the protagonist (such as "A Clockwork Orange", "The Tyrant Kaligu Pull, "Leopard Girl") Of course, first of all because of his excellent acting skills.
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